• rigatti
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    5911 months ago

    Check out all of the science in this meme.

    • @someguy3
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      1911 months ago

      They took the Stargate!

        • Clay_pidgin
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          511 months ago

          Negative, that’s just a NORAD deep space radar telemetry site. Nothing to see here.

    • @[email protected]
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      1011 months ago

      The sheer amount of mummies they have on display at the British Museum genuinely made me uncomfortable. Walking through those exhibits, the main thought in my head was just “hey, you guys think you should put some of these back?”

  • Dr. Coomer
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    1611 months ago

    Possibly fun fact(?): We would have far mor mummies in museums if it weren’t for the fact that people ate them. I’m not joking, look it up.

      • @dexa_scantron
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        711 months ago

        Or unwrapped them at parties to see what was inside.

      • Dr. Coomer
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        511 months ago

        That too. I forgot about that one.

  • @expatriado
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    1211 months ago

    in his defense, he goes by “Bad Jokes by Jeff”

  • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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    1011 months ago

    I have a British friend who legitimately smuggled a few pieces of the pyramids out of Egypt for her friends (they neeeeeeded souvenirs) and I’m pretty sure I’ve been left one of her remaining pieces in her will. I’m not sure if I should take it back to Egypt and find a spot for it or just shrug and be all “my pyramid now”

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      11 months ago

      IANAL but I’m 90% sure that’s highly illegal even in the UK nowadays, so I at the very least wouldn’t accept the piece lest I get nailed for the crime.

      Assuming it’s an actual real piece of the pyramid, like they chipped it off the real structure or something. If they bought it from, say, a street vendor in Egypt then it’s most likely fake in which case there would be no problems.

  • @[email protected]
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    811 months ago

    …Given the presence of Stonehenge, what kept the ancient peoples of Great Britain from making their own pyramids anyway? I’m guessing it’s to do with different sociocultural arrangements, but was there any absence of resources that may have also contributed?

    • @[email protected]
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      1011 months ago

      Lots of people made pyramids. There are indigenous pyramids in New England.

      Turns out if you want to stack bricks high, the easiest way to do it is to make triangles.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        I’m aware of the trend, which is why I was asking about Great Britain in particular and whether they had also done so. Courtesy of this reply I was made aware that there are at least some there, albeit those highlighted were neither as old nor so large.

        Still fun to know about though!

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    11 months ago

    Perhaps someday an earth cultural artifact will be absconded with to the Martian colonies or the lightly cloudy cloud city of Somewhataerosolopolis.

  • @[email protected]
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    110 months ago

    I mean, people did steal the fancy bricks that were on the outside of the pyramids, so it’s not a stretch to imagine they’d want to steal the rest