A Dane not impressed with putting blocks on top of each other.
Le Gooo!!
Pretty sure they have some cool castles in denmark. They did at one point at least, around the early 1600’s I know they had castles with batteries around their straits to enforce tolls for ships passing through, the monarchies main source of income.
That’s just a more complicated way of stacking rocks though. And it’s smaller than a pyramid - much smaller.
They also did a lot of work with water management to control/reduce flooding. Once upon a time they had a bunch of coastal marshland and seasonal floodlands but invested significantly in infrastructure and solved that back in the medieval age.
Yeah they are super low, like they don’t have hills to speak of and are really flat and close to the sea. They would have to, although you never hear about them like the netherlands in that regard. Not sure if they are included in “the low countries,” people mention, but I didn’t think so, but they are.
They’re not.
It’s the Benelux.
Where I live is only a few meters above sea level.
A large part of Be and NL are around sea level, and some even a few meters below
The Øresund bridge?? Literally one of the coolest feats of civil engineering ever???
Øresund bridge
In every Danish/Swedish crime series where it’s blocked to stop the serial killer from escaping
wow cool another bridge, we only have like 999999999 of those
Not many that dive underwater midway across!
Pyramids are a dime a dozen, too. The Öresund bridge is Europe’s longest proper bridge (Wikipedia lists lots of longer “bridges” that are just raised overland roads - since when is that a “bridge”?).
Öresund bridge is Europe’s longest proper bridge
What about the Vasco de Gama Bridge in Portugal, which I’m finding out isn’t even the longest bridge anymore?
Sweden enters the chat.
Almost nothing built today will last as long as the pyramids already have.
Depends. There are a bunch of Flak towers from WW2 all over Europe that were so massive and structurally sound that it was pretty much impossible to tear them down after the war. The Soviets tried to blow up one in Berlin and it literally just split in two. It was deemed too much work to dismantle it so they just piled rubble on top and turned it into a hill.
There’s another larger one in the center of Hamburg and the Brits calculated that the amount of explosives needed to bring it down would level the entire city, so they left it. Another one in Hamburg failed to blow up with 16 tons of explosives. Only the interior walls collapsed and the exterior remained intact. It’s still in use today.
I’d wager that these buildings could very well survive thousands of years.
Why take them down at all and not repurpose them?
It probably had something to do with the demilitarization of Germany. But yeah, most of them were repurposed in the end. One is now a hotel, school and club, one is a green energy storage and another was turned into a massive aquarium.
the fuck are they made of!? Nokia cell phones!?
Lol, for the most part ferroconcrete with steel reinforcements. But the main reason they are so indestructible is just the fact that their walls are between 2 and 4 meters thick. They were designed to shrug off direct hits from 1000kg bombs.
Our rehearsal room is in one of those bunkers. They are sometimes ridiculously complex with all the corridors and rooms, but they are indeed extremely sound.
Plenty of things build today will last much longer:
Every nuclear waste disposal site (hopefully)
Seed vaults
Nuclear bunkers
Don’t forget about every single use plastic packaging out there!
Concrete doesn’t last, stone does. Brick to a lesser extent.
*Concrete with rebar. Roman concrete has lasted plenty long. Though the lime in it helps.
That is true. Roman Concrete is still standing 2k years on. Ours lasts decades, maybe a century if well done.
They used ash from Mount Aetna in Sicily to make some of it. I forget the thing with the lime, how that was different than what we use?
So my snickers bar wrapper won’t last 100,000 years?
If anything, it destroys whole ass science labs according to this documentary called Jurassic World.
In Denmarkanons defense, pyramids really are just the easiest way to stack shit.
And they didn’t even do that
If you look into pyramid building theories, you’ll see that is rather difficult to lift such heavy stones at such heights at such a speed. It’s likely they even used river-based hydraulic force. I’d say quite advanced compared to what else we see from 4k years ago. There’s many great resources and this topic (and many bogus ones), but for simplicity, I’ll link to Wikipedia here.
They virtually build themselves. Though whipping in the summer heat can be laborious.
Now, now. Denmark has clogs.
Send 'em some draino
Problem with the pyramids is that there are so many of them that it starts to just seem like a normal thing to do. And in various parts of the world.
I wonder if the Mayan ones surrounded by forest had to lop down lots of trees to make way for the moving stones, or if the forest came later.
What really makes the egypt pyramids stand out (in comparison to the mayans and aztecs) is the way it has an actual pointy top. Here’s an in depth video of how cool that is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5kWDOuY2Uo&t=698
Probably.
Öresund bridge (bridge between Denmark and Sweden) is pretty neat.
Built 5k years ago?
Anon states that Denmark has no landmarks whatsoever. The Öresund bridge might not be quite as impressive as the Gizeh pyramids, but it is clearly a well-known landmark and a great feat of civil engineering, and arguably more useful than a giant tomb.
I think it’s quite obvious what kind of landmarks they’re talking about.
“they built something 5k years ago, that’s unimpressive”
“lol, look who’s talking”
“we have something recent”
Danmark actually has pre historic construction. But, you could very much see dolmens as stacked rocks, more than the pyramids.
Lotta runestones too! Nowhere near as old nor impresssive as the pyramids though
Lego
What about the mermaid?
Surely stolen again by now.
Pesky swedes.
