I find it strangely comforting that their own so many fantastic discoveries right under our noses, right off the beaten path, just a bit deeper into thick forest/jungle. There was a time I felt like most of the world had been solved, and that the mysteries and adventure were dying off. I couldn't have been more wrong, we will never stop learning amazing new things about our world.
I wrote this when I was in 4th grade. "The more I learn, the more I know, the more I know the more I forget, and the more I forget the less I know". That means we cannot and will never know it all because, eternal change is a law of nature, and that means there will always be more to learn. Learning new information from these changes is the key to our survival and is the magnet that pulls us through life. SMIB
There's a whole lot of earth. Not including the ocean. Half of the exposed Earth isn't really hospitable for humans. Even lidar can only show you so much. A lot of countries don't allow or have the funding for archeologists and crews . I've seen a few of these sites, first with the lidar images and then a decade later after being respectfully excavated. It's mind blowing
@@msaintpcdamn, you were that defeated in only 4th grade? It’s not as deep of a thought as you think it is. Only a fool thinks they can know everything, but to not learn new things because you think you’ll forget old things is just sad. Life isn’t a movie or tv show, which is probably where you got that line from in the first place 😂😂😂😂😂
@@mcgritty8842 You may also be misunderstanding. They may be meaning they forget what they used to think was fact but as they have learned better they have now forgotten what they thought was fact because now they know it is not fact.. Although i am going out on a long limb here as my first thought was EXACTLY the same as yours 🤣🤣
There are some people, I just want to listen to. I have felt this intuitively all of my 71 years of life. Over those years, I have often wondered what makes me know it's time to listen? I haven't answered that question completely, but I do know... When someone's eyes are lit up with passion like Neil, Chuck and Sarah's are in this video, along with their obvious excitement to share their passion overflowing so much that they appear to be in danger of bursting, it's time to listen. Even if it's something I may be disintereded or only mildly interested in, I still listen intently. I always will. Great show folks!
I’m a LiDAR Technician and edit the point cloud to create the Bare Earth mode she was talking about!! So much fun to hear all the different uses for it!! You can actually use it not just for topography but also bathymetry as well!!
Sarah Parcak is one of those innovators in her field that deserves everyone's admiration. She has, essentially, opened up a whole new area of science by harnessing space/air assets for archaeology. Plus she's a typically honest and modest scientist - noting the need to verify data and accepting that sometimes the signs are wrong or misinterpreted.
I don’t understand .I’ve never heard that before and want to know more about this bc that is scary because if they think they built the pyramids then they will try and take Egypt as their own just as they took Israel because they had built a temple there .
I really enjoyed watching her enthusiasm and listening to her knowledge, right up to the pyramid construction part. She leaves out that most of the great pyramid's stones were quarried 500 to 900 miles away...transported by a people without the use of the wheel...some so heavy that no wooden boat could support them. Math has been done to show you'd have to be placing 100+ ton stones with extreme precision every hour of every day all year for 100 years just to equal the stones in the Great Pyramid. There are holes drilled in extremely hard rock and engineers (stonemasons, not archaeologists) who have spent their whole careers working granite can't explain how it was done. Compound cuts in freakishly hard rock slabs with tool marks that could only have been made by super thin huge blades. 10k vases (that the crook Zawie Hawas had carried up out of the bent pyramid, smashed, then buried) made with such precision, presumably by hand, that we can barely reproduce the work with modern tools. Plus the fact that the original work buried the deepest is done with amazing precision, then newer construction built on top gets poorer, going from huge multi-ton granite blocks...to mud bricks. Vases made from hard stone with walls so thin you can shine a flashlight through...to vases made from clay and painted to look like the older better ones. That's not how it works...we invented the wheel first, then the car, then smartphones. The Egyptians themselves spoke of an older civilization that they inherited from. I'm not saying the pyramids were built by aliens, but there are technologies that appear to have been lost that mainstream archaeologists just ignore because it doesn't fit their idea of history. research UnchartedX
@@darrelljacobjr2120 She flew by that question quickly. Stones were stacked, case closed. Some of the stones are up to 200 tons. I think she's on point overall, good speaker.
Even Chuck was ready for Sarah's joke. Lol. Yet ANOTHER, great episode and guest. Once again, so thankful for people like Sarah and you both advancing humanity in the most important ways.
@@Nigfis I am not. My studies were more about Egypt specifically. I had many classes with her husband, but the only one with Dr. Parcak was archeology theory which they co-taught. 15 years later I build turbos for heavy duty diesel applications. Wouldn’t trade the education in anthropology for anything though.
What an amazing guest. Love the interview. I love how she joyfully admits to being wrong about the viking structure. THIS is the attitude of a real scientist. Well, also of a person that is confident in her field. This is in such short supply these days. It was a pleasure to hear the three of you talk.
Aliens fly thousands of light years in hyper advanced spacecraft, either it still took them thousands of years to get here, or they’ve found their way around seemingly concrete laws of physics in order to get here faster. In all their technological superiority, they teach humans how to stack rocks in clever ways.
It was so funny when Chuck said "Monsanto". That was pure genius...it was so appropriate and the timing was perfect. No one else would've thought to say it, and It also took a lot of courage to say something like that, given Monsanto's dark reputation. Good show!
It's a good example as well, when talking about losing faith in science, which they've touched in the video. Monsanto is a company relying on science to make profits, and they will always value profits more than environment and more than human life. The same is with any other branch of science... when money gets involved, we all lose. So, no wonder people lose faith in science.
@@damyrit’s doesn’t just become science, it then becomes losing trust in scientists. Kinda like the Supreme Court… how can the people not lose trust in it after the recent cases? Roe V Wade overturned and Trump gets immunity for the insurrection and anything he did while “in office”
@msaintpc I agree. Chuck is not just a comedian, he’s an extremely intelligent co-host who also happens to be insanely funny. His talent is incredible.
I never thought about using binoculars to look at the moon until very recently, and last night with clear skies, I drove to the outskirts of my city where there was little light, I took my binoculars and had such an eye opening euphoric experience. Looking at the moon being able to see the craters and the full shape hidden by the shadow, was so starstricking. It was so beautiful to see it simply just “sitting” there in space ❤❤ Definitely recommend doing it urself
@@ZxZNebula Looking at the Milky Way in a moonless dark sky environment (no phone, no city glow, eyes adjusted to dark) with just a 6 or 8" reflector telescope will absolutely blow your mind.
I agree wholeheartedly. With both eyes, you dont see twice as much. You see & perceive 4 times more than with just one eye. But that is irrelevant to THIS discussion.
@@twonumber22yea I’d imagine lmao, like that must be gorgeously breathtaking. I’m saving up for a cheap telescope for that reason, it must be absolutely amazing of an experience
@@ellesmerewildwood4858damn really? I didn’t know that the reflected light would be that powerful to hurt my eyes. Like I assumed the UV light wouldn’t be reflected much
Miss Sarah embodies a fantastic ideal of mixing passion with education. Amateur archaeologists and hobbyists can be SUCH a great resource and fantastic for spreading word of discoveries and stories! But let the trained, specially-educated people do the stuff that requires extreme care and methodical approaches. Anyone can discover. But let the experts care for, excavate, and preserve sites and artifacts. That way there's as little damage as possible and everything is catalogued correctly for future use. Everyone has a role!
We have a system in the UK where if anyone, from field walker, farmer, to metal detectorists comes across something potentialy interesting can contact local archaeologists/museums to evaluate the find and plan and carry out any professional excavation warranted. The treasure trove laws take over for precious metals. Financial rewards are governed by laws. Anyone caught circumventing the laws faces prison.
i SO LOVE THIS ON A SUNDAY NIGHT, SOMETHING THAT CALMS MY BRAIN AND FEELS LIKE I AM LEARNING....RATHER THAN ROTTING MY BRAIN. SO THANKFUL FOR YOUR SHOW!.
@@SanderDoesThings they have tried and failed they used the ramp idea and the blocks would not go up they just smashed the ramp then we can't even build a house as accurate as a pyramid so far every experiment has failed with modern tec..
Good evening Neil Chuck and guest Super interesting topic. And laughs included. Love it.😂 Just yesterday I resigned from my mental health nurse post with my current employer after nineteen years. Story short. Your shared conversations have been a delight over these crazy few years. Sometimes you got to lose to win, me thinks. And archeology does evidence this we do very well. Super grateful. 😀 💜
Lord Nice, I like the response from your daughter on the advert. It really showed how much she enjoyed creating whatever she made, and spending that time with you.
@nicogrobler736 Yes. She was first on the History Channel about Egyptology (when they actually still showed a few history shows and not just crap like Skinwalker Ranch or whatever that tripe was) and even did some of her stuff she ran through Univ of Alabama where you could sign up and with some minimal training, could view open satellite maps and mark interesting features for the real trained professionals to look at. She has actually been around a long time. I'm 53 so I have too.
It’s very refreshing to listen to highly educated and successful people talk about these scientific things. What modern archeologists are discovering is wonderful. In some ways technology is doing a lot of unhealthy things to society, but in so many instances it still has so much promise. Thanks for the injection of optimism. I get very weary rubbing shoulders with flat earthers and Q addled people in cyberspace. Love you guys!!!❤
I have been so worried about the world my little grandsons will have in the future. Sara's idea of persistence and continuity has given me hope. Thank you ma'am. Scientist, professor, mother, author, delver into the ground, the creativity and hope you bring is palpable and inspiring.
Omg! Neil, you are always educational and entertaining, but today, this new branch of blended, applied science blew my mind. Sara Parckac is a treasure. I just found more of your podcasts with her and am going to watch them! Thank you! 🎉
Sarah is an amazing guest. This is my favorite episode of StarTalk yet, combining two of my passions. What an intelligent, fascinating, wide ranging, funny, and eye-opening episode; it’s also a love letter to Science. More of these, please, where eloquent experts are expertly interviewed, and fewer of the episodes consisting of dumb unrelated questions from patreons that guests have to fumble to answer.
I just love the idea of using LIDAR to find locations of structures built by ancient cultures. It is awesome and I applaud to Sarah’s work! \ One thing I’d like to point out is that her explanation of how the pyramids were built was rather a description of a progression - how initial simple ideas evolve over time. I think when people - I certainly do - ask the question how the great pyramids were built they’re expecting an answer from an engineer. How would you put together 2 million blocks of several tone each with a precision that the pyramids were built? Not claiming that with enough time and patience everything is possible but seriously - how? Yes - the answer that is built by aliens is lame but built by a civilization that is lost, along with its tech, is not a lame one.
A recent use of LIDAR was to use the mapping of current ripples formed by mega floods in the channeled scablands of Eastern Washington and British Columbia to estimate the volume and speed of water flowing out underneath glaciers in Canada that shaped some of the coulees in Washington State.
@@BradleyLayton While Glacial Lake Missoula has been recognized for some time as the source of water for all the floods in the channeled scablands, recent research suggests that it was only active during the last ice age period. Flows from that Glacial Lake Missoula have been estimated as being 1.5 X 10^7 m3/s. But Moses Coulee in particular is a problem because it was blocked from any water from Montana by another ice lobe. Some have suggested glacial outburst floods down the Okanogan River as a source for the water that created Moses Coulee, with flow estimates of 3.8 X 10^5 to 2.3 X 10^6 m3/s. So not as large as Glacial Lake Missoula, but all that water was likely coming down Moses Coulee. Search for Jerome Lessman a professor at U of Vancouver Island for his thoughts. A modern analogue is the recent glacial outburst floods in Iceland and into Mendenhall Lake in the Juneau Alaska area. These are quite small compared to any of the ice age flood events.
I don’t think it’s massively important . Wouldn’t change anything but fascinating none the less. Knowing precisely how where and when to exacting numbers is irrelevant really - theu managed it which is incredibly impressive and a nod to human genius
It’s clear to me that they used some form of technology that we don’t use today. Humans back then were biologically the same as humans today, so there’s no reason to think they couldn’t have figured out how to solve complex problems, just as we do now. I think many people are far too arrogant about how advanced we are. Egypt lasted for 3,000 years, so it’s reasonable to assume they developed building techniques that we have no use for because of our modern technology. It’s far more far-fetched to assume aliens came to Earth to help us build the pyramids and then left, rather than to believe that an Egyptian civilization that lasted 3,000 years was, in some ways, as capable as us-or even more so, in certain areas.
When I focused in Hydrogeology in college, my side quests were mapping drainage basins that fed retreating rivers. Theory was I could approximate how much water went subterranean and returned to the water table as the abive ground flow retreated over the years, and when the river might go "extinct". Found interesting stuff in the tip of the Baja Mexico. I haven't revisited the subject in nearly two decades, but this got my curiosity flowing again. Thank you both for an interesting discussion!
Exacttly! Ain't we part of this Universe? So what make us different? What is Alien, anyway? We all citizens of this beautiful blue (blue?) planet, by the way!
Love such intelligent beings bringing science and discovery to the masses. For me, Carl Sagan was the father of bringing Space to our Race ; and Neil a fabulous torch bearer who is continuing Carl's work. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
Thank you Neil and Chuck for taking such complex concepts and making them understandable to the layman. And Sarah, thank you for sharing your incredible humor and intellect. Your hopefulness expressed through the magic of archeology is going to stick with me for a while.
Thank you for this show topic! I have recently been researching truly ancient cavillations and their technologies. Of course this is for fun, because I did not get my education in science or archology. I am excited that we can use current technology to find the past...
Their method is a far more specific term than technology because technically saying technology allows a generation who knows technology as computer chips and science to assume the same of the past.
Thank you everyone for such a knowledgeable, insightful and fun discussion about archeology and the possibilities of finding the connection from one culture to the next.
Thanks all, giving one's time to inform us without requiring compensation or adulation for your knowledge. I have learnt a great deal today. Great humans. Cheers.
There are Soo many examples of stonework that we can't replicate today. Doesn't mean it was aliens. It's just a testament to how hard ancient civilizations worked. For a common cause..
Actually, we CAN. Don't u think aliens could leave better proves of their visit (why they would have in the 1st place?) than building some primitive stone pyramids? Why not on the Moon then?
My favorite sci-fi series is, by far Farscape. Better than anything else I've ever seen! I'm currently binge watching the entire series, and I have a long way to go until I'm finished. Loving every moment of it! 👽
A few years ago I toured Egypt. Everything said here was discussed and explained. It was also explained that Egyptian children in grade school are taught exactly how the pyramids and other structures were built. In other words, to them it is COMMON KNOWLEGE. Compare that to American TV shows that play dramatic music and claim that "no one knows how it was done." The blatant lies to sell viewership became obvious. Literally millions of people know all about it the same way Americans know George Washington. Visiting Peru was similar except that Peruvians have no problem laughing about "ancient runways".
omg this explains everything about the pyramids! This imotep guy knew how to lift those heavy blocks and make them fit right next to each other cause we know each stone is unique…..😅
And with 2.3million of them, over 30yrs period it would be 200 blocks per day or a rate of 1 block every 4minures from chiselling it out, transporting it 100miles, positioning it place, carving it to fit, then put in final resting place.
I really like how she explained the way Egyptian society progressed with more sophisticated buildings etc. That makes sense. But we still cannot 100% explain HOW they did that. I think this part was omitted. I don't think everything we don't know is either god or aliens, but still, it's mysterious.
Why is it hard to call "Egyptian Society" African society. Egypt is a country in Africa and during contruction of the Great Pyramids Africa was just one land with no countries but just Africans in different territories. Why when something great happened that cannot be explained by the west, it has to be Aliens or "Mysterious Egypians Society" you can't keep the greatness of Africa down all the time.
Neil deGrasse Tyson ~ I really appreciate everything you do, especially your teaching of I guess, astrophysics and the way you explain things to the ignorant public!
I think it’s funny she just skipped right passed most of the reasons people think the pyramids were built by aliens.. for example, how did they move such large stones?Some of the stones are not even from that region.. how did they get there?Also Cut through incredibly hard materials that would be difficult with today’s technology? The mathematics that are involved that also correlate to the earths? I would love to see her sit down with Randal Carlson & Ben Van.
They always do that... the "experts" say ..."OF COURSE HUMANS BUILT THESE".... and then they bring in 20-5 ton blocks hewn out to perfection by machines and cranes to lift them...😂😅😅 Or they'll carve the statues like in Temples of India with air tools and still not even close to the original one. Makes me laugh 😂😂
Several equatorial populations built pyramids at about the same time. Then we say we have no idea how they did it. (SUggesting all these primitive populations had a technology we don't know or understand... Meaning these isolated populations found/invented something several times that we can't figure out or invent.
I'm pretty sure we know how they did it. They used ramps. We may never know all the details, but not because it's too complex or advanced for us to understand, just because they had options and we have no way to know which ones they chose.
@@Imalittlecloud it's the easiest way if you'd build a very small pyramid . Also remember that pyramid of Giza has rooms, and tunnels.. it's not easy like a wedding cake.
Ramps ? Made of sand ? Cutting and polishing granite to engineering tolerances using copper chisels or pounding with rocks ? Turning wafer thin rock vessels with protruding handles etc using .......... I don't subscribe to the "aliens" theory but we have to admit something a little more weird than bronze age technology was obviously being used . I am an artist/craftsman now in my later years and l can assure you that many Egyptian artefacts l have seen in museums as well as on film are not possible even now with our modern technonologies,laser cutters , gigantic machines , electricity and petrol , computers ,Cnc cutters and 3D printers and all our modern resources . Which begs the many questions : WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN HOW ? Perfectly symmetrical propotionate and anatomically accurate enormous BASALT or GRANITE statues with finely engraved hieroglyphics would require humans with literally super powers let alone some rare and as yet undiscovered meteoritic iron implements and abrasive sand . Sorry but it is a glib understatement for archaeologists to assert they " know how the Egyptians did it" and that we could replicate it today ! I respectfully refute your assertions and simply ask if it was possible then why are we not able to replicate these creations today so that we can finally put the questions of these "doubting Thomas's" into the trash can once and for all ? Go on , replicate any one of these supposedly logical and credible techniques with the bronze age limitations existing at that time and we will believe you ....
There is a lot of things people have forgotten how to do, it doesn’t mean we didn’t do it. Ask your every day Joe how to make rope from plants and they wouldn’t know where to start much less how to set the rigging on a ship to cross an ocean in the days before modern tech. A lot of what we see as obsolete is forgotten. Just because we don’t remember how to do it doesn’t mean we humans didn’t.
Many of the original ancient mythologies are interpretations to explain real events that occurred. Yet, at the time we gave supernatural causes. For example, the great flood. This can easily be explained when you realize that the last ice age ended at the same time.
If that's the case, then explain how the H Blocks in Puma Punku are proven to have been machined by some advance technology due to the microscopic precision on each stone. We've looked at them under a microscope and their surface is machined very similar to how we use diamonds to machine stones and other materials. Engineers have observed that and pointed it out which they are very sure was an advanced technology similar to ours, if not more advanced, that people back then would absolutely not be able to build.
Btw, I forgot to add that the machined precision on each stone is to a thousandth of an inch at the very least. Impossible to do with a simple hammer and chisel from using your hands.
Because it hasn't been proven. "Engineers" are not experts in ancient technology or structures, and the people who make the claims that these sites are "microscopically precise" and "machined" are known liars. If it was that obvious they'd easily be winning Nobel prizes for their research. But they aren't doing research.
Is that a joke - did you see an pyramid, nothing precise about it. Stones look like they are cut by some drunk workers, all are different. Poor slaves, give them some respect, they did it, not aliens.
So, no mummies were found in the pyramids (they were at the Valley of the Kings) and even with today's tech nobody could replicate it. Those stones are really heavy and came from really far.
The Pyramids weren’t built by mud bricks ! And there are over 2 million large stones. It doesn’t need to been built by aliens but it was built by advanced technology not by brick layers.
Today's technology could absolutely replicate these types of pyramids. We simply stopped building stone pyramids. We don't have a popular use for ceremonial or spiritual stone pyramids in contemporary society, so projects like that do not get funded and do not get built. That is not evidence that we lack the ability to build them. We absolutely have both the ancient Egyptian techniques that were effectively used at the time AND more advanced and efficient techniques available if anyone were willing to commit the funds and labor. We could build a pyramid on the moon if we really wanted to, we absolutely have the capability and technology, we simply lack public interest and invest our resources and labor into different things. The stones are absolutely very heavy, which is why the feat is very impressive. They were transported from the Aswan quarry almost entirely by boat, where the water of the Nile does most of the work for you. This process was well documented. The ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramids as prestigious ceremonial monuments to their god-kings. The construction processes used and their intended purpose are meticulously documented, they are literally written and painted all over the walls, which is why we know in such detail how these structures were built, along with comparative historical and archaeological record from related sites. Dismissing the spectacular cultural accomplishments of the indigenous Egyptian people simply because they seem "too difficult"... and assuming they must cheated and their documentation is simply untrue... and making up a story to explain how someone else must have built them or given them power tools or something... is not unlike having a student in your class who aces a test, who thoroughly documented their process of completing the test legitimately, and you STILL accuse them of cheating or plagiarizing because you have a hunch that they just aren't smart enough to have aced the test. This is not a judgment based on new evidence, it is a judgment based on selective dismissal of existing evidence and historical record due to a bias, which is not really how we do science.
Loved watching this, I have seen Sarah in a few different documentaries over the years, using remote sensing technologies for analysis in different places. Absolutely fascinating to my techie brained self.
All over the world. Pyramids are the first structures that are simple to construct that represent religious beliefs that we came from the sky, so they represent mountains which point to the sky. Later Christians built churches with tall steples for the same reason. It is that simple.
The intro may have made it seem as if the whole video was about debunking alien theories, but that was only a few minutes, after Chuck joked, "it was all put there by aliens!" She's an expert in mapping archaeological sites with satellites, planes, and drones.
@EinsteinsHair fair enough, but simply acknowledging wild theories can give them credibility. Especially when it's done with some of the most reputable and famous scientists in the world. ✌️
I was with her until the pyramid explanation. The question is not just stacking stone, the question is about the number of stones, the size of stones, and distance traveled with stones
@@zackwilloughby9185you would think they would have found evidence of mummified servants numbering in the hundreds if not thousands in the great pyramid.
@@zackwilloughby9185 That's because mummies have always been a valuable commodity. But what you said is not actually true anyways because there have been lots of mummified remains found in pieces.
28:17 So Chuck is asking: How is it possible that you have people living in a city, and there happens to be a complete city underneath, when there has always been people living there? 28:43 He offers here an (on purpose absurd) example of a not really possible explanation, where a civilization just decided to bury their city and build anew, on top of the old one. Then he goes into offering a more plausible explanation: "Was it a tragedy?". I think here, he brilliantly illustrated what his actual question is about. And, of course, there have been instances were it was indeed a tragedy: The whole city suffered a catastrophe, ended buried and, many years afterwards, the place got populated again. But he is asking about the other scenario: When, like Neil was saying, we are talking about a city that has ALWAYS been there (26:55) and then it turns out there happens to be city buried beneath them. "What happened?" he asked. I think he didn't actually get a proper answer to his question; and I think it's a really good question.
If you could use LIDAR & space technology to uncover any ancient mystery on our planet, what would you choose and why? 🚀
The Lost City Of Z
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The City of Cibola. Also, find those illegally destroying the Amazon and other natural areas.
Scan Antarctica
She said ut....😂
I find it strangely comforting that their own so many fantastic discoveries right under our noses, right off the beaten path, just a bit deeper into thick forest/jungle.
There was a time I felt like most of the world had been solved, and that the mysteries and adventure were dying off. I couldn't have been more wrong, we will never stop learning amazing new things about our world.
I wrote this when I was in 4th grade. "The more I learn, the more I know, the more I know the more I forget, and the more I forget the less I know". That means we cannot and will never know it all because, eternal change is a law of nature, and that means there will always be more to learn. Learning new information from these changes is the key to our survival and is the magnet that pulls us through life. SMIB
There's a whole lot of earth. Not including the ocean. Half of the exposed Earth isn't really hospitable for humans. Even lidar can only show you so much. A lot of countries don't allow or have the funding for archeologists and crews . I've seen a few of these sites, first with the lidar images and then a decade later after being respectfully excavated. It's mind blowing
@@msaintpcdamn, you were that defeated in only 4th grade? It’s not as deep of a thought as you think it is.
Only a fool thinks they can know everything, but to not learn new things because you think you’ll forget old things is just sad.
Life isn’t a movie or tv show, which is probably where you got that line from in the first place 😂😂😂😂😂
@@mcgritty8842 You may also be misunderstanding. They may be meaning they forget what they used to think was fact but as they have learned better they have now forgotten what they thought was fact because now they know it is not fact.. Although i am going out on a long limb here as my first thought was EXACTLY the same as yours 🤣🤣
I doubt they find an awesome tomb like in 1927 Howard Carter
There are some people, I just want to listen to. I have felt this intuitively all of my 71 years of life. Over those years, I have often wondered what makes me know it's time to listen? I haven't answered that question completely, but I do know... When someone's eyes are lit up with passion like Neil, Chuck and Sarah's are in this video, along with their obvious excitement to share their passion overflowing so much that they appear to be in danger of bursting, it's time to listen. Even if it's something I may be disintereded or only mildly interested in, I still listen intently. I always will. Great show folks!
Well said!
Doesn't mean there right lady
There, they're and their, 3 different angles
Too much baffonery from the host
Hahahahaha super funny the 3 monkeys hahaha
I’m a LiDAR Technician and edit the point cloud to create the Bare Earth mode she was talking about!! So much fun to hear all the different uses for it!! You can actually use it not just for topography but also bathymetry as well!!
then why does your YT account say you're filmographer and a professional dancer?
Lidar is doomed
@@ThisisCitrus Maybe because people also have day jobs? Also filmography is a very wide field.
@@RH-yz6ir no, its cause this is a bot comment from a fake account.
Do you have the skill level to do the following . Rotate the earth 33 degrees. And lower the water level 200'
Sarah Parcak is one of those innovators in her field that deserves everyone's admiration. She has, essentially, opened up a whole new area of science by harnessing space/air assets for archaeology. Plus she's a typically honest and modest scientist - noting the need to verify data and accepting that sometimes the signs are wrong or misinterpreted.
Zionists think they built the pyramids 😅😅😅😅
I don’t understand .I’ve never heard that before and want to know more about this bc that is scary because if they think they built the pyramids then they will try and take Egypt as their own just as they took Israel because they had built a temple there .
I really enjoyed watching her enthusiasm and listening to her knowledge, right up to the pyramid construction part.
She leaves out that most of the great pyramid's stones were quarried 500 to 900 miles away...transported by a people without the use of the wheel...some so heavy that no wooden boat could support them. Math has been done to show you'd have to be placing 100+ ton stones with extreme precision every hour of every day all year for 100 years just to equal the stones in the Great Pyramid. There are holes drilled in extremely hard rock and engineers (stonemasons, not archaeologists) who have spent their whole careers working granite can't explain how it was done. Compound cuts in freakishly hard rock slabs with tool marks that could only have been made by super thin huge blades. 10k vases (that the crook Zawie Hawas had carried up out of the bent pyramid, smashed, then buried) made with such precision, presumably by hand, that we can barely reproduce the work with modern tools.
Plus the fact that the original work buried the deepest is done with amazing precision, then newer construction built on top gets poorer, going from huge multi-ton granite blocks...to mud bricks. Vases made from hard stone with walls so thin you can shine a flashlight through...to vases made from clay and painted to look like the older better ones. That's not how it works...we invented the wheel first, then the car, then smartphones. The Egyptians themselves spoke of an older civilization that they inherited from.
I'm not saying the pyramids were built by aliens, but there are technologies that appear to have been lost that mainstream archaeologists just ignore because it doesn't fit their idea of history. research UnchartedX
@@darrelljacobjr2120 She flew by that question quickly. Stones were stacked, case closed. Some of the stones are up to 200 tons.
I think she's on point overall, good speaker.
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@@jackdaniels2905 she didn't explain it... just tried to make a joke about lego blocks... some of these blocks over a ton!
Should be a top comment.
THANK YOU.
@@mystieusshe has no ideia how it's built, just like everybody else
Even Chuck was ready for Sarah's joke. Lol. Yet ANOTHER, great episode and guest. Once again, so thankful for people like Sarah and you both advancing humanity in the most important ways.
Omg! I’m so happy to say that I had the privilege of having Dr. Parcak and her husband both as professors. Amazing people.
Can I ask if you are employed in the Space industry now?
@@Nigfis I am not. My studies were more about Egypt specifically. I had many classes with her husband, but the only one with Dr. Parcak was archeology theory which they co-taught. 15 years later I build turbos for heavy duty diesel applications. Wouldn’t trade the education in anthropology for anything though.
@@maatheru3685 Fascinating. Thank you.
BS
@@HelenCrane-jl1nv my degree is actually a Bachelors of Arts, since anthropology (at least at UAB) is considered a humanity. :)
What an amazing guest. Love the interview. I love how she joyfully admits to being wrong about the viking structure. THIS is the attitude of a real scientist. Well, also of a person that is confident in her field. This is in such short supply these days. It was a pleasure to hear the three of you talk.
Aliens fly thousands of light years in hyper advanced spacecraft, either it still took them thousands of years to get here, or they’ve found their way around seemingly concrete laws of physics in order to get here faster. In all their technological superiority, they teach humans how to stack rocks in clever ways.
Lmao
Bingo
What aliens?
@@danielgregg2530 Conspiracy theorists believe aliens built the pyramids then they go vote for Trump😂
Sounds like a statement you cannot backup
It was so funny when Chuck said "Monsanto". That was pure genius...it was so appropriate and the timing was perfect. No one else would've thought to say it, and It also took a lot of courage to say something like that, given Monsanto's dark reputation. Good show!
That was just hilarious! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
It's a good example as well, when talking about losing faith in science, which they've touched in the video. Monsanto is a company relying on science to make profits, and they will always value profits more than environment and more than human life. The same is with any other branch of science... when money gets involved, we all lose. So, no wonder people lose faith in science.
@@damyrit’s doesn’t just become science, it then becomes losing trust in scientists. Kinda like the Supreme Court… how can the people not lose trust in it after the recent cases? Roe V Wade overturned and Trump gets immunity for the insurrection and anything he did while “in office”
that one and the "Predator" when Neil was talking about what we think when we hear "thermal vision". 100% correct
@msaintpc I agree. Chuck is not just a comedian, he’s an extremely intelligent co-host who also happens to be insanely funny. His talent is incredible.
Indiana Jones VI: remote sensing.
Scene 1: Indiana clicking the mouse on a near infrared satellite image.
INDIANA: "I found it!"
* Roll credits *
He kicks back with Mirian and their chopper riding kid and enjoys not digging, running and avoiding Nazis
@@2degucitas In an ironic twist, he fights the nazis in his social media comments instead
Lol
Not at all. Archeology still needs to dig. Lidar is making our history mire visible. It's pretty amazing
I never thought about using binoculars to look at the moon until very recently, and last night with clear skies, I drove to the outskirts of my city where there was little light, I took my binoculars and had such an eye opening euphoric experience. Looking at the moon being able to see the craters and the full shape hidden by the shadow, was so starstricking. It was so beautiful to see it simply just “sitting” there in space ❤❤
Definitely recommend doing it urself
@@ZxZNebula Looking at the Milky Way in a moonless dark sky environment (no phone, no city glow, eyes adjusted to dark) with just a 6 or 8" reflector telescope will absolutely blow your mind.
I agree wholeheartedly. With both eyes, you dont see twice as much. You see & perceive 4 times more than with just one eye.
But that is irrelevant to THIS discussion.
Just be careful to use a filter, magnified moonlight can damage your eyes.
@@twonumber22yea I’d imagine lmao, like that must be gorgeously breathtaking.
I’m saving up for a cheap telescope for that reason, it must be absolutely amazing of an experience
@@ellesmerewildwood4858damn really? I didn’t know that the reflected light would be that powerful to hurt my eyes. Like I assumed the UV light wouldn’t be reflected much
Miss Sarah embodies a fantastic ideal of mixing passion with education. Amateur archaeologists and hobbyists can be SUCH a great resource and fantastic for spreading word of discoveries and stories! But let the trained, specially-educated people do the stuff that requires extreme care and methodical approaches. Anyone can discover. But let the experts care for, excavate, and preserve sites and artifacts. That way there's as little damage as possible and everything is catalogued correctly for future use. Everyone has a role!
We have a system in the UK where if anyone, from field walker, farmer, to metal detectorists comes across something potentialy interesting can contact local archaeologists/museums to evaluate the find and plan and carry out any professional excavation warranted. The treasure trove laws take over for precious metals. Financial rewards are governed by laws. Anyone caught circumventing the laws faces prison.
i SO LOVE THIS ON A SUNDAY NIGHT, SOMETHING THAT CALMS MY BRAIN AND FEELS LIKE I AM LEARNING....RATHER THAN ROTTING MY BRAIN. SO THANKFUL FOR YOUR SHOW!.
That was fascinating! I could watch Sarah and you guys talk for hours. Can we have her back again?
I had fun watching her lol
@@onair141 She seems really informed and easy to relate to. Awesome person.
What is her web site? Link please.
I agree with Sarah Parcak. Humans are more resilient than we usually appreciate.
but we would have to me more advance in the pass then we are today
@@jeffrey4547 are you really claiming that humans with modern day technology cant build some big pyramids in the sand?
@@SanderDoesThings That new crane that SpaceX just got in could do most of it on its own.
@@hervigdewilde3599 cranes from the 50s could probably do it
@@SanderDoesThings they have tried and failed they used the ramp idea and the blocks would not go up they just smashed the ramp then we can't even build a house as accurate as a pyramid so far every experiment has failed with modern tec..
Good evening Neil Chuck and guest
Super interesting topic. And laughs included. Love it.😂
Just yesterday I resigned from my mental health nurse post with my current employer after nineteen years. Story short.
Your shared conversations have been a delight over these crazy few years.
Sometimes you got to lose to win, me thinks.
And archeology does evidence this we do very well.
Super grateful.
😀
💜
I wish you an exiting new adventure in life, and every success. You go girl! ❤❤❤
Dang weren't you close to retirement? I guess when it's time it's time.
What I notice about this lady is that 1. She loves what she do, and 2 she enjoys what she do. We need more of her in every profession
Lord Nice, I like the response from your daughter on the advert. It really showed how much she enjoyed creating whatever she made, and spending that time with you.
As a third generation Land Surveyor in Indiana, Im beyond involved in this conversation. Love it so much.
Why is indiana important to history of the land?
I have been watching her for 15 years at least. It's wonderful the work she is doing.
FBI agent: "hmm....15 years you say?"
@nicogrobler736 Yes. She was first on the History Channel about Egyptology (when they actually still showed a few history shows and not just crap like Skinwalker Ranch or whatever that tripe was) and even did some of her stuff she ran through Univ of Alabama where you could sign up and with some minimal training, could view open satellite maps and mark interesting features for the real trained professionals to look at.
She has actually been around a long time. I'm 53 so I have too.
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@@jolie2k I do not understand your post?
Omg sarah has an awesome laugh! 😂 You can tell its truly genuine... very good vibes 😊
It’s very refreshing to listen to highly educated and successful people talk about these scientific things. What modern archeologists are discovering is wonderful. In some ways technology is doing a lot of unhealthy things to society, but in so many instances it still has so much promise. Thanks for the injection of optimism. I get very weary rubbing shoulders with flat earthers and Q addled people in cyberspace. Love you guys!!!❤
I have been so worried about the world my little grandsons will have in the future. Sara's idea of persistence and continuity has given me hope. Thank you ma'am. Scientist, professor, mother, author, delver into the ground, the creativity and hope you bring is palpable and inspiring.
I thought I knew about the LIDAR already from watching different documentaries, but Sarah really hit it home for me. So cool!
Omg! Neil, you are always educational and entertaining, but today, this new branch of blended, applied science blew my mind. Sara Parckac is a treasure. I just found more of your podcasts with her and am going to watch them! Thank you! 🎉
...science in a blender... facts rule.🙏😸
This is great I enjoy every bit of it Thanks to Niel ,and Sara
Another wonderful interview, educational and entertaining. You guys are providing a great service to curious minds.
Sarah is an amazing guest. This is my favorite episode of StarTalk yet, combining two of my passions. What an intelligent, fascinating, wide ranging, funny, and eye-opening episode; it’s also a love letter to Science. More of these, please, where eloquent experts are expertly interviewed, and fewer of the episodes consisting of dumb unrelated questions from patreons that guests have to fumble to answer.
28:16 i absolutely love how Chuck asks this question, put a big smile on my face!
sarah is fantastic! jamming with other scientists is very cool.
Thanks I love space archeology
Great conversation! Had almost no knowledge about this subject now im just fascinated, including octopus condos
This episode came at just the right time. This is pretty much exactly what I want to study. It bridges two things I love, anthropology and space!!
I just love the idea of using LIDAR to find locations of structures built by ancient cultures. It is awesome and I applaud to Sarah’s work! \
One thing I’d like to point out is that her explanation of how the pyramids were built was rather a description of a progression - how initial simple ideas evolve over time. I think when people - I certainly do - ask the question how the great pyramids were built they’re expecting an answer from an engineer.
How would you put together 2 million blocks of several tone each with a precision that the pyramids were built? Not claiming that with enough time and patience everything is possible but seriously - how? Yes - the answer that is built by aliens is lame but built by a civilization that is lost, along with its tech, is not a lame one.
I really enjoyed this episode. Great guest!
A recent use of LIDAR was to use the mapping of current ripples formed by mega floods in the channeled scablands of Eastern Washington and British Columbia to estimate the volume and speed of water flowing out underneath glaciers in Canada that shaped some of the coulees in Washington State.
Glacial Lake Missoula, right?
@@BradleyLayton While Glacial Lake Missoula has been recognized for some time as the source of water for all the floods in the channeled scablands, recent research suggests that it was only active during the last ice age period. Flows from that Glacial Lake Missoula have been estimated as being 1.5 X 10^7 m3/s. But Moses Coulee in particular is a problem because it was blocked from any water from Montana by another ice lobe. Some have suggested glacial outburst floods down the Okanogan River as a source for the water that created Moses Coulee, with flow estimates of 3.8 X 10^5 to 2.3 X 10^6 m3/s. So not as large as Glacial Lake Missoula, but all that water was likely coming down Moses Coulee. Search for Jerome Lessman a professor at U of Vancouver Island for his thoughts. A modern analogue is the recent glacial outburst floods in Iceland and into Mendenhall Lake in the Juneau Alaska area. These are quite small compared to any of the ice age flood events.
With respect, I don't think the question is how were the Pyramids built rather than how were the blocks moved, transported, and lift.
Well said
Yes, an important question. How did they mine, transport and lift those blocks? Also, how so precise? And, how did they cut granite wet or dry?
I don’t think it’s massively important . Wouldn’t change anything but fascinating none the less. Knowing precisely how where and when to exacting numbers is irrelevant really - theu managed it which is incredibly impressive and a nod to human genius
It’s clear to me that they used some form of technology that we don’t use today. Humans back then were biologically the same as humans today, so there’s no reason to think they couldn’t have figured out how to solve complex problems, just as we do now. I think many people are far too arrogant about how advanced we are. Egypt lasted for 3,000 years, so it’s reasonable to assume they developed building techniques that we have no use for because of our modern technology. It’s far more far-fetched to assume aliens came to Earth to help us build the pyramids and then left, rather than to believe that an Egyptian civilization that lasted 3,000 years was, in some ways, as capable as us-or even more so, in certain areas.
I agree. Sarah didn’t explain how they moved 70 tonne stones!!
Oh yea. Nothing like a Niel and Chuck video for bedtime!
Dr Parcak is so engaging! Thanks for this video, Niel!
Please can you do that? Love it when Chuck throws down his emotions about the discussions and topics as I am on the edge of my seat again!
Great use of the tools available to discover many more future sites for exploration!
Great conversation! What a wonderful teaching team on this topic!
Loved this one. Very interesting, and as usual very entertaining and fun!
When I focused in Hydrogeology in college, my side quests were mapping drainage basins that fed retreating rivers. Theory was I could approximate how much water went subterranean and returned to the water table as the abive ground flow retreated over the years, and when the river might go "extinct". Found interesting stuff in the tip of the Baja Mexico.
I haven't revisited the subject in nearly two decades, but this got my curiosity flowing again. Thank you both for an interesting discussion!
Great episode guys and gals. Thanks
Love the topic, the guest, and the mix of thoughtful questions and light-hearted comic relief! Well done!
I don't really dabble into the alien stuff but what if the "Aliens" are just us?
well, we are not alien anymore, we are virus to earth
Exacttly! Ain't we part of this Universe? So what make us different? What is Alien, anyway? We all citizens of this beautiful blue (blue?) planet, by the way!
We are.
Love such intelligent beings bringing science and discovery to the masses. For me, Carl Sagan was the father of bringing Space to our Race ; and Neil a fabulous torch bearer who is continuing Carl's work. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
Thank you Neil and Chuck for taking such complex concepts and making them understandable to the layman. And Sarah, thank you for sharing your incredible humor and intellect. Your hopefulness expressed through the magic of archeology is going to stick with me for a while.
That "Predator" joke went right over Neil's head.
He ignored it becoz it was not funny.
Thank you for this show topic! I have recently been researching truly ancient cavillations and their technologies. Of course this is for fun, because I did not get my education in science or archology. I am excited that we can use current technology to find the past...
Their method is a far more specific term than technology because technically saying technology allows a generation who knows technology as computer chips and science to assume the same of the past.
I'm sad they didn't talk about using the tech to map the structures under the ocean
.radar, lidar, no sonar? ...effen rude. USN vet.
@@dougwalker4944 Me too, USS Hector AR-7
Thank you everyone for such a knowledgeable, insightful and fun discussion about archeology and the possibilities of finding the connection from one culture to the next.
Thanks all, giving one's time to inform us without requiring compensation or adulation for your knowledge.
I have learnt a great deal today.
Great humans.
Cheers.
Great talk! Thank you!
50:57 - That was an awesome outro "cosmic perspective" ... spoken with a lot of passion! Kudos!
There are Soo many examples of stonework that we can't replicate today. Doesn't mean it was aliens. It's just a testament to how hard ancient civilizations worked. For a common cause..
And shared their information and technology. That’s why there’s pryamid structures across the globe, right? ❤❤❤❤❤
Actually, we CAN. Don't u think aliens could leave better proves of their visit (why they would have in the 1st place?) than building some primitive stone pyramids? Why not on the Moon then?
@@mcgritty8842No
It's usually not that we can't replicate but that we're not willing to spend the same time and amount of manpower
My favorite sci-fi series is, by far Farscape. Better than anything else I've ever seen! I'm currently binge watching the entire series, and I have a long way to go until I'm finished. Loving every moment of it! 👽
That was such an interesting episode, loved it!
@12:30 Chuck tried real hard to let that one go lmao 😂
You could see it in his face 😂
A few years ago I toured Egypt. Everything said here was discussed and explained. It was also explained that Egyptian children in grade school are taught exactly how the pyramids and other structures were built. In other words, to them it is COMMON KNOWLEGE. Compare that to American TV shows that play dramatic music and claim that "no one knows how it was done." The blatant lies to sell viewership became obvious. Literally millions of people know all about it the same way Americans know George Washington. Visiting Peru was similar except that Peruvians have no problem laughing about "ancient runways".
Great so you can explain to everyone how the Pyramids were built. Put us out of our misery.
omg this explains everything about the pyramids! This imotep guy knew how to lift those heavy blocks and make them fit right next to each other cause we know each stone is unique…..😅
And with 2.3million of them, over 30yrs period it would be 200 blocks per day or a rate of 1 block every 4minures from chiselling it out, transporting it 100miles, positioning it place, carving it to fit, then put in final resting place.
One of the most entertaining and informative StarTalks. Really enjoyed it.
So glad I saw this.. She's amazing and so much that I learn today.. Thanks Startalk
Great guest!
Another Home Run by SrarTalk and their guest!! Thank you!!
Ooo looking forward to her book. Fascinating episode. Kudos!
Minute 13:22 she still hasn’t blinked 🥹😅🤘🏻💚
Please bring Sarah back. She is very informative and has great energy and insight. She is a marvel to consume. 😊
Some glorious stuff
Great episode
I really like how she explained the way Egyptian society progressed with more sophisticated buildings etc. That makes sense. But we still cannot 100% explain HOW they did that. I think this part was omitted. I don't think everything we don't know is either god or aliens, but still, it's mysterious.
She never explained here how they achieved building pyramids with huge rocks and perfect cutting. She oversimplified it
@@rajmonibasumatary1023 yeah, that's my point. We are not able to explain this. 🙂
Wait. They didnt had a gigantic todler? building the pyramids with his stone blocks?
@@starrkilla3269 it's classified.
Why is it hard to call "Egyptian Society" African society. Egypt is a country in Africa and during contruction of the Great Pyramids Africa was just one land with no countries but just Africans in different territories. Why when something great happened that cannot be explained by the west, it has to be Aliens or "Mysterious Egypians Society" you can't keep the greatness of Africa down all the time.
Neil deGrasse Tyson ~ I really appreciate everything you do, especially your teaching of I guess, astrophysics and the way you explain things to the ignorant public!
Iam so happy to see Sarah Parcak and Neil De Grasses getting together that’s so exciting.
I think it’s funny she just skipped right passed most of the reasons people think the pyramids were built by aliens.. for example, how did they move such large stones?Some of the stones are not even from that region.. how did they get there?Also Cut through incredibly hard materials that would be difficult with today’s technology? The mathematics that are involved that also correlate to the earths? I would love to see her sit down with Randal Carlson & Ben Van.
They always do that... the "experts" say ..."OF COURSE HUMANS BUILT THESE".... and then they bring in 20-5 ton blocks hewn out to perfection by machines and cranes to lift them...😂😅😅
Or they'll carve the statues like in Temples of India with air tools and still not even close to the original one.
Makes me laugh 😂😂
They didn't move the stone. They made the stone in place using a compound like modern day concrete
The burden of proof is on the person who makes a claim.
@@Jasmoo25 wrong
Their very existence is proof that none of it was impossible
Several equatorial populations built pyramids at about the same time. Then we say we have no idea how they did it. (SUggesting all these primitive populations had a technology we don't know or understand... Meaning these isolated populations found/invented something several times that we can't figure out or invent.
Pyramids is the easiest way to build tall buildings when you don't have advanced enough engineering. Like wedding cakes!
I'm pretty sure we know how they did it. They used ramps.
We may never know all the details, but not because it's too complex or advanced for us to understand, just because they had options and we have no way to know which ones they chose.
@@Imalittlecloud it's the easiest way if you'd build a very small pyramid . Also remember that pyramid of Giza has rooms, and tunnels.. it's not easy like a wedding cake.
Ramps ? Made of sand ? Cutting and polishing granite to engineering tolerances using copper chisels or pounding with rocks ?
Turning wafer thin rock vessels with protruding handles etc using ..........
I don't subscribe to the "aliens" theory but we have to admit something a little more weird than bronze age technology was obviously being used .
I am an artist/craftsman now in my later years and l can assure you that many Egyptian artefacts l have seen in museums as well as on film are not possible even now with our modern technonologies,laser cutters , gigantic machines , electricity and petrol , computers ,Cnc cutters and 3D printers and all our modern resources .
Which begs the many questions : WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN HOW ? Perfectly symmetrical propotionate and anatomically accurate enormous BASALT or GRANITE statues with finely engraved hieroglyphics would require humans with literally super powers let alone some rare and as yet undiscovered meteoritic iron implements and abrasive sand .
Sorry but it is a glib understatement for archaeologists to assert they " know how the Egyptians did it" and that we could replicate it today !
I respectfully refute your assertions and simply ask if it was possible then why are we not able to replicate these creations today so that we can finally put the questions of these "doubting Thomas's" into the trash can once and for all ? Go on , replicate any one of these supposedly logical and credible techniques with the bronze age limitations existing at that time and we will believe you ....
There is a lot of things people have forgotten how to do, it doesn’t mean we didn’t do it. Ask your every day Joe how to make rope from plants and they wouldn’t know where to start much less how to set the rigging on a ship to cross an ocean in the days before modern tech. A lot of what we see as obsolete is forgotten. Just because we don’t remember how to do it doesn’t mean we humans didn’t.
In all fairness, ancient aliens was on the history channel for a decade. Where were you all at then? Lol
You were in to it. Now listen to science.
They were doing ACTUAL science. Lol
This lady is fantastic. Watched her on TV for years.
Great guest! Great show. Glad I found you!
Many of the original ancient mythologies are interpretations to explain real events that occurred. Yet, at the time we gave supernatural causes. For example, the great flood. This can easily be explained when you realize that the last ice age ended at the same time.
@@alvyca There was no great flood though. That's a story from the Epic of Gilgamesh.
@@twonumber22 Woosh.
@@devinkubina9518 Read it again.
If that's the case, then explain how the H Blocks in Puma Punku are proven to have been machined by some advance technology due to the microscopic precision on each stone. We've looked at them under a microscope and their surface is machined very similar to how we use diamonds to machine stones and other materials. Engineers have observed that and pointed it out which they are very sure was an advanced technology similar to ours, if not more advanced, that people back then would absolutely not be able to build.
Btw, I forgot to add that the machined precision on each stone is to a thousandth of an inch at the very least. Impossible to do with a simple hammer and chisel from using your hands.
Sorry but what reputable scientific body stated as fact they ‘were machined by advanced technology’?
Because it hasn't been proven. "Engineers" are not experts in ancient technology or structures, and the people who make the claims that these sites are "microscopically precise" and "machined" are known liars. If it was that obvious they'd easily be winning Nobel prizes for their research. But they aren't doing research.
Is that a joke - did you see an pyramid, nothing precise about it. Stones look like they are cut by some drunk workers, all are different. Poor slaves, give them some respect, they did it, not aliens.
Psuedo scientific claims
So, no mummies were found in the pyramids (they were at the Valley of the Kings) and even with today's tech nobody could replicate it. Those stones are really heavy and came from really far.
I've heard that too.
The Pyramids weren’t built by mud bricks ! And there are over 2 million large stones. It doesn’t need to been built by aliens but it was built by advanced technology not by brick layers.
why would a civilization use generations of its time and resources to build over complicated structures for ''dead people'' ???....
Today's technology could absolutely replicate these types of pyramids. We simply stopped building stone pyramids. We don't have a popular use for ceremonial or spiritual stone pyramids in contemporary society, so projects like that do not get funded and do not get built. That is not evidence that we lack the ability to build them. We absolutely have both the ancient Egyptian techniques that were effectively used at the time AND more advanced and efficient techniques available if anyone were willing to commit the funds and labor. We could build a pyramid on the moon if we really wanted to, we absolutely have the capability and technology, we simply lack public interest and invest our resources and labor into different things.
The stones are absolutely very heavy, which is why the feat is very impressive. They were transported from the Aswan quarry almost entirely by boat, where the water of the Nile does most of the work for you. This process was well documented.
The ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramids as prestigious ceremonial monuments to their god-kings. The construction processes used and their intended purpose are meticulously documented, they are literally written and painted all over the walls, which is why we know in such detail how these structures were built, along with comparative historical and archaeological record from related sites.
Dismissing the spectacular cultural accomplishments of the indigenous Egyptian people simply because they seem "too difficult"... and assuming they must cheated and their documentation is simply untrue... and making up a story to explain how someone else must have built them or given them power tools or something... is not unlike having a student in your class who aces a test, who thoroughly documented their process of completing the test legitimately, and you STILL accuse them of cheating or plagiarizing because you have a hunch that they just aren't smart enough to have aced the test. This is not a judgment based on new evidence, it is a judgment based on selective dismissal of existing evidence and historical record due to a bias, which is not really how we do science.
How can 3 people be so smart and yet so dumb?
Loved watching this, I have seen Sarah in a few different documentaries over the years, using remote sensing technologies for analysis in different places. Absolutely fascinating to my techie brained self.
What a fantastic guest. Great interview.
I'm dumbfounded by the amount of people actually giving credit to aliens for building pyramids. Was I the only one having ancient egypt in school?
Fun fact There are Pyramids in South Africa🇿🇦
And Sudan
All over the world. Pyramids are the first structures that are simple to construct that represent religious beliefs that we came from the sky, so they represent mountains which point to the sky. Later Christians built churches with tall steples for the same reason. It is that simple.
Yeah but those were built by aliens. If you aint white, then it was the aliens 😂😂
West Africa also...
@@PeterWetherillno, it's not. But a decent try.
It's not our job to prove their crazy theories wrong. It's their job to prove themselves right. Since they can't, this video is unnecessary 😂
The intro may have made it seem as if the whole video was about debunking alien theories, but that was only a few minutes, after Chuck joked, "it was all put there by aliens!" She's an expert in mapping archaeological sites with satellites, planes, and drones.
@EinsteinsHair fair enough, but simply acknowledging wild theories can give them credibility. Especially when it's done with some of the most reputable and famous scientists in the world. ✌️
@@EinsteinsHairbut it was entertaining.
Look at the bots!!!
I was with her until the pyramid explanation. The question is not just stacking stone, the question is about the number of stones, the size of stones, and distance traveled with stones
Also the pyramids are not tombs. There has not been a mummy found in them
@@zackwilloughby9185you would think they would have found evidence of mummified servants numbering in the hundreds if not thousands in the great pyramid.
Ummm yes they are tombs.... wtf are you on about? You dummies watch one documentary and then just parrot the same nonsenses
@@zackwilloughby9185 That's because mummies have always been a valuable commodity. But what you said is not actually true anyways because there have been lots of mummified remains found in pieces.
@@Bleys001 Not if you knew anything about mummies.
Nerds rule.
Virgins rule…. 😂
Great podcast, thank you. I have a renewed curiosity in archeology now.
Taking Aerial Reconnaissance ... to ANOTHER LEVEL. *bows gracefully*
Cannot imagine the excitement of finding royal viking relics in my garden for years. ❤
Really fun to listen Sara. Thanks!
Excellent video and guest (Sarah). A lot that I didn't know. Thanks.
Because of this, I intend to buy her earlier book. The summary at the end given by Tyson is wonderful! I intend to keep that in my mind!
I see this type of sense of humor is up my alley. She said “my husband is upstairs and he can confirm that I get around” 😂😂😂😂
Another terrific meeting if minds. Thank you, Dr. Neil!!!😊
28:17 So Chuck is asking: How is it possible that you have people living in a city, and there happens to be a complete city underneath, when there has always been people living there?
28:43 He offers here an (on purpose absurd) example of a not really possible explanation, where a civilization just decided to bury their city and build anew, on top of the old one.
Then he goes into offering a more plausible explanation: "Was it a tragedy?". I think here, he brilliantly illustrated what his actual question is about.
And, of course, there have been instances were it was indeed a tragedy: The whole city suffered a catastrophe, ended buried and, many years afterwards, the place got populated again.
But he is asking about the other scenario: When, like Neil was saying, we are talking about a city that has ALWAYS been there (26:55) and then it turns out there happens to be city buried beneath them. "What happened?" he asked.
I think he didn't actually get a proper answer to his question; and I think it's a really good question.