🧵 Can we caluclate teh watt and joule spent
Anonymous at Sat, 22 Jun 2024 07:12:16 UTC No. 16247035
on building the pyramids to get more facts on who tha fuck built that shit?
I just finished my 2second semester studying physics and in the first 2 semesters we learned everything about the SI units.
Well we can figure out how much watt and joule are needed to move a rock the average size that is used to build the pyramid.
We can calulate how much watt an average person can move/day
we know how many rocks are used to build the pyramid and we kind of know how many people lived back in the day in egypt.
Another thing that blows my mind about these fucking pyramids is, how can you build something for 3 generations and not knowing what you build?
I mean did they just atart building whatever and it turned into a pyramid or did they know they build a pyramid.
If they knew, how did the y know and why?
If they didnt know and they built the pyramids by accident, it must have taken 5 times the amount to build than knowing in advance what you build
Anonymous at Sat, 22 Jun 2024 08:07:35 UTC No. 16247083
>>16247035
Theres a quarry right next ti the pyramids. The rocks were moved a relatively short distance.
The giza pyramid weights 5,75 million tons. Assume a worker can move (from the quarry) a single 1 tons block in a day of labor, and it takes some other worker a day of labor to cut the stone, and it takes a day to lift it up to its resting place.
So you need like 70.000 man-years of labor to build it. You can build the giza pyramid in 7 years if you have 10.000 workers.
With a population of 3 million people, paying only 10% effective tax, Pharao would have 10% of GDP at his disposal so the capacity to hire 10% of laborers. Assuming only half the population worked, that would be 150.000 workers at his disposal. Not all of which could just work at the pyramid.
Anonymous at Sat, 22 Jun 2024 08:32:53 UTC No. 16247110
>>16247035
You can look up the dimensions of the pyramid and the density of the rock and do a rough estimate yourself.