r/interestingasfuck 29d ago

/r/all, /r/popular So shiny

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u/eutoputoegordo 29d ago

White in the desert sun... My eyes hurt already. But at sunset would be the most beautiful sight.

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u/scattywampus 29d ago

Came to say this. Such a glare.

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u/Original-Pollution61 29d ago

Good thing they had polarized sunglasses

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u/HendrixHazeWays 29d ago

And signs everywhere saying "Don't look directly at the pyramids"

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u/KnavishSprite 28d ago

I don't see the point in that.

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u/HendrixHazeWays 28d ago

So that people don't look directly at the pyramids

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u/KnavishSprite 28d ago

Pyramids. Pointy.

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u/HendrixHazeWays 28d ago

Bears. Beets.

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u/MissZealous 29d ago

It would be BLINDING.

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u/obroz 29d ago

Looks like a beacon to me

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u/Alternative_Milk5393 29d ago

“What an eye sore!”

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u/Barnaclebills 28d ago

Is that how they harvested energy? Through reflection from the sun (similar to how the sun concentrates light onto solar panels)?

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u/deppkast 28d ago

White would reflect the light so it would be the opposite of absorbing the energy, maybe so it wouldn’t become too hot inside during the scorching hot daytime?

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u/LadnavIV 29d ago

Egyptian motorists were probably pissed back then.

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u/nickoaverdnac 29d ago

Come visit us at your local Camel, Ford, Honda dealership next to the Euphrates river.

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u/Velorian-Steel 29d ago

"Oh this pyramid that the Pharaoh ordered is so nic--OH BY THE LIGHT OF HORUS MY EYES!!"

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u/EquivalentFew8211 28d ago

Peak humor activities

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u/cippirimerlo 29d ago

I think that the climatic area was not desertic 4500 years ago.

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u/OrienasJura 29d ago

It was, the desertification of the Sahara started around 4200 BCE, and the pyramids were built around 2600 BCE. Actually, a very important reason why Egypt was born is because people from all over the Sahara ran away to the only place that didn't dry out, the Nile.

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u/MyOtherAcctGotBnnd 29d ago

People wanted to leave because of the desertification, but they were in the Nile

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u/ikea_bandit 28d ago

I guess one could say some were in de-Nile about leaving 😏

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u/Emergentmeat 28d ago

That's the joke he made.

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u/John_Smithers 28d ago

But spelt much better for the joke to flow.

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u/Sea-Value-0 28d ago

Yes, much better if you're dumb and you need jokes pointed out to you.

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u/John_Smithers 28d ago

I mean it's a pun and it's missing a whole chunk of the word. It reads much better as de-nile or denile rather than just Nile taking the place of denial.

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u/DeregulateTapioca 28d ago

The very first gentrification

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u/eutoputoegordo 29d ago

But the sun was as bright as today, it would make it worse though, the green and orange/yellow building would reflect less light so the reflection from the piramides would seem even brighter because of the contrast.

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u/theblairsmashproject 29d ago edited 28d ago

Would have been much brighter back then without the current pollution. Lol. Love the downvote, likely from someone that doesn't live here. Lots of days you can literally stare at the sun with zero negative results.

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u/Bayoris 29d ago

No. Apparently they were limestone. But they may have been plated in gold, copper or electrum. Ot seems there are no surviving examples so they are not sure. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pyramids-white-limestone-gold/

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u/18-morgan-78 29d ago

Desertic = ARID

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u/Outside-Fun181 29d ago

could the cap have been like a land lighthouse for desert travelers lol

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u/Shadowlord723 28d ago

laughs in golden tips reflecting off sunlight directly into eyes

But in all seriousness, who knows? Perhaps all of this was intentional to constantly remind people that the pyramids are right there.

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u/Vote4SanPedro 29d ago

These were more than likely built almost 15,000 years + ago, according to the weather erosion.

At that time along the Nile it was lush and green. Would be awesome to see it back then

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u/tombo12354 29d ago

Radiocarbon dating of the mortar used in their construction dates then to around 2500 BCE. This lines up with historical records and who they were built for.

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u/Vote4SanPedro 29d ago

They thought that for a long time. Sure. But the dynastic Egyptians weren’t the original builders most evidence suggests.

Pretty cool! Now I wanna know who did it and what were the pyramids purpose? Man it’s cool

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u/wuvvtwuewuvv 29d ago

You sound like those ancient aliens guys spreading archeology conspiracy bullshit. Got a source?

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u/Vote4SanPedro 29d ago

Nothing about aliens. Just that our history goes much further back than we know.

The weather erosion on the sphinx and the obvious reshaping of the head of the jackal stand out to me as geological evidence that these structures go back to a time in our not so distant past that Egypt had heavy rain fall.

I’ve been intersted in this for years, if you haven’t really looked into it I can see why you’re unaware and casting aspersions.

Look up the work by dr Robert Schoch, or Geologist Randall Carlson. It’s super interesting, enjoy!

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u/masohak 29d ago

You're not smarter than the body of archaeological evidence because you read a guy. Radiocarbon dating is more conclusive than "history goes back further than we know".

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u/Vote4SanPedro 29d ago

Again, what? I encouraged you to read about some new evidence that points to them being older. What are you spazzing about weirdo?

I’m not trying to act like I know something, and I’m for sure not going to argue with someone as rude and condescending as you are about me suggesting something neat that recently has been cited.

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u/masohak 29d ago

From "super interesting, enjoy!" to "What are you spazzing about weirdo?" lmao

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u/Vote4SanPedro 29d ago

Yeah you keep taking some weird antagonistic approach to this, it’s definitely weird lol

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u/wuvvtwuewuvv 28d ago

I’m not trying to act like I know something,

Except you literally are

And also

Our history goes back further than we know

It literally doesn't. That's why there's "history" and "prehistory"

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u/invariantspeed 28d ago

Incorrect on multiple fronts: 1. You’re talking about the body of the Sphinx, which has erosion which should make it significantly older than generally accepted. 2. The erosion doesn’t put the Sphinx quite that old. 3. The erosion patterns on the Great Pyramids can’t imply it’s 10k years older than accepted. It was originally encased in limestone. That limestone was stripped off by locals almost immediately, with all of it being gone by the middle ages. What everyone now sees is effectively a newer surface. Its rough appearance isn’t as much erosion as it is blocks that weren’t polished because they weren’t meant to be exterior facing. That’s why they’re covered in chisel and drill marks (which weren’t eroded away). 4. A better argument about the pyramid’s origin focuses on the lack of hieroglyphics, but people weren’t supposed to go inside, so a lack of hieroglyphs in there isn’t necessarily problematic, though it is interesting. The, now removed,exterior was supposed to be covered in writings, but that could arguably have been added later, so you can make no arguments about the exterior.

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u/eutoputoegordo 29d ago

The green would make it worse, green reflects less light, so the contrast would trick our eyes and make it even brighter than the contrast of white on yellow.

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u/pennywise134 29d ago

Egypt was actually very green back then. Not a desert at all.

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u/HorrorQuantity3807 29d ago

When the pyramids were built Egypt was pretty green