• yesman@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Just some context: Ancient Aliens is racist. It’s roots are literally Nazi.

    You see, it’s only achievements in brown countries that need alien help. The Greeks didn’t need ET for the Colosseum, heavens no. We just scratch our head at Africans or Americans building pyramids and stuff.

    In the 30s, Nazi “researchers” believed in something I’ll call “Ancient Aryans” which is exactly the same as Ancient Aliens except it’s pure Germans who are visiting these primitive cultures and raising architecture. What happened to the Germans? They were annihilated by in-breeding with locals of course.

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    18 days ago

    Are we implicitly using their units? Metric factors of pi would be quite surprising.

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    18 days ago

    They’d also have to have used ɸ, ℇ, 365, the circumference of the earth, and the speed of light to build it.

    But hey, who’s to say they didn’t? Not me! Them ancient Egyptians was wily.