ET Was a Big Bully

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So today I hear that an engineer has discovered that the Great Pyramid of Giza isn't exactly square. In fact, the west side is 14.1 cm longer than the east side. It's the Great Leaning Pyramid of Giza. Now, I have heard the theories about ancient aliens. I have heard how humans weren't intellectually up to the task. Humans simply didn't have the technological know-how to build the pyramids, say the ancient alien theorists. It had to be aliens who devised these massive monuments. Nevermind that aliens obsessed with stone monuments seems a bit incongruous. Nevermind that, in order to transverse the cosmos, aliens would have to have some pretty advanced metals and technology and that stone makes for a lousy space ship. Ancient aliens loved stone. Or did they? Maybe they just loved dropping in on the unsophisticated humans and ordering them around? Maybe they were like middle school bullies or college fraternities and this was a giant hazing. Maybe the aliens just thought it was funny to watch the silly humans with their big muscles and puny minds build enormous stone monuments to the aliens they saw as gods. In which case, instead of venerating these ancient aliens, I say we get ourselves a space ship, go out into the galaxy, hunt them down and give them a great big punch in the mouth. Or, it could be that humans designed the pyramids, just like they designed Stonehenge and those Easter Island statues. They made them of stone because that's what they had handy. There were no aliens to teach them how to forge steel girders. There were lots of workers available because there were no TVs, computers or iPhones. Moving huge slabs of stone wasn't so difficult if you had thousands of hands to help. And they aren't perfect, because humans aren't perfect. They are just very determined. But, if for any reason, it can be proved that aliens did come here thousands of years ago and made us all slaves to their whims, forcing us to do such pointless things and not once sharing important technology, then I say the space program needs to be about revenge, not exploration. I want to personally punch an alien in the nose.