The Speed of Light for Building Pyramids
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The Great Pyramid
The great pyramid stood as the tallest building in the world for centuries. The engineers of 26 hundred b c really knew what was possible and made most of the major decisions, says st bros. And i'm pretty sure that somebody, you know, a contractor, said, with the best will in the world, we can only lay this number of stones a day, and i can only emble this many men. That blew my mind.
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