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[–] fsxylo 72 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Pyramids are the easiest structure to build. You stack rocks. Want them to look nice, cut the rocks into bricks.

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

And all you need is lots of money, lots of labor, and some clever engineers, which are all things the ancient Egyptians had in spades.

It's really not that hard.

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

Well, it's very hard, it's just not impossible.

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

Well, yeah, which is why building them took decades.

[–] merc 4 points 6 months ago

You don't really even need clever engineers unless you want some kind of internal structure (which the Egyptians did). Otherwise it's just a stack of rocks.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

fr where does he get the idea that a simple triangle can't be built with today's technology

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

Same place he gets his COVID takes.

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

It's like the guy hasn't learned about cranes and construction site elevators

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

It's like sending people to the moon. Can we do it? Yes. Do we have a reason to? No.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Technically we can't send people to the moon anymore but that's not really relevant to whether or not we can build a pyramid because one of them requires special technology and the other requires a general purpose crane

[–] merc 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We could send people to the moon, we haven't lost the knowledge or resources needed. It's just that it's no longer a priority. It was incredibly expensive the first time. Although it would be less expensive the second time, this is a case where there's absolutely no justification for not working from home (i.e. using robots).

[–] decisivelyhoodnoises -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

we haven't lost the knowledge or resources needed

Yeah its not that simple. Knowledge is pretty much lost in terms that there is not any easy or practical way to reconstruct for example the computer that navigated the Apollo and assume that this will provide a flawless trip. This hardware is also outdated so it would had been dumb to attempt to reconstruct something so many decades old. Also the code that run there was coded for this specific hardware which makes it unsuitable for modern hardware. So yeah, the knowledge exists in archives but is not really usable as is

[–] merc 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why you're talking about Apollo hardware and software. The programmers and engineers who wrote that stuff did it from well known scientific and engineering principles. They didn't have to start with a previous moon mission. The scientific and engineering principles are even better known today, and we have much more experience for space flight.

The only advantage you'd have with Apollo era stuff is that it has been tested and the bugs are well known. But, so what? Any modern mission to the moon would start from first principles again, not by trying to extend the Apollo stuff.

[–] decisivelyhoodnoises 1 points 6 months ago

Yes I know. My reply was towards explaining that the knowledge even though it exists, it still requires big human effort and its not something like "we'd copy what we already have and it will work"

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

90% of this tech was rebuilt for the SLS/Orion and significantly improved on, and the next 10% involves the lunar lander and is coming within a couple years.

It's not only possible, it's literally being done right now.

[–] decisivelyhoodnoises 1 points 6 months ago

Yes I know. My reply was towards explaining that the knowledge even though it exists, it still requires big human effort and its not something like "we'd copy what we already have and it will work"

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

The SLS + Orion is capable of it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Even isolated mountains have frequently that shape. It's not like some guy came up with this crazy idea and told their engineer-like peers "Hey, hear me out, I have this crazy idea, are you ready? It's this never seen before structure, I call it the pyramid!".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

And the thing is, it took them many tries to get the perfect 3 large pyramids. There are many smaller earlier imperfect ones scattered around Egypt.