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Couldn't be made with todays technology? Interesting. Anyone got a direct quote or timestamp to the episode this claim was made in?
EDIT: Yeah so I did a little digging around and this seems to be from the Coleman Hughes episode and the specific claim he makes is: The stones used to form them (in Giza specifically) were 70 tons, which we currently don't have the technology to move the 100s of miles, through the mountains, they were moved back then.
So yeah. While I don't think that is correct either it still seems like the statement in the picture above is a misquote.
Joe is still claiming we don't have the technology to build the pyramids even with that context.
When you quote a person you're supposed to restate what they said word by word. If you editorialize it, then it's no longer a quote but your intrepretation of it.
It's called paraphrasing and it's completely acceptable.
Yes if you represent their words accurately - if not then it's called a strawman
That's not what a straw man is at all. Why do you hate dictionaries? Now that is a straw man.
Also, there's nothing inaccurate in the paraphrasing present. Joe made a claim that we don't have the technology today to build the pyramids because he thinks we couldn't get the quarried blocks out of the mountains. Removing the additional words after pyramids in that sentence doesn't change the ending, it just removes the explanation of why.
What you're doing is being pedantic, but poorly because you keep getting it wrong.
It's greentext, dude, it's not a verbatim quote. Nobody believes it is.
It isn't even a complete sentence, it's two fragments.
Nah, word for word reproductions are also extremely easy to take out of context. So no, I don't put much value on quotes, especially short ones on 4chan.
We managed to dig a hole approximately 10km long in about 40 years in Germany, I'm sure we could figure something out if we wanted to
The MI-26 helicopter can carry 56 metric tons (more than double that in freedom units) if I'm reading the numbers right. This isn't a technical problem, it's a motivation one.
I appreciate you looking it up, because I was thinking the same thing, did he actually say anything like this?
That said, him claiming we don't have the tech currently to move 70 ton stones over mountains seems clearly incorrect.
You understand we can and have cut highways through mountains?
Building a Pyramid would be a tiny project compared to building a railway system. Completely trivial.
As if I've claimed otherwise.
Odd your comment seems to clearly show you claiming that we can’t move 70 ton blocks of sandstone despite having equipment that can carry over 5 times that weight.
Care to elaborate?
That is the original claim Joe, not me, made in the podcast episode with Coleman Hughes. I even end my message saying that I don't think that is correct either.