only if they're on roids like the crab in your sig

Seems unlikely that you can get the required manpower to accomplish that speed and have it actually be a flowing working environment though doesnt it? When you talk about man moving that kind of weight without heavy machines a simple mistake could literally cause hours if not days/weeks of delay in building. Imagine moving one of those huge stones and the device/contraption you are using to do so breaks/malfunctions. If for whatever the stone drops on the pyramid in the wrong spot it could be a huge hassle to move it again.

My theory is that we just haven't figured out how they did it. I bet if we conducted a huge experiment we could figure it out. Let's say we:

- Section off a plot of desert somewhere in Egypt.
- Assemble some architects, and tell them they have 50 years to build a pyramid.
- They only get the tools and materials that were available in the era the original pyramids were build of course.
- Also we add in an unlimited supply of manual slave labor and allow them to work their slaves to death as much as they want.

I bet they could figure it out.

This post was edited by kayeto on Jun 10 2012 04:29pm

how do we do this lol

this issue must be settled once and for all!

This post was edited by Derkaderk on Jun 10 2012 05:13pm

BBC did a somewhat ridiculous, but fun story about the construction of the pyramids.

You can find the entire episode in six pieces here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwiic6BoleQ&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLF546914CDD645D9C

Also, the Egyptians did not use slaves to build the pyramids. They had plenty of willing participants looking for work.

jeez, haven't you people seen stargate? the pyramids were landing platforms for alien motherships! j/k j/k

I personally think that humans did, however I watched an interesting documentary few months ago. Basically there are is an Island somewhere by Russia, (it counts as Russian territories)
And it has 2 mountains on it, both of them if you stay right in Centre will point directly at the Sirius star just like pyramids do. Might be a coincidence but who knows, we didn't discover all secrets yet. The Islands name is Sakhalin.

This post was edited by Oleevex on Jun 15 2012 05:55pm