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The reason pyramids are so common around the world is that they are one of the simplest large structures to build. The ever increasing width of the pyramid as it goes down and solid interior construction means there's always support for the layer above and the weight per area on the lower part doesn't grow as fast. It's also impossible to tip over or collapse, unlike a tower. It's basically a slightly more organised hill.
Everything I've said is simple physics. I can't see what issue you'd have with any of it. Maybe if you made some specific statements about what you think is wrong I'd be able to answer them.
The pyramid is an extremely stable shape for a massive monument, being wide at the bottom and tapering to a tip. It totally makes sense that multiple civilizations would figure that out without any connection to other pyramid-building civilizations.
Also specifically Egypt has a well known sequence of previous forms of grave temple, from the simple Mausoleum type over the Mastabah (several such buidlings stacked atop of each other like a very crude stepped pyramid) to the later forms of continuously smoother, straighter and larger "proper" pyramids. With some trial and error moments like the pyramid that threatened to break in on itself and thus was completed shallower with a broken sideline... I'm not sure we have the same sequence from Mesoamerica, but it's sensible enough to assume a similar history behind them, as opposed to declare them the Supercivilisation of the past with modern amenities but painting their walls with some sort of "primitive tribe" motif... or undemonstrated alien involvement.
@@Ugly_German_Truths The mesoamerican pyramids have their precursors quite literally inside of them, as it was customary to renew / enlarge them by putting a layer of new material on top. They are the Matrjoskas of monumental building ... This article here has a nice overview on "el castillo" in Chichen Itzá: www.theyucatantimes.com/2020/01/the-chichen-itza-series-5-the-castle/
See they will say shit like, "well historians like to think they were stupid..." but no you think they were stupid and needed help to pull this shit off.
@Ocasio-Cortez4prez2022 A lot of permanent recorded knowledge was lost along side the Library of Alexandria, which makes piecing that knowledge together very difficult now. It should be noted that the weight of blocks decrees with height, and we already have evidence Ancient Egyptians were already very proficient at moving extremely large objects over sand. Most likely they used some variant of early crane and pulley system to hoist the stones, the exact method and structure is what has been lost. It should also be noted that due how the Nile's seasonally farming worked, one of the three Nile seasons would mean that all the farmers would basically be without work. One theory is that during these times, the populace would be put to public works, with the Great Pyramids being one of them. This seems to be backed up as people who died while working on the Great Pyramids where given full honors of mummification, which was never done for people in servitude.
UPDATE: Right, completely forgot to say (well I said it and then lost /deleted the audio and didn't notice because I am stupid and I do that often) while pyramids were often found empty by the people who actually documented them (probably because of grave robbers) but the consensus is, that they were tombs because of funeral rights and evidence of burial found inside among lots of other things. So yes tombs, not power plants (or grain lol) haha.
I think it's the largest pyramid actually has the stone sarcophagus still in it. Proving that grave robbers took everything they could carry and that big stone box was just too heavy.
@@thejudgmentalcat That's correct. I had the good fortune to be able to visit it and climbed up into the burial chamber. It's there alright. That was one of the most memorable travel experiences of my life.
@@cirelesten and the fact you would need at least half of the whole population of Egypt to build that thing in record time, with copper tools, while wearing loin cloths. Mr. Sic doesn't know where he got into. The Pyramids are far older than Babylon itself, but I digress.
I think Red Dwarf sums up Egyptians and pyramids best. RIMMER: How did they move such massive pieces of stone without the aid of modern technology? LISTER: They had massive whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips.
What she neglected to mention about the Mythbusters testing the Baghdad Battery, was that they needed to hook TEN of them together to get those 4 volts. So one of these produced less than half a volt. Yeah...starting to think electricity wasn't the goal there.
Now we know how Lord Carnarvon actually died not from a curse but from radiation poisoning after he stumbled across the ancient fission reactor in a pyramid!
Well, I'm convinced. 4 whole volts! Also, you can make an electrochemical cell from a potato. Don't see them used often in lighting up entire cities...
@@TazorNissen That's because you forgot to also wave a bitching sword around while also yelling Thunder! Thunder! THUNDER CATS!! HOOO!!! as if you had just won the Lottery. That's when they'll stop staring at you and start taking you so serious they'll call some nice men to take you to a new tax free home and three free meals a day guaranteed. 👍
Strange, it's the same thing I always think when seeing a great cathedral: That's a lot of work for a cadaver... Especially in account of them only showing a carving of one!
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan "What is presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." - Christopher Hitchens "What can be disproved after five minutes on Wikipedia can be laughed at after five minutes on Wikipedia." - Suzi Wolf ;3
The biggest thing I dont understand about pyramid conspiracy theories is the absolutely absurd claim that we couldn't build one today if we wanted to. What they consistently fail to understand is that the ONLY reason we dont have machines that can build one right now is simply because we dont NEED anything capable of doing it. If we really wanted to we could certainly build machines capable of replicating the great pyramid. Just like all the other things we supposedly couldn't replicate today. Simply put, we build machines capable of doing what we need them to do so if we felt we needed to build pyramids we would make machines specifically designed to do so.
Pretty sure the large amount of strip mining and the couple mega structures we have built in the past 120 years proves we could easily build pyramids everywhere with current machinery. Just a little bit of on site infrastructure would need to be built.
Interesting factoid about the pyramids, the various work crews left graffiti in some of the interior passageways. Some of it was stuff like "Khofuu's crew rules" and a fair amount of dick jokes and drawings that would be at home in the Porta potty at any modern construction site.
@ That is an idiotic statement to make. There are lots of places that got destroyed and left behind traces of WHAT THEY HAD. Pompeyi is one example, but Egypt has it's own "swallowed by the desert sand" or "flooded by the Mediterranean" places. Also the Pyramids and Sphinx are not 12,000 years old. That is past even Jericho timescales.
@ A geologist who looks at parts of one thing and comes up with results that other geologists then debunk is not convincing to anyone but conspiracy theorists who want to be smarter than the actual experts.
@ The problem with that is, the temple that was built using the stone quaried from the Sphinx enclosure does'nt show 10k years worth of weathering. Tha Sphinx is an outlier, just an odd effect. It is very interesting though, as is Gobleki Tepi(sp) which actually is 10k years old and needs more research. No ancient super civilisations though, I spent my younger years looking into these things and believing them for a while, the more I learned, the more silly these ideas became. There is zero evidence in the fossil record for any of this.
@@stevenschnepp576 In fairness to Robert Schock(sp), he is a proper geologist and he hasn't actually been condemned by other geologists, they disagree with him, but he has used the correct methods as I understand it - he isn't really a full on crank like some, Graham Hancock took him on a dive and tried to get him to say that the "ruins" he found under water were man made, Schock as a geologist told him outright they were natural. I used to be so interested in this stuff, it's a shame that it is all bollocks in a way. :)
Need a drink meet up for sir sic fans. We just turn up at a location in medieval armour, drink whisky then go home. That's it. No talking. Just whisky. Any type of whisky.
@@the-trustees They were heavy and they probably took a lot of people but have you ever heard about this guy who made replica of stonehenge with real rocks that weighed the same, by himself. I mean by himself. No tractors or heavy equipment of any kind. They were probably delivered on a truck. I don't know. But he moved them and lifted them into place with weights and simple levers. Stone age type stuff. ua-cam.com/video/-K7q20VzwVs/v-deo.html What was it Archimedes said? "Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world."
Paul TheSkeptic Some of the rocks that are part of Stonehenge were transported from Wales. Just an interesting fact. I’ve no doubt they did it, back in the day. People will go to great lengths especially when their motivations are religious/spiritual.
@@GenghisKal Yeah they transported them a pretty darn long way. And what's interesting about that is how old stonehenge is. It's.older even than the earliest pyramids by centuries. We're only just now starting to understand that people back then had some surprisingly advanced trade and culture. Of course much of that remains a mystery but despite that fact, I think it's safe to say they didn't have power plants. Lol.
I love that the opening panoramic shot is literally lifted from 2016’s Gods of Egypt, a total clusterfluck of a movie that I absolutely did not get drunk and buy on Amazon Prime because the booze made it seem like a good idea.
Sir Sic, you are totally ruining my whisky drinking schedule. I am having to repeatedly put down my glass for fear of damaging my laptop. During this time my drink is evaporating and my lawyer will be in touch with you soon.
Things have to be really screwed up if sir sic is a calming moment in my life. Can't they come up with something new. Babble, babble, babble,believe me, its true !!!
@@rickc2102 Ah, hell no. Well like I said it was an interesting day My daughter was in a hit and run. The other car was a 2019 sports car. Tracked to an LLC. That rents sports cars for events. Like I said it's been interesting.
The difference between archeology and grave robbing? Time and intent. Oh, and if you're planning on selling the stuff you find or to learn more about previous human activity. Having a degree helps too.
Pyramids... = Achievement ! = "You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor."
Much as I loved Stargate SG1 it was only fiction. These are just a bloody big Mausoleum. The theory is that the batteries were used to electroplate jewellery.
The last item that can work as a battery if you put some acid in it, is actually believed to be the first eletrochemistry device. And it is suspected to be used to do some jewelry metal plating... not to power spaceships for the aliens to get out of Egypt with all their advanced technology.
The lack of all those "tomb hallmarks" doesn't mean anything, people have been going into the pyramids for thousands of years. Why would anyone expect there to be priceless artifacts still in there? It's like going to a baseball game and saying "those can't possibly be peanut shells on the ground, peanut shells have peanuts in them! These must be power plants scattered all over the floor!"
"All Mrs. Sic could do is make me a drink. And she'd probably spit in it too, not out of spite, she just drools a lot. Cus o' this thick, sexy-" (cuts to an ad)
Pyramids are just a fancy method of piling up big blocks of stone in a way, that keeps them from falling over easily. With the added benefit of looking kinda cool!
@Alexander Harris Actually it's rather smart if you think about it- static wise. Unless you are talking about me, in that case: A: It was a joke. And B: Up yours!
I really think ancient people like to screw with their children. Child:”daddy who built those pyramids “ father:” the gods” as he wipes the sweat off his brow
You can power a clock with a potato, or even a lemon or lime, to power a clock, but she isn't looking at food containers as proof they generated city-wide electricity. It is almost exactly what they did with this jar. They saw copper and iron and a container and somebody said "Hey, did you know if you shove a copper electrode into one end of a potato and an iron eletrode into the other end you can make enough power to run a clock?" Seems they should test people and not let trivia nerds on dig sites.
It all comes from a profound ignorance of Egyptian history. The Valley of the Kings was built a millennia after the Old Kingdom plus why is it always the Giza pyramids and not the Snefru or Middle Kingdom pyramids?
I love you that much Sic, thats why I hand bred two dozen munchkin cats and released them into your neigborhood. Good hunting! They've got small legs, they wont run too fast. Oh, I strapped a bottle of jack to the back of the ginger one.
At the absolute outside, I could maybe buy that some ancient accidentally discovered electroplating with that Baghdad battery. Left some copper and iron lying around in vinegar and came back and saw the iron had some copper on it somehow... maybe they thought it was manic and managed to reproduce it. I mean, ignoring the fact that we haven’t seen any copper plated jewelry from that period or any other evidence whatsoever.... still. I’d buy that lunacy long before I’d buy batteries. Show me their LED Christmas trees; then I’ll be impressed.
@@SirSicCrusader OR, somebody stumbled across gold electroplating and maybe museums should be checking all their "solid gold" artifacts to see it they were ripped off. (electrolysis has been done with "Baghdad Batteries")
@@bigratkiller1 While technically correct, successful electrolysis using "Baghdad batteries" required the use of electrolytes that would've ranged from ridiculously rare to literally unheard-of in the time and region the original came from.
It was and still is in some situations, the worst accident to build... Some metals can’t be next to the other.... it causes galvanic corrosion.... two metals just waiting to become anode and cathode... As one slowly takes atoms from the other
It's funny when people say that pyramids are mathematically precise. It's funny, because the largest one is screwed up both horizontally and vertically. The external geometry of the large pyramid suggests it was supposed to be taller and pointier. However, it appears the builders have figured somewhere mid construction they won't be able to do it. And so they just changed the angle and went less pointy. :D
Wow! I'll save a fortune, and never pay an electric bill again! Now all I have to do is make a very large pile of rocks, and Presto! Free electricity forever. Makes perfect sense to me...
Real how? Did it produce voltage... yes. Did the Egyptians know that... no. This has been heavily tested and the "Baghdad battery" produce such a tiny voltage you would need way to many of them to be useful.
I don't think it needs to be useful to be interesting. Someone may have discovered the phenomenon but had no idea what to do with it. Without a scientific community to work with it would be forgotten when the creator died. In other words, the discovery of electricity is useless without inventors to use it.
@@nicholase2868 Again your stating it as an invention when all the evidence we have points to it being an accident use effect was unknown by the Egyptians. Which is likely why they never wrote about it.
I think this question is still open... In fact it does only take a few volts to electroplate something (you can do small items with a brush gadget powered by one flashlight battery). Therefore I don't think it's totally unreasonable to think that some Egyptian might have figured out how to electroplate small items. However: 1. There doesn't seem to be any evidence to support this 2. We're talking about a tiny amount of power (equivalent to the sort of battery you can make with two bits of metal and a lemon or a potato) (The ancient Chinese had skyrockets.... but we don't suspect them of having had satellites or cell phones.)
One of the more interesting ideas I heard for the Baghdad battery was in use of medicine or gold plating. They are completely unproven hypothesis but they have been speculated by legit sources.
Well they probbbably could have notised the effect on electrods inside the bbattery but they didnt have any idea of how to make solution to make right platings and probably used the oxids they had on hand but who knows. Medicine usage is probably even more doubtfull.
@@Jimoshi1 the medicine usage would have merely been running the current through a sore joint or something. Again, its all mere speculation and shouldnt be taken as historical fact.
Sic: "What are their credentials?" Me: *remembers that maths professor from years ago who was convinced that the Earth was flat because otherwise, planes would have to steer downwards all the time*
She's completely wrong on the Baghdad Battery. Simple electrochemestry disproves this. She claims 4 volts but a copper iron cell is only capable of half a volt. Literally useless. Sure the Mythbusters got 4 volts but with 8+ cells. That's also open circuit voltage. Under load that battery is useless.
@@jacksonpercy8044 When you measure the voltage you are measuring the difference in positive and negative potential. The voltmeter may be real but for it's numbers to make any sense you need to treat it like an open circuit. When you really get into testing batteries you need to apply a load and test the voltage across that load. It's basic OHM's law. V=I*R. A crappy home made battery made out of a potato or lemon is going to see a larger drop in voltage across the load than a modern battery because it can't sustain the current. That's the best I can do without throwing real math in at least.
So basicly when Red Dwarf crew get stuck in 1st cenzury with controler of time machine they didn't need to go all way to India for lemons And they could to just half way for some scroll container And little bit of acid! Rad!
I once knew a chick who worshipped Egyptian gods and got really pissed when people suggested the Egyptian people couldn't have built them by themselves. Tomb is a funny word too.
Sir Sic - "Are you calling me fat?!" was the point at which I started a fit of the giggles that went on for 7 minutes so far and are only now easing off. Which is thankfully taking the edge off my disappointment that this video isn't chock full of Stargate SG1 jokes.
I think you meant circus not museum. 😬 (but me too, cuz i can do that with my thumb!) But anyway....are you telling me, on top of everything else-the pyramids are NOT power plants! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! Aliens!!! It WAS aliens! (Please don't take aliens away from me!)😞😢 Next thing you will be telling me...i need to cancel my Gaia channel?
Hey! Crazy lady! My uncle was a cop. His grave is his cruiser filled with cement and sealed off (all mechanical parts removed And my dad's tomb is a diamond my mom wears in her wedding band. See anyth8ng can be a tomb
Ppl, actually did the battery experiment. Managed to get 0,5V out of it. That would be impressive if it would be usefull. Just imagine how much dead batteries would have been found so far if someone tried to use those to jumpstart a car or something...
Sir Sic stole my bit. Where most people say they have a mind like a “steel trap”, because I’m so forgetful, I say I have a “mind like a steel sieve.” Oh the humanity! :P By the way, some think the Baghdad battery may have been used for electroplating.
The Giza pyramid power plant theory first originated with an engineer and craftsman named Chris Dunn who started this research in the 1970s and traveled to the Giza pyramid multiple times.
I never understood why people like this say that Egyptologists claim Pyramids are tombs and then leave it at that. I mean, yes, they did function as tombs. But it's kind of like saying the Burj Kalifa is a big mall, and then leaving it at that. Again, it does serve as a mall, but that is very far from its only function. These were massive state funded projects that took decades (tbh probably longer) to build. They were first and foremost a status symbol. They were a projection of the wealth, power, and glory that was Egypt. They were built to impress and intimidate others, as well as to glorify their gods. Another thing to keep in mind is how the Egyptian religion worked at that time. The afterlife revolves almost entirely around being remembered. If nobody remembers who or what you were, then you really don't exist in the afterlife anymore. That's just another reason that tombs were so elaborate.
A) Egyptians were HUGE on the death rites. They would totally spend 20 years, writing down all their beer they spent to pay the guys to build it. B) OH gods, I remember her! She pissed off that lady who teaches Biblical Hebrew and various ancient stuff about the older civilizations like Babylon and Sumerian area.
"we make assumptions based on the idea that ancient civilizations are less advanced than us" I've noticed that most people who say this assume ancient civilizations weren't advanced enough to build things like the Pyramids and instead needed to be helped by Aliens or Chakras or some other BS.
It has a sarcophagus in the burial chamber, which would have held a coffin with a mummy in it. Also Khufu was the second king of the fourth dynasty in Egypt, Pyramid texts were not carved onto the walls of pyramids until the reign of Unas who was the last king of the fifth dynasty, over two hundred years after Khufu
The scroll thing could be right, but it's definitely possible that those ancient batteries were used as party tricks by nobles or magicians who probably thought that they were actually magic
For the pyramids to be built in 20years 1 block would have to be set in place every 5 minutes 24hours a day for 20years straight. All 2,300,000 blocks..
Actually they were paid well for the time. They were a paid workforce so not slaves. Edit: it was propaganda that was written in the wholly wrong book to make them the enemy. harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html
@@andreahughes5042 The idea of keeping the large labor force required at planting and harvest busy and paid the rest of the year holds a lot of appeal and a rational mind can easily see it scaling up and up over time.
It has been suggested that the Bagdad batteries may have been used to electroplate armour. The cultures of the area and period were the first to field the cataphract and the armour used by those warriors was possibly enhanced by the process of primitive electroplating. It's pretty-much supposition however. Not exactly flying cars and microwave ovens.
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Fun fact, Cleopatra lived closer to the construction of the first Pizza Hut then she did the construction of the great pyramid of Giza
Yup, she was ancestor of one of Alexander The Great's generals Ptolemy.
@@andybrace9225 Descendant not ancestor...
Cleopatra personally delivers my pizzas, that's how important I am.
The reason pyramids are so common around the world is that they are one of the simplest large structures to build. The ever increasing width of the pyramid as it goes down and solid interior construction means there's always support for the layer above and the weight per area on the lower part doesn't grow as fast. It's also impossible to tip over or collapse, unlike a tower.
It's basically a slightly more organised hill.
You know absolutely nothing about building, engineering, mathematics or anything do you??
Don't be stupid in public
Everything I've said is simple physics. I can't see what issue you'd have with any of it. Maybe if you made some specific statements about what you think is wrong I'd be able to answer them.
@Toby Thompson - By the standards of ancient Egypt, they're precise. Our measuring methods would reveal inevitable misalignments.
The pyramid is an extremely stable shape for a massive monument, being wide at the bottom and tapering to a tip. It totally makes sense that multiple civilizations would figure that out without any connection to other pyramid-building civilizations.
Homo sapiens all over the world build similar things and it's mysterious and miraculous to these spirit science types :-(
Also specifically Egypt has a well known sequence of previous forms of grave temple, from the simple Mausoleum type over the Mastabah (several such buidlings stacked atop of each other like a very crude stepped pyramid) to the later forms of continuously smoother, straighter and larger "proper" pyramids. With some trial and error moments like the pyramid that threatened to break in on itself and thus was completed shallower with a broken sideline... I'm not sure we have the same sequence from Mesoamerica, but it's sensible enough to assume a similar history behind them, as opposed to declare them the Supercivilisation of the past with modern amenities but painting their walls with some sort of "primitive tribe" motif... or undemonstrated alien involvement.
@@Ugly_German_Truths The mesoamerican pyramids have their precursors quite literally inside of them, as it was customary to renew / enlarge them by putting a layer of new material on top. They are the Matrjoskas of monumental building ...
This article here has a nice overview on "el castillo" in Chichen Itzá: www.theyucatantimes.com/2020/01/the-chichen-itza-series-5-the-castle/
That's a great point! Every child who has ever build anything with blocks learns this lesson fairly early.
But how do you explain the cone head depictions everywhere? Lol
Historians: "The Egyptians were pretty advanced and clever with their construction techniques."
Conspiracy Theorist: "ATLANTIS! ALIENS!!"
See they will say shit like, "well historians like to think they were stupid..." but no you think they were stupid and needed help to pull this shit off.
@Ocasio-Cortez4prez2022 A lot of permanent recorded knowledge was lost along side the Library of Alexandria, which makes piecing that knowledge together very difficult now.
It should be noted that the weight of blocks decrees with height, and we already have evidence Ancient Egyptians were already very proficient at moving extremely large objects over sand. Most likely they used some variant of early crane and pulley system to hoist the stones, the exact method and structure is what has been lost.
It should also be noted that due how the Nile's seasonally farming worked, one of the three Nile seasons would mean that all the farmers would basically be without work. One theory is that during these times, the populace would be put to public works, with the Great Pyramids being one of them. This seems to be backed up as people who died while working on the Great Pyramids where given full honors of mummification, which was never done for people in servitude.
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Replace the start of those with 'History Channel 1980s' and 'History Channel 2020s' and it'd be scarily accurate.
I don’t understand this lady’s specific kind of stupid, but I do admire her total commitment to it.
She also has that kind of voice that you can't help but listen.
Lady Skeptic Not at all, I’m honored.
@@Puremindgames Same.
I'm pretty sure its a guy
I also admire suicidals commitment to removing themselves from the gene pool but that's a different kind of stupid altogether.
UPDATE: Right, completely forgot to say (well I said it and then lost /deleted the audio and didn't notice because I am stupid and I do that often) while pyramids were often found empty by the people who actually documented them (probably because of grave robbers) but the consensus is, that they were tombs because of funeral rights and evidence of burial found inside among lots of other things. So yes tombs, not power plants (or grain lol) haha.
I think it's the largest pyramid actually has the stone sarcophagus still in it. Proving that grave robbers took everything they could carry and that big stone box was just too heavy.
@@thejudgmentalcat That's correct. I had the good fortune to be able to visit it and climbed up into the burial chamber. It's there alright. That was one of the most memorable travel experiences of my life.
Lad, you're wrong on this one.
Beware of the misinformationz.
Right and the case that the large stone blocks was cut twice once for placement and again by rudimentary tools to cut the top off.
@@cirelesten and the fact you would need at least half of the whole population of Egypt to build that thing in record time, with copper tools, while wearing loin cloths.
Mr. Sic doesn't know where he got into.
The Pyramids are far older than Babylon itself, but I digress.
I think Red Dwarf sums up Egyptians and pyramids best.
RIMMER: How did they move such
massive pieces of stone without the aid of modern technology?
LISTER: They had massive whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips.
Boys of the Dwarf! „Smeghead“ 😎
@@Hathwos You know it!!
What she neglected to mention about the Mythbusters testing the Baghdad Battery, was that they needed to hook TEN of them together to get those 4 volts. So one of these produced less than half a volt. Yeah...starting to think electricity wasn't the goal there.
Now we know how Lord Carnarvon actually died not from a curse but from radiation poisoning after he stumbled across the ancient fission reactor in a pyramid!
Well, I'm convinced. 4 whole volts! Also, you can make an electrochemical cell from a potato. Don't see them used often in lighting up entire cities...
She must have mistaken an episode of thunder cats for real life
Well we have all done that...
"Ancient spirits of evil transform this decaying form to Mumm-Ra the everliving"
@@darrylelam256 Oh I think I prefer Snarf-Ra. ^_^
People tend to look at me with disapproving looks when I shout “HO!!” really loud.
@@TazorNissen
That's because you forgot to also wave a bitching sword around while also yelling Thunder! Thunder! THUNDER CATS!! HOOO!!! as if you had just won the Lottery.
That's when they'll stop staring at you and start taking you so serious they'll call some nice men to take you to a new tax free home and three free meals a day guaranteed. 👍
Strange, it's the same thing I always think when seeing a great cathedral:
That's a lot of work for a cadaver...
Especially in account of them only showing a carving of one!
And they almost never do buff Jesus so like... whats the point...
@@SirSicCrusader Ripped & shredded Jesus vs 5000 roman soldiers - only on UEBS.
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Oh, yeah? Well, missy, anyting that can be PROVED after 5 minutes on UA-cam can be, well, um...never mind.
@Toby Thompson Except for all the sarcophagi and mummies found in them...
The biggest thing I dont understand about pyramid conspiracy theories is the absolutely absurd claim that we couldn't build one today if we wanted to. What they consistently fail to understand is that the ONLY reason we dont have machines that can build one right now is simply because we dont NEED anything capable of doing it.
If we really wanted to we could certainly build machines capable of replicating the great pyramid. Just like all the other things we supposedly couldn't replicate today.
Simply put, we build machines capable of doing what we need them to do so if we felt we needed to build pyramids we would make machines specifically designed to do so.
Pretty sure the large amount of strip mining and the couple mega structures we have built in the past 120 years proves we could easily build pyramids everywhere with current machinery. Just a little bit of on site infrastructure would need to be built.
I was bothered by them calling them unique. There's around 120 pyramids in Egypt alone.
Interesting factoid about the pyramids, the various work crews left graffiti in some of the interior passageways. Some of it was stuff like "Khofuu's crew rules" and a fair amount of dick jokes and drawings that would be at home in the Porta potty at any modern construction site.
Some things never change.
These ancient civilisations were so advanced that they never invented shoes. SHOES!
They did have beer.
@ That is an idiotic statement to make. There are lots of places that got destroyed and left behind traces of WHAT THEY HAD. Pompeyi is one example, but Egypt has it's own "swallowed by the desert sand" or "flooded by the Mediterranean" places.
Also the Pyramids and Sphinx are not 12,000 years old. That is past even Jericho timescales.
@ A geologist who looks at parts of one thing and comes up with results that other geologists then debunk is not convincing to anyone but conspiracy theorists who want to be smarter than the actual experts.
@ The problem with that is, the temple that was built using the stone quaried from the Sphinx enclosure does'nt show 10k years worth of weathering.
Tha Sphinx is an outlier, just an odd effect. It is very interesting though, as is Gobleki Tepi(sp) which actually is 10k years old and needs more research.
No ancient super civilisations though, I spent my younger years looking into these things and believing them for a while, the more I learned, the more silly these ideas became.
There is zero evidence in the fossil record for any of this.
@@stevenschnepp576 In fairness to Robert Schock(sp), he is a proper geologist and he hasn't actually been condemned by other geologists, they disagree with him, but he has used the correct methods as I understand it - he isn't really a full on crank like some, Graham Hancock took him on a dive and tried to get him to say that the "ruins" he found under water were man made, Schock as a geologist told him outright they were natural.
I used to be so interested in this stuff, it's a shame that it is all bollocks in a way. :)
Need a drink meet up for sir sic fans.
We just turn up at a location in medieval armour, drink whisky then go home.
That's it. No talking. Just whisky. Any type of whisky.
Chris Pitchforth Why do you let the whisky go home? You should drink it ALL!🥃🥃🥃
@@garymcgregor5951 😂
Ain't nobody gon' enter my "chocolate chamber."
I remember debunking this argument in a forum discussion nearly a decade ago. Ah, memories...
That "Are you calling me fat?" line gave me a good laugh.
I can choose a random moment of her ramblings and I’m 95% sure “citation needed” will be appropriate.
There are citations. There are MANY of them. It's just that the ALL refer to her own «work».
Non-conductive rock. Zero moving parts. Power plant. Yup, totals legit.
That's because the Ga'Uld took away all the Naqutar generators through the Stargate before it was buried.
The Dog Walker lols.
You're not doing make-believe right.
Man I completely zoned out on SG1 jokes didn't I... damnit
@@SirSicCrusader I was waiting for them.
The Egyptians mastered the huge technical achievement of stacking rocks on top of other rocks.
Big, HEAVY rocks. :)
@@the-trustees They were heavy and they probably took a lot of people but have you ever heard about this guy who made replica of stonehenge with real rocks that weighed the same, by himself. I mean by himself. No tractors or heavy equipment of any kind. They were probably delivered on a truck. I don't know. But he moved them and lifted them into place with weights and simple levers. Stone age type stuff. ua-cam.com/video/-K7q20VzwVs/v-deo.html
What was it Archimedes said? "Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world."
Paul TheSkeptic Some of the rocks that are part of Stonehenge were transported from Wales.
Just an interesting fact. I’ve no doubt they did it, back in the day. People will go to great lengths especially when their motivations are religious/spiritual.
@@GenghisKal Yeah they transported them a pretty darn long way. And what's interesting about that is how old stonehenge is. It's.older even than the earliest pyramids by centuries. We're only just now starting to understand that people back then had some surprisingly advanced trade and culture. Of course much of that remains a mystery but despite that fact, I think it's safe to say they didn't have power plants. Lol.
@@PaulTheSkeptic "give me a fulcrum and a long enough lever and I could move the world"
Powermids?
Triangulators?
Pointy Nuclear Reactors?
Derpz?
"It's gonna make your whiskey taste like feet."
So like gin then.
😂
Hawkeye Vodka
Adamant Forge
Lol.🤭🤭😂😂
If your feet taste like Gin, you need to drink less pine-sol
Don't insult the mother of all spirits, you absolute peasant.
Our cathedral took around 30 years to build. It's an awesome building, but they recently put solar panels on the roof to help with the electric bill!
I love that the opening panoramic shot is literally lifted from 2016’s Gods of Egypt, a total clusterfluck of a movie that I absolutely did not get drunk and buy on Amazon Prime because the booze made it seem like a good idea.
was weed for me - funny how most of the films I absolutely loved to watch stoned, I can not even stand 5 mins sober.
I love that whole "conspiracy pyramids round teh wurld" thing.
Like it's impossible to independently figure out the simplist way to stack rocks.
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Australia doesn't exist
Sir Sic, you are totally ruining my whisky drinking schedule. I am having to repeatedly put down my glass for fear of damaging my laptop. During this time my drink is evaporating and my lawyer will be in touch with you soon.
Things have to be really screwed up if sir sic is a calming moment in my life.
Can't they come up with something new.
Babble, babble, babble,believe me, its true !!!
Wait a sec, have you retired from being Big Brother, then?
@@rickc2102
Ah, hell no.
Well like I said it was an interesting day My daughter was in a hit and run. The other car was a 2019 sports car. Tracked to an LLC. That rents sports cars for events.
Like I said it's been interesting.
"Just writing a book about it doesn't make it credible." Take note, mythicists.
Don't you remember the craze of sitting under pyramids? And how they were able sharpen razor blades
The difference between archeology and grave robbing? Time and intent. Oh, and if you're planning on selling the stuff you find or to learn more about previous human activity. Having a degree helps too.
What if your intention is to learn more about previous human activity THEN sell the stuff you found?
Pyramids... = Achievement ! = "You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor."
MMMMMMM one of those chocolates with whiskey in it the size of an actual bottle
Oh my, I remember trying to catch a buzz from those, and only getting sugar high.
Much as I loved Stargate SG1 it was only fiction. These are just a bloody big Mausoleum.
The theory is that the batteries were used to electroplate jewellery.
Wormhole X-treme.
@@carolinelabbott2451 lol
wrong, they were for nut zapping
@@SirSicCrusader Owch that would take a lot of whisky to recover from.
@@dogwalker666 Quite possibly a whole brewery full.
The last item that can work as a battery if you put some acid in it, is actually believed to be the first eletrochemistry device. And it is suspected to be used to do some jewelry metal plating... not to power spaceships for the aliens to get out of Egypt with all their advanced technology.
The lack of all those "tomb hallmarks" doesn't mean anything, people have been going into the pyramids for thousands of years. Why would anyone expect there to be priceless artifacts still in there? It's like going to a baseball game and saying "those can't possibly be peanut shells on the ground, peanut shells have peanuts in them! These must be power plants scattered all over the floor!"
I like the end of that, not gonna lie.
So the "Baghdad Battery" is like portable pyramids?
Ancient Walkmans must have been so tiny.
I think it was a popcorn maker
"All Mrs. Sic could do is make me a drink. And she'd probably spit in it too, not out of spite, she just drools a lot. Cus o' this thick, sexy-" (cuts to an ad)
Duh, we all know they use proximal resonance instability and produce energy from the chakra and meditation.
I'm the smart big brian
I thought that they used vibrational qi to ankh the third eye out of indigo children, but I could be mistaken.
@@davelife3324 nono, thats the sphinx of course
DemonicKiller63 You’re right, my bad. I think the Illuminati was using their 5g chem trails to alter my soul crystal’s karmic thought form.
You do that well, you could write for her
Stupid Hat Honestly, it doesn’t take a lot of brainpower to act stupid. I wonder why?
Fun fact: Baghdad Batteries are also thought to have been used for early hydrolysis and electroplating.
Assuming they weren't made for some other purpose and the residue inside was later contamination.
Pyramids are just a fancy method of piling up big blocks of stone in a way, that keeps them from falling over easily. With the added benefit of looking kinda cool!
@Alexander Harris Actually it's rather smart if you think about it- static wise. Unless you are talking about me, in that case:
A: It was a joke.
And B: Up yours!
We actually don't know how it was built. There are a few competing theories. The biggest area of contention is how the ramps were placed
I really think ancient people like to screw with their children. Child:”daddy who built those pyramids “ father:” the gods” as he wipes the sweat off his brow
Seriously though...some people think the Bagdad Battery was probably used for electroplating silver or gold...
You can power a clock with a potato, or even a lemon or lime, to power a clock, but she isn't looking at food containers as proof they generated city-wide electricity. It is almost exactly what they did with this jar. They saw copper and iron and a container and somebody said "Hey, did you know if you shove a copper electrode into one end of a potato and an iron eletrode into the other end you can make enough power to run a clock?" Seems they should test people and not let trivia nerds on dig sites.
It all comes from a profound ignorance of Egyptian history. The Valley of the Kings was built a millennia after the Old Kingdom plus why is it always the Giza pyramids and not the Snefru or Middle Kingdom pyramids?
I am impressed by your profound ignorance of grammar ;)
I love you that much Sic, thats why I hand bred two dozen munchkin cats and released them into your neigborhood. Good hunting! They've got small legs, they wont run too fast. Oh, I strapped a bottle of jack to the back of the ginger one.
At the absolute outside, I could maybe buy that some ancient accidentally discovered electroplating with that Baghdad battery. Left some copper and iron lying around in vinegar and came back and saw the iron had some copper on it somehow... maybe they thought it was manic and managed to reproduce it. I mean, ignoring the fact that we haven’t seen any copper plated jewelry from that period or any other evidence whatsoever.... still. I’d buy that lunacy long before I’d buy batteries. Show me their LED Christmas trees; then I’ll be impressed.
Literally the only thing that they should use it for, anything else, and its just witch craft.
@@SirSicCrusader OR, somebody stumbled across gold electroplating and maybe museums should be checking all their "solid gold" artifacts to see it they were ripped off. (electrolysis has been done with "Baghdad Batteries")
@@bigratkiller1 While technically correct, successful electrolysis using "Baghdad batteries" required the use of electrolytes that would've ranged from ridiculously rare to literally unheard-of in the time and region the original came from.
@@suziwolf4830 Technically correct is the best kind of correct :)
@@bigratkiller1 Ah, but if the technicality is a caveat that excludes the original matter in question...
It was and still is in some situations, the worst accident to build...
Some metals can’t be next to the other.... it causes galvanic corrosion.... two metals just waiting to become anode and cathode...
As one slowly takes atoms from the other
It's funny when people say that pyramids are mathematically precise. It's funny, because the largest one is screwed up both horizontally and vertically. The external geometry of the large pyramid suggests it was supposed to be taller and pointier. However, it appears the builders have figured somewhere mid construction they won't be able to do it. And so they just changed the angle and went less pointy. :D
Everybody that played Sid Meier's Civilization 2 knows pyramids are giant granaries, so good at it that they count as one in every city!
Wow! I'll save a fortune, and never pay an electric bill again! Now all I have to do is make a very large pile of rocks, and Presto! Free electricity forever. Makes perfect sense to me...
Those batteries were real and one of their theorised uses was metal plating. Like silver plating copper tools or items
Real how? Did it produce voltage... yes. Did the Egyptians know that... no. This has been heavily tested and the "Baghdad battery" produce such a tiny voltage you would need way to many of them to be useful.
I don't think it needs to be useful to be interesting. Someone may have discovered the phenomenon but had no idea what to do with it. Without a scientific community to work with it would be forgotten when the creator died.
In other words, the discovery of electricity is useless without inventors to use it.
@@nicholase2868 Again your stating it as an invention when all the evidence we have points to it being an accident use effect was unknown by the Egyptians. Which is likely why they never wrote about it.
I think this question is still open...
In fact it does only take a few volts to electroplate something (you can do small items with a brush gadget powered by one flashlight battery).
Therefore I don't think it's totally unreasonable to think that some Egyptian might have figured out how to electroplate small items.
However:
1. There doesn't seem to be any evidence to support this
2. We're talking about a tiny amount of power (equivalent to the sort of battery you can make with two bits of metal and a lemon or a potato)
(The ancient Chinese had skyrockets.... but we don't suspect them of having had satellites or cell phones.)
One of the more interesting ideas I heard for the Baghdad battery was in use of medicine or gold plating. They are completely unproven hypothesis but they have been speculated by legit sources.
Well they probbbably could have notised the effect on electrods inside the bbattery but they didnt have any idea of how to make solution to make right platings and probably used the oxids they had on hand but who knows. Medicine usage is probably even more doubtfull.
@@Jimoshi1 the medicine usage would have merely been running the current through a sore joint or something. Again, its all mere speculation and shouldnt be taken as historical fact.
Sic: "What are their credentials?"
Me: *remembers that maths professor from years ago who was convinced that the Earth was flat because otherwise, planes would have to steer downwards all the time*
She's completely wrong on the Baghdad Battery. Simple electrochemestry disproves this. She claims 4 volts but a copper iron cell is only capable of half a volt. Literally useless. Sure the Mythbusters got 4 volts but with 8+ cells. That's also open circuit voltage. Under load that battery is useless.
Open circuit voltage? What does that mean?
@@jacksonpercy8044 When you measure the voltage you are measuring the difference in positive and negative potential. The voltmeter may be real but for it's numbers to make any sense you need to treat it like an open circuit.
When you really get into testing batteries you need to apply a load and test the voltage across that load. It's basic OHM's law. V=I*R. A crappy home made battery made out of a potato or lemon is going to see a larger drop in voltage across the load than a modern battery because it can't sustain the current.
That's the best I can do without throwing real math in at least.
@@rayceeya8659 Ahh, makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
@@jacksonpercy8044 No prob. If you're interested there are lots of good online courses out there. It's how I got my start.
So basicly when Red Dwarf crew get stuck in 1st cenzury with controler of time machine they didn't need to go all way to India for lemons And they could to just half way for some scroll container And little bit of acid! Rad!
I once knew a chick who worshipped Egyptian gods and got really pissed when people suggested the Egyptian people couldn't have built them by themselves. Tomb is a funny word too.
Mrs sic, used to be one of them chicks, Kemetic Re Constructionist, is what she went by, shes better now :P
Sir Sic - "Are you calling me fat?!" was the point at which I started a fit of the giggles that went on for 7 minutes so far and are only now easing off.
Which is thankfully taking the edge off my disappointment that this video isn't chock full of Stargate SG1 jokes.
Are you calling me ffffunny?
@@SirSicCrusader Don't worry, I'm sure you didn't mean it. No harm done.
I think you meant circus not museum. 😬 (but me too, cuz i can do that with my thumb!)
But anyway....are you telling me, on top of everything else-the pyramids are NOT power plants! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!
Aliens!!! It WAS aliens! (Please don't take aliens away from me!)😞😢
Next thing you will be telling me...i need to cancel my Gaia channel?
I had a universe inside me, but one greasy burger later - it was a universe inside my toilet.
They piled rocks on top of each other until they had a pyramid.
Hey! Crazy lady! My uncle was a cop. His grave is his cruiser filled with cement and sealed off (all mechanical parts removed
And my dad's tomb is a diamond my mom wears in her wedding band.
See anyth8ng can be a tomb
Ppl, actually did the battery experiment. Managed to get 0,5V out of it. That would be impressive if it would be usefull. Just imagine how much dead batteries would have been found so far if someone tried to use those to jumpstart a car or something...
rum poured down one chamber Mountain Dew poured down the other and they emptied into my mouth
That would be... dusty.
In Australia I learned to appreciate Midori and Mountain Jew.
If that lady wants me to believe her, she has to show me at least one leg of an ancient robot waiter.
Sir Sic stole my bit. Where most people say they have a mind like a “steel trap”, because I’m so forgetful, I say I have a “mind like a steel sieve.” Oh the humanity! :P By the way, some think the Baghdad battery may have been used for electroplating.
I have a mind like an, erm... Found in the kitchen…. Has Holes…. Sieve! It’s a sieve. Although that description also covers wife
If they wanted it to be electrical they would have silver tipped it.
Chocolate Chamber was funnier than it should have been.
The Giza pyramid power plant theory first originated with an engineer and craftsman named Chris Dunn who started this research in the 1970s and traveled to the Giza pyramid multiple times.
I hope that if I get promoted this fall that I'll *finally* be able to join the whisky club.
I never understood why people like this say that Egyptologists claim Pyramids are tombs and then leave it at that. I mean, yes, they did function as tombs. But it's kind of like saying the Burj Kalifa is a big mall, and then leaving it at that. Again, it does serve as a mall, but that is very far from its only function. These were massive state funded projects that took decades (tbh probably longer) to build. They were first and foremost a status symbol. They were a projection of the wealth, power, and glory that was Egypt. They were built to impress and intimidate others, as well as to glorify their gods. Another thing to keep in mind is how the Egyptian religion worked at that time. The afterlife revolves almost entirely around being remembered. If nobody remembers who or what you were, then you really don't exist in the afterlife anymore. That's just another reason that tombs were so elaborate.
3:56 never gets old
A) Egyptians were HUGE on the death rites. They would totally spend 20 years, writing down all their beer they spent to pay the guys to build it.
B) OH gods, I remember her! She pissed off that lady who teaches Biblical Hebrew and various ancient stuff about the older civilizations like Babylon and Sumerian area.
It was built using limestone, granite, and water. They used the water to slide the stones.
Oh God. I remember that whole Von Danekin hoopla back in the 70s. People had little pyramids that were supposed to do magicals like whiskey.
"we make assumptions based on the idea that ancient civilizations are less advanced than us"
I've noticed that most people who say this assume ancient civilizations weren't advanced enough to build things like the Pyramids and instead needed to be helped by Aliens or Chakras or some other BS.
Well and i notised that most of the people who say that is actually less advanced then cavemans.
"Cause of this sexy, fat body" LOL
I'm gonna make my own electricity, and make a big pile of rocks to power my house.
So it's a powerplant that has no wires or pipes coming out of it or anything going into it -- so what does it provide power to?
Sir sic's tomb made from all the whisky bottles he drank.
1:24 im pretty sure all the ancient wonders are still around. Thats how we know they exist.
Pyramids are power plants, yet took years and thousands of people to literally build... Riiiiiiight.
That's actually not a bad idea, imagine the power we could get from a pyramid shaped power plant.
It has a sarcophagus in the burial chamber, which would have held a coffin with a mummy in it. Also Khufu was the second king of the fourth dynasty in Egypt, Pyramid texts were not carved onto the walls of pyramids until the reign of Unas who was the last king of the fifth dynasty, over two hundred years after Khufu
Damn you. I have 14 breaks in my ribs and "tringle" just damned near killed me.
A pyramid is a pharaoh tomb so there is no reason to compare it to other kinds of tombs.
The scroll thing could be right, but it's definitely possible that those ancient batteries were used as party tricks by nobles or magicians who probably thought that they were actually magic
So, seeing as how electronic technology was non-existent back then...what were they powering with all this "electricity" they were generating?
For the pyramids to be built in 20years 1 block would have to be set in place every 5 minutes 24hours a day for 20years straight. All 2,300,000 blocks..
I bet the hundrets of thousands of slaves that build that stuff, loved to get help by aliens
Actually they were paid well for the time. They were a paid workforce so not slaves.
Edit: it was propaganda that was written in the wholly wrong book to make them the enemy.
harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html
@@andreahughes5042 huh the more you know. But my argument still stands. I bet the alien tech helped tremendously
@@andreahughes5042 The idea of keeping the large labor force required at planting and harvest busy and paid the rest of the year holds a lot of appeal and a rational mind can easily see it scaling up and up over time.
I have been drinking too much.
We all know they're not tombs, but they're not what magic you think they are.
I love how some think that people were extremely smart thousands of years ago...lmao
It has been suggested that the Bagdad batteries may have been used to electroplate armour. The cultures of the area and period were the first to field the cataphract and the armour used by those warriors was possibly enhanced by the process of primitive electroplating.
It's pretty-much supposition however.
Not exactly flying cars and microwave ovens.