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I remember reading a book by some kook with "PhD" in the author line, proving that the pyramids were alien technology.

One of the key pieces of evidence was that the three great pyramids perfectly line up in the way that the three stars in Orion's Belt line up.

The three stars are such a perfect straight line that they must have been pushed into position by a hyper-advanced alien race. (You know, to get them to line up perfectly from the Earth's perspective, which clearly would be important.)

But wait, that's not all. Not only are they so perfectly lined up, but they also put ONE of the stars just out of alignment, to show us exactly which star they came from, so we could go visit them.

Even as a twelve year old I was like, wait... any three points form a "perfectly straight line with one point out of alignment..."



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