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If the Egyptian pyramids were actually part of a larger structure what purpose would they have served? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm thinking anchor for space elevator

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, why would they make three precise giant buildings for a tomb?

Same reason we would spend a stupid amount of money on the St. Louis Arch, Statue of Liberty, or Palace of Versaille, or any work of art? To create a lasting symbol of something and to symbolize status.

I'm sure you found that book very compelling, but any electrical engineer or historian with an understanding of that period's technology could rip it apart.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Right cause we spent a shitton of time to build the Empire State Building to look at it? No we use that bitch. Now imagine spending 30x that much time and energy and materials, and making it accurate to a ridiculous degree, and then being like "yeah lets do that again lol". For why? A tomb? I have my fucking doubts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sure you can grab the one example in my argument that was actually functional and not fully symbolic, but my point still stands, humans build seemingly irrational things to grandstand, and the Pharoahs would've for sure done the same in their role as dictators.

I have my fucking doubts.

And I'm sure so has every serious academic who has studied the pyramids and all came to the conclusion that it was a tomb, and if you read their reasonings for that I'm sure you'd understand why they came to that conclusion.

Here's an electrical engineer tearing apart the electrical pyramid conspiracy theory for it's misunderstanding of basic electronics.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He's an electrician, not an Electrical Engineer. Very different lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Enough to know it's bullshit.