How that damned television show is still on the air is beyond me. Every single point they make is easily debunked and all it’s doing is injecting lies and garbage information into people, making them conspiracy theorists and deniers of other truths. It’s a joke.
Archaeology Problems
Submitted 9 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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the_doktor@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 months ago
It’s cheaper to do bullshit than the right thing.
NutWrench@lemmy.world 9 months ago
LISTER: What makes you think these aliens exist?
RIMMER: They must do, Lister! There’s so many things that are strange and odd. So many things we don’t have any explanation for.
LISTER: Like, um, why do intelligent people buy cinema hot dogs? Do you mean that sort of weird and mysterious thing?
RIMMER: No, Lister, I mean like the pyramids. How did they move such massive pieces of stone without the aid of modern technology?
LISTER: They had massive whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
According to more updated studies, more like massive paychecks
psud@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Levers too
BustlingChungus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Goddamn, I gotta go watch Red Dwarf again
Starfighter@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Always mocking Dr. Daniel Jackson. Poor guy
TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl 9 months ago
He’s teaching Spanish right now.
BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
He’s sketching a cube right now
Kiosade@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
How come they switched sides for a panel then switched back? Was it also because of aliens?
psud@aussie.zone 9 months ago
They had multiple virtual cameras and could change angles between panels
Kiosade@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Well i meant Babuthep starts standing left of the other guy, then he’s on the right, then back to the left. Maybe they were doing some dancing :)
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Shocke: The Sphinx is much older than originally estimated because the water erosion around the figure must have come from the time when Egypt was very temperate and rainy, sometime before 3500-3200BCE, which is much earlier than we originally thought.
Egyptologists: But we have no artifacts from that era! No pottery, no barns! There’s no way to prove that!
Shocke: I mean, that’s just what the rocks
Egyptologists: LIES!!
fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 months ago
…wikipedia.org/…/Sphinx_water_erosion_hypothesis
You can test the water idea with a simple core. It doesn’t fit the data.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The Sphinx water erosion hypothesis is a fringe claim, contending that the Great Sphinx of Giza and its enclosing walls eroded primarily due to ancient floods or rainfalls, attributing their creation to Plato’s lost civilization of Atlantis
(Italics added, because - what? I’ve never seen that)
Here’s another example of this type of argument from the larger article:
The Orion correlation theory posits that it was instead aligned to face the constellation of Leo during the vernal equinox around 10,500 BC. The idea is considered pseudoarchaeology by academia, because no textual or archaeological evidence supports this to be the reason for the orientation of the Sphinx
(Italics added) Whether it is or is not; the countervailing argument is “no, because we have no proof it is”. Well no proof is just that - no proof either way. Isn’t it? This theory of astronomical alignment is based on solid empirical facts, though it is just a theory. Saying, “no it can’t be because we haven’t found a book from the time period” is a weird argument to say it disproves it. At best it says it can’t prove it.
That’s not to say a core sample test isn’t a good indicator, or some of the other causes-for-erosion aren’t as-or-more likely in the case of dating the Sphinx structure. It’s just that the particular argument that “we haven’t dug up definitive proof” is - not a great argument to base an unchallengeable assertion on. At best one has to allow alternate theories which have not been empirically disproven are possible.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There’s heavy rain at Giza a couple days a year. Over 4500 years of that.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Furthermore, various structures securely dated to the Old Kingdom show only erosion that was caused by wind and sand (very distinct from the water erosion).
So where’s their water erosion then?
Just to save the downvoters some trouble, I’m only suggesting that theories which are not supported by direct anthropological evidence are worth considering. I’m not saying aliens - or Atlanteans or whomever - carved the Sphinx. The erosion theory was just the first thing I thought of as an example.
Back in the early 1990s, when I first suggested that the Great Sphinx was much older than generally believed at the time, I was challenged by Egyptologists who asked, “Where is the evidence of that earlier civilization?” that could have built the Sphinx.
They were sure that sophisticated culture, what we call civilization, did not exist prior to about 3000 or 4000 BCE. Now, however, there is evidence of high culture dating back to approximately 12,000 years ago, at a site in Turkey known as Göbekli Tepe. A major mystery has been why these early glimmerings of civilization and high culture disappeared, only to reemerge thousands of years later.
utopologist@hexbear.net 9 months ago
Can’t escape from White Pharaoh even in the webcomics
Ferrous@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
The idea that aliens built the pyramids is racist.
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
No one ever asks who built the pyramids in mexico for similarly racist reasons.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 months ago
I blame Quetzalcōātl, obviously.
lauha@lemmy.one 9 months ago
Everyone know mexicans built the pyramids
fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 months ago
It’s true, though often unintended. It sucks because the past is filled with such vibrant and cool things people have done. Cheapens it.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
… the past is filled with such vibrant and cool things slaves have done… People are gross
Fixed it for ya.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Why? The people around the Mediterranean are the same people
No one questions Divinci
It’s about time period not race
MBM@lemmings.world 9 months ago
Racists would definitely disagree
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
It’s racist against the human race. They’re basically saying humans were too stupid and incapable of engineering feats like these so they obviously had help from extraterrestrials to build their giant stone pyramids.