6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (That Have Totally Been Solved)

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6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (That Have Totally Been Solved)

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ninjaboy Sep 1, 2010

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History channel does suck pretty bad now. I remember the last time I watched it, they stated, as a fact, that aliens came and built the pyramids for ancient gold.They then went on to interview some guy who was trying to make a "Free energy" machine using gold, because after all, that must have been why the ancient aliens wanted our gold.

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dcjoedogv2 Sep 1, 2010

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I like History Channel for one thing and one thing only..."Modern Marvels". That show just rocks BECAUSE it's nothing but the facts about things around us.

mille716 Sep 1, 2010

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I have a theory about the history channel. The programming department is completely split between three groups who must share the air time.

One group is filled with paranoid, conspiracy theory assh**es. They fund and produce all the ancient alien shows, Nostradamus, and other illuminati bulls**t. Their time is spent passing notes written in invisible ink so the New World Order can't know what they're doing and washing their hands a thousand times a day.

The second group produces all the reality t.v. garbage that shows up. They think a channel with "history" in the title would be the perfect vehicle to play shows about the reality of driving a f**king truck on a goddamn road made of ice or what it's like to be a logger in a s**tty swamp. The people in this group are also f**king dumb assh**es.

The last group of programmers want to make shows where they teach you about interesting things that happened in the actual f**king past, you know, "historical" things. They make well produced shows like the "America: The Story of Us" or "WWII in HD". This group are not assh**es. They should also murder the other two groups of programmers.

You know, the old joke was that the history channel should be called the "WWII Channel" because they had so many WWII shows. It was true. They did have a ton of WWII shows and you know what, it was f**king awesome. It was history and a f**king badass time in history. The more I think about what the history channel used to be and what it's become, the more I pray the first two groups of programmers get AIDs and die in a fire.

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dcjoedogv2 Sep 1, 2010

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I still think aliens did most of these. LOL

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Ok, this is a Cracked article, so of course it glosses over history to make puns, but still:

They mention rightly that Stone Age people were actually pretty smart, and that the pyramids wouldn't be as hard to build as people believe. But for Stonehenge, you still had to drag huge rocks several miles to reach the site; it was difficult when they got a bunch of volunteers to do it, difficult even if you built a greased track to help, and it would have been far harder when there were lots of bogs and trees in the way when they were actually building it, as opposed to recreations people have tried today. Even if you're building the monument by a settlement, you still had to go a long way for the big stone that you need.

Building a concrete stonehenge would be a lot easier as you're dealing with an aggregate (even assuming that he uses the same density of bluestone). Sure, they had lifts and pulleys. But the reason you don't see people building giant stone monuments everywhere today is that it still *took a lot of work and people*. This article makes it sound like a bunch of contractors in pickup trucks just willed ancient wonders into existence.