Re: Fruitcakes was Re: Kentum/satem

Roger Mills wrote:
>Andreas Johansson wrote:
>(I wrote:)
> >>No! It's true! Just last night the Discovery Channel revealed that not
>only
> >>the pyramids, but also Teotihuacan and Angkor are the result of alien
> >>technology/astronomical knowledge.  My goodness, they hung around for a
> >>very
> >>long time, didn't they!? Perhaps they're still here...........
> >
> >Angkor 'd be a new one. I thought it only was Africans and Americans who
> >were to dumb to hew big rocks without the help of aliens.
> >
>The main point of the program seemed to be that (1) the pyramids and the
>Sphinx were aligned in accord with compass points, and Orion's Belt, and
>something else;
>now how did those silly Egyptians manage that?  (2) Teotihuacan is a model
>of the world, based on a module of 1.06 meters-- so close to the actual
>meter that, obviously, the Aztecs must have accurately known the
>circumference of the earth. (Ummm, a 6% error does mount up) (3) Angkor is
>also a model of the world and aligned thus-and-so (I missed much of this
>segment), which actually is true IIRC, the central tallest temple
>represents
>Mt. Meru in Hindu cosmology.
I'm fully aware that it's these alignments and other advanced features that
are supposed to be due to aliens - I do find this particular brand of
pseudoscience quite amusing. The "too dumb to hew big rocks" was intended as
a rhetorical exageration, serving to portrait those who people in these
theories as even more stupid/racist than they actually are.

                                                    Andreas

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