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    9 hours ago

    Shoot fish with lasers. No need to compensate for refraction, problem solved.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    10 hours ago

    Let’s just say that’s exactly the purpose, to preserve in stone what angle to spear fish. What a terrible way to communicate a simple idea.

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      You’d think all the other parts of the world where they do it just by practicing would have built them too if it helped somehow.

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            AFAIK we don’t actually know that the Bent Pyramid was a design flaw with a course correction in the middle. We only think that because it’s the only one with a slope that changes in the middle, but there were few pyramids before that one: before the Bent Pyramid was the Meidum one that also had a steep slope, and before that was Djoser’s step pyramid, which was the very first one. And Meidum was a step pyramid too before the sloped casing was added in the last phase. We don’t actually know that they planned for a very tall one then gave up, and what they were experimenting.