• Flying SquidOP
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      264 months ago

      That’s actually true, although there is no THE Great Wall of China. There are a lot of walls which are loosely connected. The famous stone part was built in the middle ages, but some of it stretches all the way back to the Qin dynasty in the 200s BCE and that was made of pounded earth.

      • @HappycamperNZ
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        114 months ago

        Thats just shy of double earths diameter (~12.5 thousand km).

        • Flying SquidOP
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          144 months ago

          Sure, but as you can see on that map, we’re not talking about one continuous straight line. And more walls get discovered all the time.

          • @HappycamperNZ
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            134 months ago

            Oh, im not disagreeing. It just… damn…

      • ivanafterall ☑️
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        44 months ago

        It’s like the “Build the Wall” people were given carte blanche.