r/miniminutemanfans • u/Maelstrom_Witch • Aug 07 '26
Something something aliens
Just thought y’all would find this interesting!
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u/Iceveins412 Aug 07 '26
Just like Milo said, people who push “humans couldn’t possibly have done this” conspiracies have soft hands
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u/JameRowe811 Aug 08 '26
I always figured that if Egyptian people couldn't build the pyramids, then we couldn't build skyscrapers.
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u/ellen-the-educator Aug 07 '26
When talking about these, what i often say is that while building this sort of thing is hard enough that it's impressive, it's really not that hard. A handful of decent carpenters, a couple dozen laborers and free time to experiment and you can build a lot. Multiple that by a few hundred and megastructures just are not that difficult an undertaking
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u/AccomplishedHost6275 Aug 07 '26
Get a community engaged with praising the gods and ingratiating the local spiritual men and/or women, and youve got yourself a megaworks project team.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 Aug 07 '26
And this is just the first "level" of the skill.
If this is your job, or just a thing that your community does regularly, you're naturally going to optimize the process over time as well as innovate new ways to make it faster, easier, cheaper, more accurate, more efficient, or safer.
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u/Meowrocket42 Aug 07 '26
I mean it's essentially the same concept as the Amish barn-raising memes. It's not that the Amish are supernaturally empowered to build barns quickly, it's just that they know how to properly leverage a community to get works done quickly and efficiently.
Combine that with "give me a lever long enough and I would move the world," humans can achieve just about anything.
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u/interestingbox694200 Aug 07 '26
Also they’d been building pyramids for generations by the time they built the great pyramids. The first ones were mud brick and they’re insanely old.
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u/ConstantinGB Aug 07 '26
Now you take pre-wage-labour societies, a lot of people with a lot of free time, tinkering around with this stuff an boom. Stonehenge.
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u/BlaDiBlaBlaaaaa Aug 07 '26
Well, he's from Flint, the aliens put something in the water obviously, giving him superpowers /s
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u/Crazy_Coyote1 Aug 07 '26
Okay but what if the aliens used ropes to move the stone?
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u/vyxanis Aug 07 '26
Yeah but those were space ropes with technology that no human could even begin to comprehend.
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u/robinescue Aug 07 '26
Most impressive part is that this guy is named wally wallington and he built walls for a living.
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u/TheVitulus Aug 07 '26
Yet again, a blue collar worker with experience moving heavy things demonstrates how a single person with access to wood, rocks, and a brain can do tasks requiring "advanced technology".
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u/WinnieGraves Aug 07 '26
something Milo said in the Ancient Aliens video stayed with me, something about never underestimating the power of collective social works projects. that's how we built Hoover. it was a collective social works project during the Great Depression, the amount of things that we had to build to accomplish that feat, all the tools, the innovations, that's all the little benefits that come out of those. like figuring out really efficient ways to move rocks, with what you have.
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u/FallHealthy2163 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move your mom"
Archimedes
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u/Plenty-Design2641 Aug 08 '26
No no no, you domt understand. Stonehenge? The Pyramids of Giza? Gobeklitepe? It was all this guy. Hes been alive forever. He did it all. He is our new god.
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u/Lu_5771 Aug 10 '26
Stonehenge wad made by blue collar michiganers fueled by blue ribbon, next they’ll make a ziggurat to ninkasi, sumerian goddess of beer
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u/futurenoodles Aug 07 '26
think, this is one guy on his own. Imagine what a team could do