Did aliens build the pyramids?

Question

Did aliens build the pyramids?

Answer 1

Oh my god. I hate the History Channel for propagating this myth. Imagine if a thousand years from now, humans believe that there was no way we could have possibly come up with the technology to fly to the moon, or land a rover on mars, without the help of aliens. We know that it is through the work of some of the worlds most intelligent men and women that space travel is a reality. Not aliens. Say you were always pretty bad at algebra, but, because you wanted to pass to the next grade, you studied your butt off. Your next report card comes back and where you used to have an F in algebra, you now have an A. Imagine how angry you would get if your parents thought there was no way you could have possibly gotten that A all on your own, and they then attribute that A to the help of someone else much more advanced at Algebra than you. Same thing with the pyramids. Just because the tools, and technology of more recent "advanced" civilizations didn't exist back then, doesn't mean that the ancients weren't capable of ingenious methods of engineering and building. Through sheer, hard, back-breaking work these magnificent structures were constructed. Remember, the Egyptians were true believers in the after-life, as well as in the appeasement of their Gods. They viewed building the pyramids not as tedious, back breaking work, but as their honorable duty.

Answer 2

The idea that aliens built the pyramids does not pass the test of critical thinking.



Critical thinking is an important concept that should be taught in schools. It requires only a little effort and imagination to do a critical thinking analysis. Critical thinking is not an absolutely infallible tool, but it is nevertheless an extremely important tool to use, as is Occam's Razor.



Here's a bit of critical thinking on this pyramid issue.

Let's imagine that in 10 years, someone discovers a way to do faster than light travel and we soon discover many vaguely Earthlike planets at other stars and even a very few planets with civilizations on them, and some are at the same level as Egypt around the time when pyramids were built.



So with this new traveling capability, what would we decide to do?

Well, how about going to these planets with Egypt-level technology and build pyramids for them!!! Everyone on Earth will be anxious to help fund this great project of building pyramids for aliens all over the galaxy, right???

Wrong.

The whole idea makes no sense whatsoever when examined critically.



Sure, it could be right anyway, but the probability of that is near zero compared to the probability of the following critical thinking scenario being true:



The ancient Egyptian civilization had a pharaoh that kept the Egyptians safe from all the surrounding enemy states, made grain storage facilities to protect their civilization from droughts and floods. The people would do anything for their pharaoh! They had a very strong religion that required elaborately preserving the dead. The pharaohs had the power over people to arrange for their own preservation when they died and to build a building for themselves to keep their remains safe. The cost of labor was no object.



If that comparison isn't obvious enough already for you to evaluate this pyramid problem, then here is where Occam's Razor comes in. We have two scenarios:

One scenario requires that there are aliens who have somehow found us in this vast galaxy; aliens who have some vast technology that allows them to travel from their planet to Earth.

The other scenario only requires a lot of slave labor and mere stone-cutting and stone-moving technologies.

Which one is the simpler scenario? Obviously the latter one is, so according to Occam's Razor, it has the higher probability of being true.

Answer 3

Face reality, the Egyptians just took over the experience of the pyramids. Look at the math and the precision. Civilization it has been proven is over 20 thousand years old. We must separate fact from belief and theories. Slave did not build the Pyramids, it is physically impossible to coordinate 600 people to pull on stone and place one every 1.5 minutes based on this theory. Egyptologist are trying to protect any funding they have and in all truth trying to save face in that they are being proven wrong by science / math / computers. So to think that so many Pyramids were built globally coincidentally is not an intelligent observation. Look at the truth and not just what we were taught in school and made to almost believe.

Answer 4

The pyramids were built by fairly simple application of the five simple machines. The methods used to construct them visibly evolved from the older pyramids to the great pyramids. They are very clever, but not anything that couldn't be invented without aliens.



They weren't built by slaves, at least, not badly mistreated slaves. Excavations around them have revealed entire towns where the pyramid workers lived. They had big cafeterias where they got good food, they got medical care, and the graffiti they left on the pyramid walls shows they were organized into teams that were very proud of their work. They called themselves "friends of the pharaoh."



I think the pyramids were kind of a workfare program much like most of the modern economy is based on. Most people's jobs are entirely useless. The ad exec at Coca-Cola works hard to get people to buy his harmful product, instead of Pepsi's equally harmful product. It does nobody any good. Most jobs are like that, but the economy works anyway because what matters is that money changes hands. When the economy fails is when too many people don't have jobs, then money doesn't change hands.



When Egypt got very prosperous, it probably started having problems with unemployment. The pharaoh solved the problem by giving the unemployed a job building a crazy big pyramid. Naturally it took a long time to build, so it solved unemployment for a long time.

Answer 5

Their is more science in Sesame Street than there is in Ancient Aliens! Given that the Egyptians left us documentary evidence telling us exactly how they built the pyramids, I'm not sure even how such a silly story got started. We even have the remains of the village where the workers lived, and records of their social health service as well as the catering facilities provided. Why anyone should believe stories made up by a convicted embezzler rather than real evidence is beyond me!

Answer 6

No,



exactly the opposite.



The pyramids built aliens.



Yes that's true. The ancient Egyptians build the pyramids with their own sweat and blood. Hard work like that is totally unknown to today's generation and people today cannot imagine working so hard that teams of near naked men can actually stack rocks into the edifices that we see today.



So people invent "aliens" to have done the work. The "aliens" of lazy-Jo's imagination was invented specifically for the purpose of serving as the constructor of the pyramids. Said "alien" proved to be useful for explaining all manner of other feats incomprehensible to a generation that is allergic to hard work.



Hence in a figurative sense the pyramids built "aliens".



Cheers!

Answer 7

Pyramids are the most simple large building possible. They are literally a pile of stone. If aliens wanted to leave something that lasts, why didn't they just make a bucky ball tower, that would've been impressive. The ancients had more then enough technology to cut rocks, they had sand, sand gets embedded in copper tools making them almost as effective as diamond tools. Water and wood can also be used to split rocks and so can fire, wedges of dry wood expand when soaked with water. Ancient China removed a mountain ( Mount Yulei ) with fire and water in order to channel water through it.



The Ancient Aliens show often makes note of perfectly flat machined stone. A straight edge is the easiest surface to obtain perfectly, simply fold something in half, therefore the ancients could easily tell if something was perfectly flat. Perfectly flat surfaces are hand made by computer hobbyists trying to improve their heat sinks all the time, it's done by lapping, a figure 8 pattern with sand paper on a block, all it would take the ancients to make a perfectly flat machined surface would be sand, a block of wood and something flat that could be folded to be a straight edge for reference ( if they had nothing else, they could fold flat bread ).



Pyramids were built by people without the aid of aliens. The "experts" on Ancient Aliens lack imagination on what can be done by man.

Answer 8

No.

The Egyptians built the pyramids.

To suggest otherwise, like a bunch of nondescript aliens from a non disclosed area, in an unknown part of the universe build or taught us how to build them is absurd.

We are human beings with an intelligence superior to any other creature on earth. The human race build those edifices, because there is not a whit of viable or concrete proof that proves otherwise.

Those who claim aliens built or taught us to build the pyramids are speaking on conjecture, what ifs, poorly formed assumptions, lazy suppositions, second rate theology, historical ignorance, and third rate scholarships from community colleges in towns no ones ever heard of.

Those who know the human race built the pyramids have at least three concrete and viable pieces of proof; anyone can find all three of them in Cairo Egypt.

However; the gullible and the ignorant would speak differently. They think we are all too stupid to come up with the engineering plans for the buildings and then actually execute the plans successfuly.

Answer 9

To be honest, at first aliens sounds like a load of crap. But when you really think about it, you get "maybe it did happen i wasn't there". I think they could build these things, being that in ancient rome they were already mathematically solving pi and mathematics back then and engineering weren't as primitive as you may think. I mean you want some big statue? Just get a bunch of tall ladders and some artists with chisels. Remember, they had thousands of "workers" or in some cases slaves who could work 18 hours a day until they died. They may be big, but population wise and with technology at that time i'd assume it could be possible. Now wether aliens helped them or not? I wasn't there so i couldn't say, but i will hand it to them that some of the weird giant symbols on the ground and such do make for a compelling argument.

Answer 10

Slaves built the pyramids. It was hard work unknown to modern man. Same with the Easter Island heads. They came from a rock quarry and were transported and set on stone bases.

Answer 11

I've watched an episode called "Ancient Aliens"



OK, now watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUB4j0n2UDU#t=4m18s

Answer 12

Ancient Aliens (which is a whole series) suggests aliens are responsible for everything. I don't think they give our ancestors enough credit for resourcefulness.

Answer 13

The pyramids are not perfectly level - the tilt matches what you would get if you dug a ditch, filled it with water and used it as your level without allowing for the wind pushing on the water. So either humans made them or the aliens did not bring a level with them.

i would go with human construction.

Answer 14

If you start with the assumption that aliens don't exist, then the explanation for the building of the pyramids is pretty simple - the Egyptians did it.

Answer 15

Although Aliens would actually serve as an explanation for many mysteries, if they helped then, how come they're not helping us now, and how did Aliens speak Egyptian and Peruvian and many other languages of wonders thought you be built by Aliens such as:





Macchu Picchu

Pyramids

etc.



There was actually a lot of undiscovered and old technology and alot was destroyed in the Fall of Rome so we may never know how they built such wonders.

Answer 16

Egyptians built the pyramids

Answer 17

Interesting. Except for all of those experiments and trials where researchers have proven that ancient people, using only the tools available in their time, absolutely could have (and did ) construct those things.



And the fact that there is a heap of evidence that ancient people built them, while there is absolutely no reliable scientific evidence that extraterrestrials have ever visited our planet.

Answer 18

Na, I like to believe that aliens have been watching us for thousands of years too, but until I see one, it's still hard to believe. If aliens are here, they certainly don't pay much attention to us. They probably are laughing when they realize that all the videos we have of them, we still can't prove they actually exist. Witnesses all over the world. I even found a file on a government website that was public, that was putting out a request for the scientific community to decipher alien transmissions.



I'm not kidding.

Answer 19

Aliens don't exist and they couldn't have come here because the universe is a vast place no way that they can travel the speed of light through here.

Answer 20

Man built the pyramids, the aliens gave them the blueprints LOL.

Answer 21

No. Humans built those things, and the techniques they used are fairly well understood.

Answer 22

no.. aliens did give them the knowledge to build one though

Answer 23

No.The did give just the drawing.

Answer 24

it does make sense =/ but then again we could have done it too so we basically will never know :/...