The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light

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nasretdinov•about 2 hours ago

It's just that the French left the greastet Easter Egg of all time when creating the Metric System. They could've just made speed of light some round number, e.g. 1 million km/sec, but that sounded too bland, so they chose the Great Pyramid of Giza instead. The same for the charge of the electron

m3047•29 minutes ago

"Of course it's a coincidence" doesn't leave me with good feels. See, we don't know what a "normal distribution" is for a correlation like this, it's not like we have a huge bag of samples to determine the variance from.

elashri•about 1 hour ago

The conspiracy theorist inside me would say that the French might not be the first to define the metric this way /s.

krapp•about 1 hour ago

You're reminding me of a miniminuteman video debunking this conspiracy theory, asking how it was that the aliens who built the pyramids were using the metric system.

I guess it's literally everyone in the galaxy except for Americans using the metric system.

elashri•about 1 hour ago

> I guess it's literally everyone in the galaxy except for Americans using the metric system.

So the reason the aliens always start their invasion or encounter with humans from America in Hollywood movies is because they are angry/curious to see the only people in the galaxy not using the metric system?

krapp•38 minutes ago

They hate us for our freedoms!

The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light

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