Do you think aliens buildt the pyramids in egypt?

[dawdler]

Someone in an aeroplane saw a pyramid in Tibet once. Metallic with a flashing top.

And how credible is that? An airplane in Tibet I mean.

 

[Brian Damage]

Errr... quite. To get to many countries around there, you have to pass over Tibet.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Why would advanced aliens build the single most useless structures on earth?

 

[Brian Damage]

I dunno... I reckon they'd be good in an earthquake.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

That's because they aren't hollow.

 

[Brian Damage]

Actually, I was referring to the effect of their shape.

 

[Jackal hit]

that "bent pyramid" was ... khufu's i think(or was it khafra?) built in ~2600 bc right? also, it was the mayans with the advanced calendar(although that same calendar was probably adopted by many others in the region). ALSO.. if you want some kind of ... mystery thing conspiracy whatever to think about... the mayan calendar ends in the year 2012... no one knows why.

...or so the germans would have us believe.

edit: the most interesting theory i heard was that the egyptians used harmonics. i dunno which theory to believe, since i just heard on this radio show that it was only 10,000 workers working seasonally, not year round. ...can't remember the source, sorry... if i find it i'll post it. but eh, i think it was the egyptians, not aliens. i mean, c'mon there's enough war/famine/etc/whatever throughout human history that knowledge gets lost all the time. who's to say the egyptians didn't have some forgotten knowledge?

 

[dawdler]

who's to say the egyptians didn't have some forgotten knowledge?

I think we've figured that one out already

 

[Jackal hit]

I think we've figured that one out already

hehe sorry i stopped reading after the calendar thing i think...

 

[Runteh]

you lot watch far too much stargate!

 

[Brian Damage]

You watch far too little .

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Stargate...Gotta love it really.

 

[Brian Damage]

I like the Asgard.

 

[dawdler]

I like the Asgard.

If you seen Asgård, you're already dead. I dont like seeing dead people.

Anyway, if we assume aliens DID build the pyramid, I doubt they where intelligent enough to be classified as a sentient species. The building makes *zero* sense. For those argumenting that "Ooooh, its a big sign for all those out there and its a landing marker" I say "Billions of people fly each year all across the globe *without* needing a pyramid to guide them".

 

[Moto]

Wow, that's cool. I think that guy is correct, especially when he says this:

"What about the fact that the Egyptians had not even invented the wheel yet, but the blocks that they had to carry to build the pyramids weighed about 2 tons each? 4,000 lbs.? What did they do... use cement? In fact, they used so much stone, that if you took all of the stone they used and cut it into 1 foot square blocks, it would extend 2/3 of the way around the earth!!!"

and this:

"If you take the perimeter of the pyramid and divide it by two times the height, you get a number that is exactly equivalent to the number pi (3.14159...) up to the fifteenth digit. The chances of this phenomenon happening by sheer chance is remarkably small. Did the ancient Egyptians know what the number pi was? Not likely, seeing as it was a number not calculated accurately to the fourth digit until the 6th century, and the pyramids calculate it to the fifteenth"

Pretty hard evidence he's got there, I'd say he's correct. You guys also know that there was a highly polished metal to cap off the tops of each pyramid. It was later taken off. Do you think that at that time they could have cut thin sheets of metal into perfect triangular pieces and then polished them to a brilliant mirror-like shine?

Meh...I think the guy is right.

 

[Brian Damage]

Well, they could have used logs to roll the stones... didn't their chariots have wheels?

I also recall reading that the pyramids act as huge static collectors. One fellow climbed up one with a wine bottle wrapped in a wet newspaper, and pretty soon it was sparking and flashing with static.