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[Saru]

Lloyd Pye on ancient structures

Click here to watch video - 08:32s

Lloyd Pye presents a video that explores an alternative explanation for ancient constructions.

[Mostar]

Im sure in 3000 years if our civilization was destroyed they wouldn't believe us primitive people made 828m tall towers, Humans have ALWAYS been smart, just because back then we didn't know about quantum mechanics doesn't mean they where "Stupid" like this man suggests

[Cryptozological Mascot]

I didn’t hear one good piece of evidence for the ancient alien theory presented here.  While the ancient Egyptians undoubtedly didn’t accomplish their feats using stone tools, they were capable of building many magnificent things.  They say that necessity is the mother of all inventions.  Today we have cranes and straps and OSHA to watch over everything, but back then they didn’t have any of this.  In other words, I believe that they could have accomplished building these things in a way we simply haven’t thought of yet because they had the need to do so and we don’t.  It’s akin to a double bass player in an orchestra being told to figure out how to play the first chair violin solo without ever having even looked at the treble clef (for my musically inclined friends out there).  I believe that instead of nay saying everything that traditional archeologists have to say about the building techniques, he should try to explain how he believes the pyramids were built (not by whom) and why he believes that.

[booNyzarC]

Pye's assertion that the pyramids were constructed in the Stone Age just blows me away.  They pyramids at Giza were constructed during the early Bronze Age with tools more elaborate than just stone.  Why is this guy even talking about this?  He clearly doesn't have any understanding of the subject.  He claims that there was no mortar used on the pyramids, but we know that mortar was heavily used.

And when he talks about the unfinished obelisk at Aswan quarry and claims that there must have been some huge machine on top of it that caused it to crack I couldn't help but laugh.  More information about this obelisk and what we've learned about how these types of objects were quarried can be found here.

I sincerely hope that people aren't relying on Lloyd Pye's video for learning anything other than silly fringe nonsense.

[Soupy]

I think this lack of understanding means we have lost many scientific milestones from those times. Countless wars would destroy much technology and archives of learning. Look how far we have come in 2000 years? What is to say the tens of thousands of years that preceded this we couldnt accomplish the same?

[ShadowSot]

Soupy, on 20 February 2011 - 01:56 PM, said:

I think this lack of understanding means we have lost many scientific milestones from those times. Countless wars would destroy much technology and archives of learning. Look how far we have come in 2000 years? What is to say the tens of thousands of years that preceded this we couldnt accomplish the same?

Well, the evidence showed that many cultures had to keep reinventing the wheel (not just figuratively, either) until it got to the point mass trade encouraged the free sharing of ideas, like you had in Rome.
When Rome fell, that was lost and people had to rebuild again.
Technology growth is also exponential, in other words as technology advances, the next generation of tech advances at double the rate.

Edited by ShadowSot, 20 February 2011 - 02:22 PM.

[None of the above]

Lloyd Pye, winner of this years 'Von Daniken' award for rabid defence of pseudohistory and pseudoscience.

What a complete waste of time it was watching that absolute tripe.
What a pathetic man, lining his own pockets by denying mankinds great achievements.
What a shameful way to earn a living.