[piasa]

They weren't built in "similar fashions."

Construction methods were strikingly different.

As for the shape, just give any group of toddlers from different parts of the globe a bunch of soup cans or blocks to play with, and they will all build some form of pyramid. If you try to stack things without supports below them, they fall down. If you try to stack things one on top of the other, it works, but if you stack things to any great height they are subject to being toppled easily by external forces, and in any case it's an uninteresting approach. Thus it is natural to stack things in a stable fashion, and the most basic way to approach it is to make each higher layer a little smaller than the level below, like a pyramid.

[brooklin]

Oh yeah... kinda like a pile! Glad we haven't lost this tech. again.

[Calpernia]

Got the simplistic point. Thanks.

[Taffini]

As for the shape, just give any group of toddlers from different parts of the globe a bunch of soup cans or blocks to play with, and they will all build some form of pyramid. If you try to stack things without supports below them, they fall down. If you try to stack things one on top of the other, it works, but if you stack things to any great height they are subject to being toppled easily by external forces, and in any case it's an uninteresting approach. Thus it is natural to stack things in a stable fashion, and the most basic way to approach it is to make each higher layer a little smaller than the level below, like a pyramid"




I agree. It's like the wheel. I doubt that one man, at one time, in one place invented the wheel. People trying to solve the same problems often come up with the same solutions. The shapes, the circle and the triangle, aren't from outerspace. Trial and error and the evolution of mathematics and architecture are what brought about the construction of the pyramids in different parts of the world.

[escapefromboston]

Ya like that makes alot of sense. It was the aliens who built the pyramids. Why did aliens build pyrmads you may ask. It was a tourist trap to get other aliens to come visit earth and spend money on "I saw the pyramids of earth" tee shirts.

[HamiltonJay]

Yes, agreed a pyramid is a basic shape... so the fact they are found all over isn't that suprising to me... what is suprising is the Orion orientation connection that many seem to have.... there is a reason for this, its not mere coincidence.