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[-] [email protected] 107 points 2 weeks ago

Breaking News: Ancient people figured out how to stack rocks effectively.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

There's also the reality that the Egyptian pyramids on the left were all built over 2000 years before all the Mayan pyramids on the right

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

That and Egyptian pyramids were tombs, whereas pyramids in Central and South America were mostly temples for worship.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

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[-] [email protected] 79 points 2 weeks ago

TIL big block on bottom, tower no fall over.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

That's a really good point. We never hear about thr civilization that tried to build a structure with the small stones on the bottom and crushed everyone to death when it collapsed.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

You know, if they did build it like that, and the blocks fell straight down, it would arrange itself into a pyramid shape, so who knows. Maybe they all did that and we just assume they built pyramids on purpose.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

This further proves that the Big Bottom conspiracy is covering up the facts they don't want you to know!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Damn, I'm a bottom why did no one let me in on the conspiracy?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Well, there is one famous story about a tower so tall it toppled. Whether fiction, embellished or actually true - by virtue of its age it proves that the concept wasn't entirely foreign.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago

See I don't get this "logic"

All of these ancient buildings had a similar structure, therefore a fantastic secret underwater civilization exists

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Poseidon of the Gaps fallacy.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

the secret civilisatoon is called "Logic" and these people aren't part of it

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I miss ~~old~~ ~~new~~ any Funhaus

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I love Sneferu's pyramid. They realized halfway through the were building it too steeply, so just changed the angle for the last half.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe they just ran out of material and still wanted a pointy tip

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

No, the foundations were unstable and they needed to do something to reduce the weight.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

The bent pyramid is so cool, it's the second pyramid they built that fucked up. Once they had to change the angle to stop the burial chambers from collapsing, they started work on the 3rd and final Red pyramid, which they nailed and buried Sneferu in.

They used all that knowledge that they gained in failure directly to create the great pyramid. It's a unbroken chain of engineering marvels!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sneferu's snafu.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, the 🤔 emoji. The universal identifier of our brightest minds.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hummmm....the tune to Walk Like an Egyptian. I SAID HUM IT.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Triangle strong. Hidden civilization?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

They left out all the ziggurats

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

The difference between a pyramid and a pile of rocks is organization. It's a really not a leap to figure it out.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

They all learned it here.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

All path leads to Arch

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