Change my pitch up
Stack some bricks up!
i wasn’t expecting prodigy here.
In other news, banger song, go listen to it (smack my bitch up for those wondering)
Literally first thing that came to mind
i would really appreciate it if a stats/math nerd would put together a short piece on how “statistically it only makes sense if the Egyptians built a pyramid, this is the most logical and likely outcome”
i feel like you could argue that statistically, shapes that are to be built by humans, will inevitably approach the shape of a pyramid.
I’m too lazy and incompetent at statistics to do the math, but survivorship bias is very much relevant here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Turns out, if you build something that isn’t a bunch of stones in an organized stack, it won’t last thousands of years like the organized stone stacks.
this is true, regardless, i’m still sure it’s somewhat relevant. human societies have built a lot of large structures, but the pyramids are some of the largest ever.
Take a handful of sand. Turn your first perpendicular to the ground and let it fall slowly. What shape does it form? It’s one of the most stable shapes you can make.
It’s more due to engineering. Materials have limited strength. Stone has fairly good compressive strength, but it’ll still crack if you put too much weight on it. If you use your stone to make a tower, it won’t get very high before it topples over. If you instead build a pyramid, the weight of the stone on top is dispersed across several stones below it and those stones disperse their weight to multiple stones and so on down to the base, letting you build far taller.
if you build a literal tower there are two primary issues: how do you get things up to the top, and 2, it will fall over because of gravity and or wind if you aren’t careful. (or just the ground being too soft to support it)
the pyramid solves basically all of these problems.
she might be but hard to tell from this angle
They also gain approval from the Royal Society of Putting Things On Top Of Other Things.
The same thing with things like Stonehenge. I liked the theory that said these types of constructions are the result of the prehistoric version of Burning Man, where they built it just because they could as an art installation.
Well considering they rebuilt Stonehenge in the 1950s its possible the site is totally wrong too. Its possible it should look more like the Callanish stones.
Everyone, or just the people who would call in to coast to coast am?
TBF, they had some pretty shitty science in ancient Egypt.
How many kilograms each?
Yes.
Whips, rimmer, massive massive whips.
Actually, this isn’t that hard given enough slaves and beasts of burden like camels.
Each stone was 2.5 tons (5000lbs) on average and the average human male can pull 500 lbs easily. That means with decent friction elimination (rolling logs, water, sand etc.) it would only take 10 adult slaves and a horse to move each block.
The most interesting part to me is the rope strong enough to pull that kind of weight.
ropes together strong
I mean, can you make one that big?
I didn’t think so.
I rest my cases
