Stargate (feat Dominic Perry of The History of Egypt Podcast) : Episode 136
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Stargate
What: Stargate science in the movie that spawned the sprawling franchise. Yay ancient Egypt!
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Kurt Russell, James Spader, French Stewart
Featuring guest co-host
Dominic Perry of The History of Egypt Podcast
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Show Notes
Pre-historic Egypt
The notability of the introduction of a massive metal space-portal 10,000 years ago, when Egyptian were still just barely getting down with agriculture.
Egypt and the pyramids
When was the Bronze age anyway? Pyramid time scales. Familial pyramid-building competitions. The progression from small-scale burial mounds to “great” pyramids. Egypt vs meso-American pyramid research. Seasonal construction recruitment.
Stone and copper tooling for stonework
Stone tools. Copper tools. Early Brone tools. Limestone vs granite. Arsenical copper advantages.
Pyramid-building alien hypotheses
“Chariots of the Gods” and the origin of alien pyramid conspiracies. Judging fringe theorists.
Ancient Egyptian language and writing
The origin of the writing systems of ancient Egypt. Accounting.
Daniel Jackson
Inspiring budding Egyptologists and getting suddenly swole.
Stargates
Stargate discovery. Deep time and the chances of happening upon ready-made technology after an extinction. Permeable wormhole membranes. Stargates vs black holes. EM transmission and accretion disks. Molecular deconstruction.
Probe robots
Bomb disposal space bot. Colonization.
Exoplanets
Stargates and our knowledge at the time.
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