It’s a really small wall.
You’re a bad man. You’re a very bad man.
How come? She can heal kidney infections, btw.
I remember reading that thread. They had an obsession with the phrase “stinky-footed bumpkin” that stuck with me.
It was an improvement, in some ways, to the previous scheme of using a whole, live crocodile as a condom. To be fair though, that method was quite effective in preventing pregnancies.
Those are not Egyptians, they are not in profile!
Can’t be. Most alien pictures are in *.zbt format, and that’s incompatible with Earth cell phones and computers.
Oh, god. Don’t get me started on that film. Even if you ignore the obvious historical howlers, that film can’t even stand on its own merits. I could write paragraphs complaining about that films stupidity. In fact, I have. But I’m too busy right now.
Actually, that seems to be the theme of many of our “aliens attack earth” type of movies such as “Independence Day”. A civilization far more advanced than our own and with fabulous technology that allows them to actually navigate interstellar space attack earth for reasons that will forever remain a mystery to me and then, somehow, are miraculously defeated by heroic humans. Basically, that would be like the modern 7th fleet going back in time and facing the combined forces of the English Navy and the Spanish Armada and expecting the latter to somehow emerge victorious.
Were I the commander of a hostile alien force, I wouldn’t attack you. I would destroy your environment and wait for you to die and then terraform the planet to suit my own people. That would take time, of course, so I would I would stream Direct TV, Netflix, Disney Plus, etc for entertainment purposes. LOL
As I’ve ranted before, we as a culture are firmly convinced that we are infinitely superior to all previous civilizations and cultures, so much so that they seem to us to be hardly the same species as we are. Since we cannot imagine ancient people being just as intelligent as us, we must concoct other explanations, no matter how farfetched
Because now, “I can’t get this song out of my head.”!
Little known historical fact, due to a quirk in their make up, the ancient Egyptians appeared to be in profile regardless of the angle they were viewed from.
Tut, tut.
Ank, ank.
They had a big celebratory barbecue after the pyramids were finished.
Yow! I just got that.
That is about right. There are some shockingly racist elements to the ‘Chariot’s of the Gods’ mythos.
And the whole idea is ‘historicist’, rather than just racist; the people who built Stonehenge and the Pyramids were Modern Humans, just as inventive and dedicated as we are, even if they hadn’t yet developed all our current technology.
Except that you don’t often hear crackpots claiming aliens built Stonehenge, or Newgrange, or Skara Brae, or any of the Neolithic monumental architecture of northwestern Europe. It’s always the brown people who couldn’t possibly have built the Pyramids or Machu Picchu or Great Zimbabwe.
At least, not until Priam of Troy stole his idea, refined it, and began selling the much more effective Trojan brand. This led to a war for market share that came down to us reported as an actual war, when Ramses’ advertising manager, Homer, decided he needed to “sexy things up”, a bit.
Just to make sure that we’re being somewhat rigorous here:
If we assume that we’re allocating about 4 square feet of room per worker, under the stone, and that the height of the depicted stones is about 9 feet tall, then each worker must be lifting a limestone column about (4 * 9 = ) 36 cubic feet in size.
Google is telling me that a cubic foot of limestone, on average, weighs about 96-150 lbs per cubic foot. Taking the low end of that spectrum, each of our workers would need to be holding up 3,456 pounds.
While this is a static hold, not a lift - and so we might imagine that somehow the stone was gently lowered onto their raised arms - I think it’s safe to say that this is well beyond the capabilities of even the strongest recorded humans.
I am told that North Carolina mustard sauce hides a multitude on sins.
If it is not moving,no work is done.