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e we would build a second power plant where a current power plant is. I mean you would put them where you already had one but you needed a little more. So I'm actually kind of persuaded by that theory. I'm not going to say it's 100% true but I am now persuaded that there probably was a civilization that was advanced, came before us and has died out. How did they learn that thousands of years ago?…

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o use vibration to cut the rock? Maybe. Maybe there's an exact vibration that cuts rock. How about that? If you were to try every kind of vibration against a rock with some kind of cutting tool, do you think it would be the same at every vibration? But not. I bet there's some. Oh you think it would be high pressure water can cut steel? Yeah I've also thought about the high pressure water because they could do that, right?

So here here's how the ancients could create a high pressure water cannon. Because we know they could move large rocks. How would they do it? They would just put large rocks on top of a container of water. The large rock would push it down and put pressure on it and then they've got a little hose thing and the pressure comes out because there's a giant rock on top of the water, you know with a seal. So could the ancients have built a powerful high pressure water cannon? I think they kind of, yeah I think they could have. It would be hard to get the nozzle to work if they didn't have good metal I suppose but if they had a gold top on their pyramid they knew how to work with metal a little bit. Well okay, maybe they had electricity so they just had power tools. Maybe that's it. Maybe they had the flex hose. I just bought one of those. They have no pictures so they never documented it.

All right, what do you think of that theory? Would that explain everything? To me that answers all the questions. Oh no it doesn't explain everything. What would be unexplained by the Why Files? Oh I think, I think is that what I was talking about was that the Why Files. That might be the one I'm talking about. We have a Y in the name. Dunning Kruger I'm not sure what sense you're using that. Stones are still a mystery. Yes. Don't do volume only elevation. Oh that's true. Check the hieroglyphics. Yeah the hieroglyphics apparently there are no hieroglyphics on any pyramids that show how the big rocks were moved. Can you believe that? The most impressive amazing part of building a pyramid is how do you move those big rocks and there's not a single hieroglyphic that shows that, moving any big rocks. Wouldn't that be like the most likely thing to be on the wall? It's too dumb. There's no, yeah there's no. There's also no pictures of the leaders on the walls which would suggest they're not burial tombs. Canals and sluice gates. Yes. So one theory is that they use canals and sluice gates to float the rocks which wa

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s a, I saw the video on how they did that. That was a reasonably good hypothesis. Yeah that was a reasonably good hypothesis. All right, that ladies and gentlemen is all I needed to talk about today. Was there any story I missed? Anything in the news that you wish I had talked about? Everything is frequency and vibration. You're right. Transgender, that was just a meme. Sphinx is older than the p…

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