• Flying SquidOP
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      2629 days 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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        1129 days ago

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

        • Flying SquidOP
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          1429 days 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.

      • @ivanafterall
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        428 days ago

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