Ancient civilizations

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I imagine they'd overshape the corner stones and shave them down as need to get the angle they desired. Easier to remove stone than put it back. Overshaping would allow wider turns on the corners as well.

Makes sense. The pyramids are largely limestone, which cleaves well and would be fairly easy to shape, even in place.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The only problem with the Giza Pyramids is that no one has figured out what kind of ramp they used.  A single ramp would have used more material than the pyramid itself and a ramp which wraps around the edges would have obscured the corners making it impossible for the architects to get accurate measurements.
I have a suspicion but no one is going to take a pyramid apart to test it out!

I thought the Egyptians dismantled the outer layer of the pyramids themselves.
Not like we 'salvaged' monoliths and circles ourselves...

Technically. They were Muslim at that point, mostly, and used the polished limestone for mosques and public buildings.

[SuperSentient]

How did humans move large stones?
Did humans fly with more sophisticated machines?
Stories are told about Atlantis, so were we apes or had advanced civilizations once before?

What is being suggested here? I don't think I get the point being made.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

How did humans move large stones?
Did humans fly with more sophisticated machines?
Stories are told about Atlantis, so were we apes or had advanced civilizations once before?

What is being suggested here? I don't think I get the point being made.

"Aliensdidit." 

[Brian37]

Ancient Aliens Drinking Game;
Every time they attribute something to the 'supernatural' take a shot.

Every time they say "we don't know" take a shot.
Every time they say "we can't do that now" take a shot.
Every time they say "...even with modern technology..." take a shot.

You want to end up in the ER or dead?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Every time they say "we don't know" take a shot.
Every time they say "we can't do that now" take a shot.
Every time they say "...even with modern technology..." take a shot.

You want to end up in the ER or dead?

I'm immune to alcohol poisoning. (Twenty years in the USN.   )

[Anomalocaris]

You want to end up in the ER or dead?

I'm immune to alcohol poisoning. (Twenty years in the USN.   )

You mean all of the brain that can be damaged has already been pickled in alcohol?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm immune to alcohol poisoning. (Twenty years in the USN.   )

You mean all of the brain that can be damaged has already been pickled in alcohol?

My whole body will never decompose. To avoid awkwardness I've specified cremation after a five day wait to see if I've just passed out.

[Anomalocaris]

You mean all of the brain that can be damaged has already been pickled in alcohol?

My whole body will never decompose. To avoid awkwardness I've specified cremation after a five day wait to see if I've just passed out.

Yeah, but during cremation they only have to touch you with a pilot light and all the alcohol will just burst into a translucent blue/orange fireball and finish the process without any outside help.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

My whole body will never decompose. To avoid awkwardness I've specified cremation after a five day wait to see if I've just passed out.

Yeah, but during creation they only have to touch you with a pilot light and all the alcohol will just turn your body into fireball.

There's talk of a containment dome, but I'm not paying for that. FEMA will have to pick up the bill.(Assuming you meant "cremation".)