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Engineer: "Gracious lord and Pharaoh, if we mix this volcanic ash into the mortar, your Pyramid could last for thousands of years." Pharaoh: "But that would be
by lkrubner 4y ago
Engineer: "Gracious lord and Pharaoh, if we mix this volcanic ash into the mortar, your Pyramid could last for thousands of years."
Pharaoh: "But that would be too expensive right? Don't waste the treasury's money. Ordinary mortar is fine."
Engineer: (goes off and mixes volcanic ash into the mortar, despite the cost)
- baud147258 4y agoConsidering how the Pyramid were likely planned as an eternal afterlife home for the Pharaoh, I would have though the answer would be more along the line of 'Of course! I'll go and beat a few peasants for the necessary money'
- JJMcJ 4y agoWhen Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Falling Water home was being built, the contractor realized Wright had too little reinforcing rod in the section of the house cantilevered over the creek, so added more against Wright's orders. Otherwise a structural failure would likely have happened.