Alaska Pyramid is Real (?)

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disappoint

Lifer
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Einstein was wrong. Imagination is not the most important thing. Imagination without education and common sense is fucking stupid.
 

DCal430

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There aren't many examples of "true" pyramids outside Egypt, and any idiot can come up with the step pyramid independently. Just increasing sized levels up from a square or rectangular base. Even the Egyptian true pyramid was just an advancement of the stepped pyramid, which originally were just multileveled mastabas. Fill in the gaps and pave the smooth limestone surface and you get the true pyramid.

All the interest in some advanced technological civilization, magic or superstition, or whatever else about pyramids is stupid. They are interesting architecturally and historically, but that's it.

There are lots of true pyramids in Sudan built by the Kushites. .
 

wirednuts

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this is totally legit. at the top of the pyramid, there used to be an all seeing eye and it would detach with the tip and raise up. it would then beam pure energy to all the other pyramids in the world and give them light.

its pretty basic stuff. all you have to do is look at the dollar bill.
 

techs

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Also, the wheel must have been invented by a global ancient intelligence. How else can you explain it being round everywhere on earth?
 

clamum

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Yeah that looks like one quality site (for nutters, anyway). The page's title: "science, UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles, prophecy, reincarnation, environment | dreamland radio | unknowncountry"

YEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
 

IronWing

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Pyramids are built by fruits and and vegetables standing on a mound of roughage with the greasy rich at the top sending down milk and honey.

Proof:
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LTC8K6

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If you want to build something tall, and you have no experience, you are pretty much going to end up with a pyramid shape.
 

Crono

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There are lots of true pyramids in Sudan built by the Kushites. .

They were copying the Egyptians hundreds of years later. Not surprising given the proximity of the two civilizations and how they interacted with each other.
 

Crono

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In central Mexico and South America as well.

Most of those are step pyramids, not true pyramids. Closer to Mesopotamian ziggurats than Egyptian Old Kingdom true pyramids.

The reason why there are step pyramids around the world (including places in Asia like India, Korea, and China) are because the form naturally rises out of tomb building. Basic, primitive tombs are just mounds. But as a civilization becomes richer and more advanced, important figures (kings, priests, the wealthy, etc) are buried in much more ornate fashion. Tombs are constructed with additional levels and out of better materials like carefully cut stone rather than earthen mounds.
 
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SMOGZINN

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The odds of multiple societies coming up with the idea of pyramids independently of each other is infinitesimal.

Stacking stuff on top of each other! No one will ever think of that.

Every toddler I've ever seen play with blocks discovers the idea of the pyramid in like 30 minutes.
 
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Stacking stuff on top of each other! No one will ever think of that.

Every toddler I've ever seen play with blocks discovers the idea of the pyramid in like 30 minutes.
Are you implying that ancient civilizations were composed entirely of toddlers?
 

Perknose

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The odds of multiple societies coming up with the idea of pyramids independently of each other is infinitesimal. Therefore, there must have been a massive, early human one-world government which worked collectively to build pyramids throughout the world.

I find your "pyramid scheme" hypothesis unpersuasive. :hmm:

Are you implying that ancient civilizations were composed entirely of toddlers?

Elite, pyramid-building toddlers! :ninja: