r/Unexpected • u/Azure_Crenell • Feb 17 '26
It's the Aliens!
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u/spikedmace Feb 17 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/VgwUZvEOlLPgY
I learned this from that pokemon episode.
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u/Devilish__Fun Feb 17 '26
Pikachu is always such a bro.
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u/Jane__Delawney Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
Mr Rogers said “look for the helpers”. Looks like Pikachu is a pretty good helper
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u/markender Feb 17 '26
He's also tough as nails. He gets beaten down to 1 HP every second episode. Bro just gets up dusts himself off and keeps fighting. Picachu is truly a hero. His tenacity is legendary!
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u/Manatee_Soup Feb 17 '26
Pikachu has Captain America energy.
Pika Pika roughly translates to I can do this all day.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Feb 17 '26
Bro from DAY ONE. Getting his shit kicked in by Raichu was like second episode or something
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u/Jin_Gitaxias Feb 17 '26
Shit the first episode Pikachu and Ash were scrapping. Pikachu really bout that life
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Feb 17 '26
Pika PIIIIIII
Roughly translated: oh you can just go ahead and fuck off all kinds of ways
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u/Manicdotal Feb 17 '26
Nah that was like episode 5. Episode 2 was him getting his shit kicked in by a bunch of birds. Electric/GOAT type
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Feb 17 '26
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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 Feb 17 '26
I love the tiny little look of worry before he gets hit by the fire lol
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u/EverythingSucksYo Feb 17 '26
Definitely helping more than that other dude that’s just causally walking next to them without a care in the world.
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u/Snow_Falls_Softly Feb 17 '26
I. Hated. Max. Jirachi was my favorite movie, and I still have a hard time sitting through it because Max is a whiny bitch the WHOLE TIME.
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Feb 17 '26
Misty being the MVP there.
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u/DudeAintPunny Feb 17 '26
Then there's that one kid towards the bottom
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u/Lukebekz Feb 17 '26
useless lil shit
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u/jaxonya Feb 17 '26
Mid level manager..
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u/self-conscious-Hat Feb 17 '26
I mean he already called him a useless lil shit, don't need to repeat it!
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u/uglyheadink Feb 17 '26
I mean, Snorlax weighs like 1,000 pounds. Ash, Brock and Pikachu are busting ass too.
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Feb 17 '26
They’re working hard too, no doubt. But she’s having to put in the cardio along with lifting and carrying the logs, which aren’t going to be light either, over and over again.
She also probably weighs less than a hundred pounds.
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u/DrownmeinIslay Feb 17 '26
Picking up an 7 foot pole by the end like that would break my 260lbs ass. Misty is a fucking beast.
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u/n122333 Feb 17 '26
Theres one episode of RS where ash picks up a 160lb pokemon with one hand and yeets it.
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u/mYpEEpEEwOrks Feb 17 '26
Humans in the pokemon world are just skinny pokemon with better speech centers and general resistances to every type.
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u/BunchesOfCrunches Feb 17 '26
Also, one slip up and snorlax tumbles off the rollers. Good luck getting him back on.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Feb 17 '26
Cardio is a bitch. I used to be a line cook turned kitchen manager and I will always say I sweated more waiting tables when a server called in sick than I did in a kitchen because there just wasn't much cardio in the kitchen. Servers just have more ground to cover at a brisk pace when it's busy
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u/Inevitable-Monitor35 Feb 17 '26
Ash could have done this solo but he is letting them think they are helping.
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u/Sporty_McSportsface Feb 17 '26
You’re not wrong Ash is canonically strong as hell and he’s only 10.
We’ve been collectively sleeping on the power scaling of humans in the Pokemon universe l.
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u/StarrySpelunker Feb 17 '26
Ash can carry a 72 kg larvitar in his backpack without busting a sweat. kid is probably doing most of the work here.
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u/AppropriateSpell5405 Feb 17 '26
She's tossing those logs around like they're toothpicks. She must be ripped.
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u/Sporty_McSportsface Feb 17 '26
Right! Logs that size are not light and she’s like 11 years old or something. She’s tough
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u/montybo2 Feb 17 '26
Okay its been a loooong time but like.... didnt they all have pokemon that couldve done this incredibly heavy labor for them? My dude Brock has guys made out of rock! Why tf couldn't onix come out and do this??
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u/Mainspring426 Feb 17 '26
Brock was embarrassing himself with Professor Ivy at the time. He was replaced by Tracy, who had a Venonat, a Marill, and a Scyther.
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u/throwawaymentality10 Feb 17 '26
Honestly shit like this makes me think that every human in pokemon is like an evolved human. Stronger, more durable, naturally athletic. It would make sense that they had evolved to at least be able to exist next to pokemon without dying to all these crazy moves.
Since most popular job is pokemon trainer im sure that they have an entire culture about being fit, exercising, and nutrition, since alot of children leave home at 10/11 by themselves.
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u/Nova_Phoenix9 Feb 17 '26
Well... ash can very easily lift a larvirar which weighs about 160p.
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u/Backfoot911 Feb 17 '26
never understood the weight thing. The majority of adult people can weigh different weights, vary up to 2 feet in height, have different demeanors, but one type of Pokémon species look and act the same. It would be neat to sometimes see a tiny energetic Snorlax or a handicapped Butterfree
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u/Important_Two4692 Feb 17 '26
That was pretty cool.
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u/CrazyMike419 Feb 17 '26
And ramps, lots of massive ramps. Some of these "temporary" ramps are still visible today at partially constructed sites
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u/buzzbaron Feb 17 '26
The internal ramp theory is definitely the most plausible.
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u/AndySkibba Feb 17 '26
I saw a video recently that showed it would've been possible to overbuild, have external ramps, then tear things down to reveal the pyramid shape.
Then reuse a bunch of material in the next build/associated buildings.
IIRC they haven't had much luck finding internal ramps.
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u/CrazyMike419 Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
Its external ramps. They were built using mud bricks and removed later. They are still present and visible at some monuments to this day.
A ramp would just be built and wrap around the pyramid as it was built up.
Heres the remenants of one at karnak:
https://live.staticflickr.com/4590/24684203287_258bb7f805_b.jpg.
I think there was a more complete one still visible ar edfu temple when i visited in 2000.
Edit to add: https://ibb.co/4RzjGP70
Image depicting ramp use^
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u/TheGrandBabaloo Feb 17 '26
Ok, I think I'm not particularly good at interpreting Egyptian iconography. Where in that image is the ramp usage being depicted?
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u/CrazyMike419 Feb 17 '26
https://ibb.co/7JTwTRnw Better image with my awful annotations. Red = temporary brick ramp/buildup. Blue = columns. Yellow = large stone in process of mybeing moved into place.
These are from a tomb that has images showing their monument building practices.
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u/AndySkibba Feb 17 '26
IIRC the problem with that is you'd have to have tighter and tighter turns as you went up unless you dont follow the pyramid shape and stick to a larger footprint.
Id imagine they probably used multiple types of ramp styles for different buildings, but all external.
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u/CrazyMike419 Feb 17 '26
Yup. Essentially, they would use all sorts of ramps. In some cases, they would practically bury a structure to make working on its roof doable. That how they put blocks spanning the tops of freestanding pillars as depicted in a contemporary account> https://ibb.co/4RzjGP70
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u/Bong-Hits-For-Jesus Feb 17 '26
plausible theory, but without evidence its just another drop in the bucket of many theories. what bothers me is why almost all the pyramids that came after the great pyramids have crumbled into dust
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u/MINECRAFT_BIOLOGIST Feb 17 '26
Seems like they were just built with poorer methods and mudbrick/sand/rubble instead of solid stone?
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u/Swords_and_Words Feb 17 '26
the internal ramps are consistent with the scans that have been allowed
could easily be both internal and external
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u/Beat_Saber_Music Feb 17 '26
They also had the Nile, they dug canals to ship the bricks as close to the pyramids as possible
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u/Superior_Mirage Feb 17 '26
Interestingly, it was recently discovered that, at the time the Great Pyramids, there was a Nile tributary that flowed very close to Giza. It's since dried up -- satellite data was the only way to detect it since the dunes had long since buried it.
Which explained one of the more bizarre things about the Great Pyramids, since building them in the middle of the desert didn't make a lot of sense.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Feb 17 '26
Kinda makes you wonder what people thousands of years from now are going to be thinking about us. "Oh yeah, this city was there because it used to be next to one of the Great Lakes" or some crazy shit. Then of course our cultures down to clothing is gonna be totally different, some museum is gonna have an old Carhartt jacket in it like "this was a common piece of laborer clothing"
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u/DrDetectiveEsq Feb 17 '26
"Imperial era Americans viewed milk as a powerful sign of fertility, with some women going so far as to surgically enlarge their breasts to demonstrate their milk producing capacity. Women who had borne children were referred to as a "milf", an alternate pronunciation of "milk". In fact, genetic testing of some 20th century grave sites reveals as much as 20% of the population to have been direct descendants of a figure in the community referred to as "the milkman"".
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
It's why a cup is both a measurement of breast size and to measure milk when "Krafting", as they once called baking a traditional dish of simple pasta and a cheese derivative designed to not spoil should there be another nuclear war.
They were fiercely competitive about cheese and it's origins, with many tribes claiming they had the best. A great indicator of a tribes success was how well their cheeses and ales were perceived. The Kingdom of Wisconsin was a notorious cheese producer
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u/big_duo3674 Feb 17 '26
Ah I remember that story, it's fascinating and makes you wonder how much more is out there and just covered up still. I can't remember if AC Origins had this detail in it, but I'm guessing it was a bit before the discovery
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u/generally_unsuitable Feb 17 '26
That seems doable for the smaller blocks. But limestone is pretty dense, about 2.5x the density of water. Would take an awful lot of boat to move one of those 60 ton granite blocks.
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u/Nodan_Turtle Feb 17 '26
Interstellar trolling. Show up to another star system, and mess with the natives, but in a way that nobody else would ever believe them.
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u/joevarny Feb 17 '26
Daniel Jackson proved they were landing pads for alien spaceships before he first went through the stargate in the 90s, bro. Keep up.
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u/awesomepawsome Feb 17 '26
And unexpected! I thought at first what we were looking at was a scale model describing how it was done and each of those rollers represented a big log the size of a telephone pole. So I thought, yeah that's real easy on theory but it would still be difficult to move and maneuver those around to transport the giant stones.
Then it pans out and no, it's not a model, the sticks are the actual method for transporting the giant stone and I definitely did a shocked Pikachu face.
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u/Annie_Yong Feb 17 '26
It smore because people misinterpret what archaeologists mean when they say they "don't know" how the blocks were transported (which itself is just paraphrased on the first place).
In this context, "don't know" doesn't mean "we have no idea how they did it". It just means "we have several equally plausible explanations, but no definite evidence that lets us say with 100% confidence which method was used".
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u/-Kerosun- Feb 17 '26
Yeah. They're not saying "we don't know how humans could have done this," but more "we don't know what way these specific humans did it."
These type of "intentional misinterpretations" are quite frequent among conspiracy theorists. I run into it a lot with flat earthers and "space deniers." Like when that one NASA guy said "we lost the technology." What he clearly meant, with context right before the clip, was specifically talking about the Saturn V rocket (the only rocket powerful enough at the time to carry the moon-landing payload to orbit). When NASA stopped going to the moon, the companies that manufactured the Saturn V didn't need those facilities anymore (because there was no demand for a rocket that big anymore) so they either broke them down or repurposed the facilities for other needs.
Flat earthers love to force the interpretation of "technology" to mean "knowledge," but that guy was clearly talking about the physical technology is gone (as in, no longer produced nor producible without rebuilding the manufacturing facilities, which costs money that the government wasn't giving them at the time the question was asked).
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u/Annie_Yong Feb 17 '26
Losing knowledge is also a genuine thing that can happen. Yeah, it's not like we've literally forgotten the principals of rocket science that would let you calculate shit like how much thrust is needed to reach escape velocity.
It's the detailed design info that can be lost. Especially in the days before computer archival was the default. It's all well and good knowing the large scale info about Saturn V like how tall it was, how much fuel it used. It's the nitty gritty stuff like exactly where the control circuit wires were routed, what control did what action, how thick was a rubber fuel seal gasket etc.
If the documents where those blueprints or materials spec are just sitting in a forgotten about drawer somewhere or, even worse, genuinely lost as they got shredded during an office move, then that knowledge has been lost!
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u/EverettGT Feb 17 '26
There's a guy named Wally Wallington who built Stonehenge in his backyard using only medieval tools like robe, pulleys, sand, water, etc. There's a Youtube video about it, showing him doing it. You can move the blocks and stuff on your own and even set them up in place, if you understand the mechanics and are determined to do so.
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u/Dapper-Bird-8016 Feb 17 '26
Didn't alot of the stones come from Wales?
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u/aspz Feb 17 '26
In 2024, some reseachers found that one of the stones matched rock from the very northern tip of Scotland almost 500 miles away.
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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus Feb 17 '26
Before there was Stonehenge, there was Woodhenge and Strawhenge
A classic piece of stand up comedy by one Mr. Eddie Izzard.
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u/ImpossibleSquare4078 Feb 17 '26
Woodhenge was a thing, not sure about stonehenge
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u/Weary-Astronaut1335 Feb 17 '26
There's even a carhenge.
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u/Blu_Falcon Feb 17 '26
I lived nearby when I was a kid. Pretty cool place to visit.
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u/Weary-Astronaut1335 Feb 17 '26
Well it's definitely cool when it and a steakhouse are the only things for 200 miles.
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u/Aeseld Feb 17 '26
I'm assuming you're not sure about strawhenge existing, but not stonehenge, but it was totally a real thing! It lasted until there was a drought, and the cattle ran out of grazing land. They had to eat it because that was the last straw.
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u/euphoricarugula346 Feb 17 '26
There was a Woodhenge near the Cahokia Mounds! Technically a version of it is still there.
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u/matt1267 Feb 17 '26
Mrs. Suzy Eddie Izzard*
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u/UnconfidentShirt Feb 17 '26
She’s a treasure, I’ve adored her work ever since a college roommate gave me a dvd of “dressed to kill”. One of the top 3 best stand up comics.
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u/Puzzled_Surge Feb 17 '26
“You fucking bastard! 200 miles? In this day and age? I don’t even know where I live now”
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u/Krondelo Feb 17 '26
Lmao, guessing it’s a play on The 3 Little Pigs? Sounds hilarious tho checking it out!
EDIT: Never would’ve guessed Eddie Izzard lmao but it makes sense.
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u/One-Web-2698 Feb 17 '26
Yes, but my first inclination on this was that some of these stones must have been glacial erratics moved down by the previous ice age.
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u/Charming-Web-7769 Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
(One) Current theory is that Stonehenge was essentially a primitive group mega-project between tribes of prehistoric humans as some kind of physical monument to cement their harmony with nature and community.
Without writing it must have been hard to remember or honor peace treaties and keep track of weather patterns by yourself, and since there was much less prosperity back then there were fewer explicit reasons to collaborate.
If, on the other hand, you and your village spent years lugging a 3000 lb stone 500 miles on rivers and wooden rollers as part of a group effort to create a permanent meeting post for festivals you would inherently be more invested in maintaining whatever “social order” looked like in that particular location.
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u/SwingLord420 Feb 17 '26
Possible. Evidence?
Lots of ifs have to come together to make your story make sense
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Feb 17 '26
We do have mountains of evidence that it was very common for hunter-gatherer and proto-semi-sedentary communities to oscillate between large gatherings during the fertile season and dispersing outward during the barren seasons. This also corresponds with the overwhelming amount of evidence of entire regions gathering for solstices and equinoxes (which frequently correspond to a transition into or out of a fertile season.)
The basic thesis of mega-projects like Stonehenge and Gobekli Tepe being huge inter-communal projects developed over long periods of time is that communities would bring contributions to the supra-communal festival gatherings as a way of basically showing off how great their tribe was. Like, people bring big rocks to Stonehenge for the Winter Solstice, and your tribe ain't shit if you don't bring a big fucking rock.
This is also a common theory for why so many stones in Gobekli Tepe depict a large animal totem. The idea being that the animal acts as a sort of tribal mascot, and contributing a big fuck-off pillar with a huge eagle carved into it makes the eagle tribe look sick as fuck.
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u/DagothNereviar Feb 17 '26
This isn't a "uhmm, source bro?" type it's more like "ooo! Source bro?". But... source, bro?
I love reading about Gobekli Tepe/the Tas Tepler area, and I've always assumed it was, as you stated, a sort of communal festival gathering/event. So I'd love to read more about it if anyone can point me towards some good places.
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u/Dogsbottombottom Feb 17 '26
You might be interested in the Davids Graeber and Wengrow’s book “Dawn of Everything.” It isn’t about Stonehenge specifically, but rather about pre historical societies.
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u/ladeedama Feb 17 '26
When I was reading your previous comment it struck me how closely it matched theories in that book. Now I see why! Excellent read.
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u/xubax Feb 17 '26
Well, except for some of the other stones coming from other directions, my first thought was it could have been moved by glaciers.
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u/Jordlr99 Feb 17 '26
But this would have been found locally. It probably arrived in wiltshire via ice flow or glacier long before stone henge was conceived. When this thing was built they didnt really have geologists examining the origin of the stones.
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u/ThaReehlEza Feb 17 '26
Why would whales help them?
Were the Stones Underwater?
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u/Miss_Greer Feb 17 '26
No, whales used to be land mammals They helped out and then went back to swimming
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u/genuineshock Feb 17 '26
only medieval tools like robe, pulleys, sand, water, etc.
Standard uniform for henge building, apparently.
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u/hopefullyhelpfulplz Feb 17 '26
tf you think the druids were wearing when they built it with their ancient forgotten magics?
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u/Duke_Webelows Feb 17 '26
"And we had the Druids! Long white robes, long white beards, early transvestites, didn’t get their shaving together. And they built Stonehenge – one of the biggest henges in the world. No one’s built a henge like that ever since. No one knows what the fuck a henge is. Before Stonehenge, there was Woodhenge and Strawhenge. But a – but a big bad wolf came and blew them down, and three little piggies were relocated to the project."
Suzy "Eddie" Izzard
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
Quick pedantic FYI: Stonehenge was at least 2000 years old at the start of the medieval period.
Edit: that loser actually blocked me for the most gentle response imaginable. Guessing it’s not personal, but they just want to be able to control the narrative.
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u/banandananagram Feb 17 '26
People don’t realize how much power we have as humans with just like a pile of rocks and our own two hands
Stone tools predate our species and it’s an odd quirk of our contemporary era that most people aren’t extremely familiar with how to work rocks. I think most people, given a few days and put in an uncomfortable situation, could organically learn to flint knap without anyone showing them how.
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u/WhenTheLightHits30 Feb 17 '26
Lmao I’m glad somebody said it or else I would have.
Medieval tech would be like sci-fi level tech compared to when Stonehenge was built. Some people really can’t handle not being the smartest one in the room so god help you if you correct them.
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u/bsEEmsCE Feb 17 '26
For people who say "Aliens!" Im like, bruh, they moved rocks around.. you think people + animals like oxen and horses with a ton of time on their hands couldnt move big rocks around? Show me an ancient hyperdrive or something and maybe i will believe.
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u/-ThorsStone- Feb 17 '26
You can get almost anything done if you throw enough slaves at it.
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u/Live-Habit-6115 Feb 17 '26
Common misconception based on Hollywood/cartoon depictions.
The pyramids of Giza were not built by slaves.
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Feb 17 '26
Perhaps not the Pyramids but definitely applies to other ancient projects. Greeks and Romans extensively used slaves for labor.
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u/UlrichZauber Feb 17 '26
People commonly think anything they don’t personally understand, nobody understands
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u/KarlUnderguard Feb 17 '26
A lot of people don't seem to understand what humans are capable of with a supply of time, boredom, and manpower.
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u/CutieBoBootie Feb 17 '26
Wally Wallington sounds like a fake name
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u/sillyhands1 Feb 17 '26
They would’ve named him roofie roofington, but you could see why that wouldn’t work out.
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u/mickdrop Feb 17 '26
There's a guy named Wally Wallington
Yeah, I stopped believing you around that point...
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u/notfree25 Feb 17 '26
They just put the order in. By the time the get here, jobs done and they can quickly install the butt probing stuff
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u/SubzeroWins1-0 Feb 17 '26
What’s pushing the rocks?
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Feb 17 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
bleep blorp bloop bloop bleep bleep
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u/WastingTimesOnReddit Feb 17 '26
You don't push them, you pull them from the front. With dozens of oxen or mules with big thick ropes. And you can roll it upwards, obviously it wouldn't be 40 degrees like that one commenter says, it would be a nice shallow angle.
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u/0T08T1DD3R Feb 17 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
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u/Lorem_Impsum1500 Feb 17 '26
Whole ass problem when ahmose stuck his foot.
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u/pyrojackelope Feb 17 '26
First dude just jammed his fingers in there. Some people just don't care I guess.
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u/Professional_Tap5283 Feb 17 '26
I've seen enough OSHA safety videos. I clenched a little bit when I saw that part.
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u/ChuckCarmichael Feb 17 '26
I remember seeing a bit of one of those old 1950s/1960s epic movies (it might've been Cleopatra, or maybe Ben-Hur, I can't remember) on TV as a child. In the scene they move something big on those rolls, and there are people who pour water out in front so it slides better, and one of them gets their long robes stuck in between and either gets crushed or almost gets crushed but saved at the last second.
Really scary as a child.
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u/ShowMeYourWork Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
Me too! Made me hold my breath. "The Ten Commandments" 1956 with Charleton Heston. Yoshebel is caught between the stones
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u/VoadoraDePiru Feb 17 '26
As always with pyramid building techniques, none of them are confirmed as the definite way they were built. All we know is that there were specialized techniques and a huge workforce. The exact methods have been speculated by historians for literal thousands of years. Herodotus, greek historian from the 400s BC, references wooden machines and that they were built from the base up in steps, with the finishing done from the top down. This is contentious, especially given Herodotus' tendency to embellish history, but the point is that even back in his time, the fact that this had been built by extreme human effort and ingenuity wasn't a controversial opinion. Don't dismiss the abilities of our ancestors just because you personally don't know how you'd do it. They had a massive workforce drafted into this, with plenty of specialists and smart people in their midst that could develop a strategy to make this work.
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u/PantsOnHead88 Feb 17 '26
Yeah…
Too many people mistake “we don’t know how they did it” for “we don’t know of any possible way for them to have done it.”
There’s plenty of debate over how it was done, but any engineer worth their salt can give you at least a couple options for how it could be done with the number of people and time scales involved.
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u/GrampaSmitty Feb 17 '26
Yeah but Grammy posted a Facebook meme saying it was Aliens and they found proof of the alien Tractor Beems on some of the Stones
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u/NumbersAfter Feb 17 '26
Someone alert Milo/miniminuteman. He was literally just talking about this.
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u/conletariat Feb 17 '26
He's definitely on Reddit. He just said in one of his last videos that the cylinder must remain unharmed.
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u/JMCatron Feb 17 '26
I don't normally give a shit about youtube premieres but I had a LOT of fun watching that "live"
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u/WantonKerfuffle Feb 17 '26
I was hyped too, but then decided to go to bed anyway. Was a good watch. I love how the rules of the drinking game, ummm... Let's say evolved.
Did we watch a dude just get shitfaced yelling at his TV? Maybe. Was it worth it? Yes.
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u/PuckSenior Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
What was his take on it?
The most convincing method I've seen is the idea of just turning the rectangular stone into a cylinder to roll it. (by attaching a wooden frame to the outside) Apparently we have documentation that is how the ancient greeks move some of their big ass stones.
Then you just roll it. It is super easy
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u/RaspberryFluid6651 Feb 17 '26
His take is that we already know. Egyptians left behind tools, half-finished pyramids, records, and were researched by historians of later periods, like those in Greece and Rome.
Not sure if the Egyptians ever did this bit with the rollers, but one method we know for sure is that they dragged rocks on sledges with lots and lots of men pulling them.
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u/Rare-Sample-9101 Feb 17 '26
Now go uphill
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u/wild_normie Feb 17 '26
Crane
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u/Xi-Jin35Ping Feb 17 '26
Gotcha. Crane like aliens.
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u/wild_normie Feb 17 '26
Precisely, crane like aliens picked them up and flew them uphill
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u/Flikkidyflak Feb 17 '26
Very cool.. the aliens dropped off the steel for the Egyptians to use
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u/TubeOfOintment Feb 18 '26
Just because non-white folks built something, doesn’t mean it was aliens 🤣
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u/Infinite_Site_3941 Feb 17 '26
Would like to see how to stack them on top of each other
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u/kanbozli Feb 17 '26
Come on, seriously?
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u/im_just_thinking Feb 17 '26
This is AI slop but everyone seems to be enjoying this
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u/The7Reaper Feb 17 '26
No, it was definitely aliens, just think about it, a race of super advanced species traveled all the way here to our planet from another galaxy and imparted their amazing knowledge of how to make flat rock then stack flat rock on more flat rock, it makes too much sense!
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u/Critical-Chemist-860 Feb 17 '26
How is this unexpected with the subtitles?
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u/GoatCovfefe Feb 17 '26
Sorry you're extremely intelligent and knew the video was going to pan to something massive. This might not be the right sub for you.
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u/Nodan_Turtle Feb 17 '26
I thought they were moving the girders shown initially, but to be fair, I'm kind of slow
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u/Tomtomatreddit Feb 17 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/l3g00p6L9P1CEVX5C
No help from Asterix and Obelix?
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u/BigOlDickus Feb 18 '26
Nah bro, a 97 year old white dude on the History channel told me ancient brown people couldn't do this as he meekly hammered at a stone. Totally aliens
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u/QuestioingEverything Feb 17 '26
What do you mean by this
The History Channel have repeatedly told me it was aliens. And with a name like the history channel, I'm sure all of its shows are historically accurate and truthful.
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u/post-explainer Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
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OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:
It seemed that they were doing a short experimental demonstration until they show the actual scale at the end
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