NO ALIEN PYRAMID SCHEME

Was watching a show the other night about pyramids in Egypt compared to those in South America and other places around the world.

I know people say that their similarities could mean alien/human interaction - both with construction and design.

"Pyramids built across the globe by humans WAY too far apart to share blue prints? Perfect stone cutting? BUILT BY ALIENS!"

I ask - what shape WERE people supposed to build back then? Circles? Squares? Rhombuses?

Domes of heavy stone were beyond them architecturally, and until the column came along, squares were out of the question as well it seems. At least in the size of ancient pyramids.

What IS visible around each culture or nearby at least are mountains. Why is it so crazy to think they were not building their own mountains? Especially if they felt mountains held sacred energy, which many cultures did. I'm not saying a mountain was the purpose of the pyramids. I'm just saying mountains may have been an inspiration. What better way to prove what an awesome and divine leader you are than saying, "See that mountain over there? I'm building my own. Then bury me under it."

Plus, all pyramids work on the principle of the inclined plane, another thing featured widely in nature. And steps. They all went upward in step fashion. (I know the Egyptian pyramids had facings that made them smooth on the outside, but their construction was stepped).

Steps are the oldest form of changing elevation around. Humans seem to have mastered the stair a long damn time ago. They're rather ingenious. You step once from one flat plane to another flat plane and no matter how high you are, you're still on flat ground. However, going higher from the earths surface but staying on level ground is something that happens naturally in rock formations - I've hiked up many natural stair cases in my day. Something any human could have encountered at some point or they met someone who had. So the stair concept is not revolutionary either.

All these things combined - the lack of architectural sophistication to construct anything OTHER than a pyramid, a basic awareness of mountains and the inclined plane, make the pyramid form, though varied from culture to culture, pretty damned likely no matter where or when they're building it.

It ain't got to mean ALIENS did that shite.

I'm just saying...

MJW