I like how the text weasels around having to mention the name of “The famous explorer and former director of the USGS”. The Egyptians are a nice touch too.
Wouldn’t want you to be able to easily google it and find out he (correctly) attributed the hieroglyphics to the native americans, now would we?
They don’t even exist. There are no glyphs in the Grand Canyon.
I was genuinely surprised that an explainer article like this exists. :)
I always forget looking up whether there isn’t a couple decades of relevant backstory to the post before writing comments here.
Thank God the conspiracy nuts don’t read and aren’t good at history or else they might have used some regional native tribes as the source for their special artifacts. The only things they know of as “old” are ancient Egypt and Atlantis.
To be fair, they also think Egyptian artifacts are Atlantian in origin. Obviously the primitive Egyptian empire couldn’t possible come up with the concept of things like “stacking rocks” or “smoothing stone with sand” on their own. They needed some mystical forgotten society with no traces to do it for them.
These conspiracies are always racist. They say the cultures in the area were incapable of learning for themselves. They needed the white Atlantian society to teach them everything. It was popularized by Nazis and it’s pretty clear what the beliefs of its proponents are.
Well, surely both of those ancient civilisations had teleportation technology
I mean, where are these civilizations today? Damning evidence if you ask me.
Unbeknownst to many, the Grand Canyon is where Gene Roddenberry dug up the Dilithium crystals to run the Enterprise ships on, I mean: how else did he film those scenes? There was no CGI in the 70s!
60s. And based on the restorations of TOS that I hate so much, they did have CG in the 60s.
(Apart from anything else, those restorations didn’t take into account that the lighting and the makeup were designed for snowy 1960s TVs in both color and black and white. I don’t need to see Shatner’s lipstick and the seams around Spock’s ears.)
To be fair, when you’re an idiot, the concept of time is hard to comprehend.
“The Grand Canyon is hundreds of years old.” “I’m pretty sure it’s millions of years old.” …later… “I looked it up, it is hundreds of millions of years old. So we’re both right.” - King of the Hill
