(The Egyptians invented the pulley, incidentally.)

  • Tar_Alcaran
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    115 months ago

    The Colosseum was just a stadium. A pretty one, but really just a big building among other big buildings. The great pyramids were the effort of a whole nation. They’re the Delta Works, the ISS, the Panama canal, the Three Gorges dam. The Colosseum the equivalent of Michigan stadium…

    • @OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe
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      -25 months ago

      You commented some really cool things, and then mentioned the 34th biggest sports venue (3rd largest stadium).what’s significant about Michigan stadium?

      • @[email protected]
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        65 months ago

        The point is: Michigan stadium is not on the same level as those other constructs. This Facebook user is doing the equivalent of “It took 5 years for my city to approve permits and build a new library. Extrapolating from that, it should have taken 400 years to build the Hoover dam. Aliens must have done it”

        • @OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe
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          25 months ago

          Oh I must have misread, thought he was saying michigan stadium was on the same league as the pyramids

      • Tar_Alcaran
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        25 months ago

        I looked at biggest stadiums on wikipedia and then didn’t count the one that closed (#1) and the one in North Korea (#2).