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I like the theories about them being ancient power stations or radio devices, using the water channels and gold cap stone to create enough pd to be useful in occult practices. It doesn't have to be aliens that helped make them but I think there's something the really resonates with the idea of aliens coming down and teaching ancient people how to make super complex and beautiful machines to synthesize small amounts of potent narcotics. Like none of the other reasons aliens would come make much sense but a tiktokable prank like that really does.
Imagine how fascinating it would be if we find loads of old alien stuff on Mars with like little model pyramids and pictures of them with the pharaoh. Or if when we meet aliens and have first contact they got us up with galactic tiktok and people are reposting all the old videos of pranks aliens have pulled on earth over the years.
Yeah they were probably just the biggest coolest looking thing that knew how to make so everyone wanted one, yeah they were probably just dragging rocks up sandy inclones and using water filled counter weights.. but we don't know aliens weren't there so I'm going to enjoy being open to that possibility.
You should check out the youtube channel in the sibling comment. There's a good video on why the cap stones were unlikely to be special (and very unlikely to be gold): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZxmkNESTpM
Ok but nothing I've ever experienced or witnessed has ever made sense, literally nothing ever fits any form of reason or logic - a thousand years from now if they write off all the things from our lives that make no sense or are absurd then the vision they come up with won't resemble reality at all, not one little bit.
So when someone says 'its unlikely they'd waste resources' or 'this would be totally unfeasible and require insane amounts of totally needless extra measures while providing no benefit what so ever' that just makes it feel even more likely to me, like yes of course that's what they did that's what we always do!
Sounds like an interesting video though, I'm going to watch it but I'll be thinking about aliens and trying to find cracks in the narrative where I can poke them in!