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ROIGHT. SO, THEN. There were no ready numbers for the top-surface area of the pyramids, so I had to figure it out myself. Simple, right? Except no one has bothered to write down the top edge lengths of the pyramids, so first I had to determine that. The angle of inclination of the faces is recorded, but I decided to take a different track, using the pyramid vertex heights and the halved diagonals of the bases as A and B sides of a triangle. That way, the top edges just became a hypotenuse to solve. Once I had that, the exposed faces of the pyramids were just ordinary triangles. WELLA WELLA WELLA. Base widths and (modern) peak heights of the three pyramids in the Giza complex, expressed in feet because American imperialism. Remember, this isn’t the geometric “height” of the triangles as if they were upright, but their actual real-world height as they recline. Great Pyramid of Khufu width 756 height 455,

Pyramid of Khafre width 706, height 448 Pyramid of Menkaure 339, 215 Since the base of the Great Pyramid is a square 756x756 (within acceptable tolerance), that means its diagonal is 1,069.15. Half of this is 534.575. The hypotenuse of a right scalene triangle with spine 455 (pyramid’s height at center) and base 534.575 is 701.994 (the outward edge). The area of a triangle (one pyramid face) with sides 701.994, 701.994, 756 (pyramid’s width) is 223,600. Times four faces, that is an exposed surface area of 894,400 square feet.

Repeating this process for the second pyramid: Half of base width is 353, hypotenuse of that triangle is 499.217 hypotenuse of right triangle 499.217, 488 = edge of 670.762 area of triangle width, edge, edge = 201,338. times 4 = 805,352

Menkaure, blah blah blah, yackety-shmackety. diagonal 479.418. 239.709, 215 = 322.002 area of face 46,405.7, x 4 = 185,622.8

Sum of exposed area of all pyramids 894,400 + 805,352 + 182,622.8 = 1,882,374.8 100 acres = 4,356,000 square feet. 4,356,000 / 1,882,374.8 = 2.31409812754, or 16 times every week I accidentally made the wrong kind of triangle, once, in my original math.

I still want to use the Giza pyramids as a reference, so 100 acres is equivalent to the Great Pyramid times 4.87030411449, which I’m rounding down to 4.87, which I’m rounding up to 4.9, which I’m rounding up again to 5. (34 times every week, unrounded).

100 acres is also equivalent to the area of the pyramid of Khafre times 5.40881502747 OR, is equivalent to the two biggest pyramids times 2.56272679779.

“100 acres” seems originate with the National Association of Pizza Operators, and I do not have access to their data sets. I guess I’ll trust them this time.

wella wella wella……. Did you just summer lovin’ trigonometry?

fuckstev-deactivated20240104

Had me a blast!

Where'd you come up with your url?

there were seven eggs left

27-teacups

same

fuckstev-deactivated20240104

you must have a lot of tea cups

27-teacups

yes

That is twenty-nine teacups.

Nice try, motherfucker.

olive2004

I cannot @ how big he is

tariqah

Son

cosmic-kitten-s

An absolute unit

ashkenazis-deactivated20161127

That is equivalent to 72,000 fingers!

willow

LOOK WHAT THE FUCK MY SIBLINGS DID

22,798,994 minutes put into hours is 379983 hours

put that into days and it’s 263 days

your ipod is going to be disabled until january 15th 2015

i’m so sorry

canariawing

guess what today is

trashytoclassy-deactivated20231

Okay, but: this quotient is wrong.

That’s 43 YEARS.

There’s a middle error (an extra divisor of 60) which results in 263 days –which would be correct, if the iPod were locked for 22,798,994 seconds.

veeranger

no i dont think so

myotp-ruinedmylife

This spider exists somewhere and only google knows

Pray we never find it

Almost all spiders, of course, weigh far less. This is just a statistical average.

gauche-af

Aragog

Entomologists Nyffeler and Birkhofer, compiling data from dozens of previous studies, estimate the spider population of Earth to average 131 spiders per square meter, and weighing in at 28 million tons (or 25 million tonnes). Times 149 trillion square meters of land area, this gives us Earth’s total spider population of 15.9 quadrillion. This gives us an average spider weight of 1.282 grams, or 0.045 ounces. An easy way of visualizing this is as 19.785 grains, roughly half the weight of a .22 long round.

blumineck

Can you use a bow to boost your jumps?

It seems like a good day to post a silly video!

It's basic Newton's Laws, so yeah, it checks out that the cartoony suggestion of physical interaction does in fact work that way, but the projectile has to either have a lot more mass, or a LOTTA lot more speed (the energy imparted as velocity effectively increasing its mass). I don't think any archer will shoot an arrow at .00117 the speed of light. Sorry Einstein.

But let me scratch on the back of an envelope. Someone please tell me if I'm not doing this right. A guy weighing 80 kilograms performing a vertical jump at 10 meters per second (minimum sufficient to overcome gravity, which exerts a force of 9.8 meters per second per second) would have a total kinetic energy of 2,000 Joules. 2 KJ.

A 33-gram arrow travelling 75 meters per second has an energy of less than a twentieth that: 92.8 joules. If you increase the mass of the arrow more than twenty times, to 712 grams (1.57 lbs!), and can somehow still manage a bow draw sufficient to shoot it at the same speed, you will match that energy. It will lift you off the ground from a standstill. But that projectile is about the weight of a big Arizona iced tea, or two cans of Coke.

ACCORDING AND CONVERSE to that, if you have that much bow and arm strength, you can increase the speed of the regular-weight arrow to 350 m/s (783 mph!), and that will increase its energy to appropriately compensate. [For reference, at sea level, ze speed of le fucquing sound is 343ms / 726mph.] And that will bring our arrow up to 0.00117 of C.

So when our archer guy boosts himself to get over the fortress wall, everyone in the district will immediately know he's there. Doing his boomjumping. Bimbo with a boombow.

yesterdaysprint

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, July 29, 1904

lilaccatholic

Well that’s not so crazy I mean how much could–

I have a feeling that equivalence is based on a calculation of general inflation. I was wondering what it would mean for eggs and ham specifically. So I went down a hole of consumer price indices from various sources and places. At 14-23 cents per dozen, twenty dollars would have purchased between 87 and 143 dozen. Today, at $3.59 a dozen, that number of eggs would cost between and 312 and 513 dollars.

Ham was more difficult to make price comparions for, because the basic way it’s counted across sources and contexts shows a change (whole wrapped hams or shoulders versus price per ounce/pound). One secondary source I found, which may have performed the calculation themsleves, tells me ham went for eleven cents per pound. At 11/lb, the man in the article might have been asking to carry away somewhere north of 180 pounds of ham, or let’s say twenty whole hams. So, going by this March’s widely-publicized ham figure (what a phrase!) of $2.25/lb, that’s $409.

[edit: decimal point undropped… he didn’t steal a new car’s worth of breakfast]

meowzel-tov

NEVER look up "how many jews in [place your family was in before the nazis] on google at 8am"

the rest of your day will be depressing

bluesardine

Oh!

meowzel-tov

mm same for the place my familys from.. you know logically theres no more jews but to hear "yea there was a massive jewish community here now even the remains of any jewish people living here are mostly washed away" is a gut punch

nonbinaryjudean

I was recently looking into this exact thing.

My great grandfather on my dads sides family came from a shtetl in Ukraine that had 15,000 Jews before the Shoah.

Afterwards there were 14 survivors. Fourteen. Enough for a minyan and four children.

My great grandparents on my mom’s side came from a shtetl in Latvia that was also nearly entirely wiped out by the Nazis.

Another great grandfather came from Poland. He changed his name and now I cannot research his history.

When all of them left it was due to pogroms in the dying Russian empire. If they hadn’t gotten out then, I would never have been born.

I hope people who are not Jewish living in eastern and Central Europe are able to understand the ways they are currently benefiting from the homes, businesses, wealth, property, and lives stolen from the now extinct Jewish communities of their countries. They even stole our gravestones to use as bricks.

sesiondemadrugada

Frank Kunert.

gauntletknight

All computer safety ever for the past 30 odd years: "if you go on the internet — especially if you're under 18 — lie about everything. Lie about your name. Lie about your age. Give as little information away about yourself as you possibly can. Obfuscate, falsify, and omit anything and everything as otherwise They Will Get Your Ass. Actually, avoid it in the first place if you can altogether."

All computer safety(?) since like 2020: "it's imperative we make every 8 year old scan a passport before letting them use their LeapFrog™️. Always-on connectivity required."

aprilbrowines

THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!!

KOSA IS MOVING FORWARD IN THE HOUSE!

It's part of a package called the KIDS Act, filled with digital ID and age verification and censorship!

MAKE THOSE PHONES RING!! CALL YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES ALL WEEK

202-224-3121 i HIGHLY encourage everyone to read the bills in the KIDS Act, because you will be doing more than 95% of people who read and introduce these bills

thisrobothasnosoul

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

whereserpentswalk

Please pay attention and reblog this.

It’s too hot to give a fuck that the prime minister resigned…again

latis-ali

This is almost better than finding out new info through the supernatural meme

sorry about that 🫠

they-call-me-hippie

Calling an active genocide collaborator who's also encouraging ongoing race riots through his racist policing and letting the noose tighten on trans people through his bans while also approving the stripping of privacy rights and poor people's right to live "boring" sure is one way to describe it - i.e. a very white one

Hi! So glad you've decided to give your opinion! On a comment I made on this post to a friend, no less. You don't need to tell me what he's done! I know! I live here and I hate it. But what I hate slightly less, is that you're choosing to attack me over an out of context comment that he was 'boring' because you think you understand what that means. I wasn't referring to policies, I wasn't referring to his fascist tendencies, I was referring to his personality.

We've had a series of fucking buffoons whose private lives becoming tabloid fodder have often masked their policies. Boris Johnson partied while people died of Covid, David Cameron (allegedly) fucked a pig, Rishi Sunak's wife and business dealings were a whole thing, and Liz Truss bombed the economy and wilted faster than salad. 'Boring' in this context refers to him Not Doing Any of That Shit, so we could see how truly awful all of his policies were, thus tanking his popularity faster. We needed boring, because populist politicians have fucked us for too long by being too crazy to deal with them properly. That's how the truly fascist parties (Reform/Restore), the ones that are stoking the race riots in this country with their 'white people are being oppressed by the police,' are managing to win votes.

But no, sure, my opinion is solely because I'm white. There was no other context you needed or could have asked for before getting mad and insulting me about my conversation with another person.

they-call-me-hippie

Good on you for growing and understanding what you deserve to hear, whitey!

#Immediate handwaving away how Labour are culpable of inciting race riots through austerity and normalizing racism lol #Truly the whitest of liberals #'BuT tHe OpTiCs!!¡¡¡'

I don't think you read what I said, and you've just doubled down. I actually agree with you on what Labour has been doing, but I also recognise the influences from other parties within the system, which are currently just as insidious. But you don't want to have that conversation, you'd rather just insult me and put words in my mouth to 'win' so we're not playing this game any more.

captaindibbzy

I genuinely think that's a Russian troll, who's white as snow, trying to encourage the race riots in their own way (by spreading division.) Like, they literally talk like the 2016 "I'm a lefty BUT" troll farms and everything.

Don't open a PM with a stranger with "hello".

1. You sound like a bot

2. You don't give anything to respond to

Try to say something nice and ask questions that the other person can respond to.

I was talking about tumblr but I suppose it also applies to this

Remember Inigo Montoya

lastvalyrian

Name: We are the Borg.

Polite Greeting: You will be assimilated.

Relevant personal link: Your biological and technological characteristics will be added to our own.

Manage expectations: Resistance is futile.

errantindy

1. Polite Greeting:

2. Name: I’m Luke Skywalker

3. Personal Relevant Link:

4. Manage Expectations: I’m here to rescue you.

You can see Luke makes a hash of this greeting, and the Princess is hesitant to do anything until he supplies their personal relevant link: that he’s here with Ben Kenobi.