Quote:And anyone who believes that human beings are so almighty that we are the only ones like us in the entire vast universe
That's not really the issue, Tracy. The issue is the laws of physics. The other planets in our solar system can not support life. The nearest star is just over 4 light years away. That means that IF ( huge if ) an alien race lived there and attained the ability to travel at the speed of light it would take them 4 years to get here and 4 years to get back. Why bother? To fuck around with cave men?
Much like religion ( which invents a god who is all super-peachy-keen advanced but who still gives a rat's ass about whether or not people "believe" in him ) this alien shit is an expression of human ego. We think we are so fucking important ( or almighty to use your term) that scads of aliens are building space ships just to come here and meet US.
Frankly, the notion that alien scout ships are zipping around the universe seeking out primitive races to exploit is bizarre. Its about as bizarre as the inane belief that a dead jewish carpenter came back to life.
I also agree with Rayaan's point. There is nothing inherently impossible about building the pyramids except for the corner that Egyptologists have painted themselves into. Their equation looks something like this:
4th Dynasty Egyptians + primitive technology* + 20 years = pyramid.
* copper chisels, stone hammers, sleds, ropes, manpower
Any of the terms in the equation can be attacked. The Ancient Alien crowd goes after the 4th Dynasty Egyptians claiming they had help. Others suggest advanced tools for which we have no evidence.
I find the time frame impossible. It would require setting one massive stone every 40 seconds for 20 years and that is simply an insane schedule. But the Egyptologists have locked themselves into it by sticking to the "tombs-and-tombs-only" idea which means that they really can't allow for a longer building time because it is the reigning time of the pharaoh which forces that particular figure. 20 years was considered the absolute limit even though most pharaohs reigned for far shorter periods of time.
But the Egyptologists do what the religious shits do. They start with an idea and then try to make all the evidence they find fit into that idea.
