Just some context: Ancient Aliens is racist. It’s roots are literally Nazi.
You see, it’s only achievements in brown countries that need alien help. The Greeks didn’t need ET for the Colosseum, heavens no. We just scratch our head at Africans or Americans building pyramids and stuff.
In the 30s, Nazi “researchers” believed in something I’ll call “Ancient Aryans” which is exactly the same as Ancient Aliens except it’s pure Germans who are visiting these primitive cultures and raising architecture. What happened to the Germans? They were annihilated by in-breeding with locals of course.
The Greeks didn’t need ET for the Colosseum
Just to be pedantic, the Romans built the Colosseum. While they did cosplay as Greeks, they weren’t actually Greeks themzelves
To be further pedantic, the Greeks started calling themselves the Romioi in late antiquity, so some Greeks were in fact Romans, but not all Romans were Greek.
Yeah Ancient Aliens has always been real weird, and I’m gonna be honest I’ve never heard of the Ancient Aryans thing so… yeah the similarities are weird for sure. Few things to note.
The Parthenon is Greek, the Romans built the coliseum — also, the Native Americans didn’t have a unified name for the Americas. If it makes you feel better you can say indigenous people of the American continents, or even Indigenous Americans, but calling them strictly American is genuinely awful.
My mom was born in Keams Canyon, and I’ve visited. If you went there calling the people there Americans they would not appreciate it. They’re Hopi, or maybe Navajo.
I’ll take this opportunity to shill for one of my favorite content creators, Miniminuteman, who just so happens to have a video debunking Ancient Aliens (two parter actually)
Googledebunkers unite!
It is both surprising and completely expected that Milo would have fans that not only are active in Lemmy, but also commenting in a science-based community
Another googledebunker chiming in - wonderful content. Gives me hope for my generation.
And another pyramid video coming in a couple hours
The Greeks didn’t need ET for the Colosseum
Aryan ≠ German. Aryan would be closer to modern day Afghan, Pakistani, or maybe Ukrainian? Aryans were from the grasslands east of the urals.
I would think it had more to do with time. Pyramids were built thousands of years before the Colosseum.
When I realized that the whole Ancient Aliens bullshit was written by a butthurt Dane who has no real contribution to the civilization other than white supremacy as pseudoscience, that whole conspiracy theory became easier to debunk.
At the end of the documentary “beyond the curve” the flat earthers manage to get enough money together to buy a gyro laser to prove the earth isn’t spinning. It costed the 20.000 dollars. The found out the earth was spinning constantly. They said needed time to come up with an explanation why this would be happening when the earth was flat, but in no way they thought “maybe we were wrong after all”.
I saw that scene. They were 100% thinking it, but they weren’t willing to say it on camera.
How do they explain pendulums?
Are we implicitly using their units? Metric factors of pi would be quite surprising.
The unit is arbitrary. Let’s say 1 unit of measurement equals the radius of the wheel. As long as they used the same wheel for all sides of the pyramid, each side will follow the formula: n * 2 * pi where ‘n’ is an integer (whole number). The formula could easily be written in any other unit of distance by multiplying by the conversion ratio.
A wheel, no! They just had 1 guy with a really long tape measure
Now watch the flat earth documentary.
forget about circles
Oh, so you understand how Trump, Epstein (alive), Hunter Biden, the Clintons, etc are all cops, being part of that elite club you’re not a part of and how they catch the actually evil people of the WORLD by being the bait of the sting operation they themselves choose to do with the deep state’s help as members of the decentralized autonomous organization of secret police that’s described in the New Testament at an eighth grade reading level?
Ah there is the problem. I didn’t know anything about that because I didn’t read the bible. Someone spoiled the ending for me, so I quit.
But what IS the STORY? Do you even have a clue?
Resurrection? No.
Crucifixion? No.
Trial? No.
Child prostitution? Well, that’s how it STARTED.
But it’s about crime in the police state.
Jesus, from outside the city, goes to the most trustworthy person of those that live outside and says, “Spare some change? I am one the locusts you eat,” y’know, proving he’s even more pious than him. Thus starts a series of events; y’know, A STORY.
They’d also have to have used ɸ, ℇ, 365, the circumference of the earth, and the speed of light to build it.
But hey, who’s to say they didn’t? Not me! Them ancient Egyptians was wily.
Or they carved the pyramids from the top down after overbuilding a sacrificial structure, That makes it much easier to maintain those sharp lines and accurate angles.
https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-not-built-up-but-carved-down.html
Which is a technique even wilier than previously mentioned.
