“Why do they say it’s a mystery how the pyramids were built when it’s obviously just big bricks in a triangle?” - Philomena Cunk
I had just posted that Cunk did it better haha
Lemmy loves Cunk and I’m all about it
Wtf is Cunk
Philomena Cunk is a character portrayed by Diane Morgan who hosts absurd history shows
“Romans: Perfected or Invented? Anal Bleaching.”
Using a wheel to measure wouldn’t necessarily make the piramyd sides divisible by pi. It depends on the radius of the wheel. Am I wrong?
If you use full revolutions of the wheel the end result will be a multiple of pi.
You are not wrong. I don’t see what this has to do with pi.
Assume that your length of measure is a string. You can ‘compass’ a circle with one end of the string at the center, and the other ens holding your marking device. Cut out your wheel, mark one point on the wheel for every revolution of the wheel, which is a circumference. You have introduced Pi as a constant.
It would be multiples of the circumference. Not pi.
What is the formula for a circumference? That is where Pi enters in. If my base unit is a Pharaoh’s dong, and this is the wheel’s radius, a rotation will be Pi x (Tut’sDong)2
Pi is just a constant. Call it C.
You can multiply C by the number of Tutankanmandong.
Has nothing to do with if you measure with a wheel or a ruler or a string or 27 donkey penises.
But yeah, if you really want, we can divide anything by pi. Or e. Or any other constant, pick one.
Of course we can, but if we decide to divide by Pi, can we also end up with an integer in ancient units of measure as is said in the article? A wheel makes sense. Some mythical aliens coming down from hundreds of light years is statistically very unlikely.
You are one dumb motherfucker.
Miniminuteman archeology basically dedicates his channel to debunking this crazy shit. He has even brought in other archeologists if he finds out he got something wrong. It’s a great channel.
We want to think it’s aliens or some shit because we want to believe that we are super evolved and intelligent and every civilization before America was invented was composed of cavemen.
Ancient people were super intelligent. Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth with remarkable accuracy. Today’s most commonly used calendar in the western world, the Gregorian calendar, derives from the Julian calendar which in turn is derived from the ancient Egyptian calendar, which predates the Julius calendar by millennia and was impressively accurate as well (it loses only one day every four year), and that one has roots in Mesopotamian astronomy. For years our ancestors harvested herbs and plants to heal diseases and wounds. “Cavemen” were building megalithic temples in Malta thousands of years ago.
Just because they didn’t have Facebook and plastic bags, doesn’t mean that they were stupid.
I don’t doubt that this is a factor, but it’s not like the phenomenon is limited to just ancient inventions by non-white ethnicities.
I’ve definitely heard people saying that microwave ovens, very much not ancient tech, very much invented in America by a white person, were actually salvaged alien tech from crashed UFOs.
That’s true, but there’s sort of a network of these different beliefs that tend to chain together into a belief system that, I would say, strongly correlates with sorts of weirdly racist conspiratorial shit. If you’re willing to reject the invention of the microwave, this totally arbitrary thing, and say it was from aliens, it’s pretty easy to blow that up and say that maybe the pyramids were also aliens. Like, you already believe in aliens, you already believe in a well-organized conspiracy capable of hiding facts, it’s not that big of a leap to make that like, oh, maybe the aliens also did the pyramids. Maybe the aliens are here all around us already, and then bim bam boom bob’s your uncle and suddenly you believe all this fucked up shit.
Then, you know, kind of, spin it out even further, and then a lot of this misinformation and conspiracy is going to come from fucked up kind of racist narratives and shit like that. The realm of misinfo and conspiracy is more occupied by that, almost by necessity.
Something can’t just be mildly amusing or funny, dude has to cry laugh for 5 whole minute.
lmao. There was some show I saw, I think it was on the History Channel. They were at some river in the South and they spent the entire episode with some guy who insisted that there was a giant 10-foot catfish in the river (maybe multiple giant catfish? I can’t remember), and that the catfish was responsible for the various pets and occasional people who went missing and were never found. They went off and talked with ichthyologists who talked about limits on catfish sizes, and I forget who else, exploring all the edge cases which might allow a giant ten foot catfish to live in the river. And at the end of the episode, they’re talking to the guy again, going over their findings that it’s possible, theoretically at least, that at a very very edge case, this giant catfish might exist, and the guy was like, “I knew it! Everyone around here keeps sayin’ it’s the alligators, but I jes’ knew it was th’ catfish!”
Of all the “crypto” type stories out there, the giant fish ones are the ones I’m most inclined to believe. Unlike a lot of other categories, there’s actually hard evidence for us pulling giant fish out of the water.
If the Detroit River can harbor sturgeon approaching 7ft long in this day and age, I’m not about to totally shoot down anyone’s fish story.
The wheel part reminds me of something I learned from 3blue1brown:
“Pi seems to magically appear everywhere, until you realize that wherever it appears there is usually a circle hiding”
Usually. Sometimes it really does seem magical. Sometimes the circle is very well hidden. Maybe we just haven’t found it yet.
Honestly I’ve learned more math from that guy than any math teacher I ever had - one of the few YouTube channels I would absolutely recommend to anyone scientifically inclined at all. He’s an incredible explainer.
Blow your mind with the video where he calculates pi through the repeated elastic collision of a pair of blocks… One digit at a time. If that sounds bizarre - yeah, watch the video.
How do you measure things with wheels?
Like if this side must be exactly 34 wheel revolutions long, you put a dent on the side of your wheel, you roll it in a straight line, and when your dent touches the ground for the 34th time, you just measured a length with a wheel.
And the cool part is that you don’t even need to measure the length of the wheel if you know the radius because you can do ✨MATHS✨
You roll it and count how many times you rolled it. Like how an odometer works in your car.
Would an odometer still work if I’ve got an air freshener in the car to deal with odor?
Yes, but only because of ancient alien mathematics
That’s why it’s called an Odo-meter.
insert Rene pictures here.
