Who how and why did we build?

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Who how and why did we build?

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Renatus, Jul 13, 2009.

  1. Renatus

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  2. Lobsterlegs

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    Ofcoure those monkeys that still ride on camels didn't build the pyramids.

    And dude, did you see those batteries?
    And the way they made the pyramids PERFECT is omg.

    You have to be way more smarter than a monkey to be able to do something like that.
     
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    Why... People wanted something that lasted. Perhaps just long lasting art, or perhaps some kind of message has purposely been left for us but we don't see what it is. Is it something of importance? Perhaps they knew that writing and books would be lost and decayed over time, but stone monuments would not. They knew they would last like the mountains have lasted.

    How... I think we're so reliant on technology nowadays and we've never known what back braking work (literally) is. People back then probably were stronger built and risk of life was taken more willingly.
     
  4. Lobsterlegs

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    Ye, but jasmine, can you answer how they built them perfectly?
    How the managed to make secret passages and such in the pyramid?
    How did they drag those blocks up there?

    It's a mystery I tell ya!
     
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    That, or thousands of slaves. For perfection there are mathematics.

    For everything else you have aliens
     
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    The same as we do it now. Mathematics, measuring tapes, and eyeing stuff up to make sure things are straight / in line.

    Since they were most likely built in layers, it's a case of leaving gaps here and there.

    I don't know. I'm not an engineer. :D But I'm sure they had a lot of practice to perfect the art of stone hauling. It's not something we do by man power nowadays, so any attempt to emulate their skills is going to be very naively done. We should not project our own amateurishness onto those who had so much experience with these crafts.
     
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    There are many theories on how the Egyptians build the pyramids. One theory that was tested by a architect and was proven to work was to move the huge blocks was a inner ramp system and the chambers and passage ways in the great pyramid are built EXCATLY at all the right points as if there were inner ramps. Also they found evidence of a anicent diagram showing this too of a pyramid with inner spiral ramps in it.

    Also we are learning the people of anicent times had very ingenius simple machines to help them build these kind of things, especially the chinese.

    A lot of the common arguments of the ancient astronaut theory and of aliens building the pyramids can be disproven such as that one image in a pyramid that looks like a lightbulb, it is infact a symbol representing something entirely different that was siginificnt in eqyptiann culture. It was looks like a lightbulb to us in modern day society.
     
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    Time is so underrated.

    ... that and having hundreds of thousands of slaves ofc.
     
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    Do you guys know how many slaves died building just one pyramid?
     
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    no idea, but it evidence has shown that the slaves did receive medical care and treatment.
     
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    Alot of slaves died, from dehydration and such. Slavedrivers could overwork them.
     
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    Well, explain how they found almost the exact same thing on mars... can you explain that? did we have some sort of ingenious space machine back then?
     
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    Links or Mars didn't happen.

    No really i'm interested
     
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    its some odd pyramid-like rock formation/building


    also, the pyramids werent built by slaves but by farmers as a form of tax during the dry season
     
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    Sigh... The worse part about that 'document' is the beginning rant - well that and everything else. People keep forgetting that our social structure evolves and the evolution is accumulatively speeding up. That means 10,000+ BC the societies were too small, too insignificant to achieve anything big. Mostly small tribes. Once we finally created large enough societies we were able to build stuff like that. And look at us today - globalization.
    And why the hell do we need aliens to build pyramids? Throw enough people and time at anything and youll get results.
     
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    Yea, I've never heard of this "pyramids on mars" bs. I think if there were NASA would know about it and it would be all over the news if they were found well if any structure or monument was found on the surface, which to this day there hasn't.
     
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    Watch the whole video and you'll see it. Also looks to be some sort of rock face on there too. Apparently a "light trick" of some sort
     
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    nice vid.


    what they didnt talk about though is the amount of easily dismissed UFO sightings. I'd like to see the amounts of non-dismissed sightings in a graph. This year the UK has seen a steady increase of chinese lanterns as well, so i'd like to see the numbers of the rest


    http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-GB&vid=df1dcd87-871b-4ad2-b99b-f24a4ac9de9c
     
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