• Rhaedas
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    98 hours ago

    Let’s just say that’s exactly the purpose, to preserve in stone what angle to spear fish. What a terrible way to communicate a simple idea.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      24 hours ago

      You’d think all the other parts of the world where they do it just by practicing would have built them too if it helped somehow.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      1110 hours ago

      “This is why the bent pyramid is bent.”

      • @T00l_shed
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        39 hours ago

        Is that the partially collapsed pyramid?

        • Flying SquidOP
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          No, it’s a pyramid they sort of fucked up on by putting on an unstable foundation and had to chance the slope of because of it.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Pyramid

          To be fair, it was a precursor of the Great Pyramid, so they didn’t really know what they were doing yet.

          • @Uruanna
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            228 minutes ago

            AFAIK we don’t actually know that the Bent Pyramid was a design flaw with a course correction in the middle. We only think that because it’s the only one with a slope that changes in the middle, but there were few pyramids before that one: before the Bent Pyramid was the Meidum one that also had a steep slope, and before that was Djoser’s step pyramid, which was the very first one. And Meidum was a step pyramid too before the sloped casing was added in the last phase. We don’t actually know that they planned for a very tall one then gave up, and what they were experimenting.

          • @T00l_shed
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            38 hours ago

            Ah yes, my visual memory was correct, but the reasoning for the shape was incorrect.

  • @surewhynotlem
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    49 hours ago

    Except for the pyramid but and the Bible bit, it’s accurate.