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so-much-longing
1 year ago

downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

An image of the three pyramids (and three satellite pyramids) on the Giza plateau that looks exactly the same as you've always seen it: Menkaure's smaller pyramid and the three queen's pyramids are in the foreground, with Khafre's pyramid looming behind it. Behind Khafre's pyramid is Khufu's, a.k.a. the Great Pyramid, which looks slightly smaller than Khafre's in this image.

followed by

Another photo of the pyramids of the Giza plateau. This time the pyramids are all shown from the same distance, so that the distance between them is clear as well as their relative size. It's now painfully obvious that Khufu's Great Pyramid on the far right is indeed the largest, with Khafre's in the centre only an increment smaller. Menkaure's pyramid, on the other hand, is less than half the height of Khafre's.

is such a funny sequence

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THE PYRAMIDS ARE RIGHT NEAR PIZZA HUT??? egypt pyramids the pyramids
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badboneszone
2 years ago

You know what’s wild? If the human race dies out and some alien species explores earth 10,000 years from now, you know what’s going to blow them away? The Pyramids. It’s been thousands of years and nothing we’ve made has topped that, and they did that shit by hand. Embarrassing.

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memes history memes the pyramids seriously everything we’ve built is gonna collapse except those fucking pyramids they will outlive the human race I think we as a society need to dedicate more resources to building insane monuments for the hell of it
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