Back in 2565 BC cameras weren’t that advanced like they are today. Due to the long exposure time these people had to stand still for several hours in order to avoid too much blurriness of the photo. You can see that the people in the background (middle left in the photo) were moving slightly as the photo is a bit blurrier compared to the foreground.
A photography depicting the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza - 2565 BCE.
Submitted 1 year ago by Deykun@kbin.social to science_memes@mander.xyz
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nicerdicer2@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Men were REAL MEN in those days!
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
YEAAAAH! Besides the skirts and no beard.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
And the gay oral sex in the bottom left…
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Only insecure conservative men care about wearing a skirt or not having facial hair.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 year ago
REAL men are slaves!
Tiltinyall@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Men were real ANTS in those days
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
People calling this picture fake, but it’s obviously real because how else could this picture exist???
Generous1146@beehaw.org 1 year ago
And whoever says its photoshopped, Photoshop didn’t even exist 4000 years ago
ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Aliens!
TxzK@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
This is obviously fake 🙄. The pyramids were built by aliens
Sinkbath@lemmy.today 1 year ago
That’s what they want you to believe.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 year ago
No they were built by human slave labor to be landing pads for alien space ships.
Starfighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Indeed
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I find it discriminating that you arent able to see those creatures as aliens!
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There is not a single part of this that I don’t absolutely hate
credo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What’s going on in the bottom left corner there? O.o
rbesfe@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Morale boosting
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I would like to volunteer as morale officer, please
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thats the designated fluffer all construction sites must have. Thank god for the union.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The old rub and tug.
WamGams@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Ahh yes, back when humans hadn’t created the eyedrops that allowed us to see color, everything was sepia.
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
This photo is a fake. I have calculated the math here. There are around 18 men lifting a block here. Each block in Giza pyramid weigh around 2.5 tonnes. An average man can lift around 50 KGS. When you put in the numbers, 18 men can lift only 900 KGS. So obvious fakery.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But these are aliens not humams
Anamana@feddit.de 1 year ago
Not sure if you got wooshed or I got wooshed
shadowSprite@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kids these days are just so lazy, back then the average man could lift way more weight
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Actually, 2500/18 is only 139kg. That’s a lot, but it’s less than what some people do today
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 year ago
But regular workers back then didn’t understand what those weight numbers/hieroglyphs meant, so they just picked it up unaware it’s way too heavy to do so.
The photographer was giggling at them & about to explain how heavy the blocks are - but doing so a lot of workers would be immediately pancaked.
omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
If it’s that heavy how are they picking it up?
Erasmus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kids today are lazy, back 60 years ago we had to walk to school in the snow uphill both ways and come home and milk the cows. Why we could easily lift that thing with only four people.
- my Dad
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
People just had a much better work ethic back then
elrik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Only those who could lift more than average survived for the photo, obviously.
graphito@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Pure gold! Imagine how difficult it was to make hundred of people to stand still holding a train-like weight over their heads to capture it on prehistoric camera 😅
stufkes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m curious, would it physically be possible for this amount of people to hold up such a weight? Assuming it is perfectly straight and lifted onto their hands with a crane? I’m thinking of the eggs that can hold much more weight when it’s distributed through a flat surface on top of the eggs.
MrEff@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The pyramids are made of granite. It has a density/weight of approximately 165 lb/cubic ft. As in, a 1x1x1 block weighs about 165 lbs. This block, assuming the standard person in this picture is about 5 ft (people have been getting taller over time) this block is maybe 20 ft cubed. Just an eyeball guess. That would put it at about 1,320,000 lbs.
The picture has 6 people deep carrying the first stone with what looks like maybe 4 people across? Hard to tell. But going off 6x4 people, that would mean that each person would have to carry 55,000 lbs each.
Would it be possible? I will let you guess from that. Next question, how many eggs to support it? After some google searches the textbook theoretical best an egg can support is some 300 lbs, but in practice is closer to 120-130 with support/positioning in place (think egg cartons holding them vs just on the ground). This would mean our 1,320,000 lb stone would take between 10,000 to 11,000 eggs to support it.
How long would it take to get that many eggs??? Good question. Chicken normally lay about an egg a day. So 10,000 chicken take 1 day, or 1 chicken would take about 10,000 days. But what is a realistic amount? Well, let me tell you. In the rabbit hole I found myself in of jokingly replying to this, I found an entire dissertation on “THE EXPLOITATION OF LIVE AVIAN RESOURCES IN PHARAONIC EGYPT: A SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY” BY ROZENN F. BAILLEUL-LESUER (JUNE 2016)
Captivating. Would recommend rabbiting down that hole. And on page 299 we can see that a Pharoah size flick would be about 2,000 Eurasia cranes or geese. So it would take us about a week to put that block in the picture on a bunch of eggs.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You have a curious and beautiful mind
Rolando@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I found an entire dissertation on “THE EXPLOITATION OF LIVE AVIAN RESOURCES IN PHARAONIC EGYPT: A SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY” BY ROZENN F. BAILLEUL-LESUER (JUNE 2016)
I thought you were BSing about this being a real dissertation, but here it is: isac.uchicago.edu/…/exploitation-live-avian-resou…
TIL there were ostriches in ancient Egypt.
maeries@feddit.de 1 year ago
No, each person would need to carry a couple of tons
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It wasn’t a problem back then when humans had more than 5 points of power level 😒😒😒
wieson@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Imagine one person holding up a pillar of stone, the base area of the person’s width, and higher then one man. So maybe 50cm X 50cm X 300cm of solid stone. That’s more than double the weight of the person itself, probably more than 5 times.
stufkes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thanks! Yeah I thought so, it must be just not enough people even if it could work in principle
fiend_unpleasant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
MF im too high for this shit. I damn near fell for it.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 year ago
this picture is clearly photoshopped some pixels are smugged
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
you can see the pixels
WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Looks like stone blocks but actually are giant chunks of cheese. Amazing!
runefehay@kbin.social 1 year ago
The moon is made of cheese. Are these blocks from the moon? They are, aren't they. Wow! The Egyptians took giant blocks of cheese from the moon and made pyramids!
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
A photography
\facepalm
bartolomeo@suppo.fi 1 year ago
It’s so vulgar to make fun of someone’s English online. They might not be a native speaker and these kinds of comments can be hurtful and discouraging.
Hule@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Asterix and Cleopatra confirmed!!
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 year ago
Amen 🙏.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Well at least the pair in the bottom left are having fun.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah i hear EPS does last that long as a pollutant in the ground
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Seems weirdly inappropriate for this community. Weird satire is not typically posted here
MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Lemmy is thoroughly infested with AI dog shit.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
AI wasn’t the first thing that came to mind but makes sense now
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chetradley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
AI?? I thought they looked weird because they were aliens.
EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s because it’s legit! It’s here therefore it’s real! It’s real because it’s here!
Basic tautology dude!