• 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.