JB wrote: "You have. Many times."

That's how I knew I would love to hear your thoughts.

"I reject any notion of voodoo technology being employed by our ancestors, in whatever form it may take."

Why does it have to be "voodoo", though?  Why can't a society develop along a different course and find completely different types of technology than we have on this course? 

"What many ancient civilizations had that we "don't" was time. The Egyptians had a relatively stable civilization for thousands of years. With that kind of time, much can be accomplished that seems "impossible" today"

Do you think they built the pyramids in a longer time frame than the 20 years claimed?

Also, don't you think it is vastly under estimating their culture to think they weren't more advanced with that stability and all that time? But they also didn't have the same kinds of resources we had.. which is why I think their technology was so unique and developed in a different order than ours. Also why they may have been able to keep technology secret.

"All we need is to acknowledge that our ancestors were just as smart as we are, and did the best they could with what they had."

What if nearly all of the remnants of that more advanced civilization are gone and all that remains are the Pyramids and a couple structures... and what grew up around the pyramids was what remained and devolved? Or what was left of the original advanced civilization was not passed along in the mainstream culture?

"Without steel girders and other such supporting structure, a pyramid is the only way to construct a truly massive building beyond a certain height."

That is definitely a possibility. But that isn't the only possibility... I think there is evidence pointing to the other explanations being more plausible because of other unifying features as the documentary claims. But I can see how people would feel the way you do if they didn't have more information as I feel I have with all the other research I have done.

"And even the Egyptians took a while to figure that out. Consider the famous "bent" pyramid."

What I have been led to believe is that the bent pyramid could be a devolving culture or a culture that found the pyramids trying to replicate them.  I don't know of any evidence to show the order these structures were built.

It looks crazy to type it out but I am getting more and more convinced that this more advanced culture left Earth because of some coming disaster.  Some part of that culture may have remained and devolved. My hunch is that it was Atlantis and they were located around the Canary islands.  I also think Orion's belt, the constellation the pyramids may be mirroring with their footprint, may be where they went.  Or they might have been trying to tell us we are part of a binary system as there is in Orion's belt.

Imagine if they'd done something useful with all that effort instead. Egypt could have ruled the world.

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Yes, because leaving artifacts of their culture and architecture that have persisted for millennia was like, totally a waste of time and effort.  I mean, I think we can all agree that the whole Ancient Egpytian thing is just a eyesore for humanity.  All the pyramids need are chariots without wheels up on jacks in their front yards.

"Knut's theory is writers or documentary filmmakers are idiots for not understanding what any builder does."

No. My "theory" (as you put it) is that writers and documentary filmmakers who misrepresent themselves as knowing what builders know, when they clearly don't, are idiots, con-men or unethical opportunists.

"Yet he assumes any builder agrees with him"

No, I don't. There are ways to do this beyond the ones I've mentioned, and the ones I've mentioned may not have been used at all. Anyone can say "I have no idea how the pyramids were made" without fear of being thought an idiot.

But these people aren't just saying that, they're saying that there's no way contemporary technology could have done this.

Finding only one way, whether ropes, pullies and windlasses or ramps, rolling logs and levers, is enough to debunk these notions.

And builders worth their salt will know about most of these methods because they're still in use. 

These guys have decided that something weird is going on, so they disregard all available evidence that the egyptian builders were actually capable of doing this in order to cling to the "theory".

It's not as if people haven't tried to find out how pyramids were built before. The difference is, other people actually found out. This is known information. 

And Mark, do you know any actual builders who'll look at the specifics of a pyramid and go "impossible"? It's all a matter of scale, of course. You ask a builder to align a house with magnetic north, you think he'll throw up his hands and go "That's Star Trek level technology, kid"? You ask him how to move a big square rock without a forklift or a crane, do you think he'll say it can't be done? Even if you offer lots of money?

"Yes, because leaving artifacts of their culture and architecture that have persisted for millennia was like, totally a waste of time and effort. "

Please. That has nothing to do with it. They also had the technology to build canals and roads and other useful infrastructure. And built other structures far more artistically and architecturally impressive.

The Romans didn't leave less impressive artifacts of their culture because they built aqueducts, bridges, roads and an entire metropolis on a few islands in a swamp instead of a pile of rocks in the desert.

In fact, with the same amount of time and effort they could've finished building the Suez Canal 4000 years earlier. Wouldn't that have been something? It's not like they didn't spend time working on it.

"Bob Lazar said his "alien craft" used "element 115" to produce antimatter on demand to power these craft. He said you could never make this element on Earth."

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I read that in Cosmo Kramer's voice...

Please. That has nothing to do with it.

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Sure it does.  You're ignoring their cultural and spiritual motivations for building them in the first place.  You're giving undue weight to the value of expanding infrastructure (so they could rule the world?) and giving no thought at all to how they greeted death. So you're either quite culturally ignorant, or possibly the worst troll in the history of the internets.  Bets?

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The Romans didn't leave less impressive artifacts of their culture because they built aqueducts, bridges, roads and an entire metropolis on a few islands in a swamp instead of a pile of rocks in the desert

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Yes, because clearly I was taking a shot at the Romans and making a stealthy pissing contest between the two cultures.  Way to suss that out.