Imagine we wanted to make an exact copy of the pyramids in Egypt, the great pyramid specifically.
Never mind building them without machines. Do you think mankind, not just the current residents of Egypt, but do you think in this world there exists the technical know how and political will to even be able to do it?
There is no any building problem of the past that could not be resolved with enough slaves.
50,000 Nubian slaves won't get shit built without someone there with a plumb bob and the know how.
There is not much know how in pyramids. And I can't imagine what use of their technologies could be useful today for anything.
You know, tech of making wooden wheels for a wagon is pretty interesting and sophisticated (more than pyraminds, IMO), but who the fuck could need it today?
Same with pyramids. Humanity built a lot of things much bigger and sophisticated than pyramids. Take an average HPP dam f.e. or starting table of a cosmodrome. I could not think out not only why anybody will want to build a pyramid, but even if he want, why whould he use that ancient and ineffective tech?
I sometimes wonder if ancient civilizations realized that the poles shift and this shape could withstand the massive waves that might wipe out an area. Why are ocean fishing weights in a pyramid shape? Because they don't move easily in the tide
In plato's original story about atlantis, its claimed that egypt was the safest place, where instead of the water rushing over, it always came from below, or something. Really strange detail.
Everywhere else, the water would either wash everyone away, or the fire would burn everyone up in the mountains.
Just one of those things that sticks out to me for some reason. Sounds similar to thomas chans adam and eve story.