INFINITE POWER? | Armoured Skeptic Rabbit Hole

[@thelakisleaf5503]

The funniest thing to me about the ‘pyramids are 33 latitude and longitude’ thing is that it implies that the Egyptians of the time also defined longitude as degrees east/west of Greenwich, England. For some reason lmao Shows just how little thought ‘skeptic’ has actually put into this crap

[@danielkorrmann5467]

Actualy you CAN harvest electricity from the air. Just take a copper rod outside during a Thunderstrom! It just comes all at once and thats a bit of a problem. ( Mainly for the guy holding the Lightningrod )

[@PrajnaIsPrajna-exceptPrajna]

You can unironically do that, the ionosphere is a layer of atmosphere that is electrically charged; it’s just that the technology hasn’t been refined whatsoever.

[@Robert_Browne]

You can hunt elephant by grabbing them by the balls too.

[@ButteredToits-]

Just use a kite, duh! That way it strikes the kite and not you! Will try this and get back with results

[@julietfischer5056]

Miniminuteman covered the 'Baghdad Batteries' on his channel. Nowhere near Egypt.

[@josiedavis3792]

Oh boy that Sphinx thing really got me- Like the reason the lower layer is bricked up is because for the last 3k years people have been trying to save it from eroding. The reason it has three "layers" is because the head was a rock that was already above the sand before the Egyptians started quarrying stone, the second layer is where they were cutting out stone, and the last one was where people have been placing tiles to try to protect it from erosion. It's all a continuous piece of limestone.

[@josiedavis3792]

Also I looked up the picture at the end it was an etching of an Fireworks Show that happened in the early 1700s to celebrate the birth of Marie Antionette and King Louis XVI's second son. Apparently they built a fake mountain to launch the fireworks from so yeah there was a bunch of smoke and black powder in the air because they were literally launching fireworks.

[@PoeInTheDitch]

Greg brought all of this on himself. No need to feel bad for him. I remember way back when he started out. He started strong, but was fighting depression due to loneliness (if I recall his own statements from back then). You wanted to root for the guy. He had some actually good skeptic content, and he seemed like a genuine person. But, the instant he gained a following and got with Shoe, he "became" a complete douche. He's that nerdy kid in middle school who got a modicum of popularity, it immediately went to his head, and became an insufferable pos.

[@corywilson2007]

Lol he really did just become a fucking super douche around the shoe time. And I agree that he was this nerdy dude got some fame and cute chick and thought well I'm just the fucking sickest dude ever. But dudes always been strange to me I just use to enjoy the religious content he made back in the day shitting on creationism. It seems so weird how we all got so interested in wanting to demolish these religious arguments at the same time and now we pretty much just all understand that shit is just too fucking easy and yeah religion is still shit but it's just a different time for us. I'm rambling but it just always seemed weird how we all went through this phase of super atheists then watched the shit heads go to the right wing and we're just chillin. Lol

[@DragonMaiden77]

Yeah every time ShoeOnHead gets involved with something it tends to go downhill fast

[@Dystopikachu]

If you troll for long enough, people won't know if you're serious or not. I'm autistic and even I know that.

[@artemisameretsu6905]

Yeah I feel like three years of it seems pretty.. consistent.. 😅

[@Spectra651]

This s*** is insane by regular person standards, but to hear it coming from a former atheist, one who used to debunk this kind of pseudoscientific/spiritual bs on the regular and who actually helped me get out of this very mindset when I started down the road to atheism... it's just downright tragic. It was bad enough when he started leaning more towards the anti-sjw content, but seeing what AS is now is less like watching a train wreck and more like seeing the wreck of the Titanic (which Greg probably also has some conspiracy theory about, wouldn't surprise me).

[@esbenm6544]

If the head of the Sphinx really was made from a different material, I would be most interested in how it managed to stay attached for thousands of years. They must have had some really good rock glue in ancient Egypt.

[@PraetorianCarrion]

the lion part is getting me because there's actually cool history there; lions used to exist throughout parts of europe, which is why they're a trope in ancient Rome and Greece

[@MetalxLicaxPP]

Don't lie. Lions are only found in a NY Zoo and sometimes Madagascar when their boat gets hijacked by Penguins.

[@aaronjones5191]

You're Lion

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Lions lived all across Africa, Middle East, part of Europe (mostly Greece) all the way to India (where still exist small population). And not just lions, cheetahs also.

[@Tom_Cruise_Missile]

Tasmanian tiger, anyone?

[@curiouspeanut]

Before all this he would do videos about cryptids, one where hed take it seriously and then another to show how (with proper skepticism) it was bunk. Guess he flew too close to the sun and went down the rabbit hole himself

[@GT-wj3gl]

Sad to see. I really liked his old content, where he was debunking things like Spirit Science and other conspiracy theories.

[@ninjalokust]

If you watched all his content (and I did because it was entertaining in a car crash way) including his alternative channels he talks at length, and I mean at excruciating length on every topic, about how the "skeptic" character was an invention and didn't represent his views. He claims the skeptic character was far more right wing than he is and that he is left of centre, that the skeptic character was the atheist while he was raised in a cult (not kidding) but then got out of it and later came back to the ideas of religion but refused to be a part of religion. Most of this series of his boils down to his idea that the basic concepts depicted in ancient religion had some real world basis that is badly described and related because the people back then were too dumb to understand what they were experiencing. So his whole apocalypse idea is that there is something like a planet with a massive orbit taking it outside the solar system and every 12k years it passes through the system close to the sun which causes "plasma storms" or something which bombard our planet causing an apocalypse. That the Ancient people saw this happen but didn't have any understanding of what it was and it nearly wiped us out destroying most of the people and civilizations. This is where the "green man" or Jesus imagery comes from, that the planets aurora took a form of a squatting man and people related that to being a god and the stories and imagery left behind by it is a message about the coming return of this planet that will cause devastation. His other channel however shows how he actually believes a lot of the ghost and paranormal stuff, hes done ghost hunts and did entire videos where he would just read viewers stories about aliens or weird encounters. My opinion is that he has always held these beliefs, the cult turned him away from religion and to see it as evil but the concepts he always accepted as true, the whole above story about a planet causing an apocalypse is his attempt to make his beliefs fit reality and he will use anything that even slightly supports his beliefs as if its clearly proven. His skeptic character was never a true reflection of him, it was as he said an invention, an exaggerated version of himself that helped him explore his beliefs and acted as a shield to stop him going back towards his beliefs that were caused by his cult like upbringing. Then the anti-feminist and skeptic community stopped being profitable so he pivoted to covering conspiracy theories, covid happened which caused his break up with shoe (if you listen to him she wanted to stay in us and him in Canada till it was over and it just kept going so they grew apart) and his flirtation with conspiracy lead him to rekindle his beliefs till the point they took over his entire brain. Back when the history is a lie series started he said he was challenging his audience to prove him wrong, the reality was he was asking his audience to please stop him from falling down the rabbit hole somehow. Now it has gone so far he is chastising his audience for not loving and understanding the greatness of his ideas more, he sounds more and more like a cult leader trying to create a following that will hand their critical faculties at the door and simply accept him as a messiah figure. He has gone full circle back to his cultish upbringing and is incredibly manipulative in the way he tries to get his audience to fawn over him and thank him for revealing gods truth to them, its bonkers. I had to stop watching, it stopped being entertaining and became legitimately horrific. I did see about six months ago he made all his videos private and left a comment saying "none of you deserve what I have given you" or something to that effect. Again cult like behaviour and incredibly abusive and manipulative, and once his fans gave him the love he felt he deserved and begged him he brought the videos back and put out a statement about how his channel wasn't getting enough views and most of them were demonetized and he wasn't going to be able to keep this going for much longer, unspoken is (unless you pay me through patreon) which again, cult like behaviour. I kind of thought at the beginning he was trying to fake being an alex jones type to draw in believers in conspiracy bullshit to slowly reveal they believed bullshit, the reverse seems to be true as its far too late for him to pull off a mask and say haha I was just fing with you.

[@joearnold6881]

Oh, turns out the “anti-sjw” wasn’t very skeptical or smart all along. Gee. I’m soooo surprised. 🙄

[@HierophanticRose]

Greg not only drank the koolaid, but then used internal alchemy to become the koolaid

[@VoteOmnivore]

The sphinx is also the exact shape...of a cat.

[@Spectra651]

Whoa... So *that's* why my cat shocks me when I pet her sometimes. And here I was thinking it was just static electricity, but no, she's actually a free energy device, IT MAKES ALL THE SENSE.

[@kubak89]

It's the exact shape of a car with a human head, to be... exact

[@Sephyrulz]

Dude… Skeptic…What HAPPENED, dude…? Like, ever since H-bomb called him out on the Bill Nye stuff, he’s completely and entirely mentally collapsed! Harry even tried to give Greg credit, said that there may be a chance for teaching. But Skeptic has just… fucking… spiraled…

[@shanewilson7994]

What happened with the Bill Nye stuff? Never heard of that with him.

[@sworddemonboggle1491]

@@shanewilson7994if I remember it was when Bill Nye had come back to do that science show for older audiences and when he said that sexuality and gender were a spectrum, all of the *skeptical* KZbinrs decided that that was too “SJW” or “lefty” or whatever and proceeded to make videos, armored included

[@shanewilson7994]

@@sworddemonboggle1491 ah ok, and yeah I knew he was on that weird end of "skepticism" and that makes sense coming from him, I just didn't know Bill Nye came out and said that. Thanks for filling me in.

[@flamemasterelan]

@@shanewilson7994 Well, Bill didn't come out and say it, like make an announcement. He did a show on Netflix that was aimed at adults, and gender was one of the subjects of the episode, where he talked about gender expression, identity, etc. He also did one on climate change. And Skeptic "reviewed" the series. Notable is that he thought "Climate change is real, but there's nothing we can do to prevent it" was the reasonable take.

[@AnEntropyFan]

The last vulnerable barely legal woman he tried to groom was several FBI agents, probably; and that has fractured a many a conservatives' reality.

[@thrillhouse4151]

All that “alternate history” and he never once brings up Chinese people. It’s always Mediterranean flavors in that tired old conspiracy theory soup.

[@666FallenShadow]

that's because many of the ancient aliens/ ancient civilization conspiracy theories originate from literal nazis, that's why often the aliens/ancient people are tall with blue eyes and blonde hair

[@jellosapiens7261]

Next he's going to be saying shit like "Jews are aliens from the future"

[@jonharris2135]

You'd understand if you just asked... the green man.

[@josh-oo]

The green man is inferior to the corn man.

[@saintbrush4398]

* holds crotch and puts arm out at animal *

[@jaybennet4491]

​@@saintbrush4398Micheal Jackson gre-hee-heen man confirmed?!?!?!

[@saintbrush4398]

@@jaybennet4491 "hee-hee" = "gree-een"

[@BiPaganMan]

OK, I've got to ask, how does a lost civilization have a flag?

[@theangryholmesian4556]

"No flag no country!"

[@peterampee-kleisius]

What's Greg talking about? 33 isn't the Illuminati number. That's 23. There's even movies about it. His conspiracy theory is wrong by 10.

[@stefankane852]

The sphinx was literally carved out when they mined the stone for the adjacent funerary temple that stood in front of the sphinx and pyramid, the stone has even been matched, it was ALWAYS a sphinx.

[@1987killertofu]

Greg fumbled the bag so hard with Shoe that the man became everything he built his brand ragging on.

[@adamp3223]

Shoe's no good either.

[@schattey2832]

Shoes on the other foot now

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

Remember when people said The Armoured Skeptic was being satirical with that series? Haha yea

[@bryna7]

So many people claiming he used to be logical or a good guy...if he was an anti sjw, he wasn't good or logical.

[@TheOriginalKankler]

You, Hannah, and Armored Skeptic kind of kicked of my deconversion in 2016.

[@jakitron890]

I loved Armored Skeptic and Bible Reloaded for actually being atheist youtubers actually covering atheism since others like Amazing Atheist and ThunderF00t started attacking feminism/"SJWs" instead, then Greg started attacking "SJWs" and is now a conspiracy nut

[@1Cirmag]

@@jakitron890 Thunderfoot has since gone back to more science videos, lot of goes at various Musk related things, he still never knows how to get to a point though. Side note his and others crusade against Anita caused me to eventually see Hbomberguy's vids, so I guess I owe them a thanks for being so shit during that time, that it allowed me to question my views.

[@AxelLeJeff]

I send my love to all of you. It's funny how everyone who went anti-sjw also went insane. TJ Kirk/Amazing Atheist has kinda pulled out of it, but he now gives me like "leftist-joe rogan" vibes if that makes sense. Lefty bent, but very populist.

[@shannond1511]

Even his name is stupid, immature and pretentious,”amazing atheist” what’s so amazing about him or being an atheist anyway?

[@corywilson2007]

​@@jakitron890 do you guys think Greg really believes this crazy shit or is there a chance it could be a long con troll. I stopped watching him as well when he followed that SjW bad crowd. But I just can't see someone making all those sober and super logical arguments against religion and creationism and then saying just the wildest shit without like no joke some severe brain trauma. I don't know just wondering what yall think

[@TheSurrealist.]

Jake this series is hilarious please do more armored skeptic reactions! Also, more ancient Aliens and old world tech reacts would be fun too!

[@mooseitself]

I've been begging someone to cover this since the last episode of "History is a Lie" You are the only person I know of who's attempting to tackle this thing. I went hard in the comments, but I can really only attack it on a logical level, the history and stuff is to broad for me.

[@donaldmarcato7003]

I wholeheartedly believe to this day that Greg is too smart for this nonsense and that the whole thing has been an ongoing bit with him playing a character ever since the mud flood video. I know I’m wrong, but to admit he’s gone this far off the deep end would give me severe psychic damage.

[@kubak89]

Ionosphere is a layer of the atmosphere between 50 and 60 KILOMETERS from the Earth's surface GREG. Eiffel Tower is 330 metres tall GREG. IT ISN'T PIERCING THE IONOSPHERE EVEN REMOTELY GREG.

[@rainbowkrampus]

🤣😂🤣😂 That's an engraving of a fireworks display at the end! Dude is getting the warm and fuzzies from a drawing of a fireworks display! omg I can't deal Cesspit didn't just fall off, he jumped.

[@TSteffi]

Right from the start I can tell this guy has no clue about what he is talking about. When he said "all these precious metals are in electronics because of their conductivity", it made me cringe. Gold isn't used for conductivity. It's used to coat contact surfaces, because it doesn't oxidize. And it's used in chip bonding, because it is soft and can be made into extremely thin wires. Silver has a high conductivity, but it's too expensive for conductors. It's only used as a replacement for lead in modern solder paste.

[@Crowley9]

I have a degree in history with a particular interest in the kind of stuff shown at 41:50 and some understanding of Latin. I thought I'd try and see what I can make out of that one page. I did use Google Translate, but it seems to be quite good with Latin these days. An important term here is "meteora ignita" on the page. This literally translates to "fiery meteors", but from my brief research what it means is more along the lines of "fiery meteorological phenomena". It means atmospheric and weather phenomena that seem to emit energy, such as lightning, wisps, shooting stars and northern lights. "Eiusmodi ignitum meteorum est fulmen." This I would translate as "such is the fiery meteorological phenomenon of lightning". My semi-professional opinion is that this is a text theorizing how lightning happens, and the explanation it presents is that it is caused by a reaction of volatile chemicals floating in clouds. The lines and towers are about how lightning tends to strike at tall buildings. For where he gets the "love" part is at the bottom of the page "magno fragore ex carum cavitate". Now, "carum" can mean "love". However, I think here it is used as an adjective, which would be something like "dear" or "expensive". So I would translate that snippet of text as more along the lines of "with a great explosion from highly enriched cavity". So if I understand this correctly, it posits that the aforementioned chemicals cause a buildup energy that is somehow contained at the middle of the cloud, until it finally bursts out as lightning.

[@ItsThatKidGreg]

No disrespect to your field but your explanation doesn't seem to match the imagery in that book. It also doesn't explain the weird towers and stuff Skeptic shows off. A dead language leaves a lot of context lost to time, so I think there's more to that then just explaining lightning. But its hard to say without more access to the source of those scans

[@Crowley9]

@@ItsThatKidGreg I would be interested in hearing further elaboration in how you think it does not match. I will provide here a fuller translation of the text starting from "Eiusmodi ignitum meteorum est fulmen." I will leave "meteora ignis" untranslated, as it is such a specific term and I already explained it above. Honestly the author's sentence structure is convoluted as all hell and I try to clean it up to a reasonable degree. I fully admit there are things here I do not understand, but I do not see how I could be far off the mark: "Such is the _ignitum meteorum_ of lightning: There is nitrous and sulphur in the upper clouds A, descending with great pressure on the lower part B and its extremities C and D. Because of the air pressure they are intercepted and closed off by converging towards B, which forms a path of little resistance due to the short distance. They are separated by agitation of the violent vapors which are then ignited, and with a great crash it erupts out of the enriched cavity E through G or F." As for your point about the language, Latin is not a dead language. Even if it was, we know how the grammar works and what the vocabulary is, and it has been extensively researched how it has changed over time. Then there's the more specialized field of the history of science. When someone writes about "sulphur" and "nitrous" in Latin four hundred years ago, we have a very good idea what they mean.

[@berrywitch8930]

It's always amusing when people bring up the Baghdad batteries because testing and research on them contradicts every one of these stupid theories but they all ignore it

[@kermitthorson9719]

does greg not think that actual gold is naturally forming?

[@callsignapollo_]

At 32:55, "opening up the exhaust" is a thing. Its why the obnoxious "straight pipe" exhaust is so prevalent on tuned cars, the muffler and long pipe put back pressure into the engine and make the final stage of combustion, blow, less efficient. Not a car guy, just have some engine knowledge from working on some small engines in my life and occasional youtube engineering rabbit holes

[@lazzygnome4060]

You really need to dive deeper into this rabbit hole. This is such a strange turn of events for someone who claims to be a skeptic. I have some small memories of his content from years ago, and this is just a complete 180, brain broken, no thoughts in head kind of turn.

[@TheBonkleFox]

28:47 nope, nope. That cat statue isn't sekhmet. It's Bastet. Bastet and Sekhmet are two very different deities. Greg doesn't know shit.

[@quickstixproductions9880]

He tried and failed to do content in the vein of Wendigoon. But Unlike Skeptic Wendigoon is actually likable and a nice guy.

[@cajunguy6502]

Wendigoon is the anti-Greg. He is a Christian, affable, intelligent, and actually looks good with long black hair.

[@ToaArcan]

@@cajunguy6502 Wendigoon's such a chill, reasonable guy that even the part of my brain that's still a r/atheism gremlin likes him.

[@Tom_Cruise_Missile]

​@@ToaArcan never say that name. We all buried that part of our last and swore it would remain forgotten!

[@Nico_Sno]

I love chat, but the frequent misinformation that people in chat just casually toss around with confidence is kind of concerning. Greg is just straight up making fanfic of his scientific misunderstanding, but chat is also wrong in the sense that most of what’s being said is outdated info or things that are just misunderstanding of facts Electricity very much does travel in a wave: electricity is the movement of electrons, which are commonly described in introductory courses (I.e. high school/gen ed college) as particles, but are actually more accurately explained as wave functions Electricity does not travel “between electrons” electricity is itself the movement of electrons.

[@worldmighty5381]

Can’t believe Greg became a Spirit Science clone

[@MrBell-iq3sm]

Funny how the self-proclaimed skeptics turned out.

[@EvanSawyer4]

The whole sphinx water machine things sounds like a perpetual motion machine. Also, waterfalls make ions because water crashes hard into the rocks and water below. Water fountains don’t do that. Also, also, before that, he says something like: if you get enough energy from the ions to boil water, you can have steam power”… yeah, like boiling water doesn’t take a looot of energy.

[@seff6533]

Another piece of Greg lore. He had a podcast with his gf after shoe where you could call or write in paranormal stories that happened to you and he believed almost every single one. Im pretty sure his gf was even a "witch" or a Wiccan or whatever and they talked about saging rooms and shit

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

Her? A pagan? Or even a witch? _pftt_

[@xenos_n.]

Then he broke up with his gf and the podcast fell apart. He said he wanted to be "the next Art Bell" and honestly he could have if didn't just give up. I totally could see him doing a call in show like that and manage to make it somewhat popular. I guess he's just a failson though and can't even manage to make the stuff he's passionate about work.

[@theamberabyss1745]

Cringe, this is why believing in unfalsifiable stuff should be punishable by death

[@kermitthorson9719]

also greg, maybe theres an issue with electrifying the local atmosphere and having a tech and metalic based system. sounds like a recipe for mini lightning static strikes

[@ineptwatcher]

I may not agree with a lot of your takes about politics and that's fine, but I can certainly agree that Greg fell of a deep end so deep that he's yet to see the bottom he will inevitably hit. I suspect he might play it all of as "this was just an elaborate troll" when he finally hits that bottom, which I do believe is going be quite entertaining for everybody to watch as he's gonna debunk himself debunking the reality. Reaching the levels of irony that should not be even possible... Anyway, cheers.

[@Nekulturny]

lol, this guy really thinks hes Morpheus telling Neo the reason his eyes are hurt from the light is because hes never used them.. Its amazing. And yes Jake, the Chick Tract you did with him is the only reason I've heard of him. Thanks.

[@MrJstorm4]

The lower parts of the sphinx have so much more erosion than the head because those were the parts that were inundated by the mud flood, that messed up the Tartarians

[@philskrzyn]

what DO you call the opposite of evidence?

[@MrJstorm4]

@@philskrzyn Aliens!

[@quartzninja]

So let me get this straight, the sphinx looks like a lion because it was actually built 12000 years ago to account for the erosion damage, which lead to a bunch of other stuff I'm sure is definitely real and true. Except it doesn't, because later on he says that the sphinx didn't actually need to be 12000 years old, because of water flow into the secret ionization machine below the pyramid. I know he's very obviously gone off the deep end nowadays, but to see this level of sloppiness this early in his series is absolutely mind-boggling.

[@themartianVA87]

That Skeptic boy just ain't right.

[@shanewilson7994]

He used to be skeptical and then he started repeating some Jordan Peterson stuff and just fell off into the woo field. And part of me so just hopes he's trolling, but wow.

[@mysticmallachi777]

Lightning rod pyramids? If conductive metals are placed up high, I have to wonder if maybe somebody didn't happen to witness the power of metal to draw lightning and put it up there to draw lightning to a harmless location. Might look cool, too, if it were any kind of true.

[@CalistoFury]

idk why but i used to watch his videos back in 2016ish. stopped when the first set of these videos started. he reminds me of someone who takes Ancient Aliens seriously. I hope he can get of this mind set and find someone to give him hugs

[@kermitthorson9719]

when he said Lemuria in the finale, i lost it

[@damejanea.macdonald2371]

To think the last time I heard about Armored Skeptic before this rabbit hole exploration was an example of people thinking Bill Nye was being unscientific for presenting sociology in an hbomberguy video.

[@puceplanet]

Honestly that was the final video I had ever fully watched by the armoured skeptic. I thought it was so cool to imagine if any of this could actually work then for it to wrap up with him actually believing it made me so disgusted

[@grxyparadox]

opening up the exhaust is in fact a way to increase HP, a better flowing exhaust (less restrictive catalytic converters or none at all) very much improves vehicle performance. awesome video btw. insane to see his fall then again not sure if armoured was ever really that great and it was just the zeitgeist of the time

[@kermitthorson9719]

heres a real reason for the shiny metals being sought after, especially for royal and money useages. they are very low reactive metals. meaning they tarnish the least. so 1 a gold coin will be shinier than an iron one longer, but a 1 pound chunk of gold will weigh 1 pound longer than a 1 pound iron chunk because the iron is literally be eaten away by the oxygen in the air into rust so societies that last centuries had enough time to realize that the gold units lasted longer than the tin or aluminum ones did. so maybe when they put it on obelisks it was a combo of shiny and would stay shiny for a long time and they wouldn't have to send someone up to polish

[@djalexander968]

yeah this is were i realized skeptic was talking out his ass doing some "theyre out to get me so let me give you my board of red yarn rq" and i stopped caring about these, at best he describes a very real historical fact of science being limited by capitalistic competition smothering a FREE METHOD of travel of electricity, NOT electricity itself, and that's at best because you then quickly ask, "where does the "main battery" hold all the energy" and it'd just be.. outside, definitely not a terrifying thought

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Sigh. What next, Tartaria? Is that where he's going with this? Crap, spoke too soon.

[@shannond1511]

I work at a nuclear plant, someone like armoured skeptic would prob be like a kid in a candy store there.

[@Abrasive-Heat]

I thought he was fucking around and making a dorky D&D campaign out of history. Which is fun. Nah he was pretty serious lol.

[@Todesnuss]

Tesla coils run on AC so the field they produce would propagate in a wave pattern but the term "electricity waves" is inaccuarte. The idea that you could highly increase the range by tuning the frequency to resonate within the athmosphere isn't completely ridiculous either but it's based on a simplistic view of physics.

[@cajunguy6502]

I LOATHE Tesla worship. Tesla wasn't even all that revolutionary for his day. He was on the cutting edge, but so was everyone else we know of from his circle. He didn't invent AC current. He didn't have ANY beef with Thomas Edison, but he hated Einstein and publicly threw shade at him, calling the Theory of Relativity "metaphysics." He didn't believe subatomic particles (you know, the stuff electricity is made of). The FBI did take his paperwork after he died, but not because he was magically. They were in the middle of WW2 and they hoped Tesla has some ideas that could help the war effort. He didn't, and you can see ALL of that paperwork in his museum, where his nephew put it after the US Government gave it back to him with an apology. Nothing people thing of Tesla from today is even remotely accurate, and that goes double for these new age "Tesla was trying to give me free energy" assholes. Oh, and did I mention he was a raging misogynist and eugenicist? Because he was.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Is there source about him being misogynist and eugenics? I'm just curious.

[@kermitthorson9719]

jesus, he's using graham hancock as a SOURCE?

[@FuzzballStudios]

Amazing! Now Greg can reverse the polarberries with the cra-… cranberries, electronic-uh… person.

[@irontobias]

Couple things cracked me up - he makes a big deal about the Tesla tower blueprints being "stolen by the US government", but then not even 2 minutes later has multiple blueprints for the tower's inside showing on screen; claiming that free energy exists directly after explaining how Tesla used a literal *oil generator* (to GENERATE ELECTRICITY) to pump "waves" into the sky lol

[@darken2185]

He's like Evil Wendigoon

[@Kataquan]

At least he's not going down the Sargon route

[@avalus6]

I tried finding that illustration at the end on my own and had no luck, so i went to his video, and of course he doesn't lisst the name or artist anywhere. But someone in his comments have the name. "Fireworks Display Presented to the King and Queen by the City of Paris for the Birth of the Dauphin" (1782) - Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune. It's fireworks. The image is a late 18th century artist's interpretation of FIREWORKS.

[@SashaTheDog]

The picture he showed at the end is a Victorian era drawing of a firework show......theres hundreds of such pictures depicting firework like this.

[@imperialwarhawk123abc5]

Wait is Skeptic actually serious or not? I thought he was joking. This guy says he isn't and actually the last time I actively watched gregs videos it was 2018

[@callsignapollo_]

It seems it started as kinda a joke, but the more he dug into the conspiracies, the more he believed them. Like jake said, he's always been super pretentious , but now he bought into the conspiracy and seems legitimately concerned about the rapture, and either fully believes, or at least refuses to accept criticism of, the universal religion fanfic hes created here

[@666FallenShadow]

@@callsignapollo_ " but the more he dug into the conspiracies, the more he believed them" dude, i've been there, but at least i have the excuse that i was a preteen at the time

[@someonerandom8552]

Lol I just assumed he was trolling as a “character” so he could discuss whacky conspiracy theories. Maybe that’s how it started 🤷‍♀️ But he’s gone down some kind of rabbit hole like holy shit

[@natrixxvision6997]

Maybe he’s right about the technology thing. After all, how would the Egyptians have invented falafel without being able to blend the fava beans together to form a dough?

[@aurizzistic]

THEY WERENT BATTERIES FFS LOL Miniminiuteman, a young archeologist and great youtuber, has talked to the guy who like, aided in working on the site the baghdad battery was discovered in, and they believe it was just a jug, and that the top is actually cracked off.

[@NieroshaiTheSable]

I bailed on him when he first started uncritically regurgitating ghost hunter shit, then half-assedly "debunking" it. Now mind you, I'm a pagan who believes ghosts are real... (I know, BOO!!!) but there's a notable difference between the camp of philosophy, UPG/SPG/VPG, and being fascinated by the lore and how it teaches valuable life lessons... and wholeheartedly swallowing the antics of provable con artists. Basically, simply put, I worship a trickster god and even I think Greg is full of woo-woo bullshit.

[@XanKreigor]

Which god?

[@cutedarkarts]

Oh dear, antiquitech? please don’t bring up the dendera light. *please don’t bring up the dendera light* EDIT: NOPE HE BROUGHT UP THE BAGHDAD BATTERIES WHICH ARENT ACTUALLY FUCKING BATTERIES AND WE ARENT EVEN SURE THEY WERE USED TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY

[@cutedarkarts]

He brought up Graham Hancock… GRAHAM HANCOCK DOESNT KNOW WHAT HE WAFFLES ON ABOUT AND WORKS BACKWARDS FROM HIS CONCLUSION

[@cutedarkarts]

“The Greeks and Egyptians showed the sphinx as a woman” no, Egyptian sphinxes were commonly depicted as the Androsphinx, where as Greeks commonly depicted Gynosphinx. But Egyptians also depicted Criosphinxes, ie Rams headed sphinxes.

[@jackhiggins3936]

What got me the most was when he said “including Graham Hancock” as if it bolstered his argument rather than the opposite

[@666FallenShadow]

@@cutedarkarts i'm glad i watched miniminuteman's videos about graham's netflix series or i wouldn't have known who the guy is

[@cutedarkarts]

@@666FallenShadow all of Milo’s stuff about disproving conspiracy theories is so good, i love Milo’s content

[@oofley8346]

I didn't know that the eiffel tower was 40 miles long, because that's how high it'd have to be to enter the ionosphere

[@RawketSushi]

Ohhhh that's why I thought this series was just for fun when I saw some videos a while ago... cuz he started out saying it was just for fun... I just stopped keeping up with it before he started like believing it and such... huh Edit: That might make me gullible, but not gullible enough to believe conspiracy theories, just gullible enough to believe that this guy was only gonna be doing this for fun. And honestly I thought it was fun when I thought it was just meant for fun, it even gave me inspiration for some worldbuilding ideas.... but oooof he done gone crazy

[@Romanticoutlaw]

greg is doing that thing where you make fun of furries or bronies until you become one, except for insane conspiracy theories. How long do we give him before he goes full Qanon?

[@AxelLeJeff]

Around GG I started to notice Greg had a very inconsistent/incoherent worldview that didn't comport with the underlying principles of skepticism, much like Carl, like they were both 'smart' as an affect, and not a result of any actual intellectual prowess. Assume the crazy is true, why would the tesla tower and shape of the sphinx structure have anything to do with one another? They're completely differently oriented and a tesla tower on its side would just be grounded.

[@xXRickTrolledXx]

Carl? Of Swindon? My brother in Christ.

[@Coraltide]

To anyone interested in debunking of the bad archeology in these conspiracy vids- you should check out miniminuteman's vids, specifically on the Bagdad battery and mudflood

[@Seannessy]

I remember when I used to be a fan of this guy. Always thought that the conspiracy videos were a neat little bit of fiction. I kinda stopped watching after the second video, crazy to see where he is now.

[@jadetortellini6150]

It is peak dystopia when you get served a fuckin express vpn ad in the middle of a completely serious conspiracy video.

[@ShadinCore]

when you're definitely thinking skeptically and not conspiriologically 4:39

[@jazzanarchy1342]

When he ascended to knowledge of the gods his voice got a lot deeper.

[@mikean7074]

Yeah that's normal when tapping into divine power.

[@lurtz8656]

4:40 did my man just discover city planning and call it ancient tech?

[@ianrusttattoos]

This is fucking wild.

[@garyfink17]

it seems like Armored Skeptic wants to become catholic, but has already lived for so long as a fedora-tipping smug athiest that he had to invent a whole fanfiction that's exactly the same thing as christianity but with enough smart people words like electromagnetism and white woman astrology stuff to justify the shift in belief.

[@nicodinisi]

How can he possibly call himself a skeptic??? 3:00 He said “from Egypt to the Victorian era” as if Egypt, a country that still exists, is itself a time period from the past.

[@Shinji_Dai]

It's just a new form of that Zeitgeist movie...

[@shannond1511]

Why does his look remind me of a pirate?

[@SpecialInterestShow]

A battery for what!? For WHAT, Armored Skeptic!? I love how he just says "oh yeah the pyramids are batteries" as if that isn't an ominous statement to make honestly. A stupid one. But an ominous one. The implications!

[@Coggernautt]

Knowing what I know now... I thought all this EGOism was just hyperbolic satire. It wasnt

[@Nobody_Fn_Important]

if Greg knew anything about reptiles or lizards he would know that obelisks or tall round buildings would be great places for lizard people to bask in the sun with, then the water features would be a great place to cool off in, hence all the great cities were built to house the Lizard people

[@kermitthorson9719]

i need need need Greg to explain what he thinks happens in a particle accelerator.

[@Jechti307]

"Chat he's trolling" Bruh, Listen to your chat.

[@sigmascrub]

Gold isn't valuable for its inherent conductivity. Gold is valuable for its interaction with silicon in transistors.

[@carpedm9846]

Also wait but... if they did 3 legs back then in the ancient times, it would be new for them. Not old.

[@momjor8789]

not the baghdad battery..... its literally not a fucking battery just watch miniminuteman's video on it please oh my god

[@dorianleakey]

Epic of Gilgamesh, yes, king saving animals no, gilgamesh wanted to live forever, went to find Proto Noah, so the myth existed prior to then.

[@kermitthorson9719]

ive heard and like the sphinx was originally a lion before a pharoah carved their face onto the, then ancient to them, eroded monument

[@grizzleknowsbest]

How would someone with a pace maker fair near that tower? Or is it fare? Either way it would mess them up

[@callsignapollo_]

If memory serves me right, they would fare alright, not much more likely to be hurt than anyone else. The tower's actual transmission capability wasnt great, and most of the energy went up into the atmosphere. You would probably just feel constantly like you were touching one of those static lightning globes that were popular in the early 2000s. Raised hairs but not much else

[@grizzleknowsbest]

@@callsignapollo_ did you know what a pace maker is?