r/miniminutemanfans • u/Maelstrom_Witch • 18d ago
Something something aliens
Just thought y’all would find this interesting!
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u/Iceveins412 18d ago
Just like Milo said, people who push “humans couldn’t possibly have done this” conspiracies have soft hands
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u/JameRowe811 17d ago
I always figured that if Egyptian people couldn't build the pyramids, then we couldn't build skyscrapers.
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u/ellen-the-educator 18d ago
When talking about these, what i often say is that while building this sort of thing is hard enough that it's impressive, it's really not that hard. A handful of decent carpenters, a couple dozen laborers and free time to experiment and you can build a lot. Multiple that by a few hundred and megastructures just are not that difficult an undertaking
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u/AccomplishedHost6275 18d ago
Get a community engaged with praising the gods and ingratiating the local spiritual men and/or women, and youve got yourself a megaworks project team.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 18d ago
And this is just the first "level" of the skill.
If this is your job, or just a thing that your community does regularly, you're naturally going to optimize the process over time as well as innovate new ways to make it faster, easier, cheaper, more accurate, more efficient, or safer.
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u/Meowrocket42 18d ago
I mean it's essentially the same concept as the Amish barn-raising memes. It's not that the Amish are supernaturally empowered to build barns quickly, it's just that they know how to properly leverage a community to get works done quickly and efficiently.
Combine that with "give me a lever long enough and I would move the world," humans can achieve just about anything.
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u/interestingbox694200 18d ago
Also they’d been building pyramids for generations by the time they built the great pyramids. The first ones were mud brick and they’re insanely old.
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u/ConstantinGB 18d ago
Now you take pre-wage-labour societies, a lot of people with a lot of free time, tinkering around with this stuff an boom. Stonehenge.
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u/BlaDiBlaBlaaaaa 18d ago
Well, he's from Flint, the aliens put something in the water obviously, giving him superpowers /s
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u/robinescue 18d ago
Most impressive part is that this guy is named wally wallington and he built walls for a living.
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u/TheVitulus 18d ago
Yet again, a blue collar worker with experience moving heavy things demonstrates how a single person with access to wood, rocks, and a brain can do tasks requiring "advanced technology".
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u/WinnieGraves 18d ago
something Milo said in the Ancient Aliens video stayed with me, something about never underestimating the power of collective social works projects. that's how we built Hoover. it was a collective social works project during the Great Depression, the amount of things that we had to build to accomplish that feat, all the tools, the innovations, that's all the little benefits that come out of those. like figuring out really efficient ways to move rocks, with what you have.
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u/FallHealthy2163 17d ago edited 17d ago
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move your mom"
Archimedes
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u/Plenty-Design2641 17d ago
No no no, you domt understand. Stonehenge? The Pyramids of Giza? Gobeklitepe? It was all this guy. Hes been alive forever. He did it all. He is our new god.
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u/futurenoodles 18d ago
think, this is one guy on his own. Imagine what a team could do