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Breaking News: Ancient people figured out how to stack rocks effectively.

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There’s also the reality that the Egyptian pyramids on the left were all built over 2000 years before all the Mayan pyramids on the right

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That and Egyptian pyramids were tombs, whereas pyramids in Central and South America were mostly temples for worship.

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Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to sign up for your newsletter

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TIL big block on bottom, tower no fall over.

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Survivor bias

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That’s a really good point. We never hear about thr civilization that tried to build a structure with the small stones on the bottom and crushed everyone to death when it collapsed.

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You know, if they did build it like that, and the blocks fell straight down, it would arrange itself into a pyramid shape, so who knows. Maybe they all did that and we just assume they built pyramids on purpose.

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This further proves that the Big Bottom conspiracy is covering up the facts they don’t want you to know!

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Well, there is one famous story about a tower so tall it toppled. Whether fiction, embellished or actually true - by virtue of its age it proves that the concept wasn’t entirely foreign.

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Fat bottom tombs they make the rockin world go round.

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See I don’t get this “logic”

All of these ancient buildings had a similar structure, therefore a fantastic secret underwater civilization exists

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Poseidon of the Gaps fallacy.

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the secret civilisatoon is called “Logic” and these people aren’t part of it

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bass pro shop

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I miss old new any Funhaus

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I love Sneferu’s pyramid. They realized halfway through the were building it too steeply, so just changed the angle for the last half.

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Maybe they just ran out of material and still wanted a pointy tip

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No, the foundations were unstable and they needed to do something to reduce the weight.

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The bent pyramid is so cool, it’s the second pyramid they built that fucked up. Once they had to change the angle to stop the burial chambers from collapsing, they started work on the 3rd and final Red pyramid, which they nailed and buried Sneferu in.

They used all that knowledge that they gained in failure directly to create the great pyramid. It’s a unbroken chain of engineering marvels!

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Sneferu’s snafu.

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