If the Egyptian pyramids were actually part of a larger structure what purpose would they have served? : asklemmy

[-] dharwin@kbin.social 58 points 2 months ago

Nipples, where smaller planets could nurse.

[-] federalreverse@feddit.de 9 points 2 months ago

Rock-hard, even though it's not cold.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

Points for creativity!

[-] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

They even used to have pasties on top.

[-] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 43 points 2 months ago

Probably a tomb

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Obviously energy collectors for the massive space ships.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Star gate that you?

[-] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 12 points 2 months ago

Indeed.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Shol'va!

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Markers for the tombs of the ancient kings on a 1:1 scale map of the world.

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 13 points 2 months ago

Obstacles to prevent invasion by freakishly huge tanks.

[-] Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

Giant caltrops for really big foot-soldiers, perhaps?

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

Disco hall/roller rink

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

Ski slope

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

a nose for a really big stone face buried under the desert.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago

Death Star

[-] simple@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Theres a whole trilogy?

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago

Sometimes, you have too much nonsense for just a single book or even two.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Skate park

[-] barbedbeard@lemmy.one 7 points 2 months ago

Anchor point for assembly

[-] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Landing platforms for spaceships.

[-] Pronell@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

They were natural stone formations carved and excavated, long long ago. Then parts collapsed so they're called tombs.

Just a coincidence that several of them contain kings. Can't really explain that part.

Maybe when you call something like a tomb, treasure starts to spawn there randomly.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

They were just natural rock formations that people decided to settle around and eventually hollow out to build tombs in.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Landing pad standoffs

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Star map

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

c'mon

Vogue...

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that's where I went too. They're big dumb heavy piles. Maybe a dam for a river in a cave with a triangular cross-section?

[-] Syn_Attck 2 points 2 months ago

Crop irrigation engine.

[-] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

It's a bit of sprue left from where the earth was trimmed from the mold

[-] AdlachGyfiawn@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

The documentary Stargate already answered this question

[+] burgersc12@mander.xyz -7 points 2 months ago

I am 100% serious when I say that they were built for a reason that's much more complex than simple tombs. Electricity generation is the most logical to me but I'm open to ideas. Have heard theories anywhere from it being a magic portal to the pyramids basically being a giant water pump.

[-] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Wtf? Pls say this is satire.

[-] burgersc12@mander.xyz 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Honestly, why would they make three precise giant buildings for a tomb? It probably had a purpose that is unknown to us. Read Giza Power Plant for more info on the idea, it is very compelling. Video on the book

[-] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Honestly, why would they make three precise giant buildings for a tomb?

Same reason we would spend a stupid amount of money on the St. Louis Arch, Statue of Liberty, or Palace of Versaille, or any work of art? To create a lasting symbol of something and to symbolize status.

I'm sure you found that book very compelling, but any electrical engineer or historian with an understanding of that period's technology could rip it apart.

[-] burgersc12@mander.xyz 0 points 2 months ago

Right cause we spent a shitton of time to build the Empire State Building to look at it? No we use that bitch. Now imagine spending 30x that much time and energy and materials, and making it accurate to a ridiculous degree, and then being like "yeah lets do that again lol". For why? A tomb? I have my fucking doubts.

[-] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Sure you can grab the one example in my argument that was actually functional and not fully symbolic, but my point still stands, humans build seemingly irrational things to grandstand, and the Pharoahs would've for sure done the same in their role as dictators.

I have my fucking doubts.

And I'm sure so has every serious academic who has studied the pyramids and all came to the conclusion that it was a tomb, and if you read their reasonings for that I'm sure you'd understand why they came to that conclusion.

Here's an electrical engineer tearing apart the electrical pyramid conspiracy theory for it's misunderstanding of basic electronics.

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[-] burgersc12@mander.xyz 0 points 2 months ago

He's an electrician, not an Electrical Engineer. Very different lol

[-] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Enough to know it's bullshit.

[-] burgersc12@mander.xyz 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oe1--ss51Q

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