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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

Ancient furry.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But no nose! Those just fall off anyway, according to my buddy Michael from the future!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The ancient aliens theories are founded in racism. Just cause they were brown that doesn't mean they weren't sophisticated and needed help from aliens.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It doesn’t need to be racism, the reason for claiming aliens was because it was so complex they didn’t see how ANYONE could do it even with 1900s technology. Like I never heard a person claim it had anything to do with the color of their skin

[–] WizardofFrobozz 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It doesn’t need to be racism but it sure as hell is. See also: a shit-ton of ancient alien nonsense about Maya or Inca monuments, meanwhile nobody’s out there claiming that Klingons helped build the Parthenon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They did claim that Stonehenge was an alien creation even though it was built by white folk

[–] WizardofFrobozz 6 points 1 month ago

Fair point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I didn't say the theories are racist, I said they are founded in racism.

A large amount of the ancient aliens stuff stems from Chariots of the Gods? by Erich Von Daniken, who is very clearly racist.

If we look to von Däniken’s work, there can be little doubt that his racial beliefs influenced his extraterrestrial theories. After a short stint in jail for fraud and either writing or appropriating the material for a number of other books that developed his ancient astronauts theory, von Däniken published Signs of the Gods? in 1979. It is here that many of his racial views are most boldly stated. British archaeology officer Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews points out on his Bad Archaeology blog just a few of the many racist questions and statements posed by the author: “Was the black race a failure and did the extraterrestrials change the genetic code by gene surgery and then programme a white or a yellow race?” He also printed beliefs about the innate talents of certain races: “Nearly all negroes are musical; they have rhythm in their blood.” Von Däniken also consistently uses the term “negroid race” in comparison with “Caucasians.”

https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-racism-behind-ancient-aliens/

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

Yeah fuck those tall whites being racist! The green aliens are the best! lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Jaffa, kree!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are those pyramids called pyramids because they the shape that we call pyramid or do we call the shape pyramid because they look like those pyramids?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean tetrahedron could work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It wouldn’t. A tetrahedron has four sides, hence the name, while an Egyptian-style pyramid has five (if you include the base, otherwise it isn’t even a polyhedron).

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also bury me inside it with all of my treasure when it's done, I want to be rich in heaven.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Don't forget to have your internal organs sucked out and placed in jars just in case you wanna come back down for a visit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

And they were absolutely right!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Someday they'll find an ancient statue that's half man, half bear, half pig.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm super cereal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He could be half bear, half manpig.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No because that would make sense, and the whole point of half man, half bear, half pig, is that it doesn't make sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Boys, there's no such thing as a ManBearPig. The vice president is just desperate for attention.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Of course there's such a thing as ManBearPig - I've seen actual drawings of him! He's half man, half bear, half pig.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Was it a desert when they were built?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Apparently the Nile was much closer at the time and there were lakes and rivers around the area when the pyramids have been built.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

did you know that, in the valley of the kings, you can see a clear evolution from simple petroglyphs to the later hieroglyphs? on the cliffs there you can literally see where they started as simple tribes drawing pictures of animals, and in that same valley, those little symbols go on to become the hieroglyphs that would adorn the royal tombs of the greatest civilization in the world (at that time).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Weird way to draw an ancient alien.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With squares on bottom.

Although now I'm wondering whether or not giant triangular prisms in the desert would be cooler than pyramids. I think they would.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

they'd have tried but then they'd have to get rid of an elephant

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its brilliant, Djoser, brilliant. We're going to the moon!

(i searched "first pyramid pharoh" (i misspelled it there too) and I guess its this guy)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Not like anyone else bothered until the Eiffel tower

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's easy when the slaves do all the work! 💪