JBaz All American 16764 Posts user info edit post |
If I was rich, I'd build an 800m tall pyramid with just a small pent house on top and everything else is just void. just to say fuck you to the neighbors.
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dweedle All American 77386 Posts user info edit post |
I would build a pyramid in a northern city where it snowed a lot, then from the top I would start avalanches/snowballs that would grow on the way down and terrorize whatever is in the path once it rolled to the bottom
would probably fillet the bottom so there wouldnt be an angle though 10/19/2011 4:17:52 PM |
mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
Space Pier
10/19/2011 4:44:12 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
I'm totally going to fuck over my kids and have my entire estate liquidated to build a pyramid for myself. 10/19/2011 4:47:19 PM |
mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
that will be an awkward meeting with the family lawyer
Will you start building it before you die? Or will you have an engineering firm contracted and plans in place to begin construction right after you die?
You could make your family sit by and watch as your funds were slowly depleted in a vein project building a glorified tombstone.
Sleep on it. 10/19/2011 4:50:41 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
engineering firm contracted and plans in place to begin construction right after you die 10/19/2011 4:58:38 PM |
mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
Speaking of elaborate plans for one's own death:
Actually, I need to make a "death" playlist
10/19/2011 5:06:13 PM |
JBaz All American 16764 Posts user info edit post |
^^this. Gates should do that instead of trying to help people. lol
[Edited on October 19, 2011 at 5:07 PM. Reason : grr] 10/19/2011 5:07:01 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
How much would it cost to build a new one on the scale of the Great Pyramid at Giza? 10/19/2011 5:09:49 PM |
JBaz All American 16764 Posts user info edit post |
depends if this is made in china or not 10/19/2011 5:12:48 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
I imagine that most of the stone would be from there. I was just reading that the new Stadtschloss reproduction in Berlin is getting the majority (if not all of their stone) from China. 10/19/2011 5:14:35 PM |
JBaz All American 16764 Posts user info edit post |
they also produce 95% of the heavy metals. 10/19/2011 5:15:53 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
I'll bet that chinese heavy metal sucks. 10/19/2011 5:18:11 PM |
wawebste All American 19599 Posts user info edit post |
10/19/2011 5:29:48 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
Written around 1970:
Quote : | "That puts our estimated expenditure at more than $1 billion. To be exact, a grand total of $1,130,390,000." |
http://ldolphin.org/pyramid.html10/19/2011 5:46:26 PM |
paerabol All American 17118 Posts user info edit post |
A Tanzarian's post on the previous page is everything that is special to me 10/19/2011 8:15:48 PM |
ncsuapex SpaceForRent 37776 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Why'd we stop building pyramids? " |
Because small pox killed off all the ancient aliens when we tried to take their gold.10/19/2011 8:17:55 PM |
wdprice3 BinaryBuffonary 45912 Posts user info edit post |
i was gonna say because the aliens left. but i see that has been covered 10/19/2011 8:51:02 PM |
mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
^^^^^ I like that. Very glorious. 10/19/2011 9:43:21 PM |
XSMP All American 16674 Posts user info edit post |
10/19/2011 9:47:43 PM |
kdogg(c) All American 3494 Posts user info edit post |
What is with Abraham Lincoln getting credit for everything.
Old Abe didn't stop the pyramids from being built, Charlton Heston did.
[Edited on October 19, 2011 at 10:47 PM. Reason : past tense] 10/19/2011 10:47:17 PM |
TenaciousC All American 6307 Posts user info edit post |
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mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
4/10 10/19/2011 11:38:25 PM |
JBaz All American 16764 Posts user info edit post |
its only a laughable situation until a rich billionaire builds a new pyramid just for shits and giggles. We should start a movement that only really rich people are rich enough for life if they can build a great pyramid or bigger. 10/20/2011 2:27:07 AM |
NCSUStinger Duh, Winning 62426 Posts user info edit post |
basically, pyramids are expensive
and Moses took away the free labor 10/20/2011 8:35:27 AM |
Roflpack All American 1966 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "If anyone has seen the Ancient Aliens series on History Channel, you'll know that they pretty much built a great case for the pyramids having been power plants. You have to see the special smoke the reefer... it is so awesome and an awesome conjecture I believe in alien construction workers." |
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