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u/tempo1139 19h ago
show me the pic in another 4000 years
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u/Aggravating_Salad_75 18h ago
!remindme 4000 years
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u/Maverekt 18h ago
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u/ImNotDannyJoy 7h ago
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u/mango_boii 17h ago
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u/Charming-Problem-804 13h ago edited 12h ago
It feels kinda weird we will never get the message in 4000 years
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u/Hairy_Air 13h ago
I’m sure there’s someone who put a remindme for two days but died before that.
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u/millennialoser 16h ago
Wow, the possibilities in 4000 yrs are innumerable
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u/SwedishSaunaSwish 11h ago
Free/universal healthcare in the United States?
Too soon?
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u/quirinus97 20h ago
Egyptians would build big ball of light if they could
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u/CX316 18h ago
"What shall we show on the sphere today?"
"Ra."
"So the same as always, then"
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u/-Knul- 16h ago
"You do know we have other gods, Sobekhotep?"
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u/InterGraphenic WARNING: RULE 1 16h ago
"It's a glowing sphere. Name one other god that represents a glowing sphere and I'll put it up.
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u/-Knul- 15h ago
"Horus is the god of the sun, among other things"
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u/Vyctorill 15h ago
Horus the elder. Not Horus the younger, aka the guy who fought Set in an extremely disturbing manner.
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u/Mihnea24_03 14h ago
Elaborate
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u/Economy-Box-5319 9h ago
All I can say is that it was an unfortunate situation involving lettuce and semen.
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u/Ok_Minimum6419 18h ago
Exactly. People acting like the Egyptions wouldn't want a smily face on a big glowing sphere, bro they would do it in a heartbeat lmfao
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u/Darth_Thor 14h ago
They might also put pictures of cats on there, which I 100% approve of
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u/seven3true 18h ago
They were putting dick jokes on walls back then. Immaturity has always been a feature.
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u/Muscalp 17h ago
Ancient Egyptians would kneel before the sun sphere, horus incarnate
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u/genreprank 17h ago
But they couldn't.
You know why?
Because they were weak and their gods were weak.
We are strong! Praise Imhoji!
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u/nrkishere 19h ago
I don't care what others say, but I find the sphere pretty impressive.
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u/Chewy12 18h ago
I think the general consensus is that it’s pretty impressive
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u/Humble-Attention-107 18h ago
Can confirm, its pretty impressive ngl
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u/Either-Scheme-9731 18h ago
Thank you general consensus for confirming
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u/glorifindel 18h ago
So who’s gonna take the general consensus username on Reddit?
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u/backtolurk 17h ago
I'd be Lieutenant Consensus
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u/Aiden_Recker 17h ago
can't be a private consensus, can't be a corporal consensus, can't be a specialist consensus, what the fuck would i be
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u/hitlersticklespot 17h ago
You can be Aiden Recker. And that’s all you have to be because you are enough
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u/Aiden_Recker 17h ago
thank you hitler's tickle spot. you're my motivation to keep on going every day
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u/Shmimmons 17h ago
At ease soldiers. Lieutenant General Consensus reporting for duty. I have intel affirming the impressiveness of the yellow funny dome.
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u/BiRd_BoY_ 16h ago
I didn’t think all that much of it until I saw it in person, where I proceeded to stand for an hour gawking at it. Truly a modern spectacle.
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u/Quantum-Chance 18h ago
As a depressed person, I find it depressive.
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u/Frosty_Water_6551 18h ago
As a pressed person I find this pressive
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u/No_Gap8680 18h ago
As a person, I take this personally.
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u/PostReplyKarmaRepeat 18h ago
“Pretty” impressive is an understatement
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u/VancityKing778 18h ago
Just watched postcard from earth and can confirm it was an amazing experience. I didn't know the seats have haptic feedback and there's a scent machine in there!
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u/Ghostz18 18h ago
That opening scene where you're falling towards Earth, I thought I was going to fall out of my seat.
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u/VancityKing778 18h ago
I was surprised how steep the seating is. Couldn't imagine how the UFC crowd felt after a few drinks. The exhibitions outside the theater with the robots was pretty cool as well.
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u/johnnybiggles 17h ago edited 13h ago
Always wondered what it looked like approaching a planet's surface you're landing on from being deeper in space.
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u/PM_ME_BUTT_STUFFING 18h ago
And the outside is just the cherry on top. The interior and the viewing experience is like nothing i've seen before. I've been to an omnimax theater and it's just not the same. Needs more shows, documentaries etc... Concerts are cool but there's so many things you can do with a screen like that. I'd watch a camera on a bird for a couple hours in there if I could
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u/thex25986e 17h ago
its unlikely to happen. the company behind this are more focused on spectacle than commercialization, hence the giant pits of debt they are willing to get themselves into for it.
however, others in the more commercial space do seem to be making large strides for what youre looking for.
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u/Beaded_Curtains 18h ago
If ancient Egyptians saw that today, they'd probably think it was a god.
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u/Leaving_The_Oilfield 18h ago
Probably? If the Sphere popped up in ancient Egypt they’d 100% think it was a god, and for good reason.
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u/confusedandworried76 16h ago
I mean the concept and just ominously calling it "the sphere" you'd think it was the lair of an authoritarian comic book supervillain
I'd worship it as a modern god because I assume the equivalent of Lex Luthor lives there
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u/wewladdies 18h ago
To be fair any ancient person would see like, 99% of our machinery and tech as godlike
Ever been near rails when a freight train rumbles by? Or next to a massive construction vehicle as its engine purred? Or on a port when a cruise ship comes in? You can just feel something when these massive objects of metal go blowing by you, and if you werent told what they were youd be seeing god too
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u/GoaGonGon 17h ago
I was meters away of a Formula 1 car as it started, was almost deaf for a week.
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u/Vreas 18h ago
OP just chose the most basic picture to represent it. It’s actually insane how cool it is. Hope to see it in person one day. Only have seen a mini version by the same company at an event and was still blown away.
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u/UsernameLaugh 18h ago
Can confirm it’s able to present some really cool stuff
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u/CeleritasLucis 17h ago
And the compute power behind that sphere is like unthinkable achievement from humanity.
Literal dirt moulded to be able to compute the graphics to run that screen
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u/Zefick 20h ago
Today's humanity greatest constructions are Large Hadron Collider and James Webb space telescope.
If you want an architecture then look at the Burj Khalifa.
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u/smile_politely 19h ago
I'd consider ISS as the no 1 though.
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u/Schmush_Schroom 19h ago
For me it's all the semi permanent satellites
Imagine thousands of years into the future when humanity are long gone, those satellites will still be there waiting for the new civilization to discover them, discover our piece of history.
I think it's kinda beautiful
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u/Usual-Excitement-970 19h ago
I don't think the next civilization will be able to reach the level to investigate the satellites, we have used up all the easy to reach energy coal/oil needed to reach that stage.
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u/therealboss1113 19h ago
dont worry. all the dead human bodies will turn into oil
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u/seven3true 18h ago
And then they can make little plastic human figures future space kids can play with!!
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u/CX316 18h ago
oil was mostly more like algae to start with, so sadly we're not even good for that
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u/Albert_goes_brrr 18h ago
I thought it was the bugs that turn to oil...
The ministry of truth is out for me.
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u/therealboss1113 17h ago
i have no clue if my statement is true. it was intended to be a joke. and from the looks of all the comments telling me im wrong, it would appear its not true
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u/Lord_Shisui 18h ago
A hundred million years sounds an incomprehensibly long amount of time to us, but to Earth, it's nothing special and that's about how long it takes for our planet to produce all the oil we pumped out so far. Earth has a lot of time. We are most likely not the first and most likely not the last.
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u/zach0011 18h ago
But the conditions which allowed oil to form no longer exists. There's microbes to break down dead things now
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u/YoelFievelBenAvram 18h ago
That's not strictly true. Oil production was not a linear process that slowly built up over time. Oil is from plant matter that was not able to fully decompose prior to the evolution of fungi that were capable of breaking down cellulose. Now that we have fungi, there will not be new fossil fuels.
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u/Lord_Shisui 18h ago
Wouldn't that require a fungi covering every continent, every land mass pretty much of our planet?
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u/Terramagi 17h ago
That's more or less what happened, yes.
Tree rot didn't exist until 300 million years ago. Prior to that, it'd just fall on the ground and burn. Failing that, it'd sink into the earth and become petrified.
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u/lunalein09 18h ago
Well, they do, right now. I wanna say except Antarctica but lichen?
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u/Unlucky-Fly8708 18h ago
Are you implying there are places on Earth today without microbes that break down biological material?
Like, if you go to Australia trees don’t decompose or something?
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u/Unlucky-Fly8708 18h ago
What exactly do you mean we’re “not the first”?
Like you think intelligent life existed on Earth before humans?
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u/iauu 18h ago
Don't they need maintenance and stabilization to stay up there? Without that they would just drop back to earth eventually.
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u/Schmush_Schroom 18h ago
There's number of things that can cause it to fall intentionally or not, but in theory If it's far enough from earth it can stay there in orbit forever
look it up on google it's quite interesting
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u/ConstantSignal 18h ago
We don’t really have many that far from earth. The vast majority would succumb to orbital decay in less than 100 years after their manoeuvring fuel was depleted, assuming their ability to maintain orbit autonomously was unaffected or even present in the first place.
The few satellites we do have that are in extremely high orbit would still decay eventually, just after a very, very, very long time.
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u/MisinformedGenius 17h ago
About 10% of satellites are in geosynchronous orbit, which is very far. Their orbits’ lifetime are a minimum of millions of years.
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u/ConstantSignal 17h ago
Yeah As I said. 10% would be the “few” and millions of years would be the “very, very, very long time”.
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u/Artevyx_Zon 18h ago
Geosynchronous orbits in satellites are a pretty amazing feat as well
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u/Literally-Cheesecake 18h ago
The ISS is pretty dated and old by now actually, a lot of tech should be updated, they plan on taking it down in a few years, 2030
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u/JohnnyChutzpah 17h ago
It is our mega structure and mega project though. People often ask what happened to the US building mega projects. The permanent station in space is our ongoing mega project for almost 30 years. It costs 3 billion per year to keep up there.
You could build 5 three gorges dams with the amount spent on the ISS.
It may be old, but it is the largest ongoing mega project in history that didn’t involve slave labor. They plan on retiring it because it is so expensive. the governments involved want to move onto something else and let the private sector take over in space if possible.
The LHC and James Webb combined cost less than 1/10 of the ISS. The only things that even approach the ISS in cost are entire cities and rail systems.
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u/Royal-Resort4726 19h ago
We managed to get the world superpowers to work together on something that could survive the unimaginably harsh environment of space, support human life, and conduct numerous science experiments. Considering we can hardly have a peaceful conversation now, I also think this is our current greatest accomplishment. A needle in a haystack.
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u/alkaline_landscape 18h ago
I'd pick another number 1 soon if i were you, the ISS is due to be deorbited by the end of the decade.
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u/ErisianArchitect 19h ago
I think Iter in France should have that distinction.
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u/davaca 18h ago
If it works, it'll be.
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u/ErisianArchitect 17h ago
Even in its current state, it's still one of, if not the most impressive construction projects in the world.
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u/masterCWG 19h ago
Nuclear Submarines are up there too. They say the same amount of engineering went into them as the ISS
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u/Tabnam 18h ago
I made a pretty sick Lego house recently, completely improvised. I reckon if I took a picture you’d all agree that it deserves to be a modern wonder of the world
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u/FourWaterReed 19h ago
The Burj Khalifa is a white elephant though; they have to manually pump the shit out of it because the sewage infrastructure isn't up to the task. I doubt it will be still standing in 150 years.
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u/Party_Magician 18h ago
I'm all for dumping on dictatorship vanity/whitewashing projects, but the sewage issue has been fixed since like 2019
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u/GregoryPorter1337 18h ago
it's wild how rumors still hold up after a decade
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u/bob_the_banannna 20h ago
Burj Khalifa.
...minus the slavery part and the poop truck issue it had for a while, I agree. It's impressive.
Also, now that you have mentioned dubai on reddit, prepare to be downvoted with me--
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u/SoulManeger8922 19h ago
Didn't pyramids also were builds using slaves?
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u/okiimz 19h ago
fun fact early New-York was built by slaves.
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u/10buy10 19h ago
I think that's a myth actually
Though take that with a grain of salt, I don't remember where I got that
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u/big_guyforyou 19h ago
slaves weren't considered important enough to build such a magnificent structure. they tended to do things around the house.
jk it was aliens
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u/elpiotre 18h ago
But Khalifa is very bad example of greatness
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u/_HIST 18h ago
In what way? Probably the same as the fucking piramids. Reality is, everything "great" is built on someone's bones
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u/Combei 19h ago
I mean a sphere is more difficult than a pyramid
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u/lamedumbbutt 17h ago
“When Pope Benedict asked Giotto to prove his worth as an artist Giotto drew a perfect circle, freehand. Perfection. It’s a powerful message.”
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u/vtncomics 16h ago
You also know that they'd add a nipple on top too if they could.
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u/FaithlessnessQuick99 17h ago
The sphere is objectively more impressive in every way.
Also he’s just so FUCKING CUTE AHHHHHH
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u/Nayroy18 19h ago
You think that's the greatest?
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u/The_Kadeshi 18h ago
Seriously! I get that this is a meme sub and haha very funny but, come on. Even if we're just talking about big ol things there are a dozen dams, bridges, tunnels and skyscrapers that are truly fuckin' impressive, even for today. Sheesh. The second avenue subway is almost 100 years overdue and it's STILL an impressive bit of engineering and construction.
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u/Wilson7277 16h ago
We'll just throw in the International Space Station for good measure.
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u/IVYDRIOK 18h ago
Bullshit like this always angers me. "Yeah ancient civilizations were so advanced, or aliens did this". They put cut rocks on cut rocks, and when you have thousands working on a pyramid, then it's not that hard to complete. Not to discredit ancient Egyptians, this is still impressive, but the concept is simple. Now we send shit to mars, build kilometer high skyscrappers, flying metal vehiclesin the sky
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u/funkyb001 18h ago
Exactly, although kilometre high skyscrapers are still "easy" by comparison.
We invented this thing called a transistor, then we put billions of them onto something the size of your little fingernail...then we shit out millions of these flawlessly, for a reasonable cost.
That is where our impressive construction has gone.
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u/AStorms13 18h ago
Dude, people have no god damn idea how impressive electronics and computers are. I mean, electricity in general is pretty damn impressive.
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u/Bleach_Baths 18h ago edited 11h ago
Electricity? That shit still uses fuckin’ wires.
Let’s talk about how radio, wi-fi, and Bluetooth send shit through the FUCKING AIR.
I can open my phone, call someone on the other side of the planet, and look them in the face on a video call. Without plugging my phone into anything.
What the fuck? It’s magic and literally nobody cares.
Edit: For reference, I work in broadcasting and tech, I get how the stuff works. It’s still fucking magic.
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u/FlamingDrakeTV 17h ago
To be fair, it's only wireless to your closest base station then it uses wires to the other side of the globe.
And this is a cool tidbit: the reason it lags a bit when talking to someone on the other side of the globe is the speed of light. We transfer stuff with bits (very basically a light blinks on your end of the globe and another reads the blinks on the other end, I'm skipping over a ton here but in a nutshell that's how it works) and since the other side of the globe is 20k kilometers away it takes light about 120ms to reach your buddy and back.
Which is also why you have high ping when playing games on servers that are overseas.
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u/OccultMachines 16h ago
Bro and what's with us storing data in actual clouds. Like, those little shits up there blocking the sun can rain on us AND store our data? It blows my mind.
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u/ihazmaumeow 18h ago
I'm guessing you never studied egyptology. There was a ton of precision going into the pyramid structures. It wasn't as simple as cut rock, move rock, place rock.
Not to mention hidden chambers and passages that are still left undiscovered. It's really fascinating stuff, but that's just me.
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u/BlitzMalefitz 17h ago
The thing is, we can still do this today despite what some would tell you. The reasons we cannot do this today are social and economic in nature. Back then all they did was pay people in food and benefits. Good luck paying someone to build a pyramid today.
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u/fogleaf 17h ago
Our rich people are too obsessed with their money to use it for something so grand.
Musk could make a giant pyramid but he won't because he needs his money to buy bullshit like twitter.
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u/Heavy-Guest-7336 17h ago
The thing is these rich people would like their name to be remembered in the history books for the next 2000 years but they have a fiscal responsibility to the companies they own/are CEOs of. And if they tried to build a megastructure in their name for their own legacy, do you think the other 10+ board members would let that shit fly? No lmao it'd get blocked and sabotaged because it'd be their money getting spent on one person's legacy.
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u/Outlander_Reality 17h ago
We learned that it just doenst worth to spend 92837 trillion dollars in a 30 years tomb project.
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u/KeppraKid 17h ago
If there was a 4000 year old sphere and somebody built a pyramid of stone today it would get shit on.
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u/Responsible-Pickle26 18h ago
Pretty sure 4,000 years ago they would be calling the sphere their “God”
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u/Frontal_Lappen 20h ago
greatest construction a big LED screen? thats a hard cope
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u/TitaniousOxide 18h ago
Them pyramids are like, 6 triangles each. Tops.
That sphere tho? Likely millions.
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u/Allmighty-Mudcrab 18h ago
Nah but a big triangle is definitely the greatest ? Our greatest construction is society.
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u/Samarium_15 17h ago
A microprocessor is way more impressive invention than pyramids and you can't imagine your life without them now yet you guys make BS posts like this without appreciating the complexity of things around you.
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u/RumblingRacoon 19h ago
If the Egyptians had LED, they would have made blingbling pyramids as well. Including advertising. Book your camel tour with Fares, only 5 gold stater!
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u/Leasir 19h ago
The pyramids were indeed blingbling, the top was covered in gold (which was of course stolen long time ago)
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u/Buisnessbutters 7h ago
The Egyptians would lose their shit over the dome, they’d be going cray thinking about what kind of crazy ass Pharaoh is buried there
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u/NSLEONHART 19h ago
One is just piling up rocks in a stable formafion that took several decades, just to put one dead guy
One is a hollow sphere with a shell of screen that emits light, using wires and processors that transmits data faster than the eye can see, and was built in half a decade
Yeah the former one seems to be more advanced
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u/flowmarine 18h ago
Both are massive piles of silicon, the latter it just more processed
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u/TwinTurboBidet 17h ago
Today: Burj Khalifa, self-landing rockets, the internet, fkn CARS for every single person.
This comparison is silly
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u/eW4GJMqscYtbBkw9 18h ago
We can rebuild the pyramids if we wanted to. The ancients could not build a giant projector sphere.
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u/tonraqmc 17h ago
Kind of getting tired "everything in my generation is evil and bad, there's no hope, humanity is such a disease" attitude.
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u/CurlyTzu 17h ago
If that shit is still here once we’re all gone, the next people are gonna be like what in the hell was this for ? 😭
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u/falcrist2 17h ago
The sphere is a feat of technology, but it's NOT "humanity's greatest construction".
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u/Temporary_Sell_7377 19h ago
We became less edgy