I'v had one thought I've had about the common argument against external ramp theory that the ramp would cost more to build than the pyramid.
To me this seems like an argument that would be used by someone who has never built something. Precursors can take more work than the end product. They usually do. It takes more work to build a C compiler in Assembly than it does to write a hello world program in C. But looking at it in another perspective, the precursor can't cost more than building the end result because the precursor is a part of that cost. That's part of what makes it impressive. And the people who built the pyramids were career builders. They would have had enough experience to get over the aversion. "Oh no, to build this thing I'm going to have to do something else first, and it's going to be hard!?" That's not how builders think and what allows them to make things the rest of the population can't. The 1% of Egyptians who built it would have been exactly the people who think past those aversions. They aren't modern office workers.
It's like taking 20 minutes to build a jig so that you can precisely drill a hole or cut something - and with that jig cut/drill 20 pieces in 2 minutes.
Exactly. If without that jig you couldn't do it accurately and you need to do it accurately, building the jig is the only way, even if you only use it on one piece.
The pyramids are a vanity project. They are going to be willing to put in 5x or even 100x the cost to do something better that someone else can't do without that higher initial effort. That just makes the flex stronger.
I was expecting this to be difficult to believe, but I think she offers excellent arguments, has done her resaerch, provides a good way to question the available claims, and has exceptional graphics to support the arguments. She's not necessarily offered anything groundbreaking, but has packaged it extremely well, with the essential technical information. It's an excellent example of an educational video on the pyramids. It starts out with a wild claim, however, that previous assumptions were probably wrong, but that obviously does not apply to all previous assumptions.
I've only recently learned there is a lot on YouTube about ancient Egyptian cement with bubbles in the granite or "geopolymer" (liquid stone). Clearly there is a wide range from shitty fake-noise to plausible positing. Graham Hancock is a massive piece of shit, intentionally mixing crap theory with rational ideas, and Joe Rogan should know better than to platform him without more pushback.
And before you say, but there are quarries where they dig up stone - why can't they do both? Diversified cement AND quarry industrialization would make most sense to me. More tools to play with.
Secrets of the Giza Pyramids 🏗️ - Robert Schoch (1:00) - Or, they're frauds pretending it's more complex than it is and ignoring the abundance of ideas out there. Like their "expert" jobs depend on it.
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I'v had one thought I've had about the common argument against external ramp theory that the ramp would cost more to build than the pyramid.
To me this seems like an argument that would be used by someone who has never built something. Precursors can take more work than the end product. They usually do. It takes more work to build a C compiler in Assembly than it does to write a hello world program in C. But looking at it in another perspective, the precursor can't cost more than building the end result because the precursor is a part of that cost. That's part of what makes it impressive. And the people who built the pyramids were career builders. They would have had enough experience to get over the aversion. "Oh no, to build this thing I'm going to have to do something else first, and it's going to be hard!?" That's not how builders think and what allows them to make things the rest of the population can't. The 1% of Egyptians who built it would have been exactly the people who think past those aversions. They aren't modern office workers.
It's like taking 20 minutes to build a jig so that you can precisely drill a hole or cut something - and with that jig cut/drill 20 pieces in 2 minutes.
Exactly. If without that jig you couldn't do it accurately and you need to do it accurately, building the jig is the only way, even if you only use it on one piece.
The pyramids are a vanity project. They are going to be willing to put in 5x or even 100x the cost to do something better that someone else can't do without that higher initial effort. That just makes the flex stronger.
I was expecting this to be difficult to believe, but I think she offers excellent arguments, has done her resaerch, provides a good way to question the available claims, and has exceptional graphics to support the arguments. She's not necessarily offered anything groundbreaking, but has packaged it extremely well, with the essential technical information. It's an excellent example of an educational video on the pyramids. It starts out with a wild claim, however, that previous assumptions were probably wrong, but that obviously does not apply to all previous assumptions.
In the thumbnail, the ramp going up around all four sides doesn't make sense if you could economize with just one side.
Very interesting if true:
What Scientists Found Inside Pyramid Stones (1:00)
The Surprisingly Plausible Theory that the Pyramids were Poured from Ancient Concrete (10:28) ~ Today I Found Out
I've only recently learned there is a lot on YouTube about ancient Egyptian cement with bubbles in the granite or "geopolymer" (liquid stone). Clearly there is a wide range from shitty fake-noise to plausible positing. Graham Hancock is a massive piece of shit, intentionally mixing crap theory with rational ideas, and Joe Rogan should know better than to platform him without more pushback.
And before you say, but there are quarries where they dig up stone - why can't they do both? Diversified cement AND quarry industrialization would make most sense to me. More tools to play with.
Egypt Seeker - Eclectisphere #dance #edm #music #art (5:30) - Love this psychedelic A.I. generated art.
The New Pyramid Theory Everyone is Talking About... (21:54) - Meh reviews the OP video, adding opinion and a bit of new stuff at the end. This video is what prompted this comment.
Secrets of the Giza Pyramids 🏗️ - Robert Schoch (1:00) - Or, they're frauds pretending it's more complex than it is and ignoring the abundance of ideas out there. Like their "expert" jobs depend on it.
What Scientists Found Inside Pyramid Stones (1:00)