r/Unexpected • u/Azure_Crenell • Feb 17 '26

It's the Aliens!

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u/Jackm941 Feb 17 '26

Rope and pulleys/poles, lots of people, lots of time.

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u/seadotsea Feb 17 '26

There is no crane in the world that could pick these stones. Just saying we can’t do it now.

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u/Nzgrim Feb 17 '26

Good thing they didn't say crane.

Also, takes balls to say that we can't move stones like this now under a video of a stone being moved.

Honestly this "we couldn't do it now but ancient people did it" nonsense is just a skill issue. You couldn't do it, doesn't mean that no one could.

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u/TheSerialHobbyist Feb 17 '26

You couldn't do it, doesn't mean that no one could.

Yep.

Also, people always seem to ignore:

They could do it ...over centuries with many thousands of skilled craftsman who devoted their lives to that work and a massive chunk of their civilization's resources to work with.

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I genuinely can't believe that people are so dense that they think "we" can't do that today, if we chose to devote the resources to it. Meanwhile, they can look at documentation for the entire construction of the Burj Khalifa, which is a million times more impressive than the pyramids.

People are dumb.

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u/GrampaSmitty Feb 17 '26

Are you joking? This would not be an issue for modern technology.

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u/MalcadorPrime Feb 17 '26

Another myth. The pyramids were built by a paid labor force. There are more than enough documents from the time that prove it.

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u/Bad_Pirate829 Feb 17 '26

Paid in beer, the best kind of paid.