Egyptian ‘bent’ pyramid dating back 4,600 years opens to public

throwaway3627 wrote: post #3

Pyramids are awesome feats of engineering and construction. Also reminds me of the muon detection tech that can probe through solid material. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/ancient/cosmic-ray-muons-...

I am sure they are but I like my head where it is so I think I will pass on visiting Egypt and the pyramids.

Re: Egyptian ‘bent’ pyramid dating back 4,600 years opens to public

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Post by youeseh » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 6:45 PM UTC

jmondi wrote: post #2

Aaand it is destroyed.

It is in the best interests of the Egyptians to preserve it and they happen to have experience in preserving pyramids and turning them into assets that attract tourists.

Re: Egyptian ‘bent’ pyramid dating back 4,600 years opens to public

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Post by MartianSquirrel » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 6:48 PM UTC

Circuits wrote: post #5

throwaway3627 wrote: post #3

Pyramids are awesome feats of engineering and construction. Also reminds me of the muon detection tech that can probe through solid material. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/ancient/cosmic-ray-muons-...

I am sure they are but I like my head where it is so I think I will pass on visiting Egypt and the pyramids.

Which is exactly why I'd rather visit Egypt than the US (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...)

Re: Egyptian ‘bent’ pyramid dating back 4,600 years opens to public

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Post by bordercases » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 6:49 PM UTC

youeseh wrote: post #6

jmondi wrote: post #2

Aaand it is destroyed.

It is in the best interests of the Egyptians to preserve it and they happen to have experience in preserving pyramids and turning them into assets that attract tourists.

Having incentive != operational competence in execution of that incentive, or the lack of competing incentives at such a time

Re: Egyptian ‘bent’ pyramid dating back 4,600 years opens to public

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Post by pastor_elm » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 7:01 PM UTC

jmondi wrote: post #2

Aaand it is destroyed.

nothing lasts forever

Re: Egyptian ‘bent’ pyramid dating back 4,600 years opens to public

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Post by thaumasiotes » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 7:06 PM UTC

MartianSquirrel wrote: post #7

Circuits wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am sure they are but I like my head where it is so I think I will pass on visiting Egypt and the pyramids.

Which is exactly why I'd rather visit Egypt than the US ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention... )

Tourists are distinctive enough that you could probably usefully use the rate of intentional homicide of tourists rather than the rate of intentional homicide of anyone, though I doubt those statistics are kept.

Egypt sees tourists as vital enough that one of the purposes of the police is to specifically look out for the well-being of nearby tourists, so probably pretty good on that metric.