We don’t build pyramids anymore because we’ve figured there are better things to spend the money on.
We don’t build pyramids anymore because we got better at building shit. Ramses II was out there commissioning shit that the pyramid builders couldn’t imagine being able to have built. And he could never imagine buildings of steel and glass built anywhere we feel like. Just try explaining Mexico City to these people. When we want massive monuments to hubris a pyramid is too simple for it usually unless we go with a glass and steel one. Also because it’s an inefficient use of space
Also, most countries don’t honor their politicians as god-kings. Maybe US hillbillies will (try to) build a pyramid when Trump finally dies.
A golden pyramid, made from his shoes and NFT’s
Yeah, like cuboids which are mostly air inside for big box retailers.
From what i have learned the technology to build the pyramids was actuall extremely low tech, and i dont mean slaves and chisles, i mean strings, honey, and tuning forks for the cutting of stone. For transportation they used vibrations to move the stone along magnetic lines in the earth.
Its not ancient high tech, its simply forgotten or suppressed low tech.
Never heard the vibration thing. That’s pretty sick. I have heard of animal fat though.
Huh. I though they used basic stone-working tools and the simple machines we learn about in elementary school – just at a larger scale.
Weird.
Right, like people couldn’t figure out how to float shit down river on a raft or roll it on some logs and instead had to send out wizards to find leylines…
I feel like the show goes like “So you’re saying electricity isn’t real because it’s doesn’t have matter?” and an expert says it doesn’t have protons and neutrons so it can’t be real because it the periodic table of elements doesn’t have it. “Really? Hey computer guy, look that up”
It’s often some dumb stuff that gets so much credit and validation from Joe that I don’t like.
There is no limit to the amazing shit you can do if you have power and ignore human suffering
While this is true, and there were definitely some people who suffered making the pyramids, many were just the most skilled artisans of their day. Egypt brain-drained the rest of the world for thousands of years by being the best of the best of the best.
It’s amazing what you can do when you spend all that time attracting and cultivating that much ingenuity. In the course of human history, it’s really only happened a handful of times. I read somewhere once that when you have that many intelligent people in a room you either build the pyramids or go to the Moon.
Yeah that’s another way of looking at it. Excessive productivity creates a class that can live in leisure and luxury and experiment with new ideas, and that can lead to useful advances. Just like it’s sometimes argued that war leads to technological advances.
And then God came and ruined it all just because of a little slavery!
The pyramids weren’t built by slaves.
True, the people that build the pyramids were paid and fed relatively well and probably believed they served their God-emperor. But they also had slavery which helped them create enough wealth to do this. So still the pyramids were only possible because of a lot of human suffering.
Modern globalized society is in the same boat, but yet at the very least it is the least-impoverished empire in human history.
When the gamer you play Call of Duty with could be a kid living in South Africa (and yes, I do mean an average black South African and not the kid of some wealthy expats/diplomats/colonial old money) or Nigeria (ditto) and the world’s largest country is a democracy (India, it recently surpassed China’s population) yet we’re still convinced the future is doomed to be The Hunger Games, I think it’s time to admit that the anger of 9/11 and the Great Recession not only led to hate led to suffering, it then led to cynicism, defeatism, nihilism and finally outright anti-humanitaianism.
You want something to be scared of? Even monsters like the Nazis had an ideal, you clearly just want the world to burn because it’s easier to sit in a chair reading social media and doing nothing to actually solve the problem until things get bad enough that you have a perfect excuse to go hurt whoever you disagree with. You know who was doing that during and leading up to WWII? The sheeple that let the Nazi party take power. Don’t be a fucking tool, especially not a tool of oppression. Careless realism costs souls, regardless of whether a soul is immortal or a scientifically-quantifiable finite mental construct, and even if you honestly came to the conclusion free will is an illusion it would mean our entire moral and legal case against slavery comes into question.
Seriously. Find an ideal, please, especially if its one that keeps you from hurting people instead of blindly hating anything that could be achieved. I don’t know you, but I know the internet and I’ve been seeing this pattern of existential anti-humanitarian (my best attempt at a philosophical label for it) behavior online since 2017 and I do not like what I’m seeing coming. If you don’t find something to live/die to protect, then someone seeking a mob to do their dirty work will, and if that happens the “ideal” you will be serving will be a lie and anything but ideal.
Thanks for the interesting comment, I’m not quite sure why you’re addressing it to me - I’m the very picture of mental health!
This’d be cool on a tshirt lol
take that quote to Reddit and some bot will make a t-shirt and a mug out of it.
But the products will be a scam and you can’t actually buy them.
Rage bait
Rage bait for who?
Dumbasses that listen to Rogan?
Rage bait for you and you got got
As a Stonemason, this shit always bothers me. Recent example was an article on stone henge. “Scientists still mystified as to how the stones were stood so that to caps were level!”
Mfr! Give me a straight piece of wood, a length of string and a rock, I will make you a basic level. Don’t want to lift the stone in and out multiple times to adjust the level? Get logs and cut them to the same length as the upright stones. It’s not fucking rocket surgery!
The thing is, its not about a single rock being precise. Its a 2 million ton monument that we are told is a tomb that was built in like 20 years. Thats about 1.7 million pounds per day, every day. It would take our trucks a fucking insane amount of time just dragging it into position, how did they have the time to cut it as well? For a tomb??? Somehow I feel we are not being told the whole story here…
No, it’s totally about a single rock being precise. That’s the name of the game son. If you don’t get the first stone precise, you can’t get the second one in precise. And there’s loads of different ways to move stone without trucks. I work in a conservation setting, and we use modern machinery as little as possible. If these scholars would bother asking anyone with actual experience in the field they’d get some answers to their questions.
Also what’s with the Ancient Aliens bs at the end there?
Its a tomb that was built in 20 years by some guy? Its not ancient aliens, but i have a feeling that the pyramid had a use, not just as some big building. Don’t have to agree, but keep an open mind when looking at it
Somehow I feel we are not being told the whole story here…
This shit.
Well, honestly i have no idea, just seems crazy for everyone to be like “we know what it was used for because some guy in the 1800s said so”
Or maybe the mummified remains that were found inside might have been an good indication?
The great pyramid is “assumed” to have had a mummy by people in like 900ad no mummies, just more mysteries. Why is the only mummies we find in the three pyramids from a woman, and a man from 2000 years after they were built? The evidence for the royal tomb hypothesis is surpisingly thin. If you think about what we actually see when we look at the pyramids, they are feats of engineering on the scales of which were not seen again until the 1800s. It is insane to me that we think we have any idea how or why the pyramids came to be based on the very minimal amount of evidence we do have on their construction. Not to mention the mysteries of some of the design choices i.e. menkaure casing stones
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but keep an open mind when looking at it
Thanks for this :)
From britishmuseum.org:
Scientific dating techniques and painstaking archaeological research undertaken around the monument over the last few decades have brought the timeline of the site into focus. It is not possible to talk about ‘one’ Stonehenge – the monument was built, altered, and revered for over 1,500 years. That is equivalent to around 100 generations – it is worth pausing to let the sheer length of time sink in!
From Wikipedia:
There is little or no direct evidence revealing the construction techniques used by the Stonehenge builders. Over the years, various authors have suggested that supernatural or anachronistic methods were used, usually asserting that the stones were impossible to move otherwise due to their massive size. However, conventional techniques, using Neolithic technology as basic as shear legs, have been demonstrably effective at moving and placing stones of a similar size.[48] The most common theory of how prehistoric people moved megaliths has them creating a track of logs which the large stones were rolled along.[49] Another megalith transport theory involves the use of a type of sleigh running on a track greased with animal fat.[49] Such an experiment with a sleigh carrying a 40-ton slab of stone was successfully conducted near Stonehenge in 1995. A team of more than 100 workers managed to push and pull the slab along the 18-mile (29 km) journey from the Marlborough Downs.[49]
Each stone weights around 25 tons and I found this helicopter that can carry 33 tons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_CH-53E_Super_Stallion#Specifications_(CH-53E). So we could easily build this today. Probably wouldn’t take long at all.
What? First i am not arguing that we could not do it. Second stonehenge and the great pyramid are completely different levels of complexity. Third, i know machinery can lift heavy things, the point is even with machines its difficult to do this stuff. How’d they get by with zero machines? In the timeframe mentioned above? For what purpose
This fragment explains how they could have done it:
The most common theory of how prehistoric people moved megaliths has them creating a track of logs which the large stones were rolled along.[49] Another megalith transport theory involves the use of a type of sleigh running on a track greased with animal fat.[49] Such an experiment with a sleigh carrying a 40-ton slab of stone was successfully conducted near Stonehenge in 1995. A team of more than 100 workers managed to push and pull the slab along the 18-mile (29 km) journey from the Marlborough Downs.[49]
My point was that it’s not difficult with modern machines at all. But it can also be done with the methods described above. Especially if you work on it for 1500 years.
Building a heli is easy? Also rolling 30 tons for the fun of it is not something people usually do
Maybe they did it to summon the aliens. Or maybe for the same reason we build expensive churches. Like this one that we have been building for 142 years and it’s still unfinished: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Família
One day we’ll find a way to stop making rockets out of human organs.
One day, but not today!
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAAA!
I always took it to mean that organic rockets are harder than rocket science and brain surgery put together, which is why we don’t have them yet.
Give me a straight piece of wood, a length of string and a rock, I will make you a basic level.
Well axshually that’s a plumb bob.
Right you are, but 99% of people would be all: don’t you Bob for apple? Why Bob for plum?
I don’t know, but why are we judging Bob for the fruit he likes?
Y’all seem to understand one another, but I’m lost
An apple bob is a children’s party game where a bunch of apples are floating in a basin of water and you have to try to get one out only using your mouth.
It’s really gross as all the kids are just slobbering over all these apples together. Terrible for germ spread.
Anyway it’s not done with plums though, which are a kind of fruit and different from the word “plumb”, which means vertical. So it’s a play on words.
Thanks ! I had no chance of unraveling that on my own. Appreciate it
And a plumb bob is a very basic level where you attach a weight to a string, and that string to a flat thing. Wikipedia says they were used at least in ancient Egypt, so it’s particularly relevant.
Oh, so that’s plumbum, lead ? I should have guessed from the french fil à plomb ≈ string with lead Cheers !
I’m not bob, guy.
Trying to picture how you do this with those. Brain is stuck on hanging rock from wood with string which feels like I’m going the wrong way
I’m just imagining rocket surgery. It’s dope.
Drafting* class taught me that you can build any structure with just a T-square, a compass, a pencil, and some basic math.
*As in the precursor to Computer-Aided Drafting. My school was cheap and didn’t let us use AutoCAD till the 2nd semester.
But anyway, place the straight piece of wood across a gap. One end of the string goes around the middle of the wood, the other end hangs down where you tie the rock. You can visually tell with decent enough accuracy if the rock is hanging closer to one side (not level) or just straight down (level). If you can’t tell, get a longer string.
Yeah dude, I took a drafting class way back in HS (really enjoyed it), yet have maybe seen three drafting tables since (and I’m in a field that would have previously had countless).
I know that stuff was basically immediately made obsolete by CAD and what not, but there was always something relaxing and meditative about sitting down at (or standing if you so choose) a drafting table, armed with nothing but a pencil, an eraser, a T-square, a protractor, and a couple plastic triangles, and coming up with some really impressive looking shit with perfect perspective.
If I had the room for one, I’d def get a drafting table… lol I’d probably end up using it to hang wet clothes on to dry.
Think your school was cheap? My school only had CAD on 3 machines and you had to take 4 YEARS of drafting courses to be allowed to use it, I graduated in 2012… this shit wasn’t new tech at that time lol
some basic math.
The pyramids at gizeh predate most of that. They predate algebra by some 800 years.
Of course, despite Pythagoras not being born for some 2000 years, they DID have Rope stretchers to create square angles. They also had square levels and plumb bobs for making straight blocks and level surfaces.
You don’t even need maths, just rope and gravity.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics
“From 3000 BC the Mesopotamian states of Sumer, Akkad and Assyria, followed closely by Ancient Egypt and the Levantine state of Ebla began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for purposes of taxation, commerce, trade and also in the patterns in nature, the field of astronomy and to record time and formulate calendars.”
The first “true” pyramids were not built until ~2613. Prior to that it was all step pyramids, which are much less complex - just put a bunch of consecutively smaller squares in a stack. Even then, Djoser was started in ~2670, several hundred years after the “introduction” of basic math. Just because we don’t have extant physical mathematical texts surviving from that time doesn’t mean they didn’t know how to do math.
That’s actually all there is to it.
Out the stick where you want the thing to be level, and hang a rock off it with string.
The rock hangs straight down. Adjust what the stick is sitting on until the stick is perpendicular to the string.
It’s not the most accurate or easiest to use tool we have available today, but they’re still used for vertical alignment.
It’s one of the oldest tools we have. Hasn’t really changed since they were used during the building of the pyramids.
And Wikipedia says they were used in ancient Egypt, so it’s particularly relevant.
The rock and string, with help from gravity point down to the ground. If angle between the stick and string isn’t 90°, then it’s not level.
So I DID visualize it right, but forgot about angles
Hey, it was (I assume) Monday. You can be forgiven for forgetting about angles on a Monday.
I swallowed my rock, can I be excused?
No you have to act as the string now so start dangling.
Yeah people simply can’t fathom that people in the past were just as intelligent as people are now. They just didn’t have quite as much technology as we do now. Also people tend to think of technology as being magic and don’t actually understand the underlying science that makes that technology work was the same in the past.
This results in weird ideas about how something isn’t possible without a laser level or whatever.
And people tend not to think about skill being a factor. Probably many of the skills you have as a stone mason aren’t too different from the skills people had in the past. Sure there’s some technology you have available to help you now, but a larger part of it is just skill gained from experience working with stone that’s completely independent of technology.
FUCKING THANK YOU!
For instance, yes I use grinders and saws to cut big pieces of stone into smaller pieces so they fit where I need them, but I was taught how to do all that by hand as well. Sometimes you don’t have power or petrol, but the shit still needs to go up!
And the way we do things now is just a continuous evolution from how we did it then. I don’t have to sharpen my chisels every 30mins because we have better materials. I don’t have to break a giant billet of stone into manageable sizes(I can though) because a shop does it for me. And almost all of the old tech is still in use, albeit in a new form or in new materials.
Wire/string friction sawing has been around for millenia…here’s an example of a new bit of kit.
Yeah a lot of technological improvements aren’t really changers, they just make people more productive at their jobs.
My brother is a plumber and his biggest annoyance is people that think “if I had your tools I’d be able to do your job.” Nope, that’s not how things work at all. Weird how some people think technology makes skill obsolete.
Exactly! I used to do solo jobs, and it’s shocking how many people balk at my (legit very reasonable) rates, and say things like: well you’re just piling up some rocks.
I find it funny that the people that think that the pyramids were built by aliens are the sort of people who get out of breath walking up a staircase. Yeah of course you find it inconceivable that people worked hard.
My god you have to be especially thick if people on 4chan think you’re an idiot.
Only idiots listen to Joe rogan
Some episodes are good, the one with Dave Mustaine for example
This reeks of “Yeah, Twitter sucks, but I’m not deleting my account because “rEaSoNs.”
Can you explain what you mean?
If you want to run your fingers through liquid shit trying to find the scattered diamonds, I’m not gonna stop you - but is it really worth it?
I’d just scroll through the guest list until I found someone I knew or seemed interesting.
It’s pathetic that saying something like this even gets downvoted. Lemmy sucks
As a Megadeth fan it was surprisingly good. I’m not a regular viewer. Joe isn’t smart but I think he can be a good interviewer
He establishes a good rapport with guests. But sometimes he uses that to lull people into agreeing with some of his fucked up shit.
He asked Coffeezilla (guy who does journalism about online scams) about trans rights. Coffeezilla rightly responded something like “I don’t know this isn’t something I’m an expert in.” The look on Rogan’s face was like, Eh I guess I didn’t get you on that one.
And it’s weird how he tries to create controversy. He’s already the #1 podcaster, why is he doing these underhanded tricks to stir up controversy to gain notoriety?
It was a better show when he was just a dumb guy talking to smart people. That was a lot of fun. Don’t know why he didn’t just stick with that.
I agree with you. That’s why the majority of episodes are unwatchable the last few years. I still click though when he has an especially interesting guest, the Dave one is probably the best interview with him of all time
Before the move to Spoopify it was legitimately one of the best podcasts. Rogan has always been a moron and the juxtaposition of that against actual smart guests was so much fun. Then professionally offended fuckwits decided his opinion was worth … anything … and it all went downhill from there.
I never regarded him as very smart but he did have interesting guests and good banter, typically. A while before the Spotify buy I thought the quality worsened a lot and he would keep letting his politics shine through too much.
I liked when Bill Burr said he (Joe) couldn’t rollerskate because his knuckles would drag on the ground in regards to Joe speculating on Covid without any real qualifications.
Yup. I used to watch on YouTube occasionally when he had someone interesting, and occasionally Rogan would ask an interesting question.
But I’ve never valued his opinion much. Why would I? He’s an ex-MMA fighter with a microphone, he’s unlikely to have a unique perspective vs the hordes of people with actual credentials online. I’m not saying being an MMA fighter is bad, just saying it doesn’t qualify you on any topic other than MMA.
He was never really an MMA fighter. He may have done some low-level amateur fights or whatever, but his background is comedian and actor. Newsradio… one of the best sitcoms ever, though not because of Rogan (he was just an everyman kind of character) but because of Phil Hartman.
He’s just a big fan of MMA. Though he probably has been punched in the head a fair amount in amateur fights.
Interesting, I never bothered reading up on his background. Being a comedian is far more relevant since humor is often based on current events.
Joe Rogan should have stayed in Cali where there were more people to tell him “no.”
An idiot I worked with was into Rogan and ended up in a sex cult. One Taste. The news a documentary.
Yeah. This is no more stupid and baseless than his other opinions.
Almost as if Rogan is a big, dumb, intensely stupid idiot.
He’s like 5’7… he’s not really big, he’s just done enough HGH to make his head thicker and weird looking.
He’s not more stupid than the average person. He’s just more willing to open his big, dumb mouth, and he has a platform where his big, dumb ideas are broadcast to the whole world.
I will give him credit though, because he isn’t as closed-minded as most people. Too many people never challenge the things they were taught as kids, and get angry if they’re given new information. Look how upset people got because astronomers decided that Pluto was a dwarf planet, rather than a regular full-fledged planet.
The dumbest thing about Rogan is that he doesn’t seem to have a good filter for ideas he should be open-minded about vs. ideas that are not worth considering.
Coffeezilla talking about how Podcasts can get into this stupid state: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj8F6_7bQdU
TLDW: there’s a limited # of experts, experts are not experts are everything (just their niche), experts need to talk about things they know nothing about to fill time
The bigger issue is that there’s no signal to listeners for when the transition happens between expert opinion and regular opinions. Imo, podcasts should just be cut when they’ve run out of relevant topics.
Yeah, but have you done DMT and then think about the pyramids?
Didn’t think so.
This is a prime example how mind altering substances are a bit double edged sword.
They will get results but towards the goal you’ve set. If you want to do some self exploration and learn about yourself, sure it will most often help in a way or another. If you on the otherhand want to brainwash yourself with dumb conspiracy theories then it will most likely help with that too, especially if you do them too often.
A friend of mine has absolutely fried his brains with ketamine and he believes to the weirdest shit and basically think that the universe has intended him to be untouchable and no bad can happen to him. I for the other hand just learned a lot about my behaviour patterns with ketamine and came out with clearer mind about my life and goals.
If you want to do some self exploration and learn about yourself, sure it will most often help in a way or another.
I don’t doubt that, but I’m sure there are better, healthier ways of doing that. Like talking to a therapist.
Sure but psychedelics and ketamine have shown extremely good results in therapy but it’s hard or impossible to get to those in many places. Normal therapy can go on for very long time before good results and it can be very expensive. I personally got my depression cured pretty much overnight with lsd.
Of course there are always risks assosiated and people should always test their drugs and research the topic properly before using but ketamine and classical psychedelics are physically really safe. Ketamine has been long used for anesthesia and it’s considered very safe. Psychedelics don’t also really do any physical harm to you.
Edit: of course they are still not some magic compound that makes everything go away. It can give the necessary kickstart or help solve some trauma but if you have bad lifestyle choices that lead to the depressiom in the first place it’s going to easily just come back if you don’t make proper changes to your life
I’ve seen many miraculous claims about them (quick and easy solutions to complicated problems), but if they were so good, I assume the majority of psychiatrists would adopt them as one of the standard methods of treatment. It’s great that it worked for you, but there is a reason why rigorous testing is done in science. I think it might be dangerous for people to do this on their own, since they are not experts in this field. I suspect that there might be a few experts who believe that psychedelics are a good method of treatment, but a small fraction is not enough. Sometimes there are bad scientists in every field and we can’t just cherry pick the ones we agree with (I’m not accusing you of that, just saying that people do that). I would like to know the truth, though. This is a popular topic lately and I’m curious if it’s just pseudoscience or maybe there is something that I’m missing.
I think it might be easy to get addicted to any drug and I know of at least one long lasting effect of psychedelics, but this one seems to be very rare.
I have a good friend who is a headache neurologist at a leading US hospital, and about 20% of her patients use ketamine therapy in some capacity. Apparently it is extremely effective at preventing migraines.
Oh, that’s interesting. I’m reading now that it’s also an effective antidepressant, but I’m not sure if it’s actually used for that purpose.
Is ketamine a psychedelic? It’s uncommon here so don’t know anyone who fried their brain with lucy or shrooms
Nah it’s dicossiative
This honestly could explain why Tom Segura is going fucking brain dead by trying to kill his own career while screaming at old ladies in air ports and hating his fans that elevated him from upper middle class to a multimillionaire.
He’s explained multiple times back before he lost weight and started hating that he’s in a relationship and has kids with a woman he hates that he did so much ketamine that he had to be resuscitated.
It’s funny that I have no idea who this person is. I like intentionally not knowing who these people are, especially when they try so hard to get attention.
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I’m convinced the whole “they couldn’t do this today” is subtle anti-modernity propaganda whether they are saying it about movies, or ancient megastructures. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of human progress, wrapped up in weird conservative anger about how it will never be 40(00) years ago again.
What’s worse is, not only can we do it, so could the Egyptians.
Concrete. We build skyscrapers out of it. We make it from sand and various other common minerals. If you make it from Cretian volcanic ash, like the Romans, you get concrete that is even more stable if you use it with seawater, and can be used to construct submerged concrete structures in shallow coastal water without draining away any of the liquid.
And if you grind up Egyptian sandstone and add freshwater like from the Nile? You can make huge blocks as smooth as polished marble that a razor blade can’t fit between, transport it in more manable quantities and forms than giant stone blocks, and it will last tens of thousands of years (not including the ~5,000 it has already lasted) unless the humidity of the Sahara goes through the roof.
I’m not saying Egypt was or wasn’t advanced, just that they were sufficiently advanced to convincingly look to a more advanced civilization like magic. Or in this case, “aliens” or “ancient astronauts”.
The only reason I would not be surprised if hieroglyphs were found on the moon is because we did it before we could fake it. If faking the moon landing couldn’t be done without modern computer software or LED lightbulbs yet actually doing it is trivial enough that it was done 55 years ago, why resort to aliens to describe how that’s possible? For all we know you could get to the moon with a railgun built from hand-smithed iron and the lumber of California Redwoods, doesn’t mean its superhuman if you figure out how to actually do so.
It’s as stupid as holding up a floppy disk and saying “modern computers can’t even read this data, they’re all garbage”.
Well duh, they left the dark knight and pyramids across the world who were just power stations…
I had a classmate that would tell me over and over how precisely the pyramids aligned with a set of stars at the time they were built, how we needed lasers to measure the imprecision, how we couldn’t do the same thing today.
Eventually I found out that the imprecision was… a little over a foot, roughly 35 centimeters. That’s the insane precision, the refined craftsmanship we can’t produce today, getting the walls of a place within a foot of where we meant to put them.
Everyone that says this is either blindly repeating a thing they heard once, or has never seen a skyscraper, or a shopping mall, or the average parking lot outside a Walmart with that one area where all the rain water stays a few extra days, because it’s 6 inches lower than the rest. THAT PARKING LOT IS STILL MORE PRECISE THAN THE PYRAMIDS, BRIAN.
You’ve forgotten that the sun rotates around the Milky Way the same way the Earth rotates around the sun. So the stars aren’t in the same place as they were thousands of years ago. Was this 1 foot off the ancient discrepancy or is that today?
It was off by a foot at the time they were built. They’re substantially more inconsistent with the stars now. I thought that was clear in my comment, sorry for the confusion.
He assumes everything is built only a foot high? I’ve built a few homes in my life and multiple barns and garages…you square the building to usually less than a 1/4"…not over a foot. Like the damn thing would fall down being that off.
No it’s something about spatial alignment to heavenly bodies being a foot off, not a foot off level.
Ah, I was under the impression he thought we couldn’t square up shit like they could back then lol. This makes a little more sense, but still dumb lol
