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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Ok he’s finally triggered me. As an engineer, no. We absolutely can build pyramids. At least technologically. Financing it isn’t happening. But we can build pyramids on the size of the great pyramid without modern technology even. It’s impressive sure, but it’s not like people of the past were idiots, they just had less tools at their disposal, and better tools are great for inventing even better tools.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As you said financing it isn't happening, but it would be hilarious to quietly build a 1:1 replica on The Moon. Conspiracy Theorists would have aneurisms trying to sort everything out.

You'd need a huge tarp painted to look exactly like your building site, so that it just appears fully built one day.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

Less tools and more slave labor.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

There's actually a belief that the pyramids weren't built by slaves, but rather paid workers during the seasons when fields couldn't be worked.

In the modern era we'd call it a job program.
Government needs something done, unemployed workers need to be kept busy for social order, and fed so they're ready when the fields are workable again.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 0 points 9 months ago

There is evidence of a levy based job program, with wages paid in food, not coin, for some pyramids.

So, you know, forced labor.

Also, they would still have used regular slaves, because that's literally what slaves are for, and the fuckin things were built over a period of a thousand years.

Do you honestly think your "job program" looked the same that entire period?

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

No? Why so hostile? I'm literally referring to other people who know more than I do on the topic.

Do you have some particular attachment to it being slave labor? I just thought it was an interesting thing that the common conception of how they were built is believed to be incorrect by experts.

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