Build bigger pyramids than in Egypt to emasculate the Egyptians

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Swagasaurus-Rex@reddit

I did the math. You need 2,300,000 limestone or granite blocks to match the great pyramid of giza. If you used modern cranes and built this new pyramid next to a port or a navigable river, you could ship in thousands of blocks a day and have them shaped on site.

It can be done in 10 years and with $10 billion. You’d need 24/7 crew and dozens of cranes in constant operation to pull it off, and a lot of cargo boats with shipping container sized blocks.

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Quitcha_Bitchin@reddit

I wanna see the time lapse.

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NearABE@reddit

365x24x600 = 525,600 minutes in a year. If it is moving 1 ton blocks and average two minutes per move then just 1 crane could do the whole job.

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Mahoka572@reddit

How do you measure, do you measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in ton blocks...

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NearABE@reddit

The numbers I threw out are days in year, hours in day, minutes in hour.

The block mass came from the post above since it just says “blocks”. The Khufu’s pyramid is 2.6 million m^3 in volume. The post also says “shipping container sized blocks” which poses some challenges. “Blocks of stone on pallets in shipping containers” is more believable.

The intermodal container is 2.4m wide x 2.6m height x 12.2m length (for 40 foot containers). 76.1 m^3 .

We could stack 34,152 intermodal containers and call it a done pyramid. The world economy is moving around 20 million of them. They are not rated to be stacked 62 tall though. Reinforcing intermodal containers would be harder than just building a steel frame structure. Around 500 to 600 times the Great Pyramid’s volume is in motion or in yards today.

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Mahoka572@reddit

I think you missed the point of my comment lol. 525,600 minutes is a famous line in the song Seasons of Love from the musical Rent.

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NearABE@reddit

I sure did miss that.

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Swagasaurus-Rex@reddit

So you're telling me I don't need anybody's help

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ButtFuzzNow@reddit

"Where's the keys to my Kubota?"

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pomoerotic@reddit

Man, don’t give orangeface any more ideas.

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Sirlacker@reddit

Do we need that many blocks though? With modern technology could we not create an easier to build structure and then just use thinner blocks as a skin?

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YoelsShitStain@reddit

What’s crazy is they estimate the great pyramids were only built in 20-30 years.

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BaitmasterG@reddit

Now make it hollow and poured concrete

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mnsklk@reddit

Make it flat on the ground and paint stripes on it. Now we can utilize the spade as a parking lot instead

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Swagasaurus-Rex@reddit

What if you could maximize the usable space inside of a pyramid while still maintaining structural soundness? The volume inside could be immense. You could have miles of tunnels, some incredible halls and chambers.

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iCanOnlyAskQuestion@reddit

Did you double check your numbers?

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Disastrous_Ad1260@reddit

Please don't give our monument-builder-in-chief any more ideas

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GriffinNowak@reddit

Hear me out. We built another pyramid around the Bass Pro shop pyramid that is larger than any of the Egyptian pyramids

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gyozafish@reddit

We can’t have a cool pyramid because … orange man bad?

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Disastrous_Ad1260@reddit

Pyramids are hot. Let's rebuild the hanging gardens of Babylon to show up the Iraqis, instead. Grow food and cool the nearby air

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SovietPatrickStar@reddit

He’s going to find a good use for the park and the Tidal Basin. Don’t you worry.

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dka2012@reddit

Make them out of some material that will last longer than limestone and then start a libelous campaign that the Egyptian pyramids are old and unsafe and should be torn down. Make everyone forget about them after a decade or so.

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bionicjoey@reddit

Bass Pro Shop pyramid

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DarkForebodingStew@reddit

Don't give the crazies in Dubai any ideas.

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Asparagus9000@reddit

Do the people there even care about them? I remember someone saying they lived there and never saw them.

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Numerous_Fudge_9537@reddit

Back in my school, every kid in the class visited them at least once and of course the school had us go on a road trip there with a guide

Personally whenever I'm on the road and see them, I would just keep looking at them (provided I'm not the one driving) lol

It's just surreal realizing how long that structure has been there and the millions of people who witnessed it across the ages just like myself

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I’m all for building some even bigger ones.

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Kadjai@reddit

Yuck