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📹 Top 10 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out to Be True
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📹 Filip Zieba Debunked – TikTok’s Worst Conspiracy Theorist | Pt. 2
Howdy friends. In this video we continue our deep dive into the prolific misinformation TikTok account run by Filip Zieba.
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 articles, 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’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?”
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)
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.
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.
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???
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 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.”
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.
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.
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.
Saw one of your debunk shorts on YouTube and I was like “oh I’ve GOTTA follow this guy” and it took me down this 3hr long rabbit hole and I LOVED IT and laughed a lot, so here’s your interaction and my subscription, along with my promise that I’ll probably watch almost all of your longform stuff within the next few months. As a science communicator myself, I’ve often gotten the intense itch to make something like this in moments of frustration, but I think that for shit this insane I’d lose patience and end up being too petty or angry over it. I love teaching people and answering questions but when they start being obtuse on purpose is where I stop having much fun lol.
47:54 as a mathematician, this argument annoys me extremely. He clearly doesn’t think about this any deeper than surface level, i.e., “these numbers kinda look the same”. Any number is a scaled version of any other nonzero number, a ‘scale model’ is only a non-trivial concept when comparing shapes. A more precise description of the relationship between those numbers is that their proportion is roughly an integer power of 10, which is only noteworthy in our base 10 number system
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.
That original article 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 websites of my childhood, which slowly got bastardized by corporate motives as time went on.
Your articles about the information pipeline and Googledebunking helped me save a Sandy Hook denying friend of mine. Like I think he really saw the light. Really tested me. Got put in a situation where he wasn’t listening to anything. Made me remember that there really are people out there who just want to believe in whatever they want. Passing the test is knowing how to see and think through it.
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.
The art Filip uses in the short at 1:36:14 is literally from The World of Ice and Fire. He’s showing a depiction of The Wall from Game of Thrones being built while he tries to convince us of the legitimacy of giants in real world history. That’s so weird to me Imagine learning about forests and being shown a painting of Mirkwood from The Lord of The RIngs
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)
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.
Posted this on r/miniminutemanfans, but I wanted to see what people think here too: Following Milo’s 2nd article debunking Filip Zieba, i was interested to see if Filip 1) would see the article, 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 article, 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 articles I’ve seen (as well as the fact that he reuploaded his first article, which Milo praised, after the release of Milo’s 2nd vid), I’d bet that he has seen the debunking articles, 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 articles released post-googledebunking: Firstly, I’ve noticed him using many more reputable facts in his articles, including many direct quotes and screenshots of news(?) articles in his “Tunnels under the Sphinx” article, citing a architectural proposal and the date of its release in his “Sky Tower” article, and raising legitimately interesting points about mineral hardness, with a hardness scale for reference, in his recent “Egyptian Pottery” article, 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.
One of the most common fallacies I hear when discussing the achievements of ancient cultures is sometimes called the “Tyranny of the Living.” Modern people tend to look at ancient folks and imagine that they were stupid, which- as Milo points out- they weren’t. We often point to mistaken beliefs such as the geocentric model or whatever outdated ideas suit our purpose. With that subtext, we can comfortably (and smugly) say “Look there’s no way they could have accomplished that so perfectly, because I can’t imagine how we’d do that today.” (My dad said this sort of thing constantly.) It’s not a failure of ingenuity or intelligence on the part of ancient people; it’s a failure of imagination in modern people.
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 articles, he went from using a soft voice and uplifting language to the current smug, lowkey aggressive attitude he has in his current articles. from “you my friend are a star” to “explain that, idiot googledebunkers!1!1!1!” like it’s genuinely so sad to watch
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.
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.)
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?
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’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???
1:33:32 as someone who loves Paleotolgy… this felt like a personal attack on my science. (I love your articles especially the ones that are our combined scientific practices of Paleo/Archeological collective love of early man.) But then i watched the end of this article and honestly, I can feel my forgiving nature saying the same thing you said. “It’s wiser to make allies than enemies.” – No idea if someone said that but its something I’ve always said myself.
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.
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.
37:45 Wikipedia is not a bad place for information, it’s a terrible place to get all of your information from, but using the citations will genuinely lead you to interesting research articles, and by doing the CRAAP test will make Wikipedia a pretty good resource for information, just check their citations and if you’re in school cite what Wikipedia is citing not Wikipedia itself
the amount of times in these articles I’m startled by the fact that conspiracy theorists seem unaware that humans have always been creating stories and art and fiction is baffling. like. fantasy isn’t a recent invention. art isn’t a recent invention. spooky campfire tales and paintings and poems and even just the pursuit of knowledge and art have been around since the dawn of time. I promise the people before absolutely needed smth to fill their time with as well they didn’t just work all day imagine how boring that would be
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.
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.
Holy shit that ending segment about reforming his content was genuinely inspiring. Having spent most of my life perusal youtube drama between creators its so refreshing to see someone have such genuine compassion for someone they’re beefing with. identifying a problem is easy, but fixing it is hard, and its good to see there are people not shying away from the hard part.
Loved this article, I’m also from new England, so I have some idea of the cold you endured during this article. Love ancient civilizations and archaeology. Keep doing what you do! Loving the long form content, but please don’t just use shorts as ads for your longer articles, sometimes I just want to hear a quick minute from your website.
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.
I say this all the time: it takes only a moment to spill wine on the carpet, but it takes hours (if ever) to clean it. Spreading misinformation is easy, because research isn’t necessary. Debunking it is hard, because research IS necessary. I’m happy you’re out there doing the hard work man, please never stop!
Hey Milo! Please make more articles like these. I sat down and watched both, back to back. It’s a shame how he responded to this, but that’s actually besides the point why I came here to comment. In a fast paced life, it’s actually hard to sit down and research and learn, especially, when the entire burden of looking after the family sits on your shoulder. As a kid, I was the weird one that spent all his time with encyclopedias (dinosaurs were my gig), and how I yearn for those days once more. I’ll save you the sob story, but as you said, I did let this play on the background as I did some… Not so interesting work. But every now and then a piece of information would perk my ears and I’ll come to this tab and seek back to where it begun and replay it, giving it my full focus. And it is these tidbits of information, that provide people like me, a full disclosure of misinformation being circulated around otherwise. So if anything, thank you for this one. And if you can, please make more of these, not to dunk on people, but to cull misinformation and to provide for the actual sources of it… (also next time, a little less wikipedia(I know I’m demanding too much xD)). But once again, thank you.
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.
If you’re actually gonna read the book and honestly consider it, talk to a Materials Engineer. I haven’t read his specific book, but the general theme I’ve gotten is that “this material/device was built to conduct electricity”. It’s not factually false in that the things built can conduct electricity, but it also doesn’t mean that’s what it was used for. I can make a potato battery, but just cuz I’ve got a potato in my kitchen doesn’t mean that’s what I’m using it for. The tldr is a lot of things have crystalline structures that make them good conductors, the theory is based almost entirely on sounding plausible while not really thinking anything through. We don’t think copper jewelry was an ancient wearable tech, we don’t think metal weapons were ancient charging plugs, even though both of those things were way more conductive than what they’re comparing it to. Just because you can abuse science to make your hypothesis not immediately wrong doesn’t make your conclusion equally valid. We don’t have any evidence of anything these devices powered. We don’t have any evidence of a distribution network/power grid. If the goal was to produce energy, it’d be like building a nuclear power plant in the middle of nowhere and sending all the electricity straight to ground.
An ancient person: “i have spent my whole life studying, gaining experience and talent in carving stone, look! To show my monumental capability, i have cut this piece of granite into perfect right angles!” Some dudebro on the Internet: “look guys, a perfect right angle in this granite rock, we know that people in that time were too stupid to do something like this, must be aliens!”
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.
Oh, the ending of this was bittersweet but absolutely perfect. That first article hit hard. I really hope Filip sees this because damn, you were right- his passion really showed in that clip about stardust. And I think he could transition his content really easily without losing his audience just by shifting the framing a little; instead of “here’s a conspiracy theory the government doesn’t want you to know about”, he could present it as “here’s a conspiracy theory and its arguments on both sides to make you think from a different perspective because it’s fun”. Ironically, this article might actually make me watch his content, if only to see if he realizes that potential in the future. It’s also kind of humbling, to hear you talk about going toe to toe with him and how uncomfortable it can be, because we as an audience are all cheering like it’s a cage match… and it’s easy to forget that behind the screens both “contestants” are still people. Kind of funny that this is the only article I’ve ever seen where one content creator dunks on another yet I end up rooting for them both. This comment got very long (I had two mimosas for the premiere and tipsy me got VERY invested), but I’ll end it by saying thank you for another excellent article as always. I’m off to order my Googledybunker badge.
I worked at a hardscaping place for a summer. The fact that we looked at a load of rock a customer was buying, then looked at his little truck, and told him no, absolutely not, you do not want us to load this into that vehicle, please just pay the extra $20 for delivery… does NOT mean that our delivery truck was also incapable of carrying the weight. And when he insisted and we finally gave him a waiver to sign acknowledging that we told him not to put all that weight in his truck and then let him try… and his axle broke a block from the shop… this still does not mean that our forklifts and delivery trucks couldn’t have easily handled it. Nor would I consider it evidence that any other culture throughout history could not possibly have moved that weight. Though it is perhaps evidence that no matter what a civilization is capable of, there will always be some members of it who are incompetent 😂
Loved this! It played automatically for me after The Ghosts of the Green Sahara (yes in the background when starting my day) and I gotta say I love your website. I love how you’ve chosen to reach out to this guy who really seems to have gotten swept away with social media views. Keep following your heart and passions because they’re incredibly beautiful!
As a teacher, young children are especially vulnerable to these conspiracy theories and misinformation on TikTok. Filip likely has a target audience of teens and young adults. Some of these people become parents, and the cycle continues because they tell their kids about it. I had a student in Kindergarten tell me how the Earth was flat because his dad told him and he watched a cartoon about it. I was so… taken aback, and incredibly saddened. I tried to focus on space and earth in our free time and explain to him in a grade appropriate level that Earth is not flat. We did fun experiments and read books about space and astronauts, etc. Science is such a wonderful thing. I wish funding would prioritize science and history as much as it does math and ELA because all subjects are equally important and complement each other to help us grow as people and learners.
That DBD skill-check around 7:10 caught me off-guard, almost spit out my drink 🤣Btw, the links to your hoodies in the description takes us to a 404 page. I was able to find them through a google(debunker) search, but might be worth updating here still! I wish the hoodies also had zip-up options instead of just pullovers.
The last section where Milo talks about how Filip can do better is honestly so touching. It’s easy to forget that the person on the other side of the screen is just that–a person. It’s easy to reduce someone on the internet down to just text or pixels on a screen. It’s easy to do nothing but insult and deride people on the internet that you argue with. I’ve struggled with all of this. So thank you, Miniminuteman, for taking the time to remind all of us that the most fulfilling path isn’t the easiest, and that it’s okay to be kind.
54:30 you know, during this bit I kinda thought the ‘the stones can conduct electricity point’ would be to point out that, during like a thunderstorm, lightning would be more inclined to striking the top of the pyramid than anywhere else in the area, given its relative height and conductivity. Which would be quite neat in that it adds to the presentation of the tomb, almost like a religious experience to see an arc of lighting shoot up/down onto the pyramid. Of course then I remembered how deserts work and maybe thunderstorms aren’t that common in Egypt.
My fiance and I are really enjoying your articles. Me because I’m a huge history and archeology nerd, and him because he likes learning things he never knew before. And we BOTH love your humor and wit. We call each other Googledebunkers all the time now. Keep doing what you’re doing, Milo! Some of these theories require more blind faith than religion, which is a little alarming.
Something I find really funny is that when I was a kid, my favorite show to watch with my dad was Ancient Aliens. I was OBSESSED with that show (my favorite episode was the Da Vinci Conspiracy), and as a kid, I believed EVERYTHING on it. I remember happily sharing everything I learned with my friends in school. We even made a club to talk about it during recess. I still watch Ancient Aliens to this day. But now, I watch it with a scientifically sound mind, going, “Damn, that would super fucking be cool— if it all actually happened.” My dad and I still get a good kick out of it. Most of the time, though, I watch it to get inspiration for fun D&D campaigns I plan to run with friends. The moral of the story: If I, in all my childlike wonder, can turn away from pseudoarcheology in favor of facts and educated theories, Filip can, too. Simply take all the crazy talk and make a sci-fi/fantasy roleplay game instead of peddling it to the masses as historical fact. EDITED 3 MONTHS AFTER ORIGINAL COMMENT: I did, in fact, take inspiration from Admiral Byrd’s “Shimmering Rainbow City Under Antarctica” and used it for D&D. My players are on their way to this place to help out a bunch of Drow druids with a small predicament involving a vampiric plague and an invasion force of witches, the undead, and a dracolich that is going to be a major problem down the line, as we speak. This is going to be FUN!