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.

[Edited on October 19, 2011 at 4:09 PM. Reason : new page]

10/19/2011 4:08:39 PM

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

Space Pier

10/19/2011 4:44:12 PM

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

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

engineering firm contracted and plans in place to begin construction right after you die

10/19/2011 4:58:38 PM

Speaking of elaborate plans for one's own death:



Actually, I need to make a "death" playlist

10/19/2011 5:06:13 PM

^^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

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

depends if this is made in china or not

10/19/2011 5:12:48 PM

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

they also produce 95% of the heavy metals.

10/19/2011 5:15:53 PM

I'll bet that chinese heavy metal sucks.

10/19/2011 5:18:11 PM

10/19/2011 5:29:48 PM

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.html

10/19/2011 5:46:26 PM

A Tanzarian's post on the previous page is everything that is special to me

10/19/2011 8:15:48 PM

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

i was gonna say because the aliens left. but i see that has been covered

10/19/2011 8:51:02 PM

^^^^^ I like that. Very glorious.

10/19/2011 9:43:21 PM

10/19/2011 9:47:43 PM

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

10/19/2011 10:49:20 PM

4/10

10/19/2011 11:38:25 PM

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

basically, pyramids are expensive

and Moses took away the free labor

10/20/2011 8:35:27 AM

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."

[Edited on October 20, 2011 at 10:18 AM. Reason : ..]

10/20/2011 10:17:41 AM