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[–] [email protected] 107 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy is thoroughly infested with AI dog shit.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago

AI wasn’t the first thing that came to mind but makes sense now

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

that's so much funnier

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

That’s because it’s legit! It’s here therefore it’s real! It’s real because it’s here!

Basic tautology dude!

[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 months ago

Back in 2565 BC cameras weren'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.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Men were REAL MEN in those days!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

YEAAAAH! Besides the skirts and no beard.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And the gay oral sex in the bottom left...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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 one...

/s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I got it was a joke.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (2 children)

People calling this picture fake, but it's obviously real because how else could this picture exist???

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

And whoever says its photoshopped, Photoshop didn't even exist 4000 years ago

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago (4 children)

This is obviously fake 🙄. The pyramids were built by aliens

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

That’s what they want you to believe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Given his many legs some of these people have, I'm inclined to agree.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago

There is not a single part of this that I don't absolutely hate

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (3 children)

What’s going on in the bottom left corner there? O.o

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would like to volunteer as morale officer, please

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago

Ahh yes, back when humans hadn't created the eyedrops that allowed us to see color, everything was sepia.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

But these are aliens not humams

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Not sure if you got wooshed or I got wooshed

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Actually, 2500/18 is only 139kg. That's a lot, but it'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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But regular workers back then didn't understand what those weight numbers/hieroglyphs meant, so they just picked it up unaware it'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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If it's that heavy how are they picking it up?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

People just had a much better work ethic back then

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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 😅

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I'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? I'm thinking of the eggs that can hold much more weight when it's distributed through a flat surface on top of the eggs.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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 "THE EXPLOITATION OF LIVE AVIAN RESOURCES IN PHARAONIC EGYPT: A SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY" 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

You have a curious and beautiful mind

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It wasn't a problem back then when humans had more than 5 points of power level 😒😒😒

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

this picture is clearly photoshopped some pixels are smuged

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

you can see the pixels

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Asterix and Cleopatra confirmed!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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