Just how tough would it be to pile a bunch of rocks on a predetermined plot? The use of a standard unit of measure for both raw length and also for the diameter of a measuring wheel inculcates pi into the structure all over the place even if they had no understanding of the ratio. The belt of Orion is an impressive sight in the desert night sky without any competing lights so the use of that alignment for the layout of the pyramids is not that complex.
The short version of the refutation is this.Had aliens assisted in the construction of the pyramids, it wouldn't have been so crude and pointless. It would have at least had indoor plumbing, A/C and lights I don't need a 100 million tons rock to point me north and show me pi.
It wasn’t exactly crude before it was stripped of it’s veneer and quite possibly eroded.
Think of it as a structure intended to survive an apocalypse, and you’d be getting there, imho. An ark of a different sort, from a different people.
There has been religious or mystical significance attributed to numerous structures, as far as the proportions and angles used, even the specific locations. In the instance of certain cathedrals, there is even documentation of intent, as far as these considerations and their inclusion in the structure.
There is no reason to dismiss this habit of ancient standing with those pyramids, with such an obviously intentional grandeur. We may not understand fully the significance to their builders, but significant they clearly were. Pyramids in southern Mexico and Central America are ideally sited for astronomical observation. No controversy about that deliberateness that I’m aware.
When it was first opened, via a crude tunnel into the still sealed Great Pyramid in the 7th century, there was nothing in it - no more than there is now -— the Caliph was greatly disappointed.
Center landmass -— lay the Earth's landmasses out as a continuous strip - Giza is in the exact middle -— coincidence?
I simply believe there were other advanced cultures long before the Egyptians — take the Pyramid in South America (Peru I think) which is still larger and much older.
Puma Punku is a totally inexplicable ruin.
Maybe the putative aliens were us from a time and civilization before the eruption of Mt Toba? Or maybe from one which arose after Toba, but before the glacial melts began at the end of the Ice Age?
Never discount any possibilities. Those who think that any possible explanation is impossible should really open his or her eyes. We weren’t there, we don’t know. Don’t assume that because someone believes in a different theory from you that it is BS and can’t have happened.
There are things in our universe and things that happen on a daily basis that defy explanation and will always defy explanation.
Sure, some crop circles are hoaxes, I personally don’t believe that all of them are. I could be wrong, just as everyone can.
You fail to explain a large number of interesting . . . congruences
. . . particularly when considering similar arrangements of structures in several different locations . . . all clearly indicative of Orien . . .
Ankor Watt . . . IIRC, something in South America.
Simplicity is nice . . . except when it doesn’t fit.