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December 7th, 2024 |
There is still some room on the schedule to add some last minute presentations, for this year's event!
Mitchell Lampert
SkeptiCamp NYC Profile
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I am the founder of the New York City edition of SkeptiCamp, and have been a regular member of the New York City Skeptics for many years. By day I am a software developer for a major financial institution. By night I practice convincing people that they are wrong about stuff. |
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Westchester County |
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| Proposed Session Title: |
Ancient Secrets of the Great Pyramids Revealed! (Spoiler Alert: It Was NOT Aliens.) |
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| Session Description: |
We might not know everything about how the ancient pyramids of Egypt were built, historically speaking. But, archeologists actually know quite a bit more than most people realize, about its possible methods of construction! Enough knowledge that we mere humans probably could rebuild them today, if we had to, using ONLY the tools available 4,000 years ago!
Of course, we would have to settle on one of several competing ideas for its assembly process, first. (I would root for the Internal Ramp Theory, but I suspect I might be outvoted on that one.) Then we would have to convince 20,000+ people, at a time, to commit to the excessively dangerous labor of doing so, over the course of several decades. But, other than that: it should be a piece of cake!
This talk will offer a brief overview of some of that knowledge; and why it is pointless to assert aliens into the picture, anymore.
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| Previous SkeptiCamp NYC Events: |
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 |