# Aliens built the pyramids
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 29, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943 "2024-04-29T22:08:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/1 "2024-04-29T22:08:01Z")
Someone shared [this laughable image](https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/1cg4t4g/holup_the_stone/#lightbox) of the pyramids being built. There are so many things wrong with it, not the least of which would be the strength needed from each worker to hold up that stone. But it gave me a humorous thought, what if it turned out that an alien race showed up on earth about 3000 years ago, with 10,000 beings or so, and were immediately enslaved and forced into labor building the pyramids.
So aliens did build them, just not using their technology but their might.
🤪
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/2 "2024-04-29T22:51:44Z")
This would puzzle the daylights out of the locals since they’re a millennium and a half too late for peak pyramid building.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/3 "2024-04-29T22:54:53Z")
Has anyone checked if the pyramids aren’t really made from styrofoam?
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/4 "2024-04-29T22:55:58Z")
C’mon. Everyone knows the Egyptians developed color photography partway through the 3rd dynasty.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/5 "2024-04-29T22:57:48Z")
Who took the photograph?
Where’d they get the film?
Oh, wait. Cel phone…no that won’t work either.
🤔 Hmm?
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### Author:  [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/6 "2024-04-29T23:11:35Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#):
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> Has anyone checked if the pyramids aren’t really made from Styrofoam?
Yes, I believe the blocks were cut from the Great Styrofoam Quarries to the south.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/7 "2024-04-29T23:19:42Z")
Remember the person who joined the board to tell us about how the pyramids were built on top of fountains of natural fizzy water which rose up out of the ground, so they could use it to fill counterweight tanks to drop down one side of the pyramid and haul rocks up\* the other side on a rope?
\*The slight flaw in the idea is that in order to haul rocks up the pyramid, using the pyramid as the fulcrum, you have to build the pyramid first, before you start building the pyramid.
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### Author:  [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/8 "2024-04-29T23:31:42Z")
I did a little google-hopping before posting the OP, and found a claim that the rock had so much salt in it you could pour water on it and it would seep in and make it soft enough to saw.
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> \*The slight flaw in the idea is that in order to haul rocks up the pyramid, using the pyramid as the fulcrum, you have to build the pyramid first, before you start building the pyramid.
I bet you don’t believe in perpetual motion machines, either, huh? ;~)
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/9 "2024-04-29T23:33:36Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Where’d they get the film?
From aliens, silly.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/10 "2024-04-29T23:42:40Z")
Pharaoh Ramses II built them with the money he made from condiments and condominiums. Sadly, he was a-nile-ated before they were finished and he was buried with the specs in an unmarked grave.
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/11 "2024-04-29T23:43:19Z")
Elsewhere, I was watching posts by a group c-lled “Fraudulent Archaeology”, and one of the points made there was that “aliens did \” is the pinnacle of racism (ethnocentricity). _ **Those people** could not possibly done that, because they are so inferior to **us** _.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/12 "2024-04-29T23:51:44Z")
Wait just a minute, according to noted historian Roland Emmerich they used mammoths. Where are the mammoths, that’s what I want to know.
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### Author:  [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/13 "2024-04-30T00:17:00Z")
I have it on good authority that the pyramids were built for grain storage and the mummies were placed in them as scarecrows.
I’m citing Dr. Ben Carson, republican candidate for president (not selected) who became a respected Cabinet Officer under 45’s administration due to his expertise in selecting dining room furniture.
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### Author:  [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/14 "2024-04-30T00:19:54Z")
Yeah, each worker would be splattered in a split second by that weight.
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### Author:  [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/15 "2024-04-30T00:36:43Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEpt8HzOStU)
Ew… reminds this gal:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEpt8HzOStU)
I can’t get this song out of my head.
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### Author:  [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/16 "2024-04-30T00:49:40Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> Elsewhere, I was watching posts by a group c-lled “Fraudulent Archaeology”, and one of the points made there was that “aliens did ” is the pinnacle of racism (ethnocentricity). _ **Those people** could not possibly done that, because they are so inferior to **us** _.
Here in Arkansas we have the Plum Bayou Mounds Archological State Park formerly known as Toltec Mounds. You might think to yourself the Totecs were nowhere near Arkansas, and you’d be right, but some folks in the 19th century didn’t think the local natives could have built the mounds there. In a way, they were right. The native civilization that built the mounds pretty much disappeared in the 11th century.
While I do think there’s a whiff of racism in some of those ancient alien theories, I think it’s also because people are in awe of what was accomplished even thousands of years ago. I’ve never been to Egypt, but their ancient structures are awe inspiring and that’s not limited to the pyramids alone. I could very well see someone who wasn’t well educated arriving in Egypt and coming to the conclusion these people couldn’t have built it. That something must have been lost between those days and today.
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### Author:  [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2024, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/17 "2024-04-30T00:51:15Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#):
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> I can’t get this song out of my head.
I was watching a standup comedian of Indian descent say the whitest thing she ever did was visit India to find herself.
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### Author:  [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2024, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/18 "2024-04-30T00:55:13Z")
> [@Odesio](#):
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> I was watching a standup comedian of Indian descent say the whitest thing she ever did was visit India to find herself.
Is she well known? I heard “Burning Man’s Final Boss”
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2024, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/19 "2024-04-30T00:58:42Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Pharaoh Ramses II built them with the money he made from condiments and condominiums.
Ramses II also invented and sold condoms. Unfortunately at the time they were made from woven papyrus leaves, so they were both prickly and leaky. Despite a royal decree that every male over the age of sixteen must carry one in his wallet and display it to his friends, they were not a big seller.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2024, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-built-the-pyramids/1000943/20 "2024-04-30T01:04:45Z")
> [@wolfpup](#):
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> Despite a royal decree that every male over the age of sixteen must carry one in his wallet and display it to his friends, they were not a big seller.
On top of which, nobody knew what the hell a “wallet” was.
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