Calling all the scientific minds on RF

[ManSinha]

I would say I am somewhat credulous (I am a theist after all) but I was somewhat mesmerized by the apparent cognitive dissonance here - this gentleman appears to speak of feats that would be considered achievements of engineering and yet apparently were done eons ago - well, in all fairness, he is a fiction story writer but the examples he presents appear to be real -

Perhaps most importantly - he is not purporting to provide answers - simply asking questions

So I wondered what the resident scientific minds on RF like @Subduction Zone and @Polymath257 and @Dan From Smithville and @Tiberius and @ecco and anyone else that would care to chime in, would have to say

Not being snarky, just a honest question ....

The entire talk is about 18 minutes long and while there is "Mahabharat" in the title - the reference to the Indian Epic is a small part of the entire talk......

 

[Subduction Zone]

I would say I am somewhat credulous (I am a theist after all) but I was somewhat mesmerized by the apparent cognitive dissonance here - this gentleman appears to speak of feats that would be considered achievements of engineering and yet apparently were done eons ago - well, in all fairness, he is a fiction story writer but the examples he presents appear to be real -

Perhaps most importantly - he is not purporting to provide answers - simply asking questions

So I wondered what the resident scientific minds on RF like @Subduction Zone and @Polymath257 and @Dan From Smithville and @Tiberius and @ecco and anyone else that would care to chime in, would have to say

Not being snarky, just a honest question ....

The entire talk is about 18 minutes long and while there is "Mahabharat" in the title - the reference to the Indian Epic is a small part of the entire talk......

It is not a good sign when he makes a patently false statement in the first minute. There is quite a bit of archaeological evidence for Alexander the Great:

What Evidence Is There for the Existence of Alexander the Great? Quite a Lot. - Tales of Times Forgotten

But I will keep watching.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I can't watch it any longer. He assumes for some strange reason that the body would have been carried into the finished pyramid. There was no reason that the body could not have been put in there when the pyramid was still under construction.

Does he have a point?

 

[Meow Mix]

If you’d summarize points made, more people might be able to respond. A tens of minutes long video is a tall order

 

[Polymath257]

One thing that always annoys me is the assumption that those that lived before the invention of writing were stupid and without 'technology'.

In fact, they were as intelligent as we are now, but without a great deal of the knowledge we have today. Instead, they had a much more intimate relationship to the materials they used and were far more familiar with their properties than we are today.

I'm not going to look into the age of the Sphinx, but the assumption that it was impossible for anyone to build it 8000 years ago seems to be badly flawed. We have other sites from that time and before (like Gobleki Tepe) with monumental architecture that were clearly done by humans.

The archeological evidence for Alexander the Great extends far past the written records and encompasses the evidence for interaction of the Greek culture with cultures as far away as India as well as a revolution of the political world around that time. There are also coins, art, architecture, new cities (Alexandria in Egypt, for example) etc that also attest to the existence of Alexander and the destruction of the old Persian empire at that time and elaboration of a new power structure.

Anyway, that is as far as I got into this video, but it was clear the speaker didn't know much about was talking about or was giving a very distorted account for his own reasons.