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Well at least the pair in the bottom left are having fun.
MF im too high for this shit. I damn near fell for it.
Asterix and Cleopatra confirmed!!
Yeah i hear EPS does last that long as a pollutant in the ground
A photography
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It's so vulgar to make fun of someone's English online. They might not be a native speaker and these kinds of comments can be hurtful and discouraging.
There is not a single part of this that I don't absolutely hate
I'm curious, would it physically be possible for this amount of people to hold up such a weight? Assuming it is perfectly straight and lifted onto their hands with a crane? I'm thinking of the eggs that can hold much more weight when it's distributed through a flat surface on top of the eggs.
The pyramids are made of granite. It has a density/weight of approximately 165 lb/cubic ft. As in, a 1x1x1 block weighs about 165 lbs. This block, assuming the standard person in this picture is about 5 ft (people have been getting taller over time) this block is maybe 20 ft cubed. Just an eyeball guess. That would put it at about 1,320,000 lbs.
The picture has 6 people deep carrying the first stone with what looks like maybe 4 people across? Hard to tell. But going off 6x4 people, that would mean that each person would have to carry 55,000 lbs each.
Would it be possible? I will let you guess from that. Next question, how many eggs to support it? After some google searches the textbook theoretical best an egg can support is some 300 lbs, but in practice is closer to 120-130 with support/positioning in place (think egg cartons holding them vs just on the ground). This would mean our 1,320,000 lb stone would take between 10,000 to 11,000 eggs to support it.
How long would it take to get that many eggs??? Good question. Chicken normally lay about an egg a day. So 10,000 chicken take 1 day, or 1 chicken would take about 10,000 days. But what is a realistic amount? Well, let me tell you. In the rabbit hole I found myself in of jokingly replying to this, I found an entire dissertation on "THE EXPLOITATION OF LIVE AVIAN RESOURCES IN PHARAONIC EGYPT: A SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY" BY ROZENN F. BAILLEUL-LESUER (JUNE 2016)
Captivating. Would recommend rabbiting down that hole. And on page 299 we can see that a Pharoah size flock would be about 2,000 Eurasia cranes or geese. So it would take us about a week to put that block in the picture on a bunch of eggs.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
I found an entire dissertation on “THE EXPLOITATION OF LIVE AVIAN RESOURCES IN PHARAONIC EGYPT: A SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY” BY ROZENN F. BAILLEUL-LESUER (JUNE 2016)
I thought you were BSing about this being a real dissertation, but here it is: https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/research-archives-library/dissertations/exploitation-live-avian-resources-pharaonic-egypt
TIL there were ostriches in ancient Egypt.
You have a curious and beautiful mind
Imagine one person holding up a pillar of stone, the base area of the person's width, and higher then one man. So maybe 50cm X 50cm X 300cm of solid stone. That's more than double the weight of the person itself, probably more than 5 times.
Thanks! Yeah I thought so, it must be just not enough people even if it could work in principle
No, each person would need to carry a couple of tons
It wasn't a problem back then when humans had more than 5 points of power level 😒😒😒
Declining mana concentrations affect us all!
More like, technology made us more pathetically weak
Pure gold! Imagine how difficult it was to make hundred people to stand still holding a train-like weight over their heads to capture it on prehistoric camera 😅
this picture is clearly photoshopped some pixels are smuged
you can see the pixels
Ahh yes, back when humans hadn't created the eyedrops that allowed us to see color, everything was sepia.
Seems weirdly inappropriate for this community. Weird satire is not typically posted here
Lemmy is thoroughly infested with AI dog shit.
AI?? I thought they looked weird because they were aliens.
No you're right. Everyone knows aliens made the pyramids.
that's so much funnier
AI wasn’t the first thing that came to mind but makes sense now
That’s because it’s legit! It’s here therefore it’s real! It’s real because it’s here!
Basic tautology dude!
Looks like stone blocks but actually are giant chunks of cheese. Amazing!
The moon is made of cheese. Are these blocks from the moon? They are, aren't they. Wow! The Egyptians took giant blocks of cheese from the moon and made pyramids!
Back in 2565 BC cameras weren't that advanced like they are today. Due to the long exposure time these people had to stand still for several hours in order to avoid too much blurriness of the photo. You can see that the people in the background (middle left in the photo) were moving slightly as the photo is a bit blurrier compared to the foreground.