i'm a pyramid denier. they're actually domes, and what we see is just the low poly model used to save rendering costs when the main characters aren't around.
i live near lovelock cave, and i am SO FUCKING SICK of the giant theories, man. this area has some of the most well preserved native culture, and we're lucky enough that the local paiute tribes enjoy teaching about their history, and _no one fucking listens to them._ they just want giants
I hope the tribes get a part of the tourism money from those mooks. Nothing better than teaching with passion and someone spent thousands of dollars to come to your lecture/country for OMGIANTS that some Tiktok scammer told them existed and you get to watch them be terribly disappointed. There's gotta be some satisfying catharsis in that as a tribal history lecturer watching their faces fall when they realize they're in for AN ACTUAL HISTORICAL LESSON. XD
Yeah this actual history is real fascinating and all, but see this wendigoon fella wants there to be half-angel giant people really badly so that he can convince himself the bible is literal. Sorry native people, but a weirdo and his followers have to gaslight themselves and your actual history is kinda inconvenient for that. The needs of the cranks outweigh the needs of actual archeology I guess.
Wow that must be an awesome site to live in proximity too. I would love to do a video there and be able to work with members of the Paiute community to share there stories on the channel rather than letting these clowns suck up all the air in the room
I literally keep accidentally building pyramids while stocking shelves at work it’s such a simple shape even round products stay in a pretty solid pyramid
Oh, small note, I have visited Egypt exactly once. The soil is, unsurprisingly, rather sandy in large parts. (Also a lot of clay, which whilst difficult to work, is stable.) Sandy soil is...a lot easier to pull sleds and slide other objects on. (You can move heavy rocks super easily on hard ground by ecattering sand under them, that's a trick still used today.)
Psudohistorians don't understand that cultures are literally changing constantly. Culture is evolving right now and has been since culture exsisted. Every single time an event occurs that affects more than one person, culture is changed to some extent. So weird that people think it was so static
I’m an art student, and one of the conspiracy theories that annoys me the most is “giants are real because this large figure in this piece must be literally 15 feet tall!” Like, one of the first things you learn in art history is the “hierarchy of scale.” Why is this guy so much bigger than everyone else in this composition? Because he’s the fucking pharaoh, so he’s the most important guy here.
Literally learned this in my first art history class. "They knew how big cows were, but this guy wanted us to know his cows were even bigger than a regular cow, and much more valuable as a result". Simplest form of propaganda.
The "precision argument" drives me nuts. Lasers weren't invented until 1960. We had already invented trains, cars, and airplanes at that point. Computers existed. How incompetent does this guy and his followers think humans were before the 21st century? Oh, how could people ever create precise structures before modern magic?
the best handsaw in the world could barely make a dent in the 1 ton rock they used, even we can't recreate the pyramid with our current technology, so how can the dumb and primitive ancient egyptian?
My 1 year-old nephew was playing with some alphabet blocks. He arranged some in a stacked formation. I then saw on social media my cousin posting pictures of his young child stacking blocks IN THE SAME WAY. Clearly, the babies are communicating with some ancient form of telepathy adults cannot perceive.
@Lohi42 Nah, I've got my third eye open, so I know it's actually Bill Gates working with the lizard people to breed a new species to undermine humanity
This is clear evidence of reincarnation as the children still have remedial memories of their past lives as construction workers on monumental buildings before they were unfortunately abducted and sacrificed by devotees of Zorp the Surveyor (may His passing cleanse the world).
As someone who got lost in this video from 2:30am-4:30am, I have to say it was highly entertaining... but the ending was beautiful. I severely hope to see more people take the same stance of "yeah dunking on someone for adopting a poor or misinformed idea is funny, but... we as people can and will be and do better" simply because there's something very fulfilling with going from comedic laughter to heart-warming hope to see a fellow man learn and overcome himself.
I'm a stonemason, and this whole "That could only be done with modern technology" is so fucking hilarious. I use modern tools and machines a lot, but when I started my apprenticeship, I first learned how to do everything with noting but hammer and chisel. This shit is like saying "How did people get anywhere before we had cars?"
This has the same energy as someone saying “How come every new Minecraft player makes their first house out of dirt/cobblestone/wood” Because it’s the most readily available materials “Why do they all look similar” Because a rectangle is the easiest structure to build in a block game
'How do they all know what a phallus looks like, and always make it out of gold or diamond?!? In this video essay I'll tell you how Herobrine is secretly telling them how-"
@@gratuitouslurking8610I tended to make mine out of dirt... The explanation to that is: Only metal phallusus tend to survive through time and not disintegrate back into dirt or be mistaken for naturally generated
@@gratuitouslurking8610 "in ancient times, the inhabitants of Minecraft used to find monolithic E's made from a glowing stone, purportedly made by Herobrine. However, in recent times, sightings of these statues have drastically decreased. In this video essay I'll tell you how the secret government has secretly been cracking down on Herobrine-related activities-"
My ex’s brother came to visit us one winter. We lived on a top of a mountain in the Poconos, Pa and he was coming from the Jersey Shore. He came with a bag full of shorts and tank tops. Nary a coat in sight. When I asked him why he packed for a Florida vacation to visit a mountain…in the Poconos…in the middle of winter….his answer was: “Well you live up here on top of the mountain so it’s closer to the sun. It should be warmer up here than the beach.” This was a 29yo grown man with a job and car and apartment. And I felt EXACTLY like how you looked when the “giants cut down the giant trees and those mountains are stumps” line was uttered. The look and feel of absolute despair at the enormous stupidity right in front of us. A kind of awe inspiring stupidity.
Hey, physicist here, and I wanted to clarify that the power plant physics is also complete nonsense. Like, it just straight up doesn't mean anything - a "crystal edifice [that] created a harmonic resonance with the earth and converted earth's vibrational energies to microwave radiation" does not refer to a thing that could exist. Here's what goes through my head as I try to parse it: 1) a "crystal edifice". Hmm. Edifice is a weird choice of words, but it's fine. In the context of energy generation and vibrations, this could plausibly be referring to a piezoelectric crystal. I happen to remember that quartz is one of those, and you mentioned quartz. Seems like it's probably one of the topics involved. Piezoelectricity is a really cool phenomenon where certain crystals, if subjected to pressure differences (e.g., they're pressed on, or exposed to sound waves) gain a voltage differential (become little batteries). It can also happen in reverse - this is the premise behind crystal oscillators, which are used in all kinds of cool stuff, including watches and radios. And get this - they even use quartz a lot of the time, because it's good at the job and easy to find. You should check it out if you think quartz is cool! Anyway, it sounds like we're talking about a crystal that would convert vibrations into electrical energy. 2) "[that] created a harmonic resonance with the earth" okay... that doesn't mean anything. A "harmonic" resonance is one with multiple harmonies. Any given vibration has a frequency, which describes how quickly it oscillates - how many times per second it returns to the same position, or pressure, or any other value. A harmony of some frequency is an integer multiple of that frequency, so if the fundamental frequency is 10 times/second, then the first harmony is 20 times/second, the second harmony is 30 times/second, and so on. Now, a resonance is a frequency favored by the geometry of the thing oscillating. Certain shapes and lengths and materials and so on will naturally encourage certain frequencies, while causing others to die down. For example, a wave trapped in a pipe which is about as long as that pipe will be significantly more stable than waves which are a little bit longer or shorter, so it will end up lasting a lot longer, because it loses less of its energy each time it bounces back and forth. You should look up "timbre" if you think this concept is cool! Maybe you'll even make an entirely new instrument that can create sounds no one has ever thought of before, or get really into synthesizers! So a harmonic resonance just refers to multiple harmonies resonating in the same geometry. Almost all resonances are harmonic, because the harmonies of a given frequency usually behave a lot like that frequency itself, but the use of the phrase could just be some clunky prose. The part that really throws me off is "with the earth", because it implies that the earth is also oscillating at that resonant frequency. The word for a wave traveling through the earth is a seismic wave, or colloquially, an earthquake. If the earth's resonant frequencies could be excited at that sort of energy scale, we would expect to feel earthquakes many times over as they travel around the globe again and again, but we don't. We're also told that the crystal edifice created this resonance, so it must be the thing driving the earth's motion. Put another way, that means this crystal edifice would be sending out seismic waves with more energy than earthquakes, constantly. Ignoring whether that's a reasonable amount of energy (there's a great xkcd on the richter scale), that also seems like a pretty dangerous sort of power generation. On the other hand, if you think seismic waves are cool, there's a whole world waiting for you to explore it! It's really amazing what we can figure out about the composition of the earth just by measuring how seismic waves change at different points along the surface. 3) "and converted earth's vibrational energies to microwave radiation". Earth does not have vibrational energies. Earth does have Schumann Resonances, an incredibly cool magnetohydrodynamic effect (google that one), but they don't store very much energy and they're also light waves, not acoustic ones. Again, the word for when the Earth is vibrating is an earthquake, and we have a fairly good detection network (our feet) for when they're occurring. But you should absolutely look into atmospheric and earth sciences if you think this stuff is cool, the real world is so fascinating. It also does not make sense for this crystal to convert energy into microwave radiation, but 4) this part is one of my favorites. The Nikola Tesla connection is legitimate: later in his life, he was fascinated by the idea that we could create, and then recapture, microwaves to transmit energy wirelessly. The basic idea is sound: the atmosphere doesn't interfere with microwave radiation, so if we could create and capture them with high efficiency, we might have a more efficient energy transport mechanism than stringing wires everywhere. I really love this concept, and I still think it could, some day, maybe go somewhere. If you think it sounds cool too, maybe you could help try to make it a reality! There really is a space for amateurs in physics, as much as the field can seem uninviting. Piezoelectricity, however, does not produce light. One of my favorite things about science is that it's willing to tell you that you're wrong. In conspiracy thought, your theory never gets proven wrong, it just becomes more and more tenuously connected to the truth forever, or until you get bored of it and jump to something else. A slow rotting of the idea, of every idea, until the pretense that it was ever believed in at all can finally be shrugged aside. There's no tension to coming up with an idea, no thrill that this might finally be the one, and no great excitement that it really is, and you've bested the problem laid out before you. Just the dull foreknowledge that you're already right, no matter what, forever. The best part of science is the opportunity to discover something that no one else has ever thought of before, and to have the entire universe agree with you that you really did figure it out. Come explore with me : ). To the video author, I imagine you have dozens of comments about this, and I'm sorry to add to the pile. I hope I've contributed something unique. Best of luck to you, anthropology gang forever.
Thank for for the science! Remember the "harmonic convergence" that was supposed to happen in the sky some decades ago? Harmonic is definitely a word that doesn't mean what people thinks it means.
The idea that I could dial my microwave into someone else's microwave and I guess burn their frozen dinner sounds like a prank in a sci-fi comedy lol, but being serious for a second, I'd be worried about containing the energy, for it to be useful we'd be sending enough energy through the air to potentially boil a human, or at least heat them rapidly. I'm fine if we don't pursue this one, Nikola was already known for wanting to build a death ray, and I feel like this is how you build a death ray
"Modern humans are incapable of building a pyramid" crowd really tries hard to ignore the Wonder of the 20th century that is the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid in Memphis
I swear, half of these "ancient aliens" theories are literally just "I can't fathom someone spending more than a second thinking about what they're going to do before they do it"
And not just any someone, non Europeans specifically. No one ever questioned how the catholic chapels were built, but the moment some indigenous people started pile rocks in a different continent it's suddenly marvels that can only be built by aliens
Bugs have wings. Birds have wings. Bats have wings. We have fossils of lizards with wings. You really want me to believe that all of these animals have just independently evolved the ability to fly all without a jet engine or propeller?
the way conspiracy theorists talk about ancient egypt is sort of like if someone took a preserved medieval manor house and compared it to townhouses built in the thatcher era and said "they SAY the british built both of these, so why do they look so different? dont believe everything mainstream architecture tries to tell you."
@@alexc3504They're nothing alike. Conspiracy Theorists never try and claim European architecture was made by aliens. It's basically just thinly veiled racism.
If only people did this. It would be hilarious. It would also be a great way to point out how bad home design has gotten, some things like manufactured homes are crimes. The fact we have homes that are centuries old, then houses designed to crumble away in a generation is disgusting to me.
this dude could be making videos about how there aren’t a lot of mummies because people ATE THEM and MADE THEM INTO PAINT and instead he’s being confused about how people used to move big rocks 😭
Goes to show you that humans as a whole aren't really that different, through the ages. we'll always be doing dumb crap. That future generations will look back on and say "why the hell would they do/think that"?
Except that that's also sort of an overexaggerated factoid that isn't really accurate. There were SOME people who ate mummies, but most of the ones sold were by opportunists making new mummies out of animal corpses. There were most likely very few ancient human mummies that actually made it into people's digestive systems. (This is off the top of my head, feel free to correct anything I have wrong)
Carpenter here. Don’t know if Philip knows this but modern day levels… have water in them. Plumb can be found with a weight and a string. With those two tools you can then find any angle. Further once you find level or plumb at two ends of the site you just transfer that with a string line. If you go to any job site where huge custom homes are being stick framed or timber framed… there’s no laser levels being used. It’s string lines. To this day. Right now I’m working on a door and some post casings. I use chisels, pull saws, hand plane, table saws, miter saws, circular saws… modern day craftsmen use old and new technology. When it comes to lifting and moving, it’s called levers and fulcrums. A single person can move thousands of pounds. Philip would be trying to torque down head bolts with a 1/4” wrench and say it’s impossible and then a child puts a 1/2” wrench that’s 5 times longer on the bolt and they torque it down with one hand.
your first mistake was assuming filip has literally ever done a productive task with his hands in his life. tbh the way he talks he may have never even observed one second hand, since just driving by a construction sight would reveal to him the alien technology of stacking things in pyramids or using a nail on a string to make perfectly square doorframes
I wouldn't say his brain is open at all. It is pretty closed off to any actual intellectual rigor. And he isnt't doing this so much out of curiosity but as a grift for clicks
As Darleer said, this isn't open mindedness, it's quite the opposite. I don't think it's just for clicks though, many people genuinely believe stuff like this. He's really just biased towards what sounds more appealing to him. That's super common.
@@mhm77887 Yeah being open minded would mean he'd say this but also accept milos videos as well, he's not being open minded becuase he's not even bothering to try and accept other view points
I love that this dude simultaneously believes that the Great Pyramid is so impressive that it couldn't be built by people while it is also so unimpressive that there's no way a king could've been buried in it.
He’s so stupid, capstones that had gold on them and limestone covering pyramids existed, but guess what? Over TIME stuff withers so it doesn’t look the exact same 1,000 years later. It would’ve looked way more impressive in its heyday visually
@@jiraffe9600 Nah if you look at how these conspiracy theorist type people talk and interact, they don't fully rationalize what they believe in or theorize.
Many if not most surviving cuneiform tablets come from the library of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, who was basically an archaeologist who collected as many ancient texts as he could find.
So it's like a thousand years from now, someone studying ancient France and finding a the remains of the work of a 20th century historian who did the majority of her research on Charlemagne and assuming she was his scribe since they both lived at basically the same time.
I dream of a world where Filip just turns to TH-cam and says "yo, it was all bullshit, I was doing it for the views" and starts making quality educational content about ancient history or archeology and they become friends with Milo and it all ends like a movie
Reframing his tiktok channel as a gotcha experiment would absolute genius PR. He could own his audiência for being "sheeple" and get himself back on the track of his first video
As an artist, it's always weird when conspiracies hinge on "they had to all know each other/seen some unknown thing to come up with this stuff" meanwhile artists are constantly, and accidentally, stepping on each others toes all the time because it's just natural for us as humans to come up with the same stuff (and this is without making that window of chance thousands of years big)
Also there was just.. less stuff. Like if all you had was nature and oral tradition the art you create is going to be similar! They didn't have thousands of books to read or shows to watch. When kids learn to draw they normally have a few basic things. Nature, people and home. Life is simpler.
We see this al the time in music too! Something becomes a hit, and then someone is suing them because it sounds too similar to their own property. When in reality it's litterly just a coincidence. People have always liked things that are pleasing to the eye and ergonomic. It's just our nature. Have fewer materials and a massive time period, and you'll get similar stuff like you said.
That original video of Filip talking about stardust is actually kind of heartbreaking. There's a palpable sense of passion and sincerity that, as so often happens, got trampled by audience capture and The Algorithm™. It reminds me of the science and history TV channels of my childhood, which slowly got bastardized by corporate motives as time went on.
My thoughts exactly. Filip could use his platform for the things that make him happy, REAL things that could make his audience happy too, but he doesn’t.
I watched the discovery channel back when it was all nature documentaries before the biker phase. I then moved to the history channel when it was all ww2 documentaries, then came the ancient aliens. Now I just googldebunk
@@Nakahat01 Discovery Channel and History Channel nurtured a lot of curious young minds like mine back in the day. Now they just peddle bullshit for money. Really sad to see.
Occassionally they would think on it. Get annoyed that commission was cancelled halfway through and they had to get another commission lined up before his Mum reminded him about his cousin who makes bank as a plumber.
How about "the guy who ordered the piece has actually never send the money he was supposed to send so i dropped the project halfway done, called that a sunk cost, and went on doing other stuff"
30:26 “Here’s a clip showing that a pick-up truck can’t handle a 1 ton rock, but please ignore the other vehicle that is having no problem lifting it into the truck”
I hate the word primitive because of how much it dehumanizes people that are literally just like us. There's medieval parchment of a little kid drawing himself as a knight on the edges as he practiced writing. There's graffiti in Pompeii of people writing their names+ their girlfriend and saying "Polonius is a dick". There's Egyptian hyroglyph graffiti in the great toombs of tourists complaining about not being able to read the even more ancient hyroglyphs. There's uniform tablets from ancient mesopotamia of customer complaints for a copper merchant that scammed them. A lot of these conspiracy theorists seem to think that a people where only capable of speak, reason and empathy after the reneissance and could not have possibly been exactly the same type of humans as us now.
I always tear up at the Roman inscription where a guy buried his favorite dog and left a message to the future just to say: she was a good dog and I loved her.
@@Keenath Humans being human is amazing, i hate conspiracy theorists because they can't fathom the beauty of humanity, the marvel that is their anchient minds figuring out complex problems and passing that knowlage down to their children and their grandchildren and so on so forth
30:00 the blanket term "ancient egypt" being used like this is so confusing to me because itd be like people looking at us now like "why arent they wearing the common clothing of the 1800s?". 1500 years is SUCH a long time for cultures to change. Like the 1920s was only 100 years ago, and things are wildly different now.
I'm a teacher and I send my high school students to your channel when I hear them talking about TikTok consipiricies. They may not listen to me, but they listen to you.
Honestly, it's a really smart application of a principle that St. Paul talks about in the context of evangelization. If you're trying to convince people of something, you've got to meet then where they're at. You have to speak their language. As he says, "be all things to all men." If you're talking to someone who's into conspiracy theories dipped in Gen Z sarcasm and snark, give them a guy who uses the same cultural idioms, but is actually conveying truth.
That's really cool of you! My dad believes everything he sees on ancient aliens...I think he may be too far down the rabbit hole to be saved at this point
A point about "Ancient Giants" we don't mention enough is that MASSIVE HUMANS DON'T WORK IN EARTH GRAVITY. Robert Wadlow, the tallest man in recorded history (8'11"), couldn't even walk unaided; people over 7' have a tendency to die very, very young from heart problems. There are reasons we're roughly the size we are, just as there are reasons that elephants don't prance around on their hind legs. If there were giants with humanoid proportions, what kept them upright? Did they all have anti-gravity belts like Baron Harkonnen? How would an 18-foot-tall man, with a mass around 27 times as great as a regular human (and requiring 27 times as much oxygen), manage to take in enough air through nostrils and a mouth that are only 9 times the size in cross-section? Did they have disproportionately massive faces that were mostly nose-hole, and if so, why didn't ancient cultures draw them that way? GAAH.
Exactly what I think of whenever people start discussing giants. Like, not only is giant-believers evidence bad, it is literally biologically impossible without some massive morphological changes for there to be giant humans.
The cyclops actually didn't have a massive eye, that was their nostril. This is also why they were dumber than normal, as the nostril took up a portion of the area where our frontal cortex is.
a drop of water in the river with over 15k comments and unlikely to be seen but this was phenomenal. The debunking, the positive ending, it's inspiration and that's pure gold in my book. Massive hugs from a fellow historian.
That first video of his is just... so beautiful. I mean, it's not new to me personally (I've heard the "you are _literally_ made of stardust" bit before), but it never gets old. To see someone bridge the gaps between science, philosophy, and the human experience via that "metaphor" - using hard facts and verifiable reality to say something so amazing and profound and emotional and _true_ - only to start tearing down those bridges to replace them with lies and paranoia... it's deeply depressing. I see he made a response, and that you made a response as well, so I'm gonna go straight into it. I'm really hoping he learned his lesson, but given that it's also an hour long, those hopes aren't very high.
I work in manufacturing. Believe it or not, the cornerstone of high precision manufacturing remains, to this day, taking some rocks, throwing an abrasive between them, and rubbing them together. It's called the 3-plates method, and it's more than capable of producing granite slabs that are within a thousandth of an inch of perfectly flat, roughly the thickness of a human hair.
Thank you for sharing this! It's cool to know that one of the first ways we figured out to do something precisely is still the best way to do it. I assume we just figured out more efficient and technical ways to implement it.
@@clockworktri Yeah. Specifically, the three plate method is the best way to get precision from nothing. Meaning it's a method that is capable, with sufficient time and effort, of producing 3 extremely high precision reference planes for measurement without needing to already have calibrated precision equipment. Most surface plates you would buy aren't made with this method, but manufacturing them in other ways requires already calibrated equipment. In general, anything made by some machine reaches at best the same level of precision that the machine has already been measured against and calibrated to. In practice, the end results are usually not as precise as the components that went into the machine that made them. The three plate method is one of only a few things that can get a more precise end result than you already had before doing it.
@@sawyerblossom7244 Most of the machine shop work I have done would consider 1/100th of an inch to be "semi-precision" or "low precision" but it depends on the type of manufacturing being done. I've been working on moving into extremely high precision tool making, where a lot of measurements would be made to a few "tenths" aka a tenth of a thousandth of an inch.
That’s an excellent piece of expertise! Something I forgot to throw in is how lasers would be an objectively terrible tool to cut stone with. Your point that abrasive can produce such precision results is another great point in this discussion. There seems to be a misunderstanding that more “simple” methods produce more crude results 100% of the time.
The stardust video at the very end was absolutely lovely, and accurate-ish enough that I (a nerd who loves the periodic table passionately) have no corrects to add. The way he speaks in the video is drastically different, and he sounds sweet. I would actually really like content like that.
Gotta love how Filip's argument against the Pyramids being tombs is "we didn't find remains or treasures in there." As if, over the course of thousands of years, nobody discovered the pyramids. _Especially_ not tomb robbers, treasure hunters, desperate thieves, and/or the _British._
@@katesclabassi3857 and don't forget to buy mummy brown for painting. But yes, most tombs were raided in ancient times. There was never a chance for any treasures to remain.
A compilation of trucks failing to haul rocks as proof that it's impossible is like putting together a bunch of videos of waiters falling and dropping trays and being like "see? food is impossible."
The ancient french put all the courses on the table at once. We couldn't do that with modern tech, our waiters couldn't carry all that food and our tables aren't big enough. The ancient french obviously had robotic waiters and quantum hyper-tables.
This guy was already driving me nuts. But as a biology major, him saying “the bones were given to a dinosaur species called a sauropod. It’s convenient that they made a dinosaur for these” really drive me up the wall.
Just for clarification, that pyramid power plant book is wrong about the engineering and physics as well as the archeology. The hypothesis it proposes about quartz being used in electronics is half true, but would never work with a quartz aggregate rock. That's like expecting to be able to make a circuit board out of sandstone. Quartz itself is also an extremely poor conductor when compared to basically any metal. What it can be used for is a piezoelectric device, meaning that it expands when you apply a current to it, and pressing it together can also produce a slight current. This is completely useless for power generation outside of extremely low power microelectronics, but it does make it useful as an extremely fast and precise electronic clock. If you feed electricity into it the right way, it'll produce physical and electrical vibrations in return, and those vibrations are dependent on the resonant frequency of the crystal. It's the same as rubbing your finger on a glass to make it sing. This is what the author book thinks the pyramid is doing, except he thinks the earth itself is somehow the 'finger', and that this can somehow create useful amounts of power. It can't, and even if it could, you'd need a pyramid sized quartz crystal without any imperfections, not a giant pile of sandstone with a small amount of granite buried inside of it. Honestly the biggest issue though is that the earth doesn't have any kind of "harmonic frequency" of it's own, and even Tesla didn't believe it did. He thought long distance wireless power transfer was possible for different (and also wrong) reasons. The idea of "natural frequencies" is a later invention by new-age religious groups who attached spiritual significance to crystals, combined with a distorted version of the physics behind crystal radio receivers. Crystal radio receivers do use quartz and they do receive a small amount of electrical energy from radio waves, but the crystal itself is only there to act as a rectifier, which is basically a fancy way of saying it could decode the sound waves that were encoded into radio. The thing that actually turned the radio waves into electricity was an antenna, made out of copper, which the pyramids pretty clearly lack.
A small thing about the bs about "natural harmonic resonance frequencies", I have no way to prove this, but I think the origin of confusion about this came from incredibly modern radio signals (which can be used to produce extremely small amounts of power like just enough to make your radio work), and for some reason people think that always existed on earth.
I like how there’s somehow an assumption that not only did the Great Pyramid constructors know the metric system and speed of light, they just also happened to know that the future populace was going to establish Greenwich as the prime meridian.
Nah, it was latitude. Which means they had to know the equator as the middle line AND use base 90 measurements for degrees. While keeping base 10 for the rest of the measurements ... like we do today. But WE have the nice reason of it being historical. His "fact" was merely hysterical.
*the speed of light in a vacuum it is likely that ancient egypts had idead about air pressure i don't believe they have created near perfect vacuums so they can measure the speed of light in there
@@inerkatakan8161 No, but see, they would have had to be able to create a vacuum so the filament in the Dendera lightbulb wouldn't just burn through... XD
@@CrazyDruidCaell There's also the issue that the Egyptians didn't use degrees to measure angles, they used the length of the base of a right triangle to measure angles and they measured that length using palms and fingers. I mean degrees as a measuring system is basically entirely a historical coincidence and is really not a particularly obvious way to measure angles.
When you mention that there aren't stupid people, just people with different education, it really sits with me. I recall something from my school days that baffled me, where a teacher failed in their job (in my personal opinion). A classmate of mine switched schools for a short period, to try her chances there. This was an older school and could give her better chances in finding a job later, due to their good reputation. This incident was one of the reasons she quickly came back. As in, after only a week or two. We had already recently gone over the subject in our own class. And our amazing teacher had let us know that there were several schools on that particular subject. Meaning that we cannot say, without doubt, that one is right and all others wrong. She mentioned multiple areas where people disagree, and why. Whilst also showing us how she saw it. The whole thing had to do with how we classify animals into different groups. Where an example was that some group elephants together with other similar animals, whilst others claim that elephants should be in their very own group. This is only one example, but one of the most common disagreements on that subject. This new teacher showed the groupings they supported, and when my classmate pointed out some of the other ways which one could view it, she was told that she was wrong, for any other way to view this was false beyond doubt. That is how conspiracists work. Pointing out that others are wrong, but having no way to back it up. Real science is open for re-learning things. For debunking itself. But it takes actual evidence and research to get there.
"Wow, that's a good sound bite. 'Slaves, bro, they had slaves, bro.' I don't know what house he was in, but his brothers didn't haze him enough." is a perfect line holy moly
The worst thing for me about all of this is the kind of racist undertones. Like, "look at all these idiots, these simpletons, these unintelligent, these underevolved" and everyone he speaks of are African natives, a few Mediteranians, Middle Easter, and Native American (south and north) yet nothing about the old monuments we have here in Europe, like the giant art in Britain, some of which dates back to 700 CE, the Stonehenge, the Temple of Zeus, the Parthenon, etc., it's giving me some bad vibes. Also, can't help but notice that when they do bring up Asians, it's almost always Indians and South East Asians. Never the Chinese or the like. And something that really tics me off is that he cites "logistics" a few times through out his videos, but it's also very clear he doesn't know what "logistics" entail. I struggle to fathom how so many of these people seem to just be unable to believe that there where more than a hundred of these ancient people in any place at a time, Egypt is estimated to have had somewhere between 2 to 3 million people at the time of the Old Kingdom, ait's believed that the city of Rome alone, during the Roman Empire, had more than a million people in it, around the first century CE! Are they really so cynical and isolated they can't fathom thousands of people being co-ordinated to accomplish increadible feats, like building massive buildings? Ever heard of wars? One thing I can tell for sure though. Whether these conspiracy peddlers believe their bull or not, none of them would survive a day in the wild.
I find it very strange when people seem unable to believe that humans could figure out how to create cities and pyramids without modern technology. It's like: you do know that they could work around those issues with the tools they had? People were intelligent in the past and even had to be more so considering they didn't have half the technology we have now. Plus, there were clearly large cities and kingdoms that rulers could utilize for labour for their projects. It wasn't like humans only lived in small villages. Egypt, being one of the oldest countries in the world, was (and still is) a major centre of trade in the Mediterranean. It would have attracted a large population in the major cities.
i noticed the same thing ten minutes or so into the discussion of his videos from the first part of this video. its so disgusting to me and i'm glad someone else noticed it too.
@@mish375 Yeah, there seems to be this sentiment that we are somehow more intelligent now than we were before. We're not. We're more knowledgeable, but that's different. We have vastly more information and knowledge than in the past so we have that to our advantage, but our capacity for intelligence hasn't increased since we became the modern human. And we've been that for some odd 100 thousand years now.
Racism seems to be baked into the foundation of pseudo-archeology. The medium is predicated on the idea that an ancient race of superbeings built every remarkable structure that is attributed to cultures which were/are not eurocentric. Given the history of white supremacy in the fields of archeology and anthropology, the whole thing leaves quite a bad taste.
Racism seems to be baked into the foundation of pseudo-archeology. The medium is predicated on the idea that an ancient race of superbeings built every remarkable structure that is attributed to cultures which were/are not eurocentric, and the biggest figures in the field are old white men who routinely display a lack of respect for the accredited people's. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Sincerely, a white guy.
I’m a paleontologist who specializes in dinosaurs and specifically has worked on sauropod femurs: it’s so fucking obviously a sauropod femur. Why can’t it be cool enough that it’s a massive leg from a dinosaur Edit to add: ground sloths are so cool too!!! Why can’t that be cool enough??? Why is it only interesting to him if it’s a giant???
I live in NC, and at the Museum of Natural History in Raleigh they have a life-size recreation of a giant ground sloth that was endemic to this area. (Or, at least, they had one last time I was there.) They're huge with claws that look like they could sever my neck with one swipe and I sure as hell wouldn't want to get anywhere closer than a football field, given the rule that large herbivores are _vastly_ more homicidal than large carnivores. (Seriously, look at what animals kill the most humans.)
I showed the giant ground sloth remains picture to my younger brother, and he isn't uneducated in this stuff (mainly because the rest of my family love it), he is not very interested in paleontology, or archeology or anything of the like. I asked him "Is this a giant human skeleton", and he laughed as he said "no". When I asked what he thought it was, he said bear, which is fair enough, but a bear skeleton looks even more like a large human than the sloth.
@@Serenity_Dee There are more herbivores than carnivores. Are you sure that on average they are more homicidal? It's a tall claim, considering that herbivores outnumber carnivores by about 10 to 1. My cursory research shows that hippos kill people about twice as often a year as lions. But hippos outnumber lions by 5 to 1. Making lions 2.5 times as "homicidal" as hippos.
@@JeffreyOllerhippos moose herbivores that are considered more dangerous than many of the Predators, I don't remember off hand what the term actually is called by essentially. These are urban wars that they're main. Defensive tactic is to be super aggressive, as most predators won't usually waste their time on a prey animal that is aggressive, mostly just because predators don't generally adapt super well and those are both very large animals that can do it. Is on a damage
@@JeffreyOller Carnivores save their energy for hunting. Large herbivores like rhinos, hippos, water buffalo, American bison, moose, elephants, and many more will charge first and ask questions later, sometimes because they have crappy eyesight and decide it's better to attack when in doubt (rhinos, American bison), sometimes (moose and elephants most notably) because mating hormones make them vastly more violent during that time of year, sometimes because they have a massive size and natural weaponry advantage (water buffalo, hippos) such that predators avoid healthy adults. For a carnivore, attacking is very risky: it consumes a lot of time, it burns calories (cheetahs are often riding the knife edge of starvation because their hunting strategy burns so much energy), and depending on your prey, there's a high risk of injury (see above). There are exceptions; for instance, if you can see the polar bear, it's already too late, and bears that normally avoid humans will rip you apart if they think you might threaten their cubs. Mountain lions are similar. The most deadly animals to humans are, in order, mosquitoes, humans, snakes, dogs, and then things like freshwater snails, assassin bugs, roundworms, and tapeworms. Crocodiles are the deadliest large predator by _far_, and they only kill about a thousand people a year.
As a child, I got a set of wooden blocks to play with (yes I am over 50) I soon learned that the best way to make a high structure was a pyramid, and it was even stronger if you cover the gap in the previouse layer with a block, so the joints did not align. Back in the day, shops used to stack tins of beans in a pyramid in the supermarket. When asked to "get me a tin of beans" I couldn't reach the ones at the top, so I took one from the bottom. (yes, sorry if you read this Asda employee from 50 years ago that was me)
We really gotta talk about how all babies around the world *just know* how to stack building blocks in a pyramid shape, even though they cannot communicate with each other over such long distances. How do they have access to such advanced building techniques?
Personally to me, the funniest aspect of the "coordinates of pyramid are equal to the speed of light" arguement is that the coordinate system used here was established in 1800s in England. If the Egyptians were to make their own coordinate system, the Pyramids would be close to...well, zero, because that would be the Egyptian center of the world.
I was thinking that! I do arch work using LiDAR and the amount of times my data gets messed up because of the HUNDREDS of different coordinate systems…
There's another problem, they're getting those coordinates by using degrees but the Egyptians didn't use degrees to measure angles they used an entirely different system that's actually kinda fascinating and really clever.
It's amusing that when people like that think about the speed of light constant, they forget how important the units of measurement are. It's particularly funny, because that number for the speed of light (c) is based on meters (per second squared). But while meters were first invented in the late 1700s, the modern definition of a meter is now technically based on the speed of light! So, it's a sort of weird self-referential thing lol
It's always very telling which conventions the conspiracy theorists assume to be inherent to the universe. Like a base-ten numbering system, co-ordinates starting at London, the modern English language
My favorite thing I've heard about Egypt is that "ancient Egypt" was around long enough they studied ancient Egypt like we would study there entire history
What's even crazier is that only refers to how we study the Ptolemaic Dynastry and "late Egypt" in general, the really old Egypt is an entirely different animal.
@@lilycreeper5246 thats unfortunate, did the stroke impair your ability to understand simple sentences or were you like that before your brain took a little break from recieving oxygen, lol.
@@lawrencecarter1954 Ahem, has your ability to lack a proper understanding of context in this situation at hand inhibiting your capability to see that individual clearly could not perceive the sentence as intended? Clearly an intelligent individual would have simply disregarded said comment and allowed access to properly written words onto your screen for the world to fully understand because I'm also confused what this comment is saying
I actively want Googledebunkers to end up in the dictionary fr. "The feeling of frustration when presented with someone so willfully ignorant and deluded that you know there is no hope of pulling them out of the hole they've dug for themselves."
man, seeing his first tiktok at the end made me really sad. you can literally see in his eyes how genuinely, wholeheartedly passionate he was about the topic. you can even see a shift in his attitude as he started making conspiracy videos, he went from using a soft voice and uplifting language to the current smug, lowkey aggressive attitude he has in his current videos. from "you my friend are a star" to "explain that, idiot googledebunkers!1!1!1!" like it's genuinely so sad to watch
No worries, he can be saved. That guy is still in there, he just got jaded by the video he cared for getting 100 likes while the next "aLiEnS"-BS video got 100k likes.
I only listened to the video, and even his voice. Hearing it so many times it was surreal to hear it change from smug facade to genuine excitement. It was really heartbreaking.
How to cut granite blocks, from a Donald Duck comic book, from memory: 1. Find a granite outcrop, remove soil or sand around it so that the part you want to cut is exposed. 2. Make holes in it in rows, with large iron spikes and mallets, for example. 3. Hammer in dry wedges that tightly fit the holes. 4. Water the wedges, the dry wood now expands, exerting enough force to cause continuous, deep cracks along the rows of wedges. 5. Use metal tools and abrasives, such as chisels and sandy water, to shape and smooth the now rough stone into a block. 6. Move the block around with wooden rollers and ropes.
@@meeapeea ah, I live in Europe and this was a random story in weekly/monthly format so it was probably by Italian, French or Dutch artist, whereas Barks and Rosa stories are regarded as classics and sold in their own collections.
Here in Finland we got Barks and Rosa stories in those weekly magazines as well. Usually they were divided between two or three weeks. Definitely sounds like something Don Rosa would do. Edit. And now I realized you are probably Finnish as well :D.
@@rishisaaptacha well, developmentally, maybe you're right, and stacking blocks is the first hobby. but all things considered I would bet that historically, the first human hobby was less about making buildings and more about making those babies and toddlers
It has layers because apparently some dumb people in the past tried injecting mercury in their blood because they believe it gives them immortality or superpowers. Some people ingested mercury because it has pharmaceutical applications.
Seeing his first video actually kills my heart. Knowing that he used to do education, but then switched to conspiracy because he liked the bigger number is the worst of the algorithm at work. It just makes me sad and makes me wonder how many people fell for the algorithm trap as well.
Totally, I feel like so many of us feel that way and I feel like it would be good if one of these comments got to the top of the comment section so that Filip sees it when he watches it. I and many others would totally root for him going back that educational content.
Reminder that the Algorithm isn't American either. There is no real reason for TikTok to reduce these videos, or take them down, when it doesn't directly affect their interests.
Dude that first video is so fcking cool. And true! One of my favorite astrophysics facts! (Granted, he probably got that from Neil DeGrasse Tyson, but still, what an amazing message to spread!)
It genuinely made me tear up - thinking about what we lost in potential. It does make me wonder though if we won't let 'bros' succeed as science communicators? Imagine if the bros felt as welcome and represented in science as they do in conspiracy
Infact china purposefully changes the algorithm based on nations, for example theirs heavily favours motivational and educational.things where as for the use. They favour dumb shit@DamienDarkside
I thoroughly enjoy watching your content and appreciate the realness you bring, I’ve watched hours and hours of these videos showing the great old mysteries and it often awakens a sense of curiosity and I most definitely used to believe a lot of these things blindly but much more from a place of, wouldn’t it be crazy cool if the pyramids were a power plant. I won’t claim to know much about these things, but what I do know something about is people and I find these things quite interesting from that perspective too, I really enjoyed watching these longer videos for the depth and thorough explanation, findings and discoveries within your field, I do see your frustration get the better of you and I wonder how it effects you mind over time, I know that I used to bad mouth people around me or online if I thought something about them, I would also feel entitled to do so out of a self righteous feeling of being right. however, when I look back on it I see the poison I was spreading both inside my inner world but also to the world around me. I also see someone who is kind hearted and genuinely wants the best for people and the world we share (not sure if it’s the wisdom of mama ganja, or the mushrooms speaking) but I see your understanding and feeling, I wonder how it makes you feel to call someone stupid, an idiot and so on and how you relate to those world. I really wish you all the best and please keep up the incredible work, it is greatly appreciated. I could talk for as long as you have into emotional and behavioral analysis but I will leave it for now here. Keep going brother.
All of the "giants are real" stuff has one central problem: NONE OF THE GIANTS ARE THE SAME SIZE. The totally-not-a-sloth is 23 feet tall, the giants in lovelock cave are nine feet tall, the petrified tree must have been cut down by a giant thousands of feet tall, and we're supposed to believe, what? There were hundreds of different species of giant? They just happened to vary that much?
Which brings up a better question. How would they possibly live? Get too big and we'll a your body would be too heavy to move. B your body would give out trying to pump blood. And C thinning air.
well i mean there are Stone Giants, Hill Giants, Fire Giants, Ice Giants, and Storm Giants...those are just the true giants and not giantkin like Goliaths and Firbolgs
My _favorite_ it the 'melted buildings' one because like, their 'evidence' is what looks like a melted pyramid (not _really)_ in the Grand Canyon right. But their theory on what melted it was a giant lightning strike that _created the Crand Canyon._ All of that is so stupid but like, guys, that doesn't even make _stupid_ sense.
ok, I'm a welder and i hate hearing these "it's so precise" bullshit arguments because I can fucking EYEBALL a thousandth of an inch gap in my material when I'm working. It's not hard, a couple months/years of practice and just about anyone with working eyesight can do it.
Lol exactly, if you get paid to be precise, it's not surprising when you learn how to be precise. It's like saying an author couldn't possibly describe an event, like, of course they could, they get paid to figure out how describe things in an interesting way
My craftsmanship level is at -3 and even I can hold up a frame at the wall and see if it is straight or not. Just today I did that and when my wife used the spirit level to check it was perfect. If I can do that, I'm sure professional craftsman like you and the guys back in the olden days could eyeball things even more precise than I ever could.
I think the underlying problem (besides all the patronising shtick about how primitive everyone was and how the evidence that they weren't must be proof of aliens or whatever) really is that a lot of people, especially younger ones, just find it really hard to conceive of work being done this way. I sound like an old fart when I say it, but I've seen the videos they've seen, where how a thing is made is compressed down into "Take thing, dip it in thing, wait 30 seconds, and it comes out as a different thing, everyone claps!" I can imagine it being hard for someone to get their head around the idea that, when making stuff took a lot of time and work, people would make the effort to learn how to do it well. A lot of these arguments seem like they rely on the idea that if a total amateur can't knock together a pyramid in an afternoon, it can't be done.
Same here. I've worked in construction for 10+ years and I've called out alignments 1/16" off from over 60' away by just looking intently for a few seconds.
You know the whole thing with putting our ancestors down by stealing their technical achievement and pure fucking skill and putting it in some fairy hands is so disappointing
I got so much cleaning done... Am I a little disappointed those big bird vids are AI? Yeah... I remember seeing them late one night, gave me a good spook. Kinda wanna see it get made irl, like a puppet for the Kukeri festival. And the theory about the pyramids, I've heard of it from a few places. They're all convinced that Tesla's concepts apply there but I wasn't able to put it into words why I couldn't quite just believe it? This video helped a lot. The ending section was like a nice glass of water, I'm glad you're still willing to talk to the person behind the front. I get the same feeling that if people like him put more effort and delved into better research, they'd find it more satisfying than ending every theory with 'welp, gonna go back to the bunker so the snipers don't get me'. Although I will say, I'm a little jealous of someone so deluded 😂
Empire State Building is made of steel and glass. Steel is conductive. Glass is an insulator. Therefore, ESB is a power plant and not just a big office building.
The whole satire website being taken as fact is so frustrating. A family member of mine went around saying how Buzz Aldrin said he saw a fox on the moon, and was trying to use that as evidence the moon landing was fake and Buzz was going senile... I Googledebunked it and found it came from an Onion article.
the smart person will see an onion article, laugh and go "god could you imagine?" the other person will see an onion article, and be confused as to why they can't eat the icon
There's forums dedicated to people that thought onion articles were real and posted it on Facebook or something. One of them was how scientists did a study to see how many stab wounds it takes to kill a monkey and so many people believed it. It's really disheartening.
@@impineapple5383 my favorite one was a video on why the military didn't allow gays (old video around don't ask don't tell rule). Basically they said 1 gay life is equal to 7 straight soldiers lives and gays are too precious and pure to risk in combat. If you go to "newest" on the comments it's hilarious/sad.
I just found your content today through being recommended the "Another archeology conspiracy theory" short, and decided to check out the full debunk video when I got to the short version. I really like the bit at the end, and honestly hope he takes at the very least some of your advice, though given the snippet of the response vid I've seen, that doesn't seem likely unfortunately. Either way, this was a fun ride, so I'm subbed for more. Also Googledebunkers is now one of my new favorite words
Every time someone claims that our current theories for how ancient Egyptians cut granite are wrong because they're too inefficient, I wonder if a few thousand years in the future there will be people arguing that we had to have antigravity technology or something already because sending a ship to space by pointing explosions at the ground is too inefficient.
During the Early Modern Period European states literally had guys whose only job was to go around and dig up the dirt on people's chicken pens and in their houses so that nitrate could be extracted from that dirt to produce gunpowder. There were literally laws stating that the dirt chickens and other birds shat on was the property of the state and it was considered vital to national security. This sounds insane today but like what the fuck else were they gonna do? Just not have any gunpowder to arm your armies and navies with? No of course not, this method might sound stupid but it's the only one they had and not doing it wasn't an option so that's what they did even if it did require sending our dudes all over the country to dig up chicken pens and transport it hundreds of km to an armory.
yeah, especially because they show examples of granite sarcophagi. Like, how many sarcophagi does your average person own? People have at most 1, and even then, most Egyptians weren't buried in granite, only rich people were. If they could cut granite easily, it wouldn't be something rich folk would use to show off
Besides, Pyramids were THE status symbol. Cutting edge techology (for the time) and thousands of manpower-hours put into building the rock pile is kinda the point.
Having worked on plenty of job sites, I'm 90% certain that the craftsmen didn't mess up the sarcophagus. They got that far along, and then word came down from the planners that they didn't need that sarcophagus after all. And then the tradesmen, having wasted hours upon hours of their lives they'll never get back, threw down their tools and said whatever the ancient Egyptian equivalent was for "GODDAMNIT!" Never felt as close to an ancient Egyptian as I do right now.
The pharaoh probably decided he wanted a different color or style of stone or something stupid--after they had already hauled that giant bastard into place and were finalizing its dimensions.
I love little comments like this because as ridiculous and funny as the mental image is, the equivalent of this definitely happened. Maybe they expressed their frustration in a different way or had just a different cultural outlook over these things in general, but there is something very human about both changing your mind without thinking about all the consequences for those already working on the project as well as being upset in some way when all your efforts are wasted. And it's that kind of reminder that these folks were people just like us, who likely got tired of projects or funding was short or the main guy in charge changed his mind or something big happened that caused everyone to temporarily abandon their projects and for some reason these people never came back to their project.
@Gildedmuse and that thought is so much more interesting, so much more emotional than claiming these ancients were so far above and beyond us and have no relation to us stupid 21st century humans. They were people. They lived, they felt anger at incompetence and pride at their work. They laughed and cried and stubbed their toes and celebrated with a beer among their coworkers. They deserve better than being used for these lies about lasers and aliens.
Posted this on r/miniminutemanfans, but I wanted to see what people think here too: Following Milo’s 2nd video debunking Filip Zieba, i was interested to see if Filip 1) would see the video, and 2) would react to it, or even change the content he makes. Now it’s a couple weeks later, and I’m not 100% sure he saw the video, but as I’ve periodically went back and checked on his new content, I’m noticing some steps in the right direction. Given some of the trends in his videos I’ve seen (as well as the fact that he reuploaded his first video, which Milo praised, after the release of Milo’s 2nd vid), I’d bet that he has seen the debunking videos, or at least the call to action at end of the second one. As far as I can tell, Filip hasn’t made any drastic changes to his content, and his general “think for yourself and question authority” attitude is the same, BUT I’ve noticed some notable differences in his videos released post-googledebunking: Firstly, I’ve noticed him using many more reputable facts in his videos, including many direct quotes and screenshots of news(?) articles in his “Tunnels under the Sphinx” video, citing a architectural proposal and the date of its release in his “Sky Tower” Video, and raising legitimately interesting points about mineral hardness, with a hardness scale for reference, in his recent “Egyptian Pottery” Video, to name just a couple. Second, he seems to be going back to his roots a bit and talking about science in ways that aren’t fear-mongering, propagandizing or ridiculously conspiratorial. Recently, this can be seen in his “Sky Tower” video, his video explaining Gallium, and (the caption of) his admittedly joke-y video explaining the doorway effect. Thirdly, and maybe most importantly, he honestly seems to be making much more of a good faith effort to be honest, even in videos where he describes pretty outlandish theories. A great example of this is the “Trump Time Traveller” Video. Throughout the video, he does a pretty good job of distinguishing when he is stating facts (even inviting the viewer to fact check him on all of it) and when he’s just speculating or pointing out what he sees as weird coincidences. Other, smaller examples throughout his new videos are instances of him saying things like “THEY don’t want you to know” or making some wild claim like“could this be aliens?!,” which is pretty par for the course for the old Zieba vids. The difference now is he follows those up with “lol jk, that’s probably not true, but it’s interesting to think about, right?” And I think that is MUCH less damaging and untruthful than his old way of pretty unambiguously misleading people. His newer stuff still has the energy and attitude he’s capitalized off of for a while, but I really do think I’m seeing a change from dangerous misinformation to just discussing interesting theories, while acknowledging how outlandish some of them are. Anyway, maybe I’m just seeing what I want to see, but take an honest look, and let me know if any of yall are noticing that too. His antics still are not really my cup of tea, but I really think things are shifting in the right direction :) EDIT: grammar
I think it is definitely a step in the right direction and It’s good to see because Milo is right, Filip is a great communicator and making it more factual and back to his roots(science) and it’s good to see. Hope he keep this up because it’s nice to see Edit: he also deleted/privated all the conspiracy shorts on his TH-cam Channel. Nice
If this is true, this should be pinned or at least boosted to fuck. It'd be a shame for a guy who seems to be taking Milos criticism to heart and improving to be held to the standard of his old videos. Especially if he's actively removing them from the internet x
I'm really hopeful that he is indeed changing his ways in the manner you outlined here. I don't think you're just seeing what you want to see, by the sound of it you're actually looking at this fairly objectively. *My* personal hope for his future is that he eventually gets to shift to content like that first video of his, just stuff that he genuinely finds personally interesting and is wholeheartedly excited to share with the rest of the world. Maybe he enjoys the stuff he's doing now, sure, I can't really say one way or the other; after all, he could still be latching to the kind of subjects that first caused him to take off online. But regardless of whether it's ancient mystery/near conspiracy content, or stuff about science and chemistry and space, or something else entirely, I just hope that not only does he continue to move in the right direction of not spreading misinformation and demonizing the idea of doing research for yourself, but that he truly enjoys the content that he creates and can take pride in his work the way that people like Milo can. The fearmongering and brainrot conspiracies aside, I just hope he can make the content that he loves and still retain his fans and followers. Because as far as I can tell, that's pretty much the picture of Elysium in the minds of content creators around the world, and skilled communicators and teachers like Milo and Filip deserve that kind of positive feedback loop in their lives.
the videos are great BUT the fact that the sources/citations are all open access also shows you stand by your words. not picking ones behind a paywall is fckn ace! good work
There’s something about being shown Filip’s first video that really shook me. It really humanised Filip in my mind. Thank you Milo for ensuring that I did not walk away from this video a more hateful person.
Same, I genuinely shed a tear while watching his first video. For over 3 hours I felt nothing but annoyance about Phillip and disappointment that he uses his skills for this bullshit. But then while watching his first video I felt a genuine liking towards him. Like he was someone I would love to talk to about science. It shook me a bit to realize that.
@@petercolson2990 and? Milo does not pose himself as some kind of philosopher, you could even say that he tries to push people away from thinking that he is better than us. And the message still works, so I don't see a problem here
@@levar6618 we're talking about Filip's first video, that Faroonite is referring to as something that humanizes Filip, and that Milo uses as the example that Filip cares about science and discovery. Except that it's just a Niel deGrasse Tyson video that Filip is quoting verbatim for views on tik-tok It's still a lazy grift on Filip's part, not something genuine and heartfelt from the man. I'm not sure how you thought I was talking about Milo, who actually does present us with things he is personally passionate about
Ok, I have a degree in Egyptology so I just wanted to give a couple small corrections and some more evidence to help out your argument. Firstly, the claim that slaves did not build the pyramids needs an asterisk as there is a lot of nuances in this point which your citation doesn’t mention. Though the workers were treated well (excavations at Heit el-Ghurab suggest they ate really good quality food for their social position), these workers were not there voluntarily. They were drafted for either construction or into the military (Wadi Hammamat graffito and Biography of Weni) and were punished if they were found in deficit of their required contribution (P. Berlin P. 10023A). However, the Egyptians called these forced laborers, “royal dependents” (nswtiw mrit) so we don’t call them slaves but corvee laborers. There are also other considerations but there is clearly nuance in the definition. When you mention the black pyramid collapsing as evidence that the Egyptians had a few hiccups while building pyramids, that’s is a little inaccurate. The pyramid of Amenhemat III was built in the middle kingdom, about 600 years after Khufu, and collapsed long after it was built not while building it (Herodotus 2.148 mentions it as a grand monument even 1000 years after it was built). It was made of mudbrick and cased in limestone (differing from the old kingdom which just used limestone, which is a separate interesting question of why they changed building practices), once the limestone came off due to earth quakes and stealing, the mudbrick was exposed and over time disintegrated. Next, when discussing the idea of transporting these large stones by boat down the Nile, this claim isn’t just intuition, we have evidence like in Deir el Bahari where we have a literal image of an obelisk being transported on a barge. What Zieba forgets to mention is that we do have Old Kingdom pyramids with texts. The best example, and the earliest, being that of the Pyramid of Unas (we also have them from Teti and fragments from Pepi I). These texts are distinctly mortuary in nature, we can even see a direct evolution from the pyramid texts to the coffin texts to the Book of the Dead (some spells being copied nearly exactly). For your point about tomb robberies id suggest citing the Papyrus Mayer A/B and P. BM EA 10052 which is a Late Egyptian legal document from Deir el Medina which specifically dealt with tomb robberies in the Valley of the Queens. Tomb robbery was and still is a major problem in Egypt Though a lot of emphasis is placed upon the large granite stones sourced from Aswan, the vast majority of building blocks for the Pyramids were sourced from the limestone quarry of Tura, which is just a few miles away from Giza (The diary of Merer which you cited is actually a log book of a captain transporting limestone from Tura), it's a small point but an important one given Zieba's pension for hyperbole. Finally, Zieba's inane point about the Pyramids of Giza being giant obelisks is stupid, but the iconographies are technically related. Both pyramids and obelisks are seen as representations of the Heliopolitan mound of creation called the Benben. Which again, is something interesting Zieba could of talked about instead of his insane giants theory. Love your work @miniminuteman !
All of the logistics around how the pyramids were built and the entire workers village next to them is so fascinating, I don't understand why people ignore it. So much of it frankly sounds kinda familiar in the modern world and I love stories like that, that lets us feel a connection with ancient people.
If there's one thing I love more than knowledgeable passionate people teaching me stuff, it's knowledgeable people adding more nuance and information to that conversation. Thank you :)
By the way, one of the reasons we know that the Pyramids were built by tradesmen and free workers is that we found an old, I believe, taskmasters "clipboard"(cant remember if it was preserved papyrus or a stone tablet) that had the names of workers and why they were absent from work. One of the reasons listed was "sick from drink" that basically translate to hungover. So, ancient construction workers were very much the same as modern day ones.
The idea of an ancient egyption construction worker telling his boss he cant come in because hes drunk/hungover is so funny but also completely expectable considering they were also just people
IIRC, there were enough of such kind of documents and inscriptions left to show that the pyramid builders even had work contests, and one of the teams was named something like "Menkaure's drunkards" or "Menkaure's a drunkard" (I don't know enough to judge which one is correct). They were regular working people having some fun on their job.
that was an insane twist of content. I watched pt.3 before this, and I was expecting something waay different when, in his response, he says he also makes science videos. He sounds so intelligent and genuine in that first video. unlike his more recent content - which I struggled to follow along because its too much information at once - in his first video, everything gets properly explained and it makes sense and it's told so beautifully. I hope he does change, although his response video shows that might not be likely
As someone who used to do laser cutting for a living, the abandoned sarcophagus blank cracks me up. Yeah, Fil, they were using their ancient Egyption laser drill, that somehow creates a cut with an irregular curved profile, when they realized they had a bad angle and needed to trash the whole block. But before they threw it out they made sure to sand off any melt bead, slag spray, or any other burn marks from the top and bottom surface, and the fire polish from the cut face. Also not to harp, but 4mm of cut per hour on a block that thickness would be pretty good work for a laser. They're not exactly great at cutting rocks, there's a reason why even today we prefer saws and abrasives for that kind of work.
I saw (!) somewhere that the cut was being made so the slab could be used as the lid to the sarcophagus. But as they were cutting, the slab cracked and broke. They likely didn't want to expend the energy and time to complete the cut. They abandoned the project perhaps because they knew how hard it would be to find another slab of matching granite to make the lid.
The fact that humans were using decoys for hunting thousands of years ago is far more fascinating than fake giants will ever be. Well, except from a mythological and folkloric perspective obvi.
Yess, true and real information, real human accomplishments are what makes archaeology so interesting. Learning about something new in archaeology always blows my mind, conspiracy theories have no purpose or gravitas, it’s just garbage that ppl with half a brain agree with I love mythology, the stories and how the people who made it saw the world is so intricate in a way? Mythology is not appreciated enough. I hate when people use mythology to bolster their shitty pseudoscience though, just let them be as is, incredible myths and legends from a time long ago
That was the most fascinating thing that was in this whole 2 hour deal... I had to pause the video to look at how they made them it appeared like it was a male and female mallard pair
I'm religious, I speak to a lot of religious people. And whenever they bring up that giants once roamed the earth, I always say, "Or you know how you notice that someone is a foot taller than everyone else in the room? Have you ever thought that someone was just... taller, and that drove people to believe they are giants? HECK we even did it. Andre the Giant. He was WILDLY tall, over 7 feet. But us, modern people, still gave him the nickname giant. Is it that odd to think ancient people would do the same???
Andre the Giant was literally one of the nicest people on Earth. There was an interview with The Undertaker in a podcast, and Taker said he was still a rookie wrestler when he first met Andre, and Andre was very kind and friendly and soft spoken.
Not to mention that giants in various mythologies, like the Jotuns and Nephilim, weren’t actually described as physically gigantic, but as just a different race of people. There’s just no exact parallel word in English for these races, so translators opted to use the word “giant.”
"The Materials used to build it are EXACTLY what we use today to build an electric current!" Ugh, I'm fairly certain modern batteries and powerplants are not made of 99% limestone and granite.
Lol I thought the same thing. And yes, quartz can be used to generate a tiny amount of current, but the piezoelectric effect generates only a minute voltage differential.
1:07:14 “if you’re a reflection of our education system, they’re trying to take us down from the inside” this is my absolute favorite new way to insult a conspiracy theorist 💀💀💀
Called a pretty smart engineer about the power plant theory. Upon careful inspection of the idea, his response was: "if free electricity was real, we would be selling it".
Not totally related, but my Dad has a solar setup on his farm that produces enough electricity that the local utilities pay him for it at the end of the month. It's only like $6-20 but hell it's not something I'd more than heard about til I saw it happening. _He_ has free electricity, which they buy...so they can sell it to someone else for more. I've been told the same is true of the big wind turbines. So, yes. Your friend is absolutely right. As close as that is to making electricity for 'free' (it's a hell of an up-front investment out of pocket, but so would a large quantity of limestone bricks and a chunk of land be) they are indeed selling it.
@@guyman1570It is theorically possible, Tesla made the math. But we'd need an unfathomably tall structure, not even the Burj Khalifa haa nowhere near the altitude to get to the upper Ionosphere where the energy is.
"Why are there no mummies? Where did all the mummies go?" The Victorians ate them. No, I'm serious. There was a booming trade in mummy remains after some rich people heard that ground up mummy remains made a cure-all medicine.
Arguing "The pyramids couldn't have been tombs because they look nothing like the tombs from the Valley of Kings" is like saying "Brill Palace couldn't have possibly been the place where the King of England lived 1,000 years ago, because it looks nothing like Buckingham Palace today!"
My favourite comparison would be that the long barrows of England weren’t cult centres because they don’t look like medieval churches. For those who don’t know, the long barrows were made around 6000-7000 years ago by people across Western Europe. They are long earthen structures that contain either one long central chamber or a long central chamber with one or more stone or timber chambers branching out from the central chamber. They often contain one or more sets of human remains, although many have not had any human remains found in them (either because the remains were dissolved by the natural environment of the local soil or because they did not contain human remains in the first place). Sometimes the remains were found to be older than the mounds themselves; in other cases, “newer” remains were interred inside pre-existing mounds. Sometimes the remains are a collection of bones from multiple individuals, mixed together; sometimes they are the remains of a single person. Sometimes the remains were separated by age or sex, with male or female children separated from their adult counterparts, and sometimes not. There is evidence for ritual feasting at some sites, although there’s no conclusive evidence that the feasting was linked to any particular burials, or if it was independent of the burials themselves. Some of the sites seem to link up with other indicators of regional areas, acting as a kind of territorial marker. In other words, they seem to serve fundamentally the same purposes as medieval parish churches, despite having very different construction methods and materials. We are literally 7000 years younger than the long barrows, and their local cult centres look nothing like our modern local cult centres (churches, mosques, temples, etc.) but the evidence suggests that long barrows served the same purposes as a modern rural community church.
@@DneilB007 Or a more direct comparison in timescale being that churches from the early Middle Ages clearly cannot be churches because they look so different from baroque churches that are a thousand years younger.
@@DneilB007 Wow, that was very interesting-thank you so much for sharing! I always like hearing about ancient people doing something we still do today, but in a different way!
"How did multiple isolated cultures across the the world figure out how to build pyramids?" Is very quickly dismantled by the return question: "How many ways are there to stack rocks?"
Especially if you add, “how many ways are there to stack rocks that will stay up for thousands of years”. Like yes, they did make non-pyramid structures, they just didn’t stay up this long while the pyramids did
@@j3wi357 yeah you can just look at abandoned urban spaces and see that bricks one on top of the other can collapse. It’s the pyramid structure that makes the difference. Why can’t it just be cool that multiple cultures knew how to build a lasting structure? Why does it have to go to …… hear me out, 👽?
Also like beyond being vaguely the same shape these pyramids have like absolutely nothing in common with each other, both in how they were used and how they were built. It's like saying “how did multiple different isolated cultures figure out how to build towers”, the only reason saying the same thing about pyramids doesn't sound stupid is exactly because pyramids aren't all that common so they stand out.
Great video, just thought I'd point out that your source (16) for 13:00 doesn't back up your claim at all. The authors are talking about the *water level* of the Nile being particularly high at the time of Giza's creation, allowing for the transportation of resources right to its doorstep, which may have permitted its construction. The article does not mention the usage of water to level the site. There are some ideas floating around regarding the levelling of Giza's foundation using water, but sources on it are kinda scarce. They might have just used a square level tbh
One common thread for all these lost advanced technology theories is a vast underestimation of how much time people are willing to spend building something important to them, how good a product can get with a refusal to stop at good enough, and just how badly people would want the religious site that took hundreds of people multiple generations to make be absolutely perfect.
There are ppl that spend thousands of hours building 1:1 scale shit in minecraft. Hell, ppl build calculators and music tracks in minecraft simply bc they want to see if they can. Ppl severely underestimate the effort humans will go to to build something grand just because they want to. Doubly so for ancient civilizations, since it was often religiously or culturally motivated.
I think the concept of "working towards an end goal you might never benefit from, simply because you feel driven to see it done" is a foreign one to the core of the Zieba fanbase. Much talk of ephemeral others and chosen peoples, but not a lot of proud builders sharing their craft or old men planting trees. It just seems like his type of content is simply more there to lay foundational mythology for gloomy apathy and misplaced anger rather than passion, optimism and pride in the good of our fore-bearers instead of glorifying their darkest days.
A pair of haute couture pants can take hundreds of hours. That's for one thing to be worn once. In those old manors, the chandeliers and staircases have to be disassembled to clean them. Forget people caring about this stuff, throughout time people have paid poorer people to do a silly repetitive task just for a vibe.
@@vespernight4236 I did spend a lot of time in my early 20s in minecraft building scale replicas of things from Achievement City just from watching their videos and counting blocks because there was no other way to do it
i'm a pyramid denier. they're actually domes, and what we see is just the low poly model used to save rendering costs when the main characters aren't around.
Based and LoD-pilled
Zamn bru, that's a conspiracy that I'm signing in for
the whole world will know the truth when a pharaoh logs back into the server and renders that area again
OK, you owe me a new kindle, laughed so hard I blew coffee all over and shorted it out. Lol joking.
Who's the main character then?
i live near lovelock cave, and i am SO FUCKING SICK of the giant theories, man. this area has some of the most well preserved native culture, and we're lucky enough that the local paiute tribes enjoy teaching about their history, and _no one fucking listens to them._ they just want giants
I hope the tribes get a part of the tourism money from those mooks. Nothing better than teaching with passion and someone spent thousands of dollars to come to your lecture/country for OMGIANTS that some Tiktok scammer told them existed and you get to watch them be terribly disappointed.
There's gotta be some satisfying catharsis in that as a tribal history lecturer watching their faces fall when they realize they're in for AN ACTUAL HISTORICAL LESSON. XD
The erasure and demonisation of Native history is honestly just disgusting
Hey some people have a giant fetish alright. Don't kinkshame them.
Yeah this actual history is real fascinating and all, but see this wendigoon fella wants there to be half-angel giant people really badly so that he can convince himself the bible is literal. Sorry native people, but a weirdo and his followers have to gaslight themselves and your actual history is kinda inconvenient for that. The needs of the cranks outweigh the needs of actual archeology I guess.
Wow that must be an awesome site to live in proximity too. I would love to do a video there and be able to work with members of the Paiute community to share there stories on the channel rather than letting these clowns suck up all the air in the room
"He doesn't even seem interested in Aliens, he just seems absolutely bewildered by the thought of rocks being stacked on top of each other." - my wife
"Why did so many different civilizations make pyramids?"
BECAUSE A TRIANGLE IS THE SIMPLEST FUCKING SHAPE POSSIBLE, FILIP
I absolutely love that response, I'm really surprised I've never heard it before.
Nobody tell him about stone balancing.
How much humans like to pile rectangles and squares on top of each others? THERES A LITERAL TOY EMPIRE THAT SELLS SQUARES AND RECTANGLES
I literally keep accidentally building pyramids while stocking shelves at work it’s such a simple shape even round products stay in a pretty solid pyramid
Oh, small note, I have visited Egypt exactly once. The soil is, unsurprisingly, rather sandy in large parts. (Also a lot of clay, which whilst difficult to work, is stable.)
Sandy soil is...a lot easier to pull sleds and slide other objects on.
(You can move heavy rocks super easily on hard ground by ecattering sand under them, that's a trick still used today.)
you can reduce friction with water, air and balls of various sizes
ah the good ole technology of 'a series of logs and a rope' that we couldnt possibly recreate in modern times. winches and pulleys? never heard of em
Wait until Filip finds out the middle ages lasted for roughly a 1000 years and the culture, customs and art changed at least 600 times
He would probably believe that because it was white people doing the culture
He's the kind of guy who thinks everyone fought with swords instead of spears, and that gambesons can't protect against cuts.
Psudohistorians don't understand that cultures are literally changing constantly. Culture is evolving right now and has been since culture exsisted. Every single time an event occurs that affects more than one person, culture is changed to some extent. So weird that people think it was so static
That is because ancient white person is smart and good, and ancient brown person needed aliens and Atlantis to show them how
wait you mean it wasnt just knights and castles until one day it was factories?
I’m an art student, and one of the conspiracy theories that annoys me the most is “giants are real because this large figure in this piece must be literally 15 feet tall!” Like, one of the first things you learn in art history is the “hierarchy of scale.” Why is this guy so much bigger than everyone else in this composition? Because he’s the fucking pharaoh, so he’s the most important guy here.
Yeah it just indicates that someone is important and nothing else
that reminded me of ULTRAKILL, in that game, the important the person gets the bigger their physical form in hell gets.
MMOs all believe in giants because important npcs are slightly bigger
yes
Literally learned this in my first art history class. "They knew how big cows were, but this guy wanted us to know his cows were even bigger than a regular cow, and much more valuable as a result". Simplest form of propaganda.
The "precision argument" drives me nuts. Lasers weren't invented until 1960. We had already invented trains, cars, and airplanes at that point. Computers existed. How incompetent does this guy and his followers think humans were before the 21st century? Oh, how could people ever create precise structures before modern magic?
The first satellite predates the first laser. Yes, we were capable of puting shit to space without laser tools.
With Ancient Magic instead. 😂
I think it's because he is so stupid he cannot comprehend what normal people are capable of.
How does he think we even got to modern magic?
Oh, right, aliens or Atlantis.
As an engineer, the wilder thing is that we still don't use lasers for most precision manufacturing operations lol.
Filip is the kinda guy to say "Mortuary complex? I found it really simple" and then completely ignore the actual complex part
I put a one-ton rock over my coffee machine, and it immediately broke.
Clearly, modern technology wouldn't be able to recreate the pyramids
lmao
the best handsaw in the world could barely make a dent in the 1 ton rock they used, even we can't recreate the pyramid with our current technology, so how can the dumb and primitive ancient egyptian?
@@kidneydealer9938 for the love of god please tell me you're being sarcastic
He obviously is@@nyxession944
@@nyxession944 Don't worry, they are. That's why they said "The best handsaw" and emphasized "how can the dumb and primitive..."
You should name your recording area "The Googledy Bunker"
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I would love to see this
its just a bunker a few hundred feet underground with the fastest wifi on the planet and every device running chrome OS
Maybe just generally, 'The Bunker'.
My 1 year-old nephew was playing with some alphabet blocks. He arranged some in a stacked formation.
I then saw on social media my cousin posting pictures of his young child stacking blocks IN THE SAME WAY.
Clearly, the babies are communicating with some ancient form of telepathy adults cannot perceive.
It's *obviously* alien brain chips made by giants in Atlantis and given to the babies from The Government duh 🙄
Per the movies: Look Who's Talking, Look Who's Talking Too, and Look Who's Talking Now
@Lohi42 Nah, I've got my third eye open, so I know it's actually Bill Gates working with the lizard people to breed a new species to undermine humanity
And Baby Geniuses!
This is clear evidence of reincarnation as the children still have remedial memories of their past lives as construction workers on monumental buildings before they were unfortunately abducted and sacrificed by devotees of Zorp the Surveyor (may His passing cleanse the world).
As someone who got lost in this video from 2:30am-4:30am, I have to say it was highly entertaining... but the ending was beautiful. I severely hope to see more people take the same stance of "yeah dunking on someone for adopting a poor or misinformed idea is funny, but... we as people can and will be and do better" simply because there's something very fulfilling with going from comedic laughter to heart-warming hope to see a fellow man learn and overcome himself.
I'm a stonemason, and this whole "That could only be done with modern technology" is so fucking hilarious. I use modern tools and machines a lot, but when I started my apprenticeship, I first learned how to do everything with noting but hammer and chisel. This shit is like saying "How did people get anywhere before we had cars?"
Horses aren't real, there's no way people could travel great distances.
Wait till these people discover gem crafting actually in fact the probably think gems look polished straight out the ground 😂
@@UponThisAltar Legs aren't real, there's no way people could travel great distances
ok but these same types of conspiracy whackadoos literally do drive (ha) themselves crazy over cultures that didn't use wheels too
@@firstnext5482 actuating muscle tissue wasn't invented until the 16th century, before that how did people get around?
This has the same energy as someone saying “How come every new Minecraft player makes their first house out of dirt/cobblestone/wood”
Because it’s the most readily available materials
“Why do they all look similar”
Because a rectangle is the easiest structure to build in a block game
'How do they all know what a phallus looks like, and always make it out of gold or diamond?!? In this video essay I'll tell you how Herobrine is secretly telling them how-"
@@gratuitouslurking8610I tended to make mine out of dirt... The explanation to that is: Only metal phallusus tend to survive through time and not disintegrate back into dirt or be mistaken for naturally generated
That’s a really good analogy.
Are you expecting me to belive day 1 steve could collect dirt without the technologywe have today such as shovels? Nice try
@@gratuitouslurking8610 "in ancient times, the inhabitants of Minecraft used to find monolithic E's made from a glowing stone, purportedly made by Herobrine. However, in recent times, sightings of these statues have drastically decreased. In this video essay I'll tell you how the secret government has secretly been cracking down on Herobrine-related activities-"
My ex’s brother came to visit us one winter. We lived on a top of a mountain in the Poconos, Pa and he was coming from the Jersey Shore. He came with a bag full of shorts and tank tops. Nary a coat in sight. When I asked him why he packed for a Florida vacation to visit a mountain…in the Poconos…in the middle of winter….his answer was:
“Well you live up here on top of the mountain so it’s closer to the sun. It should be warmer up here than the beach.”
This was a 29yo grown man with a job and car and apartment.
And I felt EXACTLY like how you looked when the “giants cut down the giant trees and those mountains are stumps” line was uttered. The look and feel of absolute despair at the enormous stupidity right in front of us. A kind of awe inspiring stupidity.
I want whatever that guy was smoking during his 4th grade science class. Or literally any time he has seen a depiction of a mountain ever since birth
I'm curious now, how did he respond to the reality of mountain weather conditions?
well, at least he learned his mistake firsthand.
That level of sheer idiocy to believe that a mountain is warmer cuz it's closer to the sun i
But mount Kilamanjaro in Africa has snow on it 😂
" If you're a reflection of our public education system, they're trying to take us down from the inside"
Thank you my man. I will be using this
Hey, physicist here, and I wanted to clarify that the power plant physics is also complete nonsense. Like, it just straight up doesn't mean anything - a "crystal edifice [that] created a harmonic resonance with the earth and converted earth's vibrational energies to microwave radiation" does not refer to a thing that could exist.
Here's what goes through my head as I try to parse it:
1) a "crystal edifice". Hmm. Edifice is a weird choice of words, but it's fine. In the context of energy generation and vibrations, this could plausibly be referring to a piezoelectric crystal. I happen to remember that quartz is one of those, and you mentioned quartz. Seems like it's probably one of the topics involved. Piezoelectricity is a really cool phenomenon where certain crystals, if subjected to pressure differences (e.g., they're pressed on, or exposed to sound waves) gain a voltage differential (become little batteries). It can also happen in reverse - this is the premise behind crystal oscillators, which are used in all kinds of cool stuff, including watches and radios. And get this - they even use quartz a lot of the time, because it's good at the job and easy to find. You should check it out if you think quartz is cool!
Anyway, it sounds like we're talking about a crystal that would convert vibrations into electrical energy.
2) "[that] created a harmonic resonance with the earth" okay... that doesn't mean anything. A "harmonic" resonance is one with multiple harmonies. Any given vibration has a frequency, which describes how quickly it oscillates - how many times per second it returns to the same position, or pressure, or any other value. A harmony of some frequency is an integer multiple of that frequency, so if the fundamental frequency is 10 times/second, then the first harmony is 20 times/second, the second harmony is 30 times/second, and so on.
Now, a resonance is a frequency favored by the geometry of the thing oscillating. Certain shapes and lengths and materials and so on will naturally encourage certain frequencies, while causing others to die down. For example, a wave trapped in a pipe which is about as long as that pipe will be significantly more stable than waves which are a little bit longer or shorter, so it will end up lasting a lot longer, because it loses less of its energy each time it bounces back and forth. You should look up "timbre" if you think this concept is cool! Maybe you'll even make an entirely new instrument that can create sounds no one has ever thought of before, or get really into synthesizers!
So a harmonic resonance just refers to multiple harmonies resonating in the same geometry. Almost all resonances are harmonic, because the harmonies of a given frequency usually behave a lot like that frequency itself, but the use of the phrase could just be some clunky prose. The part that really throws me off is "with the earth", because it implies that the earth is also oscillating at that resonant frequency. The word for a wave traveling through the earth is a seismic wave, or colloquially, an earthquake. If the earth's resonant frequencies could be excited at that sort of energy scale, we would expect to feel earthquakes many times over as they travel around the globe again and again, but we don't. We're also told that the crystal edifice created this resonance, so it must be the thing driving the earth's motion. Put another way, that means this crystal edifice would be sending out seismic waves with more energy than earthquakes, constantly. Ignoring whether that's a reasonable amount of energy (there's a great xkcd on the richter scale), that also seems like a pretty dangerous sort of power generation. On the other hand, if you think seismic waves are cool, there's a whole world waiting for you to explore it! It's really amazing what we can figure out about the composition of the earth just by measuring how seismic waves change at different points along the surface.
3) "and converted earth's vibrational energies to microwave radiation". Earth does not have vibrational energies. Earth does have Schumann Resonances, an incredibly cool magnetohydrodynamic effect (google that one), but they don't store very much energy and they're also light waves, not acoustic ones. Again, the word for when the Earth is vibrating is an earthquake, and we have a fairly good detection network (our feet) for when they're occurring. But you should absolutely look into atmospheric and earth sciences if you think this stuff is cool, the real world is so fascinating. It also does not make sense for this crystal to convert energy into microwave radiation, but
4) this part is one of my favorites. The Nikola Tesla connection is legitimate: later in his life, he was fascinated by the idea that we could create, and then recapture, microwaves to transmit energy wirelessly. The basic idea is sound: the atmosphere doesn't interfere with microwave radiation, so if we could create and capture them with high efficiency, we might have a more efficient energy transport mechanism than stringing wires everywhere. I really love this concept, and I still think it could, some day, maybe go somewhere. If you think it sounds cool too, maybe you could help try to make it a reality! There really is a space for amateurs in physics, as much as the field can seem uninviting. Piezoelectricity, however, does not produce light.
One of my favorite things about science is that it's willing to tell you that you're wrong. In conspiracy thought, your theory never gets proven wrong, it just becomes more and more tenuously connected to the truth forever, or until you get bored of it and jump to something else. A slow rotting of the idea, of every idea, until the pretense that it was ever believed in at all can finally be shrugged aside. There's no tension to coming up with an idea, no thrill that this might finally be the one, and no great excitement that it really is, and you've bested the problem laid out before you. Just the dull foreknowledge that you're already right, no matter what, forever. The best part of science is the opportunity to discover something that no one else has ever thought of before, and to have the entire universe agree with you that you really did figure it out. Come explore with me : ).
To the video author, I imagine you have dozens of comments about this, and I'm sorry to add to the pile. I hope I've contributed something unique. Best of luck to you, anthropology gang forever.
Thank for for the science! Remember the "harmonic convergence" that was supposed to happen in the sky some decades ago? Harmonic is definitely a word that doesn't mean what people thinks it means.
I have learned science.Googledybunking time (not saying what you just said "needs to be debunked" or anything BTW)
Thanks for this highly detailed comment! I love every part of it and how much excitement and information density it carries.
the theoretical utility of microwaves is really cool, I've never heard of that before!! Gonna look that one up when I have some free time :D
The idea that I could dial my microwave into someone else's microwave and I guess burn their frozen dinner sounds like a prank in a sci-fi comedy lol, but being serious for a second, I'd be worried about containing the energy, for it to be useful we'd be sending enough energy through the air to potentially boil a human, or at least heat them rapidly. I'm fine if we don't pursue this one, Nikola was already known for wanting to build a death ray, and I feel like this is how you build a death ray
"Modern humans are incapable of building a pyramid" crowd really tries hard to ignore the Wonder of the 20th century that is the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid in Memphis
Or the Luxor hotel in las Vegas
@@EX7RUD1CON was just gonna say this lol
The Louvre has a few glass pyramids.
That pyramid was also home to the Tennessee Grizzlies NBA team before becoming a BPS.
@@rebeccarichar4091They must have been drunk building them, one is inverted
I swear, half of these "ancient aliens" theories are literally just "I can't fathom someone spending more than a second thinking about what they're going to do before they do it"
Maybe, just MAYBE, we’re actually dumber than our ancient ancestors???? 😳😳😳
Also "that would take so long without power tools, there's no way ancient people could dedicate time and effort to their craft"
@PhoenixdiCorvo we're evolving... just backwards
And not just any someone, non Europeans specifically.
No one ever questioned how the catholic chapels were built, but the moment some indigenous people started pile rocks in a different continent it's suddenly marvels that can only be built by aliens
You don't understand people, ancient aliens are carrying on a long legacy of ideas. Legacy of Nazi ideas.
Bugs have wings. Birds have wings. Bats have wings. We have fossils of lizards with wings. You really want me to believe that all of these animals have just independently evolved the ability to fly all without a jet engine or propeller?
the way conspiracy theorists talk about ancient egypt is sort of like if someone took a preserved medieval manor house and compared it to townhouses built in the thatcher era and said "they SAY the british built both of these, so why do they look so different? dont believe everything mainstream architecture tries to tell you."
Stop, you sound too much like them!😭
@@alexc3504They're nothing alike. Conspiracy Theorists never try and claim European architecture was made by aliens. It's basically just thinly veiled racism.
If only people did this. It would be hilarious. It would also be a great way to point out how bad home design has gotten, some things like manufactured homes are crimes. The fact we have homes that are centuries old, then houses designed to crumble away in a generation is disgusting to me.
this dude could be making videos about how there aren’t a lot of mummies because people ATE THEM and MADE THEM INTO PAINT and instead he’s being confused about how people used to move big rocks 😭
Yes!
I agree but also that is one, maybe two videos worth of content.
Goes to show you that humans as a whole aren't really that different, through the ages. we'll always be doing dumb crap. That future generations will look back on and say "why the hell would they do/think that"?
Except that that's also sort of an overexaggerated factoid that isn't really accurate. There were SOME people who ate mummies, but most of the ones sold were by opportunists making new mummies out of animal corpses. There were most likely very few ancient human mummies that actually made it into people's digestive systems. (This is off the top of my head, feel free to correct anything I have wrong)
@@lunaraydue1340 better not have been, I paid good money for that dehydrated lasagna.
Carpenter here. Don’t know if Philip knows this but modern day levels… have water in them. Plumb can be found with a weight and a string. With those two tools you can then find any angle. Further once you find level or plumb at two ends of the site you just transfer that with a string line. If you go to any job site where huge custom homes are being stick framed or timber framed… there’s no laser levels being used. It’s string lines. To this day.
Right now I’m working on a door and some post casings. I use chisels, pull saws, hand plane, table saws, miter saws, circular saws… modern day craftsmen use old and new technology.
When it comes to lifting and moving, it’s called levers and fulcrums. A single person can move thousands of pounds.
Philip would be trying to torque down head bolts with a 1/4” wrench and say it’s impossible and then a child puts a 1/2” wrench that’s 5 times longer on the bolt and they torque it down with one hand.
I bet Philip thinks that a plumb is alien technology, since it always points straight down.
😅. Absolutely . 35:43
Man, I don’t know if I’d just never given it a second of thought or if I’d assumed it was some Magic Liquid… but yeah, it’s just water in there huh?
@omacmill5189 It's usually a light oil, or alcohol (spirit level). Water would function the same, but is more likely to grow algae in it.
your first mistake was assuming filip has literally ever done a productive task with his hands in his life. tbh the way he talks he may have never even observed one second hand, since just driving by a construction sight would reveal to him the alien technology of stacking things in pyramids or using a nail on a string to make perfectly square doorframes
"When they said you could be anything, you could've picked something other than a lying hypocrite" is the most ICONIC line
I heard someone once say their grandma gave them the sage advice of “ Keep your mind open, but not so open you lose it.”
The funnier version is "not so open that your brain falls out"
I wouldn't say his brain is open at all. It is pretty closed off to any actual intellectual rigor. And he isnt't doing this so much out of curiosity but as a grift for clicks
As Darleer said, this isn't open mindedness, it's quite the opposite. I don't think it's just for clicks though, many people genuinely believe stuff like this. He's really just biased towards what sounds more appealing to him. That's super common.
@@mhm77887 I feel it should be his perogative to make it less common.
@@mhm77887
Yeah being open minded would mean he'd say this but also accept milos videos as well, he's not being open minded becuase he's not even bothering to try and accept other view points
I love that this dude simultaneously believes that the Great Pyramid is so impressive that it couldn't be built by people while it is also so unimpressive that there's no way a king could've been buried in it.
He’s so stupid, capstones that had gold on them and limestone covering pyramids existed, but guess what? Over TIME stuff withers so it doesn’t look the exact same 1,000 years later. It would’ve looked way more impressive in its heyday visually
Lol
This hypocrisy is probably from that he doesn't actually believe these , and he is just pushing these ideas because it gets views.
@@jiraffe9600 Nah if you look at how these conspiracy theorist type people talk and interact, they don't fully rationalize what they believe in or theorize.
Likewise "It's so boring it couldn't have been a tomb" and "Why would they bother to drag stones so far to make it look shiny, it's just a tomb!"
34:49
My favourite fun fact about ancient Egypt is that it lasted so long, there were ancient Egyptian archeologists studying even ancienter Egypt
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Many if not most surviving cuneiform tablets come from the library of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, who was basically an archaeologist who collected as many ancient texts as he could find.
So it's like a thousand years from now, someone studying ancient France and finding a the remains of the work of a 20th century historian who did the majority of her research on Charlemagne and assuming she was his scribe since they both lived at basically the same time.
Cleopatra was closer to us than she was the building of the pyramids
@@PaulMDavidson One of his grand boasts was about how many languages he could read! Dude was SUPER into learning about old stuff.
"And you" *Deep, calming breath* "Have to be actually concussed." Milo almost had a gamer moment
I dream of a world where Filip just turns to TH-cam and says "yo, it was all bullshit, I was doing it for the views" and starts making quality educational content about ancient history or archeology and they become friends with Milo and it all ends like a movie
still would never trust him, if you blatantly told lies for money and views.
Reframing his tiktok channel as a gotcha experiment would absolute genius PR. He could own his audiência for being "sheeple" and get himself back on the track of his first video
Own his audience* my keyboard corrected it to another language 😂
"It was just a prank, bro"
Ironically, in the sequel their friendship will be tested, when ancient aliens arrive to reclaim their pyramid-tech :D
As an artist, it's always weird when conspiracies hinge on "they had to all know each other/seen some unknown thing to come up with this stuff" meanwhile artists are constantly, and accidentally, stepping on each others toes all the time because it's just natural for us as humans to come up with the same stuff (and this is without making that window of chance thousands of years big)
look at big art trying to silence the voice of the people. it was obviously aliens.
Also there was just.. less stuff. Like if all you had was nature and oral tradition the art you create is going to be similar! They didn't have thousands of books to read or shows to watch. When kids learn to draw they normally have a few basic things. Nature, people and home. Life is simpler.
We see this al the time in music too! Something becomes a hit, and then someone is suing them because it sounds too similar to their own property. When in reality it's litterly just a coincidence.
People have always liked things that are pleasing to the eye and ergonomic. It's just our nature. Have fewer materials and a massive time period, and you'll get similar stuff like you said.
Good fucking points here. I can feeel the knowledge oozing into my tiny brain.
Me making my fursona too similar to one of my mutual’s is proof of this
I can feel it already, this video is gonna contain some incredible googledebunking
Waiting for this video is gonna send me googledebonkers
@@ash_from_youtube9387 we truly are googledebunkers
@ash_from_youtube9387 we shall all go googedebunkers!!
My new favorite word lmao. 😂
I completely agree
Going through all this to break down Zieba's stupidity, WITH accurate captions and chapter timestamps? Get this man some HEAD
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That original video of Filip talking about stardust is actually kind of heartbreaking. There's a palpable sense of passion and sincerity that, as so often happens, got trampled by audience capture and The Algorithm™. It reminds me of the science and history TV channels of my childhood, which slowly got bastardized by corporate motives as time went on.
My thoughts exactly. Filip could use his platform for the things that make him happy, REAL things that could make his audience happy too, but he doesn’t.
I watched the discovery channel back when it was all nature documentaries before the biker phase. I then moved to the history channel when it was all ww2 documentaries, then came the ancient aliens. Now I just googldebunk
@@Nakahat01 Discovery Channel and History Channel nurtured a lot of curious young minds like mine back in the day. Now they just peddle bullshit for money. Really sad to see.
See the problem with doing research and doing work to really understand stuff is it takes a bunch of time and effort before you can put the video out.
💯🎯🤓
Did he just dare me to Google something so that when I come back he can just scream "googledebunker" at me?
He's meta gaming it now
he got us
it's over
@@Rat_Fบcker **he can't keep getting away with it!!**
"haha made you look" ahh tactic 💀 as if we needed any more evidence Filip is just a 4 year old child trapped in the body of a late 20's dude
He’s cleared the matchup, we have to move on to other search engines
"we don't know why it was abandoned"
Me, an artist: they got another higher priority commission and forgot about it
Occassionally they would think on it. Get annoyed that commission was cancelled halfway through and they had to get another commission lined up before his Mum reminded him about his cousin who makes bank as a plumber.
@@startdale5547 I'm in this picture and I don't like it omg
You didn't have to remind me of all the WIPs I have and I occasionally think about finishing but I never will.
@@lordarthur2165 This entire thread is an attack on all the pictures I have never finished
How about "the guy who ordered the piece has actually never send the money he was supposed to send so i dropped the project halfway done, called that a sunk cost, and went on doing other stuff"
30:26 “Here’s a clip showing that a pick-up truck can’t handle a 1 ton rock, but please ignore the other vehicle that is having no problem lifting it into the truck”
I hate the word primitive because of how much it dehumanizes people that are literally just like us. There's medieval parchment of a little kid drawing himself as a knight on the edges as he practiced writing. There's graffiti in Pompeii of people writing their names+ their girlfriend and saying "Polonius is a dick". There's Egyptian hyroglyph graffiti in the great toombs of tourists complaining about not being able to read the even more ancient hyroglyphs. There's uniform tablets from ancient mesopotamia of customer complaints for a copper merchant that scammed them.
A lot of these conspiracy theorists seem to think that a people where only capable of speak, reason and empathy after the reneissance and could not have possibly been exactly the same type of humans as us now.
"There's uniform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia of customer complaints for a copper merchant that scammed them"
Heheheheh. Ea-Nasir
Ea-Nasir mentioned🎉
Also dont forget that people back then as now, put dicks on everything cause " haha funny dick"
I always tear up at the Roman inscription where a guy buried his favorite dog and left a message to the future just to say: she was a good dog and I loved her.
@@Keenath
Humans being human is amazing, i hate conspiracy theorists because they can't fathom the beauty of humanity, the marvel that is their anchient minds figuring out complex problems and passing that knowlage down to their children and their grandchildren and so on so forth
"OBVIOUSLY giant people are real. but a giant sloth is just fucking ridiculous"
That skeleton didn't even look remotely human though 😂
@@Edmund-od7mv what do you mean? Do you not have 3 fingers and a tail?
@@RandomSpruces Do you?
@@Edmund-od7mv don't we all?
@@ghifarbruh Ah, of course, silly me.
"Why can't we find all those mummies?" We ate them, Filip. We ate the mummies.
Don't forget the paint
@@Orthodox_GenZ oh right, and the unboxing parties
yeah, sorry about that. I got a little hangry.
Professor farnsworth, is that you?
😂
30:00 the blanket term "ancient egypt" being used like this is so confusing to me because itd be like people looking at us now like "why arent they wearing the common clothing of the 1800s?". 1500 years is SUCH a long time for cultures to change. Like the 1920s was only 100 years ago, and things are wildly different now.
I'm a teacher and I send my high school students to your channel when I hear them talking about TikTok consipiricies. They may not listen to me, but they listen to you.
Honestly, it's a really smart application of a principle that St. Paul talks about in the context of evangelization. If you're trying to convince people of something, you've got to meet then where they're at. You have to speak their language. As he says, "be all things to all men."
If you're talking to someone who's into conspiracy theories dipped in Gen Z sarcasm and snark, give them a guy who uses the same cultural idioms, but is actually conveying truth.
That's really cool of you! My dad believes everything he sees on ancient aliens...I think he may be too far down the rabbit hole to be saved at this point
@@EM-iy2nk wish my dad was into ancient aliens, there are more harmful conspiracies
@@EM-iy2nkancient aliens?! That's goobledybonkers
I am a teacher in China. These kids here have no idea about these conspiracies
A point about "Ancient Giants" we don't mention enough is that MASSIVE HUMANS DON'T WORK IN EARTH GRAVITY. Robert Wadlow, the tallest man in recorded history (8'11"), couldn't even walk unaided; people over 7' have a tendency to die very, very young from heart problems. There are reasons we're roughly the size we are, just as there are reasons that elephants don't prance around on their hind legs. If there were giants with humanoid proportions, what kept them upright? Did they all have anti-gravity belts like Baron Harkonnen? How would an 18-foot-tall man, with a mass around 27 times as great as a regular human (and requiring 27 times as much oxygen), manage to take in enough air through nostrils and a mouth that are only 9 times the size in cross-section? Did they have disproportionately massive faces that were mostly nose-hole, and if so, why didn't ancient cultures draw them that way? GAAH.
Awesome logical argument. Thanks
I loved the giants from Game of Thrones because they had unique anatomy like elephant-shaped feet. That's good worldbuilding.
Exactly what I think of whenever people start discussing giants. Like, not only is giant-believers evidence bad, it is literally biologically impossible without some massive morphological changes for there to be giant humans.
I read this entire thing like it was being screamed.
The cyclops actually didn't have a massive eye, that was their nostril. This is also why they were dumber than normal, as the nostril took up a portion of the area where our frontal cortex is.
a drop of water in the river with over 15k comments and unlikely to be seen but this was phenomenal. The debunking, the positive ending, it's inspiration and that's pure gold in my book. Massive hugs from a fellow historian.
I can see you.
You will be seen
You are one in 8 billion, you are unique, you are appreciated
Humanity is doomed
We're done if we're not even using words correctly
I think you mean, the googledebunking
That first video of his is just... so beautiful. I mean, it's not new to me personally (I've heard the "you are _literally_ made of stardust" bit before), but it never gets old. To see someone bridge the gaps between science, philosophy, and the human experience via that "metaphor" - using hard facts and verifiable reality to say something so amazing and profound and emotional and _true_ - only to start tearing down those bridges to replace them with lies and paranoia... it's deeply depressing.
I see he made a response, and that you made a response as well, so I'm gonna go straight into it. I'm really hoping he learned his lesson, but given that it's also an hour long, those hopes aren't very high.
Googledebunkers? I was googledebunkers once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats make me googledebunkers...
Googledebunkers? I was googledebunkers once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats drive me googledebunkers...
Googledebunkers? I was googledebunkers once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats make me googledebunkers...
Googledebunkers? I was googledebunkers once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats make me googledebunkers...
Googledebunkers? I was googledebunkers once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats drive me googledebunkers…
Googledebunkers? I was googledebunkers once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats make me googledebunkers...
13:05 concrete worker here. A taught string is literally how we do a LOT of leveling. lasers arent a necessity even today 😭
Wait until we find definitive proof of Atlantis and it turns out it was just cyprus
@@mogscugg2639 What does your response have to do with his comment?
@@iamerror1699of course nothing
@@judod97 It seems so.
@noahmeadows6400 exactly, shit just ain't that deep lol.
I work in manufacturing. Believe it or not, the cornerstone of high precision manufacturing remains, to this day, taking some rocks, throwing an abrasive between them, and rubbing them together.
It's called the 3-plates method, and it's more than capable of producing granite slabs that are within a thousandth of an inch of perfectly flat, roughly the thickness of a human hair.
That's awesome! I have a friend who works in a similar field. The precision that it takes to pass the equipment he makes is intense.
Thank you for sharing this! It's cool to know that one of the first ways we figured out to do something precisely is still the best way to do it. I assume we just figured out more efficient and technical ways to implement it.
@@clockworktri Yeah. Specifically, the three plate method is the best way to get precision from nothing. Meaning it's a method that is capable, with sufficient time and effort, of producing 3 extremely high precision reference planes for measurement without needing to already have calibrated precision equipment. Most surface plates you would buy aren't made with this method, but manufacturing them in other ways requires already calibrated equipment.
In general, anything made by some machine reaches at best the same level of precision that the machine has already been measured against and calibrated to. In practice, the end results are usually not as precise as the components that went into the machine that made them. The three plate method is one of only a few things that can get a more precise end result than you already had before doing it.
@@sawyerblossom7244 Most of the machine shop work I have done would consider 1/100th of an inch to be "semi-precision" or "low precision" but it depends on the type of manufacturing being done. I've been working on moving into extremely high precision tool making, where a lot of measurements would be made to a few "tenths" aka a tenth of a thousandth of an inch.
That’s an excellent piece of expertise! Something I forgot to throw in is how lasers would be an objectively terrible tool to cut stone with. Your point that abrasive can produce such precision results is another great point in this discussion. There seems to be a misunderstanding that more “simple” methods produce more crude results 100% of the time.
The stardust video at the very end was absolutely lovely, and accurate-ish enough that I (a nerd who loves the periodic table passionately) have no corrects to add. The way he speaks in the video is drastically different, and he sounds sweet. I would actually really like content like that.
Gotta love how Filip's argument against the Pyramids being tombs is "we didn't find remains or treasures in there."
As if, over the course of thousands of years, nobody discovered the pyramids.
_Especially_ not tomb robbers, treasure hunters, desperate thieves, and/or the _British._
The Victorians ate a LOT of mummies and used them in a LOT of "medicines". I feel like someone should tell Filip
@@katesclabassi3857 mmmMMMmmm! Yummy yummy mummy! Love to munch on the human jerky as a rich British aristocrat
The amount of mummies that ended inside a brit's stomach is disturbingly above 0.
@@katesclabassi3857 and don't forget to buy mummy brown for painting.
But yes, most tombs were raided in ancient times. There was never a chance for any treasures to remain.
I like how you repeated the word "British" at the end there 4 times with slight different spelling.
A compilation of trucks failing to haul rocks as proof that it's impossible is like putting together a bunch of videos of waiters falling and dropping trays and being like "see? food is impossible."
Yeah 😂 and just because we don't build pyramids today clearly means we can't either.
The ancient french put all the courses on the table at once. We couldn't do that with modern tech, our waiters couldn't carry all that food and our tables aren't big enough.
The ancient french obviously had robotic waiters and quantum hyper-tables.
Wait, are you telling me food is possible? I'm going to need some proof.
Nothing impossible about it. Ancient giants made food possible. With lasers.
@@navalinfantry2009 Gosh! That's so amazing! I don't think we can even do that with today's modern technology.
I'm a stonemason to trade and this has seriously made me think about making some videos on traditional masonry techniques to show how the trade works
Oh please do! I would definitely watch!😍
@@dipsers let's make it happen! I'd love to tie in with Milo for it
Let's go!
Yes, please make that video. I will watch it. 😊
There's 100% an audience for that :)
Played while doing maintenance on my small aquarium. Thanks for taking the time to make this episode.
This guy was already driving me nuts. But as a biology major, him saying “the bones were given to a dinosaur species called a sauropod. It’s convenient that they made a dinosaur for these” really drive me up the wall.
Who fucking does that to the Dinosaurs, they're like the thing everyone loved I thought.
these new bones are unique, let's make a new species for it because it doesn't line up with any others.
Which guy?
@@cavramauFilip
@@hedgehog3180 Honestly, dinosaurs are overrated in Paleontology
Just for clarification, that pyramid power plant book is wrong about the engineering and physics as well as the archeology. The hypothesis it proposes about quartz being used in electronics is half true, but would never work with a quartz aggregate rock. That's like expecting to be able to make a circuit board out of sandstone. Quartz itself is also an extremely poor conductor when compared to basically any metal. What it can be used for is a piezoelectric device, meaning that it expands when you apply a current to it, and pressing it together can also produce a slight current. This is completely useless for power generation outside of extremely low power microelectronics, but it does make it useful as an extremely fast and precise electronic clock. If you feed electricity into it the right way, it'll produce physical and electrical vibrations in return, and those vibrations are dependent on the resonant frequency of the crystal. It's the same as rubbing your finger on a glass to make it sing.
This is what the author book thinks the pyramid is doing, except he thinks the earth itself is somehow the 'finger', and that this can somehow create useful amounts of power. It can't, and even if it could, you'd need a pyramid sized quartz crystal without any imperfections, not a giant pile of sandstone with a small amount of granite buried inside of it. Honestly the biggest issue though is that the earth doesn't have any kind of "harmonic frequency" of it's own, and even Tesla didn't believe it did. He thought long distance wireless power transfer was possible for different (and also wrong) reasons. The idea of "natural frequencies" is a later invention by new-age religious groups who attached spiritual significance to crystals, combined with a distorted version of the physics behind crystal radio receivers.
Crystal radio receivers do use quartz and they do receive a small amount of electrical energy from radio waves, but the crystal itself is only there to act as a rectifier, which is basically a fancy way of saying it could decode the sound waves that were encoded into radio. The thing that actually turned the radio waves into electricity was an antenna, made out of copper, which the pyramids pretty clearly lack.
thank you, I figured it was bs from my base knowledge of electronica and physics. I'm glad someone put the thought into how bs it actually is.
I tip my hard hat to you,
One legend to another
A small thing about the bs about "natural harmonic resonance frequencies", I have no way to prove this, but I think the origin of confusion about this came from incredibly modern radio signals (which can be used to produce extremely small amounts of power like just enough to make your radio work), and for some reason people think that always existed on earth.
Exactly, just like tartaria people claiming red brick conducts electricty or is magnetic because it has iron oxide lol
Thanks, was hoping someone had said this.
I like how there’s somehow an assumption that not only did the Great Pyramid constructors know the metric system and speed of light, they just also happened to know that the future populace was going to establish Greenwich as the prime meridian.
And used base 10 counting. And they would have to know how much a second was.
Nah, it was latitude. Which means they had to know the equator as the middle line AND use base 90 measurements for degrees. While keeping base 10 for the rest of the measurements ... like we do today. But WE have the nice reason of it being historical. His "fact" was merely hysterical.
*the speed of light in a vacuum
it is likely that ancient egypts had idead about air pressure
i don't believe they have created near perfect vacuums so they can measure the speed of light in there
@@inerkatakan8161 No, but see, they would have had to be able to create a vacuum so the filament in the Dendera lightbulb wouldn't just burn through... XD
@@CrazyDruidCaell There's also the issue that the Egyptians didn't use degrees to measure angles, they used the length of the base of a right triangle to measure angles and they measured that length using palms and fingers. I mean degrees as a measuring system is basically entirely a historical coincidence and is really not a particularly obvious way to measure angles.
When you mention that there aren't stupid people, just people with different education, it really sits with me. I recall something from my school days that baffled me, where a teacher failed in their job (in my personal opinion).
A classmate of mine switched schools for a short period, to try her chances there. This was an older school and could give her better chances in finding a job later, due to their good reputation. This incident was one of the reasons she quickly came back. As in, after only a week or two.
We had already recently gone over the subject in our own class. And our amazing teacher had let us know that there were several schools on that particular subject. Meaning that we cannot say, without doubt, that one is right and all others wrong. She mentioned multiple areas where people disagree, and why. Whilst also showing us how she saw it.
The whole thing had to do with how we classify animals into different groups. Where an example was that some group elephants together with other similar animals, whilst others claim that elephants should be in their very own group. This is only one example, but one of the most common disagreements on that subject.
This new teacher showed the groupings they supported, and when my classmate pointed out some of the other ways which one could view it, she was told that she was wrong, for any other way to view this was false beyond doubt.
That is how conspiracists work. Pointing out that others are wrong, but having no way to back it up. Real science is open for re-learning things. For debunking itself. But it takes actual evidence and research to get there.
"Wow, that's a good sound bite. 'Slaves, bro, they had slaves, bro.' I don't know what house he was in, but his brothers didn't haze him enough." is a perfect line holy moly
My spouse never picked on her younger sister growing up and now that they’re adults I’m constantly like “see? This is what happens.” 😂
@@avwholesomegamer he meant like a frat not actual siblings
He feels like someone who unintentionally idolized his bullies though
The worst thing for me about all of this is the kind of racist undertones. Like, "look at all these idiots, these simpletons, these unintelligent, these underevolved" and everyone he speaks of are African natives, a few Mediteranians, Middle Easter, and Native American (south and north) yet nothing about the old monuments we have here in Europe, like the giant art in Britain, some of which dates back to 700 CE, the Stonehenge, the Temple of Zeus, the Parthenon, etc., it's giving me some bad vibes. Also, can't help but notice that when they do bring up Asians, it's almost always Indians and South East Asians. Never the Chinese or the like.
And something that really tics me off is that he cites "logistics" a few times through out his videos, but it's also very clear he doesn't know what "logistics" entail. I struggle to fathom how so many of these people seem to just be unable to believe that there where more than a hundred of these ancient people in any place at a time, Egypt is estimated to have had somewhere between 2 to 3 million people at the time of the Old Kingdom, ait's believed that the city of Rome alone, during the Roman Empire, had more than a million people in it, around the first century CE! Are they really so cynical and isolated they can't fathom thousands of people being co-ordinated to accomplish increadible feats, like building massive buildings? Ever heard of wars?
One thing I can tell for sure though. Whether these conspiracy peddlers believe their bull or not, none of them would survive a day in the wild.
I find it very strange when people seem unable to believe that humans could figure out how to create cities and pyramids without modern technology. It's like: you do know that they could work around those issues with the tools they had? People were intelligent in the past and even had to be more so considering they didn't have half the technology we have now. Plus, there were clearly large cities and kingdoms that rulers could utilize for labour for their projects. It wasn't like humans only lived in small villages. Egypt, being one of the oldest countries in the world, was (and still is) a major centre of trade in the Mediterranean. It would have attracted a large population in the major cities.
i noticed the same thing ten minutes or so into the discussion of his videos from the first part of this video. its so disgusting to me and i'm glad someone else noticed it too.
@@mish375 Yeah, there seems to be this sentiment that we are somehow more intelligent now than we were before. We're not. We're more knowledgeable, but that's different. We have vastly more information and knowledge than in the past so we have that to our advantage, but our capacity for intelligence hasn't increased since we became the modern human. And we've been that for some odd 100 thousand years now.
Racism seems to be baked into the foundation of pseudo-archeology. The medium is predicated on the idea that an ancient race of superbeings built every remarkable structure that is attributed to cultures which were/are not eurocentric. Given the history of white supremacy in the fields of archeology and anthropology, the whole thing leaves quite a bad taste.
Racism seems to be baked into the foundation of pseudo-archeology. The medium is predicated on the idea that an ancient race of superbeings built every remarkable structure that is attributed to cultures which were/are not eurocentric, and the biggest figures in the field are old white men who routinely display a lack of respect for the accredited people's.
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Sincerely, a white guy.
I’m a paleontologist who specializes in dinosaurs and specifically has worked on sauropod femurs: it’s so fucking obviously a sauropod femur. Why can’t it be cool enough that it’s a massive leg from a dinosaur
Edit to add: ground sloths are so cool too!!! Why can’t that be cool enough??? Why is it only interesting to him if it’s a giant???
I live in NC, and at the Museum of Natural History in Raleigh they have a life-size recreation of a giant ground sloth that was endemic to this area. (Or, at least, they had one last time I was there.) They're huge with claws that look like they could sever my neck with one swipe and I sure as hell wouldn't want to get anywhere closer than a football field, given the rule that large herbivores are _vastly_ more homicidal than large carnivores. (Seriously, look at what animals kill the most humans.)
I showed the giant ground sloth remains picture to my younger brother, and he isn't uneducated in this stuff (mainly because the rest of my family love it), he is not very interested in paleontology, or archeology or anything of the like. I asked him "Is this a giant human skeleton", and he laughed as he said "no". When I asked what he thought it was, he said bear, which is fair enough, but a bear skeleton looks even more like a large human than the sloth.
@@Serenity_Dee There are more herbivores than carnivores. Are you sure that on average they are more homicidal? It's a tall claim, considering that herbivores outnumber carnivores by about 10 to 1.
My cursory research shows that hippos kill people about twice as often a year as lions. But hippos outnumber lions by 5 to 1. Making lions 2.5 times as "homicidal" as hippos.
@@JeffreyOllerhippos moose herbivores that are considered more dangerous than many of the Predators, I don't remember off hand what the term actually is called by essentially. These are urban wars that they're main. Defensive tactic is to be super aggressive, as most predators won't usually waste their time on a prey animal that is aggressive, mostly just because predators don't generally adapt super well and those are both very large animals that can do it. Is on a damage
@@JeffreyOller Carnivores save their energy for hunting. Large herbivores like rhinos, hippos, water buffalo, American bison, moose, elephants, and many more will charge first and ask questions later, sometimes because they have crappy eyesight and decide it's better to attack when in doubt (rhinos, American bison), sometimes (moose and elephants most notably) because mating hormones make them vastly more violent during that time of year, sometimes because they have a massive size and natural weaponry advantage (water buffalo, hippos) such that predators avoid healthy adults. For a carnivore, attacking is very risky: it consumes a lot of time, it burns calories (cheetahs are often riding the knife edge of starvation because their hunting strategy burns so much energy), and depending on your prey, there's a high risk of injury (see above). There are exceptions; for instance, if you can see the polar bear, it's already too late, and bears that normally avoid humans will rip you apart if they think you might threaten their cubs. Mountain lions are similar.
The most deadly animals to humans are, in order, mosquitoes, humans, snakes, dogs, and then things like freshwater snails, assassin bugs, roundworms, and tapeworms. Crocodiles are the deadliest large predator by _far_, and they only kill about a thousand people a year.
1:04:58 "historic texts such as the bible" 😐😐 its mythology?????
As a child, I got a set of wooden blocks to play with (yes I am over 50) I soon learned that the best way to make a high structure was a pyramid, and it was even stronger if you cover the gap in the previouse layer with a block, so the joints did not align.
Back in the day, shops used to stack tins of beans in a pyramid in the supermarket. When asked to "get me a tin of beans" I couldn't reach the ones at the top, so I took one from the bottom. (yes, sorry if you read this Asda employee from 50 years ago that was me)
see, the use of a pyramid shape is so obvious, even a child can figure it out.
As a child I got a set of iPhones to stack into pyramids (yes I’m under 20)
We really gotta talk about how all babies around the world *just know* how to stack building blocks in a pyramid shape, even though they cannot communicate with each other over such long distances. How do they have access to such advanced building techniques?
I don’t believe your googledybunking, Atlanteans must’ve taught both you and Aldi’s how to stack stuff on top of each other
@@Dominator150395 Baby Geniuses is a good documentary for this subject.
Personally to me, the funniest aspect of the "coordinates of pyramid are equal to the speed of light" arguement is that the coordinate system used here was established in 1800s in England. If the Egyptians were to make their own coordinate system, the Pyramids would be close to...well, zero, because that would be the Egyptian center of the world.
I was thinking that! I do arch work using LiDAR and the amount of times my data gets messed up because of the HUNDREDS of different coordinate systems…
There's another problem, they're getting those coordinates by using degrees but the Egyptians didn't use degrees to measure angles they used an entirely different system that's actually kinda fascinating and really clever.
Time travellers! It's the only explanation.
It's amusing that when people like that think about the speed of light constant, they forget how important the units of measurement are. It's particularly funny, because that number for the speed of light (c) is based on meters (per second squared). But while meters were first invented in the late 1700s, the modern definition of a meter is now technically based on the speed of light! So, it's a sort of weird self-referential thing lol
It's always very telling which conventions the conspiracy theorists assume to be inherent to the universe. Like a base-ten numbering system, co-ordinates starting at London, the modern English language
My favorite thing I've heard about Egypt is that "ancient Egypt" was around long enough they studied ancient Egypt like we would study there entire history
What's even crazier is that only refers to how we study the Ptolemaic Dynastry and "late Egypt" in general, the really old Egypt is an entirely different animal.
r/ihadastroke
Googledebunkers
@@lilycreeper5246 thats unfortunate, did the stroke impair your ability to understand simple sentences or were you like that before your brain took a little break from recieving oxygen, lol.
@@lawrencecarter1954 Ahem, has your ability to lack a proper understanding of context in this situation at hand inhibiting your capability to see that individual clearly could not perceive the sentence as intended? Clearly an intelligent individual would have simply disregarded said comment and allowed access to properly written words onto your screen for the world to fully understand because I'm also confused what this comment is saying
Googledebunkers will forever be the meme of the Miniminuteman channel
GOOGLEDEBUNKERS RISE
At last Milo fans have a name
Googledybunkers are here
@@silverpotato4272The fact that we didn't was driving me googledebunkers
I actively want Googledebunkers to end up in the dictionary fr.
"The feeling of frustration when presented with someone so willfully ignorant and deluded that you know there is no hope of pulling them out of the hole they've dug for themselves."
It truly is the perfect everything word.
man, seeing his first tiktok at the end made me really sad. you can literally see in his eyes how genuinely, wholeheartedly passionate he was about the topic. you can even see a shift in his attitude as he started making conspiracy videos, he went from using a soft voice and uplifting language to the current smug, lowkey aggressive attitude he has in his current videos. from "you my friend are a star" to "explain that, idiot googledebunkers!1!1!1!" like it's genuinely so sad to watch
Make me really sad too.
Yeah... :(
It actually makes me hopeful that there's some passion in him, and I hope we can reawaken that ❤
No worries, he can be saved. That guy is still in there, he just got jaded by the video he cared for getting 100 likes while the next "aLiEnS"-BS video got 100k likes.
I only listened to the video, and even his voice. Hearing it so many times it was surreal to hear it change from smug facade to genuine excitement. It was really heartbreaking.
How to cut granite blocks, from a Donald Duck comic book, from memory:
1. Find a granite outcrop, remove soil or sand around it so that the part you want to cut is exposed.
2. Make holes in it in rows, with large iron spikes and mallets, for example.
3. Hammer in dry wedges that tightly fit the holes.
4. Water the wedges, the dry wood now expands, exerting enough force to cause continuous, deep cracks along the rows of wedges.
5. Use metal tools and abrasives, such as chisels and sandy water, to shape and smooth the now rough stone into a block.
6. Move the block around with wooden rollers and ropes.
Donald in Mathmagic Land taught me a ton as a kid, so I'm glad to see that the duck was an effective teacher for another person.
Carl Barks or a Don Rosa story?
@@meeapeea ah, I live in Europe and this was a random story in weekly/monthly format so it was probably by Italian, French or Dutch artist, whereas Barks and Rosa stories are regarded as classics and sold in their own collections.
Here in Finland we got Barks and Rosa stories in those weekly magazines as well. Usually they were divided between two or three weeks. Definitely sounds like something Don Rosa would do.
Edit. And now I realized you are probably Finnish as well :D.
@@CactuSTSi :^)
Ruotsis ja tanskas kai sama formaatti ku meil, et akkarit ja taskarit. Ainaki oon lukenu niitä myös
I am sad I don't get a suspicious violin squeal whenever I say the word Googledebunker. That should have been a feature built into the hoodie
Never underestimate the human ability to stack rocks. We fucking love doing it. It’s our oldest hobby.
Yeah and people who disagree with your comment are completely googledebunkers
Yeah, stacking rocks as a hobby is probably even older than the oldest profession.
@@rishisaaptacha well, developmentally, maybe you're right, and stacking blocks is the first hobby. but all things considered I would bet that historically, the first human hobby was less about making buildings and more about making those babies and toddlers
@@comradewindowsill4253
1. Banging
2. Stacking rocks
Very complex creatures we are.
If you go to national parks, you’ll find stacks of rocks along trails. Partly as a guide, partly as a way to say ‘I was here’
"Shut the fuck up, and stop drinking mercury" is now my go to response when someone says something incredibly stupid.
When someone says or does something incredibly stupid in germany we ask(translated) "Dude, did you chug paint?"
It has layers because apparently some dumb people in the past tried injecting mercury in their blood because they believe it gives them immortality or superpowers. Some people ingested mercury because it has pharmaceutical applications.
Seeing his first video actually kills my heart. Knowing that he used to do education, but then switched to conspiracy because he liked the bigger number is the worst of the algorithm at work. It just makes me sad and makes me wonder how many people fell for the algorithm trap as well.
Totally, I feel like so many of us feel that way and I feel like it would be good if one of these comments got to the top of the comment section so that Filip sees it when he watches it. I and many others would totally root for him going back that educational content.
Reminder that the Algorithm isn't American either. There is no real reason for TikTok to reduce these videos, or take them down, when it doesn't directly affect their interests.
Dude that first video is so fcking cool. And true! One of my favorite astrophysics facts!
(Granted, he probably got that from Neil DeGrasse Tyson, but still, what an amazing message to spread!)
It genuinely made me tear up - thinking about what we lost in potential. It does make me wonder though if we won't let 'bros' succeed as science communicators? Imagine if the bros felt as welcome and represented in science as they do in conspiracy
Infact china purposefully changes the algorithm based on nations, for example theirs heavily favours motivational and educational.things where as for the use. They favour dumb shit@DamienDarkside
I thoroughly enjoy watching your content and appreciate the realness you bring, I’ve watched hours and hours of these videos showing the great old mysteries and it often awakens a sense of curiosity and I most definitely used to believe a lot of these things blindly but much more from a place of, wouldn’t it be crazy cool if the pyramids were a power plant. I won’t claim to know much about these things, but what I do know something about is people and I find these things quite interesting from that perspective too, I really enjoyed watching these longer videos for the depth and thorough explanation, findings and discoveries within your field, I do see your frustration get the better of you and I wonder how it effects you mind over time, I know that I used to bad mouth people around me or online if I thought something about them, I would also feel entitled to do so out of a self righteous feeling of being right. however, when I look back on it I see the poison I was spreading both inside my inner world but also to the world around me. I also see someone who is kind hearted and genuinely wants the best for people and the world we share (not sure if it’s the wisdom of mama ganja, or the mushrooms speaking) but I see your understanding and feeling, I wonder how it makes you feel to call someone stupid, an idiot and so on and how you relate to those world.
I really wish you all the best and please keep up the incredible work, it is greatly appreciated.
I could talk for as long as you have into emotional and behavioral analysis but I will leave it for now here.
Keep going brother.
All of the "giants are real" stuff has one central problem: NONE OF THE GIANTS ARE THE SAME SIZE. The totally-not-a-sloth is 23 feet tall, the giants in lovelock cave are nine feet tall, the petrified tree must have been cut down by a giant thousands of feet tall, and we're supposed to believe, what? There were hundreds of different species of giant? They just happened to vary that much?
And the sloth had a tail! 😂
Its beeg human. They shrunk to us. Small human. Check mate googldybunkers
Which brings up a better question.
How would they possibly live?
Get too big and we'll a your body would be too heavy to move.
B your body would give out trying to pump blood.
And C thinning air.
well i mean there are Stone Giants, Hill Giants, Fire Giants, Ice Giants, and Storm Giants...those are just the true giants and not giantkin like Goliaths and Firbolgs
@@davidhodgson1011bros got the scoop on giants
Get ready, we gonna have another episode of "Just because it looks like a man-made structure, doesn't mean it IS one"
This is going to drive me googledebunkers
Sobbing rn
Wait your telling me the perfectly carved valleys aren’t man made?
@@redwiltshire1816 Bro grand canyon is egypt trust me my source is the great filip zieba
My _favorite_ it the 'melted buildings' one because like, their 'evidence' is what looks like a melted pyramid (not _really)_ in the Grand Canyon right. But their theory on what melted it was a giant lightning strike that _created the Crand Canyon._ All of that is so stupid but like, guys, that doesn't even make _stupid_ sense.
ok, I'm a welder and i hate hearing these "it's so precise" bullshit arguments because I can fucking EYEBALL a thousandth of an inch gap in my material when I'm working. It's not hard, a couple months/years of practice and just about anyone with working eyesight can do it.
Lol exactly, if you get paid to be precise, it's not surprising when you learn how to be precise. It's like saying an author couldn't possibly describe an event, like, of course they could, they get paid to figure out how describe things in an interesting way
My craftsmanship level is at -3 and even I can hold up a frame at the wall and see if it is straight or not. Just today I did that and when my wife used the spirit level to check it was perfect. If I can do that, I'm sure professional craftsman like you and the guys back in the olden days could eyeball things even more precise than I ever could.
I think the underlying problem (besides all the patronising shtick about how primitive everyone was and how the evidence that they weren't must be proof of aliens or whatever) really is that a lot of people, especially younger ones, just find it really hard to conceive of work being done this way. I sound like an old fart when I say it, but I've seen the videos they've seen, where how a thing is made is compressed down into "Take thing, dip it in thing, wait 30 seconds, and it comes out as a different thing, everyone claps!" I can imagine it being hard for someone to get their head around the idea that, when making stuff took a lot of time and work, people would make the effort to learn how to do it well. A lot of these arguments seem like they rely on the idea that if a total amateur can't knock together a pyramid in an afternoon, it can't be done.
Same here. I've worked in construction for 10+ years and I've called out alignments 1/16" off from over 60' away by just looking intently for a few seconds.
You know the whole thing with putting our ancestors down by stealing their technical achievement and pure fucking skill and putting it in some fairy hands is so disappointing
I got so much cleaning done...
Am I a little disappointed those big bird vids are AI? Yeah... I remember seeing them late one night, gave me a good spook. Kinda wanna see it get made irl, like a puppet for the Kukeri festival.
And the theory about the pyramids, I've heard of it from a few places. They're all convinced that Tesla's concepts apply there but I wasn't able to put it into words why I couldn't quite just believe it? This video helped a lot.
The ending section was like a nice glass of water, I'm glad you're still willing to talk to the person behind the front. I get the same feeling that if people like him put more effort and delved into better research, they'd find it more satisfying than ending every theory with 'welp, gonna go back to the bunker so the snipers don't get me'. Although I will say, I'm a little jealous of someone so deluded 😂
Empire State Building is made of steel and glass. Steel is conductive. Glass is an insulator. Therefore, ESB is a power plant and not just a big office building.
Yeah, like in the Ghostbusters.
Man said “those pesky thieves” so smugly like there isn’t a whole video game series called tomb raider about doing this exact thing.
Or movies. Or Books....
the entirety of the British History museum
We do a little cultural appropriation =D
The whole satire website being taken as fact is so frustrating.
A family member of mine went around saying how Buzz Aldrin said he saw a fox on the moon, and was trying to use that as evidence the moon landing was fake and Buzz was going senile... I Googledebunked it and found it came from an Onion article.
Bro 💀
the smart person will see an onion article, laugh and go "god could you imagine?"
the other person will see an onion article, and be confused as to why they can't eat the icon
There's forums dedicated to people that thought onion articles were real and posted it on Facebook or something. One of them was how scientists did a study to see how many stab wounds it takes to kill a monkey and so many people believed it. It's really disheartening.
@@impineapple5383 my favorite one was a video on why the military didn't allow gays (old video around don't ask don't tell rule). Basically they said 1 gay life is equal to 7 straight soldiers lives and gays are too precious and pure to risk in combat. If you go to "newest" on the comments it's hilarious/sad.
@@GenuinelyHorriblePerson oh yeah! r/atetheonion! I remember one of those people was Donald Trump.
I just found your content today through being recommended the "Another archeology conspiracy theory" short, and decided to check out the full debunk video when I got to the short version. I really like the bit at the end, and honestly hope he takes at the very least some of your advice, though given the snippet of the response vid I've seen, that doesn't seem likely unfortunately.
Either way, this was a fun ride, so I'm subbed for more. Also Googledebunkers is now one of my new favorite words
Every time someone claims that our current theories for how ancient Egyptians cut granite are wrong because they're too inefficient, I wonder if a few thousand years in the future there will be people arguing that we had to have antigravity technology or something already because sending a ship to space by pointing explosions at the ground is too inefficient.
XD pointing explosions at the ground.
Well when you say it THAT way...
Mainstream archaeology will tell you they exploded themselves into space! Tchyeah right... They expect us to believe anything!
During the Early Modern Period European states literally had guys whose only job was to go around and dig up the dirt on people's chicken pens and in their houses so that nitrate could be extracted from that dirt to produce gunpowder. There were literally laws stating that the dirt chickens and other birds shat on was the property of the state and it was considered vital to national security. This sounds insane today but like what the fuck else were they gonna do? Just not have any gunpowder to arm your armies and navies with? No of course not, this method might sound stupid but it's the only one they had and not doing it wasn't an option so that's what they did even if it did require sending our dudes all over the country to dig up chicken pens and transport it hundreds of km to an armory.
yeah, especially because they show examples of granite sarcophagi. Like, how many sarcophagi does your average person own? People have at most 1, and even then, most Egyptians weren't buried in granite, only rich people were. If they could cut granite easily, it wouldn't be something rich folk would use to show off
Besides, Pyramids were THE status symbol. Cutting edge techology (for the time) and thousands of manpower-hours put into building the rock pile is kinda the point.
Having worked on plenty of job sites, I'm 90% certain that the craftsmen didn't mess up the sarcophagus. They got that far along, and then word came down from the planners that they didn't need that sarcophagus after all. And then the tradesmen, having wasted hours upon hours of their lives they'll never get back, threw down their tools and said whatever the ancient Egyptian equivalent was for "GODDAMNIT!"
Never felt as close to an ancient Egyptian as I do right now.
The pharaoh probably decided he wanted a different color or style of stone or something stupid--after they had already hauled that giant bastard into place and were finalizing its dimensions.
I love little comments like this because as ridiculous and funny as the mental image is, the equivalent of this definitely happened. Maybe they expressed their frustration in a different way or had just a different cultural outlook over these things in general, but there is something very human about both changing your mind without thinking about all the consequences for those already working on the project as well as being upset in some way when all your efforts are wasted.
And it's that kind of reminder that these folks were people just like us, who likely got tired of projects or funding was short or the main guy in charge changed his mind or something big happened that caused everyone to temporarily abandon their projects and for some reason these people never came back to their project.
Goddammit? I'd suggest something stronger.
@Gildedmuse and that thought is so much more interesting, so much more emotional than claiming these ancients were so far above and beyond us and have no relation to us stupid 21st century humans. They were people. They lived, they felt anger at incompetence and pride at their work. They laughed and cried and stubbed their toes and celebrated with a beer among their coworkers. They deserve better than being used for these lies about lasers and aliens.
They'd probably say "GODSDAMNIT!" Because they were polytheistic.
Posted this on r/miniminutemanfans, but I wanted to see what people think here too:
Following Milo’s 2nd video debunking Filip Zieba, i was interested to see if Filip 1) would see the video, and 2) would react to it, or even change the content he makes.
Now it’s a couple weeks later, and I’m not 100% sure he saw the video, but as I’ve periodically went back and checked on his new content, I’m noticing some steps in the right direction.
Given some of the trends in his videos I’ve seen (as well as the fact that he reuploaded his first video, which Milo praised, after the release of Milo’s 2nd vid), I’d bet that he has seen the debunking videos, or at least the call to action at end of the second one.
As far as I can tell, Filip hasn’t made any drastic changes to his content, and his general “think for yourself and question authority” attitude is the same, BUT I’ve noticed some notable differences in his videos released post-googledebunking:
Firstly, I’ve noticed him using many more reputable facts in his videos, including many direct quotes and screenshots of news(?) articles in his “Tunnels under the Sphinx” video, citing a architectural proposal and the date of its release in his “Sky Tower” Video, and raising legitimately interesting points about mineral hardness, with a hardness scale for reference, in his recent “Egyptian Pottery” Video, to name just a couple.
Second, he seems to be going back to his roots a bit and talking about science in ways that aren’t fear-mongering, propagandizing or ridiculously conspiratorial. Recently, this can be seen in his “Sky Tower” video, his video explaining Gallium, and (the caption of) his admittedly joke-y video explaining the doorway effect.
Thirdly, and maybe most importantly, he honestly seems to be making much more of a good faith effort to be honest, even in videos where he describes pretty outlandish theories. A great example of this is the “Trump Time Traveller” Video. Throughout the video, he does a pretty good job of distinguishing when he is stating facts (even inviting the viewer to fact check him on all of it) and when he’s just speculating or pointing out what he sees as weird coincidences. Other, smaller examples throughout his new videos are instances of him saying things like “THEY don’t want you to know” or making some wild claim like“could this be aliens?!,” which is pretty par for the course for the old Zieba vids. The difference now is he follows those up with “lol jk, that’s probably not true, but it’s interesting to think about, right?” And I think that is MUCH less damaging and untruthful than his old way of pretty unambiguously misleading people.
His newer stuff still has the energy and attitude he’s capitalized off of for a while, but I really do think I’m seeing a change from dangerous misinformation to just discussing interesting theories, while acknowledging how outlandish some of them are. Anyway, maybe I’m just seeing what I want to see, but take an honest look, and let me know if any of yall are noticing that too. His antics still are not really my cup of tea, but I really think things are shifting in the right direction :)
EDIT: grammar
I think it is definitely a step in the right direction and It’s good to see because Milo is right, Filip is a great communicator and making it more factual and back to his roots(science) and it’s good to see. Hope he keep this up because it’s nice to see
Edit: he also deleted/privated all the conspiracy shorts on his TH-cam Channel. Nice
If this is true, this should be pinned or at least boosted to fuck. It'd be a shame for a guy who seems to be taking Milos criticism to heart and improving to be held to the standard of his old videos. Especially if he's actively removing them from the internet x
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He’s encouraging people to fact check…the era of googledebunkers is over 😢
I'm really hopeful that he is indeed changing his ways in the manner you outlined here. I don't think you're just seeing what you want to see, by the sound of it you're actually looking at this fairly objectively. *My* personal hope for his future is that he eventually gets to shift to content like that first video of his, just stuff that he genuinely finds personally interesting and is wholeheartedly excited to share with the rest of the world. Maybe he enjoys the stuff he's doing now, sure, I can't really say one way or the other; after all, he could still be latching to the kind of subjects that first caused him to take off online. But regardless of whether it's ancient mystery/near conspiracy content, or stuff about science and chemistry and space, or something else entirely, I just hope that not only does he continue to move in the right direction of not spreading misinformation and demonizing the idea of doing research for yourself, but that he truly enjoys the content that he creates and can take pride in his work the way that people like Milo can. The fearmongering and brainrot conspiracies aside, I just hope he can make the content that he loves and still retain his fans and followers. Because as far as I can tell, that's pretty much the picture of Elysium in the minds of content creators around the world, and skilled communicators and teachers like Milo and Filip deserve that kind of positive feedback loop in their lives.
the videos are great BUT the fact that the sources/citations are all open access also shows you stand by your words. not picking ones behind a paywall is fckn ace! good work
There’s something about being shown Filip’s first video that really shook me. It really humanised Filip in my mind. Thank you Milo for ensuring that I did not walk away from this video a more hateful person.
Same, I genuinely shed a tear while watching his first video. For over 3 hours I felt nothing but annoyance about Phillip and disappointment that he uses his skills for this bullshit. But then while watching his first video I felt a genuine liking towards him. Like he was someone I would love to talk to about science. It shook me a bit to realize that.
Too bad it's basically just quoting something Neil deGrasse Tyson frequently says
@@petercolson2990 and? Milo does not pose himself as some kind of philosopher, you could even say that he tries to push people away from thinking that he is better than us. And the message still works, so I don't see a problem here
@@levar6618 we're talking about Filip's first video, that Faroonite is referring to as something that humanizes Filip, and that Milo uses as the example that Filip cares about science and discovery.
Except that it's just a Niel deGrasse Tyson video that Filip is quoting verbatim for views on tik-tok
It's still a lazy grift on Filip's part, not something genuine and heartfelt from the man.
I'm not sure how you thought I was talking about Milo, who actually does present us with things he is personally passionate about
@@petercolson2990 i am so incredibly stupid 😭😭😭
Ok, I have a degree in Egyptology so I just wanted to give a couple small corrections and some more evidence to help out your argument.
Firstly, the claim that slaves did not build the pyramids needs an asterisk as there is a lot of nuances in this point which your citation doesn’t mention. Though the workers were treated well (excavations at Heit el-Ghurab suggest they ate really good quality food for their social position), these workers were not there voluntarily. They were drafted for either construction or into the military (Wadi Hammamat graffito and Biography of Weni) and were punished if they were found in deficit of their required contribution (P. Berlin P. 10023A). However, the Egyptians called these forced laborers, “royal dependents” (nswtiw mrit) so we don’t call them slaves but corvee laborers. There are also other considerations but there is clearly nuance in the definition.
When you mention the black pyramid collapsing as evidence that the Egyptians had a few hiccups while building pyramids, that’s is a little inaccurate. The pyramid of Amenhemat III was built in the middle kingdom, about 600 years after Khufu, and collapsed long after it was built not while building it (Herodotus 2.148 mentions it as a grand monument even 1000 years after it was built). It was made of mudbrick and cased in limestone (differing from the old kingdom which just used limestone, which is a separate interesting question of why they changed building practices), once the limestone came off due to earth quakes and stealing, the mudbrick was exposed and over time disintegrated.
Next, when discussing the idea of transporting these large stones by boat down the Nile, this claim isn’t just intuition, we have evidence like in Deir el Bahari where we have a literal image of an obelisk being transported on a barge.
What Zieba forgets to mention is that we do have Old Kingdom pyramids with texts. The best example, and the earliest, being that of the Pyramid of Unas (we also have them from Teti and fragments from Pepi I). These texts are distinctly mortuary in nature, we can even see a direct evolution from the pyramid texts to the coffin texts to the Book of the Dead (some spells being copied nearly exactly).
For your point about tomb robberies id suggest citing the Papyrus Mayer A/B and P. BM EA 10052 which is a Late Egyptian legal document from Deir el Medina which specifically dealt with tomb robberies in the Valley of the Queens. Tomb robbery was and still is a major problem in Egypt
Though a lot of emphasis is placed upon the large granite stones sourced from Aswan, the vast majority of building blocks for the Pyramids were sourced from the limestone quarry of Tura, which is just a few miles away from Giza (The diary of Merer which you cited is actually a log book of a captain transporting limestone from Tura), it's a small point but an important one given Zieba's pension for hyperbole.
Finally, Zieba's inane point about the Pyramids of Giza being giant obelisks is stupid, but the iconographies are technically related. Both pyramids and obelisks are seen as representations of the Heliopolitan mound of creation called the Benben. Which again, is something interesting Zieba could of talked about instead of his insane giants theory.
Love your work @miniminuteman !
That still is more a labour-tax like the French Courvée (forced road repair work every year) and not "slavery".
All of the logistics around how the pyramids were built and the entire workers village next to them is so fascinating, I don't understand why people ignore it. So much of it frankly sounds kinda familiar in the modern world and I love stories like that, that lets us feel a connection with ancient people.
If there's one thing I love more than knowledgeable passionate people teaching me stuff, it's knowledgeable people adding more nuance and information to that conversation. Thank you :)
So well spoken & perfect until "should of" 🤦♂️
It may sound that way phonetically, but it's "should've" because it's actually "should have"
Based!
By the way, one of the reasons we know that the Pyramids were built by tradesmen and free workers is that we found an old, I believe, taskmasters "clipboard"(cant remember if it was preserved papyrus or a stone tablet) that had the names of workers and why they were absent from work. One of the reasons listed was "sick from drink" that basically translate to hungover. So, ancient construction workers were very much the same as modern day ones.
That's so interesting to know thank you
"Frank isn't here today"
"Ugh again?"
"Yea he got hungover"
"How are we supposed to haul these bricks without him?"
The idea of an ancient egyption construction worker telling his boss he cant come in because hes drunk/hungover is so funny but also completely expectable considering they were also just people
@@ZeallustImmortal They also got paid in beer so that checks out
IIRC, there were enough of such kind of documents and inscriptions left to show that the pyramid builders even had work contests, and one of the teams was named something like "Menkaure's drunkards" or "Menkaure's a drunkard" (I don't know enough to judge which one is correct). They were regular working people having some fun on their job.
that was an insane twist of content. I watched pt.3 before this, and I was expecting something waay different when, in his response, he says he also makes science videos.
He sounds so intelligent and genuine in that first video. unlike his more recent content - which I struggled to follow along because its too much information at once - in his first video, everything gets properly explained and it makes sense and it's told so beautifully.
I hope he does change, although his response video shows that might not be likely
As someone who used to do laser cutting for a living, the abandoned sarcophagus blank cracks me up. Yeah, Fil, they were using their ancient Egyption laser drill, that somehow creates a cut with an irregular curved profile, when they realized they had a bad angle and needed to trash the whole block. But before they threw it out they made sure to sand off any melt bead, slag spray, or any other burn marks from the top and bottom surface, and the fire polish from the cut face.
Also not to harp, but 4mm of cut per hour on a block that thickness would be pretty good work for a laser. They're not exactly great at cutting rocks, there's a reason why even today we prefer saws and abrasives for that kind of work.
Yep, when my parents were looking at rocks for our kitchen, what was considered cutting edge were not saws or lasers, but water cutting
I saw (!) somewhere that the cut was being made so the slab could be used as the lid to the sarcophagus. But as they were cutting, the slab cracked and broke. They likely didn't want to expend the energy and time to complete the cut. They abandoned the project perhaps because they knew how hard it would be to find another slab of matching granite to make the lid.
Idk man I think mainstream laser cutting brainwashed you into thinking that
I find it weird how he went with laser cutting and not water jet cutting.
@@Bob-bs9ok Fer shur duuuude, it's like Tesla man.
The fact that humans were using decoys for hunting thousands of years ago is far more fascinating than fake giants will ever be. Well, except from a mythological and folkloric perspective obvi.
Yess, true and real information, real human accomplishments are what makes archaeology so interesting. Learning about something new in archaeology always blows my mind, conspiracy theories have no purpose or gravitas, it’s just garbage that ppl with half a brain agree with
I love mythology, the stories and how the people who made it saw the world is so intricate in a way? Mythology is not appreciated enough. I hate when people use mythology to bolster their shitty pseudoscience though, just let them be as is, incredible myths and legends from a time long ago
That was the most fascinating thing that was in this whole 2 hour deal... I had to pause the video to look at how they made them it appeared like it was a male and female mallard pair
I'm religious, I speak to a lot of religious people. And whenever they bring up that giants once roamed the earth, I always say, "Or you know how you notice that someone is a foot taller than everyone else in the room? Have you ever thought that someone was just... taller, and that drove people to believe they are giants? HECK we even did it. Andre the Giant. He was WILDLY tall, over 7 feet. But us, modern people, still gave him the nickname giant. Is it that odd to think ancient people would do the same???
Andre the Giant was such a gigachad.
Only in Princess Bride was he wirth watching
Everything else was prearranged fake fight BS
@@leeshackelford7517wrestling is cool.
Andre the Giant was literally one of the nicest people on Earth. There was an interview with The Undertaker in a podcast, and Taker said he was still a rookie wrestler when he first met Andre, and Andre was very kind and friendly and soft spoken.
Not to mention that giants in various mythologies, like the Jotuns and Nephilim, weren’t actually described as physically gigantic, but as just a different race of people. There’s just no exact parallel word in English for these races, so translators opted to use the word “giant.”
Filip drank the Kool-Aid so fast that Jim Jones didn’t even have a chance to poison it first.
"The Materials used to build it are EXACTLY what we use today to build an electric current!" Ugh, I'm fairly certain modern batteries and powerplants are not made of 99% limestone and granite.
Lol I thought the same thing. And yes, quartz can be used to generate a tiny amount of current, but the piezoelectric effect generates only a minute voltage differential.
oh shit is THAT what is wrong with my iphone battery?????????/////
@@LaMarcheFutilé101😂
limestone and granite are minerals, batteries are made of minerals, atlantis must be real
Sitting in an office on the turbine floor of a power plant currently you'd be surprised how much limestone and granite we go through. It is none
1:07:14 “if you’re a reflection of our education system, they’re trying to take us down from the inside” this is my absolute favorite new way to insult a conspiracy theorist 💀💀💀
Called a pretty smart engineer about the power plant theory. Upon careful inspection of the idea, his response was: "if free electricity was real, we would be selling it".
Well, if you need to build a 300T pyramid it wouldn't be free, would it?
@@talldude1412That's if it's even possible in the first place 😂
Not totally related, but my Dad has a solar setup on his farm that produces enough electricity that the local utilities pay him for it at the end of the month. It's only like $6-20 but hell it's not something I'd more than heard about til I saw it happening. _He_ has free electricity, which they buy...so they can sell it to someone else for more. I've been told the same is true of the big wind turbines.
So, yes. Your friend is absolutely right. As close as that is to making electricity for 'free' (it's a hell of an up-front investment out of pocket, but so would a large quantity of limestone bricks and a chunk of land be) they are indeed selling it.
I mean
@@guyman1570It is theorically possible, Tesla made the math. But we'd need an unfathomably tall structure, not even the Burj Khalifa haa nowhere near the altitude to get to the upper Ionosphere where the energy is.
"Why are there no mummies? Where did all the mummies go?"
The Victorians ate them. No, I'm serious. There was a booming trade in mummy remains after some rich people heard that ground up mummy remains made a cure-all medicine.
What were Victorians on?
That ending was so wholesome. One of the best dunks is "Do better."
The constant Git Good commentary makes me so happy xD
Arguing "The pyramids couldn't have been tombs because they look nothing like the tombs from the Valley of Kings" is like saying "Brill Palace couldn't have possibly been the place where the King of England lived 1,000 years ago, because it looks nothing like Buckingham Palace today!"
I like your profile picture
@@madelinefalke5584
Aww, thanks! I like yours too! 😊
My favourite comparison would be that the long barrows of England weren’t cult centres because they don’t look like medieval churches.
For those who don’t know, the long barrows were made around 6000-7000 years ago by people across Western Europe. They are long earthen structures that contain either one long central chamber or a long central chamber with one or more stone or timber chambers branching out from the central chamber. They often contain one or more sets of human remains, although many have not had any human remains found in them (either because the remains were dissolved by the natural environment of the local soil or because they did not contain human remains in the first place). Sometimes the remains were found to be older than the mounds themselves; in other cases, “newer” remains were interred inside pre-existing mounds. Sometimes the remains are a collection of bones from multiple individuals, mixed together; sometimes they are the remains of a single person. Sometimes the remains were separated by age or sex, with male or female children separated from their adult counterparts, and sometimes not. There is evidence for ritual feasting at some sites, although there’s no conclusive evidence that the feasting was linked to any particular burials, or if it was independent of the burials themselves. Some of the sites seem to link up with other indicators of regional areas, acting as a kind of territorial marker.
In other words, they seem to serve fundamentally the same purposes as medieval parish churches, despite having very different construction methods and materials.
We are literally 7000 years younger than the long barrows, and their local cult centres look nothing like our modern local cult centres (churches, mosques, temples, etc.) but the evidence suggests that long barrows served the same purposes as a modern rural community church.
@@DneilB007 Or a more direct comparison in timescale being that churches from the early Middle Ages clearly cannot be churches because they look so different from baroque churches that are a thousand years younger.
@@DneilB007
Wow, that was very interesting-thank you so much for sharing! I always like hearing about ancient people doing something we still do today, but in a different way!
"How did multiple isolated cultures across the the world figure out how to build pyramids?" Is very quickly dismantled by the return question: "How many ways are there to stack rocks?"
Especially if you add, “how many ways are there to stack rocks that will stay up for thousands of years”. Like yes, they did make non-pyramid structures, they just didn’t stay up this long while the pyramids did
@@j3wi357 yeah you can just look at abandoned urban spaces and see that bricks one on top of the other can collapse. It’s the pyramid structure that makes the difference. Why can’t it just be cool that multiple cultures knew how to build a lasting structure? Why does it have to go to …… hear me out, 👽?
Also like beyond being vaguely the same shape these pyramids have like absolutely nothing in common with each other, both in how they were used and how they were built. It's like saying “how did multiple different isolated cultures figure out how to build towers”, the only reason saying the same thing about pyramids doesn't sound stupid is exactly because pyramids aren't all that common so they stand out.
Great video, just thought I'd point out that your source (16) for 13:00 doesn't back up your claim at all. The authors are talking about the *water level* of the Nile being particularly high at the time of Giza's creation, allowing for the transportation of resources right to its doorstep, which may have permitted its construction. The article does not mention the usage of water to level the site. There are some ideas floating around regarding the levelling of Giza's foundation using water, but sources on it are kinda scarce. They might have just used a square level tbh
One common thread for all these lost advanced technology theories is a vast underestimation of how much time people are willing to spend building something important to them, how good a product can get with a refusal to stop at good enough, and just how badly people would want the religious site that took hundreds of people multiple generations to make be absolutely perfect.
There are ppl that spend thousands of hours building 1:1 scale shit in minecraft. Hell, ppl build calculators and music tracks in minecraft simply bc they want to see if they can.
Ppl severely underestimate the effort humans will go to to build something grand just because they want to. Doubly so for ancient civilizations, since it was often religiously or culturally motivated.
I think the concept of "working towards an end goal you might never benefit from, simply because you feel driven to see it done" is a foreign one to the core of the Zieba fanbase. Much talk of ephemeral others and chosen peoples, but not a lot of proud builders sharing their craft or old men planting trees. It just seems like his type of content is simply more there to lay foundational mythology for gloomy apathy and misplaced anger rather than passion, optimism and pride in the good of our fore-bearers instead of glorifying their darkest days.
you can get a lot of stuff done when you're not spending your life browsing social media.
A pair of haute couture pants can take hundreds of hours. That's for one thing to be worn once.
In those old manors, the chandeliers and staircases have to be disassembled to clean them.
Forget people caring about this stuff, throughout time people have paid poorer people to do a silly repetitive task just for a vibe.
@@vespernight4236 I did spend a lot of time in my early 20s in minecraft building scale replicas of things from Achievement City just from watching their videos and counting blocks because there was no other way to do it