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A photography depicting the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza - 2565 BCE. (media.kbin.social)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 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.

[–] cosmicrookie 12 points 2 months ago

But these are aliens not humams

[–] shadowSprite 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Not sure if you got wooshed or I got wooshed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Nah, 2.5 tonne seems about right

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you. Finally, some logic!

[–] Erasmus 5 points 2 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 2 months ago

People just had a much better work ethic back then

[–] elrik 3 points 2 months ago

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