A photography depicting the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza - 2565 BCE. (media.kbin.social)
from Deykun@kbin.social to science_memes@mander.xyz on 27 Apr 2024 08:17
https://kbin.social/m/science_memes@mander.xyz/t/989054

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TxzK@lemmy.zip on 27 Apr 2024 08:42 next collapse

This is obviously fake šŸ™„. The pyramids were built by aliens

Sinkbath@lemmy.today on 27 Apr 2024 08:49 next collapse

Thatā€™s what they want you to believe.

RenegadeTwister@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Apr 2024 09:08 next collapse

Given his many legs some of these people have, Iā€™m inclined to agree.

cosmicrookie@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 09:14 next collapse

I find it discriminating that you arent able to see those creatures as aliens!

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub on 27 Apr 2024 09:52 collapse

No they were built by human slave labor to be landing pads for alien space ships.

Starfighter@discuss.tchncs.de on 27 Apr 2024 12:20 collapse

Indeed

nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl on 27 Apr 2024 08:43 next collapse

Men were REAL MEN in those days!

cosmicrookie@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 09:13 next collapse

YEAAAAH! Besides the skirts and no beard.

Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works on 27 Apr 2024 09:25 next collapse

Only insecure conservative men care about wearing a skirt or not having facial hair.

cosmicrookie@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 09:28 collapse

I guess the pyramids were build by democrats and liberals then.

Also i assumed this would clearly go down as a joke but i am not sure now

Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works on 27 Apr 2024 09:33 collapse

I got it was a joke.

dharmacurious@slrpnk.net on 27 Apr 2024 10:10 collapse

And the gay oral sex in the bottom leftā€¦

cosmicrookie@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 10:15 collapse

I am pretty sure that Andrew Tate once said that it is gay not to accept blow jobs by other men but it is gay to give oneā€¦

/s

Boomkop3@reddthat.com on 27 Apr 2024 11:52 collapse

REAL men are slaves!

nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl on 27 Apr 2024 16:52 next collapse

c/femdom goes wild

Boomkop3@reddthat.com on 28 Apr 2024 03:05 collapse

Nice

Tiltinyall@beehaw.org on 27 Apr 2024 17:35 collapse

Men were real ANTS in those days

jeena@jemmy.jeena.net on 27 Apr 2024 09:07 next collapse

Amen šŸ™.

cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de on 27 Apr 2024 09:27 next collapse

This photo is a fake. I have calculated the math here. There are around 18 men lifting a block here. Each block in Giza pyramid weigh around 2.5 tonnes. An average man can lift around 50 KGS. When you put in the numbers, 18 men can lift only 900 KGS. So obvious fakery.

cosmicrookie@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 09:41 next collapse

But these are aliens not humams

Anamana@feddit.de on 27 Apr 2024 09:45 next collapse

Not sure if you got wooshed or I got wooshed

Boomkop3@reddthat.com on 27 Apr 2024 11:58 next collapse

Actually, 2500/18 is only 139kg. Thatā€™s a lot, but itā€™s less than what some people do today

edit for those taking this serious: that block is way heavier than 2.5 tonne. Sandstone has a density of about 2.323 tonne/m3. This block looks about 8 meters long, so 8x8x8x2.323=1.187 kilotonnes

omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works on 27 Apr 2024 12:23 next collapse

If itā€™s that heavy how are they picking it up?

Boomkop3@reddthat.com on 28 Apr 2024 03:03 collapse

Nah, 2.5 tonne seems about right

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 14:00 collapse

But regular workers back then didnā€™t understand what those weight numbers/hieroglyphs meant, so they just picked it up unaware itā€™s way too heavy to do so.

The photographer was giggling at them & about to explain how heavy the blocks are - but doing so a lot of workers would be immediately pancaked.

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works on 28 Apr 2024 09:23 collapse

Thank you. Finally, some logic!

EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works on 27 Apr 2024 12:01 next collapse

People just had a much better work ethic back then

elrik@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 12:06 next collapse

Only those who could lift more than average survived for the photo, obviously.

shadowSprite@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 12:08 next collapse

Kids these days are just so lazy, back then the average man could lift way more weight

Erasmus@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 13:59 collapse

Kids today are lazy, back 60 years ago we had to walk to school in the snow uphill both ways and come home and milk the cows. Why we could easily lift that thing with only four people.

  • my Dad
credo@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 10:05 next collapse

Whatā€™s going on in the bottom left corner there? O.o

rbesfe@lemmy.ca on 27 Apr 2024 10:07 next collapse

Morale boosting

dharmacurious@slrpnk.net on 27 Apr 2024 10:11 collapse

I would like to volunteer as morale officer, please

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 13:53 collapse

Found the Kneel-Lex

Thcdenton@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 14:08 next collapse

Thats the designated fluffer all construction sites must have. Thank god for the union.

Crackhappy@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 17:02 collapse

The old rub and tug.

NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de on 27 Apr 2024 11:02 next collapse

People calling this picture fake, but itā€™s obviously real because how else could this picture exist???

ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 11:09 next collapse

Aliens!

Generous1146@beehaw.org on 27 Apr 2024 12:25 collapse

And whoever says its photoshopped, Photoshop didnā€™t even exist 4000 years ago

nicerdicer2@sh.itjust.works on 27 Apr 2024 11:16 next collapse

Back in 2565 BC cameras werenā€™t that advanced like they are today. Due to the long exposure time these people had to stand still for several hours in order to avoid too much blurriness of the photo. You can see that the people in the background (middle left in the photo) were moving slightly as the photo is a bit blurrier compared to the foreground.

WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 11:18 next collapse

Looks like stone blocks but actually are giant chunks of cheese. Amazing!

runefehay@kbin.social on 28 Apr 2024 03:07 collapse

The moon is made of cheese. Are these blocks from the moon? They are, aren't they. Wow! The Egyptians took giant blocks of cheese from the moon and made pyramids!

TrickDacy@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 11:49 next collapse

Seems weirdly inappropriate for this community. Weird satire is not typically posted here

EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 11:53 next collapse

Thatā€™s because itā€™s legit! Itā€™s here therefore itā€™s real! Itā€™s real because itā€™s here!

Basic tautology dude!

MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.ml on 27 Apr 2024 14:11 collapse

Lemmy is thoroughly infested with AI dog shit.

brbposting@sh.itjust.works on 27 Apr 2024 14:18 next collapse

AI wasnā€™t the first thing that came to mind but makes sense now

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/9aaf9599-c03d-456b-9405-10067a21ebe3.jpeg">

chetradley@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 16:21 collapse

AI?? I thought they looked weird because they were aliens.

nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Apr 2024 17:55 next collapse

thatā€™s so much funnier

dutchkimble@lemy.lol on 28 Apr 2024 12:30 collapse

No youā€™re right. Everyone knows aliens made the pyramids.

WamGams@lemmy.ca on 27 Apr 2024 14:13 next collapse

Ahh yes, back when humans hadnā€™t created the eyedrops that allowed us to see color, everything was sepia.

iAvicenna@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 14:18 next collapse

this picture is clearly photoshopped some pixels are smuged

Crackhappy@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 17:01 collapse

you can see the pixels

graphito@beehaw.org on 27 Apr 2024 15:05 next collapse

Pure gold! Imagine how difficult it was to make hundred people to stand still holding a train-like weight over their heads to capture it on prehistoric camera šŸ˜…

stufkes@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 16:27 next collapse

Iā€™m curious, would it physically be possible for this amount of people to hold up such a weight? Assuming it is perfectly straight and lifted onto their hands with a crane? Iā€™m thinking of the eggs that can hold much more weight when itā€™s distributed through a flat surface on top of the eggs.

maeries@feddit.de on 27 Apr 2024 16:58 next collapse

No, each person would need to carry a couple of tons

Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 18:17 collapse

It wasnā€™t a problem back then when humans had more than 5 points of power level šŸ˜’šŸ˜’šŸ˜’

SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Apr 2024 18:37 collapse

Declining mana concentrations affect us all!

Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 00:43 collapse

More like, technology made us more pathetically weak

wieson@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 19:54 next collapse

Imagine one person holding up a pillar of stone, the base area of the personā€™s width, and higher then one man. So maybe 50cm X 50cm X 300cm of solid stone. Thatā€™s more than double the weight of the person itself, probably more than 5 times.

stufkes@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 20:34 collapse

Thanks! Yeah I thought so, it must be just not enough people even if it could work in principle

MrEff@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 20:36 collapse

The pyramids are made of granite. It has a density/weight of approximately 165 lb/cubic ft. As in, a 1x1x1 block weighs about 165 lbs. This block, assuming the standard person in this picture is about 5 ft (people have been getting taller over time) this block is maybe 20 ft cubed. Just an eyeball guess. That would put it at about 1,320,000 lbs.

The picture has 6 people deep carrying the first stone with what looks like maybe 4 people across? Hard to tell. But going off 6x4 people, that would mean that each person would have to carry 55,000 lbs each.

Would it be possible? I will let you guess from that. Next question, how many eggs to support it? After some google searches the textbook theoretical best an egg can support is some 300 lbs, but in practice is closer to 120-130 with support/positioning in place (think egg cartons holding them vs just on the ground). This would mean our 1,320,000 lb stone would take between 10,000 to 11,000 eggs to support it.

How long would it take to get that many eggs??? Good question. Chicken normally lay about an egg a day. So 10,000 chicken take 1 day, or 1 chicken would take about 10,000 days. But what is a realistic amount? Well, let me tell you. In the rabbit hole I found myself in of jokingly replying to this, I found an entire dissertation on ā€œTHE EXPLOITATION OF LIVE AVIAN RESOURCES IN PHARAONIC EGYPT: A SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDYā€ BY ROZENN F. BAILLEUL-LESUER (JUNE 2016)

Captivating. Would recommend rabbiting down that hole. And on page 299 we can see that a Pharoah size flock would be about 2,000 Eurasia cranes or geese. So it would take us about a week to put that block in the picture on a bunch of eggs.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 20:57 next collapse

You have a curious and beautiful mind

Rolando@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 13:14 collapse

I found an entire dissertation on ā€œTHE EXPLOITATION OF LIVE AVIAN RESOURCES IN PHARAONIC EGYPT: A SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDYā€ BY ROZENN F. BAILLEUL-LESUER (JUNE 2016)

I thought you were BSing about this being a real dissertation, but here it is: isac.uchicago.edu/ā€¦/exploitation-live-avian-resouā€¦

TIL there were ostriches in ancient Egypt.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 18:26 next collapse

There is not a single part of this that I donā€™t absolutely hate

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 27 Apr 2024 18:40 next collapse

A photography

\facepalm

bartolomeo@suppo.fi on 28 Apr 2024 03:49 collapse

Itā€™s so vulgar to make fun of someoneā€™s English online. They might not be a native speaker and these kinds of comments can be hurtful and discouraging.

[deleted] on 28 Apr 2024 00:40 next collapse

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Sam_Bass@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 03:12 next collapse

Yeah i hear EPS does last that long as a pollutant in the ground

Hule@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 03:16 next collapse

Asterix and Cleopatra confirmed!!

fiend_unpleasant@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 03:55 next collapse

MF im too high for this shit. I damn near fell for it.

Blackmist@feddit.uk on 28 Apr 2024 09:44 collapse

Well at least the pair in the bottom left are having fun.