For two decades, journalists and officials, along with the Kremlin, have been spreading disinformation about Russia, including the “golden billion” conspiracy theory. This theory suggests that western elites want to seize control of the world’s resources, including those of Russia. Russian disinformation expert Ilya Yablokov explains that Putin has created an alternative reality in which Russia is at war not with Ukraine.
The main one has been the bioweapons conspiracy theory, which has provided a way to talk about the war while focusing criticism on President Biden and the U.S. government instead of Mr. Putin. The Kremlin’s disinformation has seen that hope, as there are US-funded biolabs in Ukraine, but they are not building bioweapons.
Over the past decade, conspiratorial ideas have moved closer to the mainstream of Russian political discourse. As more than two years have passed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia has stepped up its overt and covert propaganda efforts to weaken international support for Ukraine and undermining democratic values. Russia has taken advantage of technology and available media in ways that would have been inconceivable during the Cold War.
Russian propaganda also accuses NATO of controlling Ukraine and building up military infrastructure in Ukraine to threaten Russia. Russia claimed to discover US-funded biological weapon facilities in Ukraine this week, an allegation the United States quickly denied. Three decades after the demise of Marxism-Leninism, Russia is attempting to revive a state ideology, with many of its ideas appearing esoteric and hinting at the operation of an international conspiracy of states using terrorism as an instrument to weaken Russia.
📹 Melted Buildings Conspiracy Theory DEBUNKED
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The most frustrating thing about “The Grand Canyon is a Lichtenberg Figure” hypothesis, is that if he used just a little bit more brain power, he’d find the reason for this similarity. Electricity traveling through wood & water eroding rock have a feature in common: they follow the path of least resistance. That’s what the path of least resistance tends to look like.
Hi Milo! Long time listener, first time caller. As an university professor in geology, I am impressed by your description of sedimentary rocks and structures. Good job! I look forward to more of your articles in the future. PS Lichtenberg figures, lighting, erosion, dendritic crystal growth are all fractal patterns. This is why they have a superficially similar form. Their forms have nothing to do with their causes; they are a consequence of following the path of least resistance (see monte carlo simulations and random walk theory).
“Talk to any engineer!” My father is an engineer, and when inquired about building on slopes, he stated simply: “We’re engineers. We make it work, it’s not that hard. As long as the foundation is sound and you know the local geography– i mean, we’ve been doing this for a few thousand years, it’s not a new science. And I mean, it’s an efficient way to use space if you’re building a city.” Engineers dont give a shit if it’s on a slope, they take that as a challenge to their intellectual might. Engineers are some of the most batshit crazy inventors out there, and you think a slight incline is going to stop them from making their dream home? Hilarious.
As someone who grew up in the south west, and who revisits the best sites every year, it is exceedingly clear to me that Alpha Talkz has never actually seen any of these things in person. You can see arches in the process of formation, and you can watch canyons forming pretty much in real time. Geological formations do not exist in a time vacuum.
I don’t yet have a conspiracy theorist bingo card, but I do have a terrible article essayist bingo card and this guy hit all the prerequisites. Soft, reasonable voice; inoffensive piano music; citation-less statements; baseless connections/inferences; visuals/references that debunk their own theories….. You get the idea. LOL. New subscriber and I’m binging before bed. 😁 👍
I honestly think these people just haven’t spent enough time out in the natural world. Around the time you find your 10th heart shaped rock you start to understand that these things just happen.There are literally thousands of mountains and uncountable hills, it’s hardly surprising a couple of them look a little bit like a pyramid from the right angle.
I’m really feeling sorry for the man who made the melted building theory. He seems so desperate to understand the mysteries around him, but he fails at every step. It’s like he is holding a book upside down and is willing to consider any and all options on what it could mean and how to interprete it, except the option of turning it around.
I know this article is ancient at this point, but I just wanted to touch on the point of why people need to be called out on their conspiracy theories, and also say that I appreciate that you’re doing it, Milo. Someone has to, really everyone has to, but your academic background and relatable way of speaking makes you a really great candidate for being the Loud One. There are a lot of people out there who have their “pet” conspiracy theories, (Kubrick and the moon landing, for example) and yes, they look mostly harmless, but the problem with leaving any of these things standing is that they open doors to more insidious thoughts. Once you’re just “asking questions”, you can “ask questions” about some really dangerous topics. “Asking questions” about vaccination leads to vaccine hesitancy, which leads to vaccine refusal, which leads to outbreaks of diseases almost no one has seen in 100 years in the west, and even leads to pets living shorter lives because people don’t want their dogs to get autism. There are people alive right now who knew people, usually children, who died of these very preventable diseases, and anti-vaxxers just somehow completely ignore that those people exist somehow; they say they want proof, but they don’t trust scientists, which means they should trust anecdotes, right? The mental gymnastics and the hubris involved are just astounding. All that to say, thanks for doing what you do man, keep it up! It’s important work.
When ‘they’ (in this case, conspiracy theorists) do things like comparing electrical damage to wood to the grand canyon, and deciding it must be the same cause, it’s like saying: We have seen lines drawn by pencil, and when you look at a highway from above it’s a line, therefore highways must have been formed by giant pencils.
7:30 friendly reminder fractal wood burning is highly dangerous and very easily could kill you, as the voltage is not regulated by your standard built-in off switch by your at home electricity (when detecting interference like a human body) since it’s passing through a makeshift toaster thing to get that high of a current into the wood. it’s neat but it’s dangerous just thought i should mention
I’m- a little worried about that conspiracy theorist. It’s like he grew up in a bunker with his only exposure to the outside world being Ancient Aliens and the Bible. He doesn’t seem to understand ANY of the basic mechanics of the world around him to the point where I have trouble believing he even went to school. Can someone go check on him?
On the Lichtenberg argument: It’s been observed that flow of any kind, such as people, marbles, or electrical current generally follows the same principles as flowing water. It would only make sense that the patterns formed by water searching for a place to pool and current searching for a place to ground would resemble each other.
When I was a student at university I had a professor who said he couldn’t be bothered to refute any of the stuff that people like von Daniken said, because he figured if they ignored them, they would go away. Well, here we are, 36 years later, and we are stuck with a population that is taught to reject scientific reasoning, because it’s elitist. I love your website. Thanks for fighting against the demon haunted world.
To me, claiming that every natural Arch Formation is “proof of an ancient artificially built bridge that was reduced to its current state by some cataclysmic heat event” is the dumbest part. I say this because fun fact: The weakest part of a bridge is the arch itself. So, if there was some crazy-strong firestorm that destroyed those “buildings,” there would not be any surviving part to indicate anything such as a bridge. Also, as stated in the debunking, melted stone is lava. And if you were to look up “cooled lava flow,” you’ll find that none of the pictures look like wax from a melted candle; if anything, a lot of the pics look more like a tangled pile of yarn. Last thing I want to say is that using natural lightning to create a Lichtenburg figure, especially of such a large scale, is impossible. Simply due to the fact that lightning is A. Impossible to predict where it will strike and B. at most going to last only a few seconds.
The first time I saw this article I was taken aback, because this was actually a theory I came up with… When I was 6 or 7. My grandparents have a camp on an island off the northeast coast, and I noticed that some of the stones looked almost like weathered bricks. I had heard stories about Atlantis and such, and I knew that there were several different Native American tribes that may have lived out there, back when it was connected by a land bridge, so I thought maybe it used to be a city that had been weathered away (though I knew what erosion was from learning about the grand canyon so my thought was more that it had slowly deteriorated from the sea and been covered up.) It was really funny to me to see a grown adult come up with and fully believe a more outlandish version of something I came up with when I was 7.
9:54 I live in Saudi Arabia and one of my favourite things to do with my husband and kids is to hike up these canyons–called Wadi–which are right next to our home. I can’t tell you how many fossils I have pulled from the wadi–molluscs, urchins, cephalopods–I have a whole collection of these beautiful lil puppies that I have pulled out of the ground lol. Little stone shells, even out in the sand dunes! Even more; the wadis here were most commonly occupied by the Bedouin at the base, because it would collect the most water during the rainy season, it’s usually greener and there’s more food variability. The wadis were a lot more green during my father-in-law’s childhood than today, but we have seen a change in the past five years. Another thing I wanted to touch on is the black pyramid–the mud brick one–I’m suspicious of this being built by workers who weren’t originally from the Nile valley. My mother-in-law was born in a mud brick home in Najd province in Saudi Arabia in the 1940s-50s. We don’t know her exact age lol. However, there hasn’t been floods in that southernmost part of the Najd region in almost a century and that mudbrick home, which was built by her father, stood almost totally in-tact up until last year when we had the most wild flooding here. We took a trip down there to see where my in-laws grew up, and there was nothing left of the home. So it’s still impressive that the pyramid has stayed somewhat upright across the millennia. Another interesting thing, too, is the local knowledge that entire cities are known to be buried under the sands.
As someone who knows an engineer: They literally don’t give a shit. Nothing can stop them from doing their work. Trust me, I’ve given him multiple challenging terrains to make a sketch of the house he would build there and he did it perfectly almost every time. I mean hell, here in Serbia there’s literally a house on a rock in the middle of a river. I’m not joking just look up “Kućica na Drini” (or kucica na Drini it doesn’t matter) Moral of the story: engineers are unstoppable
you have to love how backwards they look at things. It’s always “these look so much like this man made structure! it must be a conspiracy!” and they… don’t take the two seconds to think “oh it looks this way because humans like to create things based on beauty we’ve seen elsewhere (especially in nature), such as these mountains that look similar”.
You know… almost every consciparicy theory sounds like a cool idea for a fictional story. Like, a civilization built over the melted remains of an ancient one? That sounds awesome. Too bad most people who come up with these ideas also seem to believe it’s true. And have for literal centuries. Just look at the crazy guy who came up with the continent of Mu
I’m surprised alphatalkz didn’t bring up the Indus River Valley civilization. I remember doing a project on it in middle school and finding a conspiracy site claiming that there were supposedly materials found in the center of the city that could only be formed in extremely high temperatures like the buildings were melted, with the melted effect radiating outward like a blast, and concluded that aliens must have thought they knew too much and nuked the place. absolutely wild. obviously it’s bullshit, but at least he could have actually cited something instead of just relying on “oh yeah these things look the same”
Still on my “Pseudo Archaeology Bull$h!t Bingo”-card: – ancient high technology – ancient powertools – “as they tell us/want us to believe” – unknown ancient civilization – make use of already existing structures/buildings – not capable of with only flint and copper tools – no evidence for pyramids being tombs – powerplant lmfao 😂
Another glassblower here.. a pretty experienced one if I can say so myself. Yes, glass does tend to ball up when molten.. the. Problem, it has to be ELEVATED AND ROTATED! If you pour a crucible of molten glass into the ground, you know what you’re gonna get? A fucking puddle. Also, large balls of glass would have likely exploded long ago without a proper annealing cycle.. air cooling is gonna result in much stress. Yes, a sphere is inherently strong, but stress is unavoidable without an even cooling. It’s possible that it could have been insulated by dirt or sand or something, but it’s not gonna give perfect results. Stressy pieces are liable to randomly explode months or years after being made thanks to small environmental changes. I’ve seen it myself. Many times. A piece can be set on a shelf and randomly burst into pieces for no obvious reasons.
Funny how this universal melting event absolutely destroyed immense structures larger than anything built by humans, but left a lot of extremely intricate pyramids that we also have unmelted records of how those unmelted structures were made. You would think we would have no intact pyramids if this event happened. Also those nice rock layer lines would be more melted and wobbly.
Honestly, the imaginative part of my brain LOVES conspiracy theories like this because it just seems like such an epic event! All these things of advanced civilizations we don’t know about yet, cataclysms, paradigm shifts and government covers when we finally start to discover something totally unbelievable, and just the sheer infinite potential of such things; it’s a fun story! It’s a fun. story. x’D
Alright, we all know that he’s making this up, but can you imagine how cool this would be from a world-building perspective? A planet that got strike by massive lightning bolts across the entire world, left enormous Lichtenberg figures everywhere, and superheated it so much that the stone buildings melted. How cool is that for a premise. Honestly these conspirators should just be fiction writes with what goes on in their heads.
So the main reason that canyon formations resembles Lichtenberg figures is simply that they both effects of the path of least resistance. When putting force on an object that deteriorates the force will always take the easiest way through the object, this often results in a fractal pattern in naturally accruing objects like sandstone or wood. Also, it it was a gigantic lightning that created the grand canyon, wouldn’t the heat be immense? So why do we not see any traces of magmatic rock formation in the canyon?
This right here. This is the content we want on YouTube. Full body breakdowns of quacks trying to trick the populous for views. Amazing article, this is why we love this website. Tick toks are just not long or in-depth enough to convince the people who are willing to believe whatever the internet tells them. This is a chefs kiss to the people who are fed up with the bull shit that modern people with a camera vomit. My applause good sir.
Hey maniminuteman I have to say I am proud of you for what it’s worth I didn’t know you at one time or only doing little tiktok articles the first time I saw you was on YouTube shorts but I went to your website and it was probably last year he’s mad young and he’s not looking like an archaeologist at all. But I listened and saw that you are actually not fake I think you said you had a PhD I might be making that up though and if so that’s really impressive but anyway you go on site you make someone entertaining articles they’re definitely of quality that you could call them academic almost… Anyway if you were only making little shorts at one time and you weren’t all that happy to be able to do these long ass articles is really a great accomplishment because the information on them is dank as hell the production quality is good enough I mean they’re not Syfy adventures I hope you make a reasonable living off of your endeavors because when I saw you go to gobekli tepe and the other tepe… You are like a giddy little kid actually excited and it shows with the amount of information that you really do put forth it is refreshing to say the least and you deserve to eek out an existence with this so that you can keep doing it for the good of all humanity
“We know exactly how the Grand Canyon was formed…” Of course we do. A Godzillasaurus was eating curried Raman noodles when he sneezed. A noodle shot out of his nosed covered in acidic phlegm, burning a giant chasm into the very ground where it landed. That in turn caused water to pour up from the very center of the earth causing the Biblical flood which drowned all the dinosaurs causing them to go extinct. Except for the Loch Ness Monster, of course, because she was still in outer space at the time but was drawn to the flooded earth because it seemed more appealing than drinking star juice.
16:45 “The ceiling looks like it’s melting” I lost it. I mean. This guy doesn’t know how stalactites form? Also, how does this guy have a better mic setup but worse sound quality than a guy recording off his phone? XD Been going through you stuff and I’m loving it. Not only am I entertained, but I’m learning new things, too. Keep it up. Consider me subbed.
What boggles my mind about the “electrical discharge pattern” is that he clearly shows that, in order to form them on a surface, you have to burn it. So the result is more than just lines. It’s completely covered in charcoal. The heat necessary to heat spans of land so big and leave marks so deep would have definetly left evidence that the ground was superheated at some point. Like, we have experts who can determine at what temperatures rocks where at some point in the distant past. I think they would have found evidence of giant spans of melted rock.
“Looking like Atlantis” reminds me of a local late-night news program, now many decades past. Since it was a slow news day, they covered an ‘urban bigfoot’ sighting. They interviewed the guy who reported the sighting: he said, “It made a sound like halfway between a gorilla and a dinosaur. I’ve been around; I know these things.” Television and films have a way of making us think (even when we know better) that we know what dinosaurs sounded like, and what Atlantis looked like.
I like to keep a toe dipped in the lunatic fringe to keep an eye on things, stay abreast of the crazies. But this is the first time I’ve heard about mountains being melted buildings. Plenty about Cataclysms (literally Biblical, natural, and so on), but no melted cities masquerading as geography. Which is concerning because it suggests the lunatics are getting crazier ; that bodes well for long-term stability.
Part of his grand canyon theory also relies on the existence of the “pyramid” before whatever event caused the canyon to form (ostensibly as a lichtenberg formation) and melted the structure. This really falls apart when you pay attention to the fact that the “pyramid” is at the bottom of a canyon that shouldn’t have existed at the time of its construction…
This is really amusing to me because my Mother and I made up stories about the indentations being caves that were part of an ancient city but we knew we were making up fantasies. Just something to pass the time while we drove for hours past the similar terrain while doing a large loop through Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Nevada and back down into California. It was the same as when we would make up stories about the figures we’d see in the clouds. My entire childhood was making stories on the spot with my Mother, but we never tried to convince anyone that the stories were anything but fantasies.
these “looks like = has been” ideas rear their head every so often, especially “looks like a wall” when it’s just cracks in limestone deposits that were deposited in layers. Just nearby in the last decades someone “found” that the local ancient castle ruins were much more extensive than previously thought “because there’s walls just beneath them” – and another person “found” “ancient roman walls”.
The thing about his “electricity did it” theory is he didn’t prove anything, and missed the fact that water and electricity behave similarly in how they travel: the path of least resistance. So they will ultimately form similar patterns when affecting objects; which is fascinating on it’s own – and doesn’t need conspiracy to spice it up.
I once had an art teacher that put up a picture of a fancy leaf, then implied that it couldn’t possibly have been made through through ‘random chance’ (aka natural selection/evolution) and basically implied that only a higher power could make anything that looked symmetrical or artistic or architectural in nature… This guy’s conspiracies kinda reminds me of that.
As someone from southern Utah, who grew up and still lives just outside of Zion National Park, the way this conspiracy theorist pronounces Zion, as “Zee-on” (rhymes with freon), is causing me physical pain. If you want to sound like a tourist, you say “Zy-on (rhymes with ion), and if you want to sound like a local, you say “Zy-in” (rhymes with lyin’). I have never heard it called “Zeeon” before today and I never want to hear it again.
Next thing you know, he’ll realize that the mathematical simulations of star cluster formations look like neural synapses when you zoom out and he’ll say we’re all cells in a larger organism because it “looks like” neurons. Yes. It’s cool as shit that some things look like other things, that river canyons can look like lightning burns, but are just chance due to how the river flows, because nature is fucking cool that way but Jesus Christ. Holy shit. I want my brain cells back
“The stratigraphy matches the surrounding canyon.” I think this was your best point and you should have done more with it. 1) Give the definition of stratigraphy and point at it in the picture. 2) Find other pictures of the stratigraphy from farther away and show how it’s similar (but of course find parts that can’t be mistaken for pyramids).
It’s amazing to see how you’ve evolved as a creator, and the heights you’ve reached! At this point in time did you imagine that you would get to go on a private tour of a museum, with a highly trained professional? You’re an amazing teacher, and I’ve fallen back in love with science, geology, and history in general, and for that I thank you❤❤
That’s right. Egyptians, who are very well know for their beautiful artwork and hieroglyphics that are found all over Egyptian ruins, did a whole bunch of pyramid and called it day without inscribing a lick of context. And also never mentioned the mega empire across the sea in any history, legend or myth. Flawless logic.
Thanks for your passion for reality. I wish someone did the same for ‘plandemic’ as you do here. Given I’m a nurse who has consistently worn an N95 mask at work since COVID arrived on the scene and no one would let a surgeon operate without a mask the hysteria within the public about masks ‘literally’ killing people is a 🤣
I think it’s important to keep in mind one of the reasons we succeeded as a species was pattern recognition…. Not actual higher level thinking (that came later) it’s one of the reasons I think humans love conspiracies. Seeing patterns where they don’t exist. I’m also not discounting the thumbs or the fact we can literally walk things to death but it’s the main reason we find these patterns in mundane things. It’s also the reason we make connections that lead to truly remarkable discoveries. Take the good with the bad being human is pretty lit.
Let’s combine Giant trees, Giant people, dragons and melted buildings in to one super dumb theore… So 6 thousand years ago (when earth was created) there were giant people, but one of theme ate from giant tree of onowlage so all loving god created dragon to kill them all. Dragon hunted down all giant people and was destroying all their building by melting their houses. So giant people had no choice but to evolve in to small people, once dragon could not find any large people he had no choice but to go to sleep in his giant tree… So small people chopped down giant tree and lived happy ever after. Bonus theory, while dying large dragon soiled itself cousing mudflat that covered whole earth. And now at least 10 people on earth believe that is true
As a Christian, I’m not positive but I’m pretty sure that verse he read isn’t literal lol. I don’t mean the conspiracy guy isn’t literal I mean he took that verse out of context and the actual verse itself is a metaphor Edit: I just checked and yes, it’s literally comparing humans to the metal you melt down in furnaces but instead of god using heat he uses wrath. It’s entirely metaphorical.
What I find really funny about the other guy is how he change direction right after his first statement. So, his first statement : “We gonna talk about something bizarre : the melting theory”. Let emphase on that word : THEORY. And than, present “evidences” that support this theory as fact and never come back about “theorist say so”. He could have done the same article, changing a little bit the phrasing, even go a little on the tengent “what do you think : is bs or not?” for the click, but at least not present stuff as “evidences” and “facts”. I find all these compiracy theory very interesting as they are often base on half truth or what I would say “reflexe truth” (I don’t have a better word for now, but I’m talking the reflexe of the brain to do “it’s look like” and all the bias thing that we do without thinking). And often, there some good idea there for fantastic story and romance book. I’m pretty sur if you go around some data base of all the movie and book, you gonna find a lot of these “conspiracy” taking part because… you know… entertainment is needed if you want to sell a movie or a book. Anyway, the point is that presenting a theory as a fact to thousand upon thousand of viewer is unfair!
Bruhhhh the glass-rock part is such a bruh moment. Think about it this way, small drop of water, spherical. Large puddle of water, flat. Even though molten glass and other materials have a lower viscosity, something that large would at minimum flatten out. Even if it was a flash of heat that turned it liquid, that residual heat from inside and everything else around it would give more than enough time to flatten out.
Melted glass has a thickness it naturally wants to settle into no matter how much glass there is. That thickness is about 6mm. So in small enough amounts, yes, melted glass will naturally pull together on itself to make spheres. If there’s more than that they will form flat nuggets or full on sheets of glass. Any glass that is thinner or thicker than that 6mm has been manipulated into being so. If those spear-like rocks were melted glass from windows, they would be sheets of glass covering the ground. ALSO, glass needs to be cooled slowly or else it’ll crack or even explode. Large balls of glass like that would 100% need to be brought down in temperature at just the right speed to avoid breaking. I have seen hot glass that was in the process of being cooled down explode, sending shards of hot glass everywhere while sitting in a kiln set to the proper holding temperature for cooling projects just because the lid was opened to place another project inside. My mom is a glass artist and I sometimes will join her in her studio to make things out of glass as well. So while I’m not an expert, I know more than the average person, and it’s more than enough to call bullshit on the claim that those rocks are actually melted windows.
I heard “if an ancient religious text is your only source for your theory, that says a lot” and went “well thats mean, my research-” and then remembered that I’m an archeology major specializing in MEDIEVAL MATERIAL CULTURE. I study ancient religious texts because my field of study is focused on the people, places and ways of living that produced those texts.
Another few arguments that disprove the melted buildings stuff: if there were a worldwide extreme heating event capable of melting rock all over the world so that even a cave below ground gets melted it would have been such an enormous temperature that not only the entire crust of the earth would be leveled and with little to no height and depth (Crematoria from Chronicles of Riddick as an actual example of how such world would look like), life could have not survived such extreme events, probably some extremophile bateria but thats it really. Even if it wasnt everywhere, if it was this “mega lightning bolt” that formed the grand canyon, the amount of energy needed for a lightning to melt so much earth would have heated the entire atmosphere of the earth by orders of magnitude higher than what the Chicxulub meteor did 65 million years ago. Its as if life wouldnt be possible in this planet after such cataclysmic event happened and current day earths topography wouldnt exist at all.
I’ve managed to accidentally produce glass in a sand layer in a dirt lined forge. I can tell you that glass that’s formed in a natural environment absolutely does not form into nice clean “spheres”. It also breaks VERY differently than concretions. (You can knap thick glass the same way you can flint).
Please take more of this low hanging fruit and punch it in the Valley of balls. Did you get the alien at 18:17? If the stone bridges were man made then what did they connect? If all these stone pyramids were man made structures then why are they solid? Normal buildings have holes in them often referred to as “doors”, and “rooms”. Why did he not bring up the glass that is actually made from lighting striking sand? Those have some nice fractal patterns and give a realistic example of what happens when nature gets angry. And because he brought the Bible into this, what is more likely: The Grand canyon was created by lighting from the heavens, or The Grand canyon was created after Noah’s flood receded?
“It looks like a structure” I know, isn’t it crazy how things sometimes look like other things?! 🤯 Also nobody show this fella the Giant’s Causeway. Seriously though, I appreciate your explanations, both countering this nonsense and providing genuine information and on why this kind of bullshit is legitimately dangerous. Thank you for your effort👍
Honestly, the most impressive thing about an Ancient Egyptian colony in Arizona wouldn’t be the colony bit but the Arizona bit. That would mean meaning landfall on the East Coast and deciding, this green bit of land isn’t right and then marching all the way across to a desert. A journey that is probably 2 and a half days using a “two ton metal chariot of death” and paved roads which is the best case scenario instead of the more likely scenario of a whole of lot people that probably won’t want to move very fast towards a theoretical desert.
10:47. That… is a cone, not a pyramid. Rounded base… two faces… pointy top. Like a unicorn horn, except that a cone actually exists, unlike the unicorn or the melted buildings theory. Well, he might actually be right about the planet melting and being fried by lightning, only I think it’s happening right now… to everyone suffering through his article.
“I’m somewhat knowledgable in a specific field of study/work.” “Oh, this thing I know nothing about looks kinda vaguely similar to a thing I know a lot about…. they must be THE SAME THING.” “But the people who know about this thing claim that they are unrelated. They must be WRONG, because I’m always right, this means that everything they say must be a lie as well.” – Every conspiracy theorist
I never expected to learn this much about geology and ancient buildings in a conspiracy theory debunking article. Thanks for your sacrifice, you’re a star! Also… reality is so much more fascinating that any conspiracy theory will ever be. I mean… just the fact we have a pyramid like the black pyramid, documenting an ancient architectural fuck up, it doesn’t get much better than that.
One objection: the black pyramid did not collapse because of the rooms within it. If done correctly, rooms in pyramids are perfectly able to work. It was because the pyramid was pressing directly down on those rooms. Ironically, the fix for that would have been to make even more space in the form of relieving chambers, so that the pyramids weight wasn’t directly on top of the corridors. Voids was not the issue, the lack of support structures for them was.
Apologies in advance for the long paragraph, but the discussions of scripture sparked my curiosity. I’m a Christian who believes in the importance of the Bible. Part of this is using scripture in the correct context both with the type of argument you are making and the verse’s context within the Bible. The first thing that caught my eye was the the verse he tried to use as evidence was from Ezekiel. Ezekiel is one of the prophetic books in the Bible, which means the only way for it to be usable as evidence for the Melted Buildings theory is if God was casting judgment on the civilization being discussed. Below is a direct copy and paste from my Bible app that contains the verse he tried to use, the one before, and the one after. The bolded sentence is the verse he quoted. Ezekiel 22:19-22 NIV, “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into Jerusalem. As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you. I will gather you and I will blow on you with my fiery wrath, and you will be melted inside her. As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath on you.’ ” Ok, so let me summarize what this all shows me. First of all, he used a prophetic book as evidence that was written after Babylon conquered Israel, long after the supposed “ancient Egyptian colony” would have been founded or destroyed.
Thank you Milo for swinging the schlong of science in the face of these misinformation, miscommunication clout seeking imbeciles. You are not alone in this fight, I often watch flat earth debunking also and I am proud of you that is standing up for truth and facts. ❤ Keep up the great work and stay awesome
I’m sure this isn’t the reason but I recently learned from working in a landscaping supply business that trees will literally start melting rock (in a way). If the roots of the trees run into stone and can’t get around they’ll just go right through. There’s a type of bird that builds nests in the sides of stone using twigs to make a hole in it.
I’m not totally sure alpha talks understands how lichtenberg figures work because if lightning striking the ground did create a lichtenberg figure in the way he describes, it would create branches going out in all directions from one point, rather than the examples he shows which are one solid stream with branching fractals.
Though that one “pyramid” mountain was composed of degraded sedimentary layers, I’ve always felt that volcanic mountains, Fuji for instance, are way more regular and pyramidal and are without doubt mountains. Then again, this is the sort of guy who’d say this proves that the ancient Egyptians, guided by alien technology of course, harnesses volcanism to make pyramids.
Day 258, I am now 19:47 in. I started this journey, full of hope and optimistic ideals about humanity. But now, I know just how naive I truly was. As not even 30 seconds in and I began to feel that slow creep of rising cringe bubble from the depths. Urging me too look away, to pause. But I must reach the end, to climb to the top of this mountain. Wish me luck.
I just discovered your website and have been binging your stuff. I love your enthusiasm. I have always been interested in history and I was fortunate to have history teachers with passion for their subject. You very much have a similar vibe. Except for the swearing because it was public school, lol. Keep up the good work!
At 23:37 when the conspiracist talked about that verse in the bible as a christian I want to share what that verse ACTUALLY means. In this chapter, God is talking to Ezekial (the prophet this book is named) about Judgement on Jerusalem’s sins. Then God compares the people as dross, an unwanted material than forms on top of molten metal. Then God will gather them in a furnace to be melted in a fiery blast. He is not burning the city, he is talking about defeats and illnesses and other stuff will happen to Israel if they did not obey. And even if he was going to bring fire he is talking about Jerusalem not Arizona and I can confirm they are more than a 1000 miles away. God’s anger is usually represented as fire. I kid you not if he would have read 4 sentences back he would have understood the context. Conspiracy nuts have to realise that the bible is also poetic and has deeper meaning.
23:44 I believe that we kind of have to adopt a critical view of religion because most “Conspiracy Theories” are basically religious cults centered on distrust of institutions. The Alternate History Hub did a review of the “Ancient Aliens” TV show. He came to the conclusion that “Ancient Aliens” is just a religion that takes the word “God” and replaces it with “Aliens”. The only thing they will count as “evidence” is anything that validates their beliefs. Anything that contradicts their beliefs must be false or is a “coverup” as they call it.
“Why would anyone build on a non level surface, just talk to any engineer….” Hasn’t actually spoke to an engineer. How do I know? Because if he did we would tell him that we do, indeed, build buildings on such surfaces. We have many methods in order to do so. Love these conspiracy theorists, their entire theory is just based on the “Trust me Bro” mentality.
I do enjoy your article after having just found your website here a bit ago, but it must differ with you on one point. At 10:34 you claim that his lack of evidence is “not evidence of jack shit”. I believe you are wrong at this point. I believe a total lack of evidence IS PERFECT evidence of jack shit. I also believe there needs to be an intense global study showing who Jack is and why he seems to want to shit all over the place. For I’ve heard this stated about him all of my life. If you could look into that please good sir. Answering that question would settle the minds of billions of people and help us sleep better at night. TYVM, Restlessly wondering.
for the comparisons he makes to actual pyramids- its almost as if mankind has consistantly looked to nature as both inspiration and direct reference for infrastructure. Like we legitimately do that. Engineers do that. If it aint broke dont fix it. the temple in india looks like the mountain, probably because it may have because the people building it may have looked to mountains for ideas on how to structure the building effectively.
conspiracy theories and conspiracy content can be a lot of fun when it’s just like “hey that would be kind of weird and cool if it were real, right?” but when people actually believe in them and believe that strongly it just leads to this paranoid rejection of reality and basic science. it also needs to be said that conspiracy endorsement is a grift, and an extremely lucrative one if you can do it right–just look at alex jones.
just a thing: its always fun to sit in echo chambers and listen to people that know how nature works mocking dumb conspiracies but it would be way way more productive if you started the whole thing by going “here’s why fractal patterns form in different natural phenomena”, “here’s why erosion looks like melted wax.” rambling like this still leaves the main focus of his article untouched, that is, nature is complex and does cool stuff that looks intriguingly similar at first glance. thats everything he has to go on about and the only appeal any of that bullshit would have to laymen. starting by strking that right at the head would completely crumble the conspiracy and leave you with full support, even from people that were previously buying into it, to then keep ranting as much as you wanted. these people are mostly just halfwits doomcultists that literally worship the idea that the apocalypse is gonna happen in their lifetime because they need to feel important by association, evene at the cost of the planet. its not coincidence they all mix religion with this esoteric, fantasy bullshit. what they cook up is easy to debunk by default, because they didnt think about it at all. its just a bunch of ‘mystery boxes’, just “wouldnt it be cool if it was true?”. the main damage they cause isnt really convincing anyone of their bullshit, that I doubt even they give a crap about, its eroding the public’s trust in science and logic. we’re all just bombarded with doubt and anxiety from all sides, specially at difficult times like these, and the only anchors we would have to guide and support us through any of it are the knowledge and culture we spent thousands of years meticulously building.
“Who builds things on unlevel ground like this?” Is possibly the most questionable thing i’ve ever heard anyone say. One wonders how cities exist at all if building on unlevel ground is so unpleasant to us. I work as a tour guide at a historical building in a particularly bumpy part of my country and one of its defining features is that because it stands on a slope, it has an extra floor on the lowermost side. I wonder what he would think of that. Incidentally, the building is neo-romanesque. Was its architect a time traveler from the 1100s?!
I was looking through some of your older content to see if there were any articles I had missed, and lo and behold, I found this treasure! While I was perusal it, my 6-year-old came in and the following exchange happened: 6: “Who’s that?” Me: “That’s Milo, he uses science to correct people when they’re wrong about things.” 6: “He seems mad. Why is he mad?” Me: “Because that other guy is saying things that are not true, and that’s upsetting.” – we watch the article and get to the end – 6: “Mom, can you subscribe? I feel bad for this guy.” (meaning Milo) Me: “I’ve been subscribed for years. Why do you feel bad for him?” 6: “Because he’s gotta deal with this guy saying stupid, wrong things.” Me: “Yeeeaaahhhh….. That’s unfortunately just what it’s like to be any kind of scientist nowadays, honey. 😅” Milo, you have my 6-year-old’s deepest sympathies. 😂
Wonder how many of these people ridiculing him about reptilians but if you asked them if they believe in demons they would say well yes. Pretty sure almost every religion has a reptile like evil entity and in the Bible it is the first one mentioned at the very beginning of the book but many of those who point and laugh at the crazy tin foil hat guy and lizard people. I never see any of them consider maybe we are just using different words for the same thing? As a matter of fact maybe these other religiobs who also used other languages just used different word and descriptions for the same things described in my book but in the context of the times and culture they lived in? Everyone is always too busy being right and I have news for them we are all wrong a lot and I suspect more often than not. As time goes on many of David Ike’s “conspiracy theories” have proven correct or more evidence comes to light. He consistently has a much better track record than these “news” companies and political talking heads pumping out 24/7 lies and propaganda for whatever entity signed their last check.
Being intellectually lazy, is seeing the same pattern of corruption in governments and believing it’s just chaotic and happens by itself. If you pay attention to the various statements that are made by people in power ie; Henry Kissinger, you can put together a picture of what the movers and shakers are planning to do regardless of whether it benefits voters or whether it benefits big corporate interests, who now appear to have taken key positions of power that allow them to make policy. Even though ( and this is very important) even though they Are Not elected officials.