oh! NO!!!

Didn't they?

Simple as that. No argument.

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very annoying and extremely arrogant author making absolutely no apologies for anything

Sometimes it seems like one is talking to a bunch of baboons and that the comprehension of the average human being is apparently only very slightly better than a banana. What is the problem? The facts simply don't add up. Let's face it: there is definitely something missing from our technology that apparently used to be commonplace. The paradox is: the people who built the pyramids and (typically) Stonehenge, obviously had a sophisticated knowledge of mathematics yet just as obviously didn't have digital computer chips as we know them; otherwise, to take a "Von Daniken" point of view, some trace of them would surely have been found(?).

At the same time, it was evidently a simple matter for these people to manipulate gigantic quantities of huge rocks, cut with amazing precision. Yet today, people still, in the face of all the evidence to the contrary (it's been very practically shown to be impossible to build a "Great Pyramid" even with our very best lifting equipment), have to bang on about ramps, scaffolding, pulleys and thousands of willing slaves...

It has been beautifully demonstrated that, quite apart from the cutting, handling and transportation problems inevitably associated with stone blocks weighing in at hundreds of tons each, the big problem with pyramid building is what happens when the process approaches completion (in the assembly of the upper-most tiers or layers) - there's nowhere to stand; no space to rest a pivotal fulcrum. It becomes clear that a "skyhook" is required in the tool kit. No such machine exists so we bury our heads in the sand and just hope that this particular logistical problem will go away...

Last year some people got together to try to move just one stone from Wales to Stonehenge...

Could they do it?

Nah!

So the world is covered in massive architectural artifacts that we modern, intelligent mortals, for all our high-tech skills can't reproduce. Yet we are reliably informed that even the Cro-Magnons thought and felt just like us - equal in brain space / volume (and thus intelligence) to Homo Sapiens. Presumably the Ancient Egyptians were the same as us as well - so what tools did they possess that they obviously lost (or ran out of)? As much as Von Dani-wotsisname fell into the trap of going a wee bit far with his assumptions, it seems to me that there is an obvious answer:

- the thing they considered most important:The Ankh

So I set out to analyse just what that could be - and everybody very rightly laughs their socks off. Don't care. It's my ball. So there.

"I pay as much attention to the winds from the mouths of my critics as I do to the ones from their behinds" -- Leonardo da Vinci

Spherical Car Park

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Meanwhile we are pressured into buying yet more cars to support world industry, the ozone layer and food rescources thin out still further, world population continues to explode and technological advance maintains its exponential growth rate, the graph now being so close to the vertical that we know for sure it can't all carry on as it has been...

To believe that this round of so-called "civilization" is a first cannot be surpassed for its blind arrogance.

Somebody built the pyramids. It must be possible to do such things again.