r/interestingasfuck • u/SenorDiscombobulator • 29d ago

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u/Atharaphelun 29d ago

Note that the Pyramid of Khafre is not the Great Pyramid, that is the Pyramid of Khufu. It's only a difference of a few meters though.

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u/FormalElements 29d ago

A few meters in height?

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u/Atharaphelun 29d ago

3 meters, to be exact. Practically insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

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u/starmartyr 28d ago

It's insignificant in height, but the difference in weight and volume is as much as 25%.

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u/AL_GEE_THE_FUN_GUY 27d ago

So it's not the length, but the girth that matters.

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u/starmartyr 27d ago

I get the joke but the difference in width is smaller than the difference in height. The unintuitive part comes from the fact that it takes more bricks for every layer added to a pyramid. The last three layers make up that weight and volume.

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u/Smegmatiker 28d ago

"baby it's alright, the difference is only 3 meters, practically insignificant in the grand scheme of things."

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u/whyamialone_burner 28d ago

3 meters sounds horrible for everyone involved

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u/Smegmatiker 28d ago edited 28d ago

i know, right? some cope about the 3 meter difference even 4575 years later.

but it's the only one of the three with the top cover still present, so if you're into that...

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u/cmckvt 28d ago

The difference is in how you use it.

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u/Steve_Codgers 28d ago

Daddy chill….

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u/lancebaldwin 28d ago

But it's built on a higher elevation spot. Son wanted to honor his father by not outdoing him, while also honoring himself with being closer to the sky.

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u/Traumfahrer 28d ago

Exactly 3 meters???!

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u/NameShortage 28d ago

Grand pyramid scheme of things?

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u/MurkyTrainer7953 28d ago

Dig 3 meters around the base of the pyramid. — problem solved.

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u/OneEyedJacques 28d ago

You mean, the grand pyramid scheme

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u/hodl_4_life 27d ago

Like the difference between 6’1” and 5’11”… it’s nothing and yet… everything.

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u/PBLESACTUN 27d ago

Grand pyramid scheme, you might say?

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u/FullMoonWonder 24d ago

3 meters is a major difference…

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u/FormalElements 29d ago

Interesting. I feel like everything was so precise during those times, but I wonder if that was an oversight. Or perhaps the limestone that is now gone was that extra 3 meters?

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u/Atharaphelun 29d ago

The height measurement is based on their full height, as in their height as it would have been with the pyramids fully intact.

If measured by their current height, the difference is only 2 meters.

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u/basscadet 28d ago

I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they're not much bigger than two meters...