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      Seriously though, I feel like you can blame a significant portion of the ancient aliens theories out there directly on Roland Emmerich.

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    Lined up with Orions Belt is that great little sprinkle of wild, flailing outrage that makes no sense whatsoever.

    How could ancient people, with their better visibility of the stars and greater common understanding and reliance on their position for navigation, place things on the ground to match stars?!

    But also, Orions Belt is 3 randomly bright stars in a line, not at all nearby to each other in space, that arc across the night sky every evening and change position in the night sky throughout the years. Aligned how?

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      Would the stars in Orion’s belt even be in the same positions relative to our perception 4000-5000 years BP? I don’t know enough about the astronomy side of things, but I know stars generally don’t stay at a static position in the sky long-term.

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        Stars are not static, but slight movement is only detected after hundreds of thousands of years. Add into that the movement of the earth precession, it wobbles kind of like a top, one rotation every 10k years so that stars are not always in the same spot in our sky. This is why astrology and the zodiac symbols no longer line up with the dates allowed to them.

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      I don’t believe in any of this BS in post but 4000 BP, people could build and align with the sky. it wouldn’t be unheard of to build things that align with what they view as significant objects. they were unaware that the middle star is way farther away but so much larger it looks the same as the other two. they didn’t have a detailed grasp but could ascertain some movements. No, Orions belt hasn’t shifted much over the millenia. Orion’s shoulder (betelguise) should explode any day now though.

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        Sorry, yeah, that was sarcasm. Exactly, it’s 3 stars in a line that everyone would be more familiar with than the vast majority of people today.

        There are loads of examples of ancient architecture that perfectly lines up with celestial events at a particular time.

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        Orion’s shoulder (betelguise) should explode any day now though.

        I’m sorry, What?

        Wait, is this something we won’t be able to see until like 300 years after it happens? Or do we just say it’s name three times?

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    The speed of light thing makes me laugh so hard, as it’s referenced to the speed of light in METRIC! To be specific the 1983 definition.

    But hey, if ancient Egyptians were using a unit defined in 1983 aliens must have been involved right? No way they figured that out themselves.

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    I love how these racist nut jobs can’t figure out that coloured people were able to do anything.

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      Calling everything racist waters it down…these are the same people who think we didn’t go to the moon…which carried a bunch of white guys.

      This isn’t racism, it’s just ignorance.

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        I’m convinced that a major factor is that these people are so incredibly basic and are coping. Any amount of real math or a day of physical labor would break these people and they’re not comfortable with that.

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    You didn’t know the pyramids generate free electricity? Electric companies hate this one weird trick!

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    This unlocked a memory for me. Back when I was a kid I remember one of the religious whackos told us that the reason the ark of the covenant killed the dude that touched it was because it was a battery. He used the fact that there was no battery technology at the time to support the fact that god is real.

    I know it’s off topic, but harnessing energy reminded me.

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        This would have been a decade before that.

        You don’t realize how much batshit stuff you’re told as a kid and I never examined it as an adult. A lot of this shit is coming back to me and I’m realizing just how much of a thing all this crazy shit was even before it became widespread on the internet.

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      The fun part is we don’t have any real evidence outside the Bible that the Ark of the Covenant even existed. Did it exist? Who knows? You can’t really take the Bible’s word for much.

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    So why not ditch the interior material and use chamber material everywhere? Unlimited energy for the ancient Egypt.

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    Aliens really did build the pyramids. I know. I was there.

    ::: spoiler I was the anal probe. :::

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    Sometimes, I read these things and I can recognize the words, but my mind can’t process them as being coherent ideas.

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      Maybe, but you don’t really need whips if everyone is convinced they’re building something to appease a living god.