• @StrongHorseWeakNeigh
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    1085 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      145 months 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

      • @Confused_Emus
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        85 months ago

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

  • @Carvex
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    795 months ago

    TIL big block on bottom, tower no fall over.

      • themeatbridge
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        215 months 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.

        • @GoosLife
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          155 months 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.

        • @beebarfbadger
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          85 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          55 months 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.

  • @papalonian
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    435 months ago

    See I don’t get this “logic”

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

    • skye
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      85 months ago

      the secret civilisatoon is called “Logic” and these people aren’t part of it

  • Davel23
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    5 months 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.

    • @AWistfulNihilist
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      55 months 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!

    • manucode
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      55 months ago

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

      • Flying SquidOP
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        65 months ago

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

  • @saltesc
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    185 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    115 months ago

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

  • @Today
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    95 months ago

    They all learned it here.