A couple years ago my chemistry teacher told my class that the Egyptians had really advanced technology (technology even more advanced than our own) thousands of years ago but it all got lost because they started a nuclear war
Edit: she told us that the evidence was that there were smartphone paintings
Famously impossible thing to detect in historical records: massive amounts of uranium-235.
Sounds like he was sneaking sniffs in the flammable cabinet a little too often.
"Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world,"
The aliens had to come to Earth to learn how to build pyramids from us
Actually I was listening to a podcast that explains this. They didn't have levers yet. They did have other devices but no lever.
I think the lever here is a stand-in for mechanical advantage. I don't believe anyone is seriously proposing they lifted the blocks with a very long stick.
Lol of course you can. They were invented at one point. And before that point... You didn't have them. I recommend: Let's Learn Everything episode 49: Goosebumps, (Not) Alien Pyramids, and Nessie & Cryptids.
Podcast webpage: https://www.LetsLearnEverythingPod.com
I know how they're built because I watch Witual. Internal ramp theory babeeee!
Now find sticks or stick assembly strong enough to lift a few tones of stone without breaking at the rotation center
There is no guarantee that the lever would break in any position as particular as the pivot point.
Me, looking at the meme: I wonder what happened to that giant pole they put on top of the pyramid to lift the giant weight?
I don't think they had levers strong enough to lift up those big rocks without snapping at a... I think the term is "sheer point"?
