Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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who say the pyramids are older than the civilizations that are there and some people say it's aliens. Now do you know that they've never found a mummy, a dead leader in a pyramid? And we were taught, we were taught in school that these were burial tombs for the dead leaders. They had never found one in there nor have they ever found evidence one has ever been in there. There's one sarcophagus but…

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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? The idea would be that there was once an advanced civilization that was not related necessarily to the ancient Egyptians but rather there was somebody who knew how to do this stuff and maybe had power over them or influence and worked with the locals because they needed a lot of labor to do this stuff.

Now I have another theory. If it's true that the pyramids were about vibration, which that's the theory, that it had to vibrate at a certain level in order to put out the electricity and so that the entire design was to cause vibration of a specific type. The ancients who built that were big on vibrations. Do you think they could have used vibration to cut the rocks? In other words could you, let's say you had a saw or a wire, I don't know, something like that, and you just use vibrations. Could you vibrate it enough that it would make a clean slice through a rock? Just a question. I've never seen anybody try it but if they were capable enough to create the pyramids as a power source and using vibrations, would they also know enough t

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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 t…

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