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> I was under the impression that we can’t. Pyramids are a pile of big rocks. They're pretty well fitted big rocks, but engineering and construction wise they'
by masklinn 2y ago
> I was under the impression that we can’t.
Pyramids are a pile of big rocks. They're pretty well fitted big rocks, but engineering and construction wise they've got nothing on a Burj Khalifa, or a Millau Viaduct (below which the Great Pyramid would fit handily), or a Three Gorges Dam.
The Palace of the Parliament of Romania has a larger outer volume than the Great Pyramid, and is ~40% lighter, and is an actual building (so large it's mostly unused), and was built in just 13 years, by Romania, in the 80s.
Hell, while the Memphis Pyramid and the Luxor Las Vegas are smaller than the Great Pyramid, they're mostly usable volume, not mostly rock.
It's not that we can't build a pyramid, it's that if you have a few hundred mils lying around there are more useful and / or cooler things to build.
- pests 2y agoFurther theories (also believed by the YTer under discussion) have the commonly quoted 2 million blocks is incorrect - most of the space inside is most likely taken up by rock rubble fill, like we do today to not overuse concrete. Evidence of this exists in the nearby mastabas which use the same construction technique - solid well fitted outer and inner structure walls, filled with rubble in the gaps.