• li10@feddit.uk
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    10 months ago

    For some reason people seem to think they’re fundamentally smarter than people were back then.

    Yeah, you may have technically had a better education, but you’re not inherently more intelligent than the average person back then, and a genius from that time is still miles ahead of you.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, it’s been linked to systemic racist thought patterns (which are often unintentional but should be acknowledged). I explain it to people like this: take a handful of sand and turn your fist so that your palm faces perpendicular to the ground. Now release the sand slowly… What shape does it form? It isn’t rocket science.

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        10 months ago

        So you’re saying the pyramids are just giant rocks piled on top of each other?

        If so, then what was dropping them and how could the intricacies inside the pyramids be possible if they were just dropped on top of each other?

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          10 months ago

          Pyramids = basic engineering shape for a sturdy structure. Wide base, tapered top. A lot of early monumental structures were constructed with that basic concept in mind.

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      10 months ago

      I probably didn’t have as good an education as the highest educated classes in most ancient Egyptian dynasties.