Ancient Astronaut Theory

[thesummerqueen]

I'm a cranky old cunt who doesn't suffer fools.

Hmmm...how do you put up with me then?



By the way, while I can't remember the name of the particular show I'm thinking of, fortunately very nice documentaries about ancient Egypt (while we're on that example) DO exist and more and more evidence is being uncovered that gives insight into the lives and deaths of the workers who built these structures (how come I never hear that the aliens 'helped' build the temples in Egypt as well?).

I want to say it was Kenneth Feder (but I could be wrong) who said in an interview that the question gets raised as to why then we don't see "blueprints" for the pyramids - wouldn't that suggest the knowledge came from elsewhere? More, he said, that it suggests they kept their building secrets...secret. Most of what gets uncovered in archaeology is 'garbage'. Would we just leave our nuclear warhead plans laying around?

Also, having worked in the construction industry and having several friends who still are in it, I can tell you that anyone well-trained in construction doesn't need a 'permanent' stone-cutting meant to last for the ages telling them how to do it. They look at a structure and have experiential knowledge of how it was built and the engineering principles behind it. This is how men in the Renaissance were able to go back to the structures of Greek and Rome and resurrect building styles. It's how my friend Scott walks around a house a couple times, makes a few sketches, and within a couple weeks has an addition made.

No one person had knowledge of all aspects of the pyramid building - you had "guilds" that specialized just like you have today, and they had 'masters' who contributed to the whole. Each piece of wisdom builds upon the other, just as each stone did. No need for little green men to come down and give them their two cents.

Plus...if anyone DID tell us how to build pyramids... we didn't listen very well. There are definite 'mistakes' in Egypt proving someone didn't know what the hell they were doing (a problem that remains in construction today... [eye roll]). The 'bent' pyramid is the first anyone should look at.