How are Rome's monuments still standing?

Re:How are Rome's monuments still standing? by hujni on Monday December 20, 2021 @05:06PM (#29630965)

I've wondered if maybe the "stones" of the Pyramids were poured. It wouldn't surprise me given the lack of gaps.

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Re:How are Rome's monuments still standing? by tastyfreeze on Monday December 20, 2021 @05:13PM (#29631061)

You aren't the only one.

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Re:How are Rome's monuments still standing? by kmonsen on Monday December 20, 2021 @05:33PM (#29631294)

Are there strong counterpoints to this? If that is possible it seems extremely more likely than aliens or whatever else people are coming up with.

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Re:How are Rome's monuments still standing? by imtringued on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:42AM (#29636414)

Aliens are incredibly unlikely. The Egyptians had grain money with demurage fees which encourage hundred year+ projects. Anything they did had a discounted future value that was higher than present value. Building something that lasted 4000 years was economically viable for them.

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Re:How are Rome's monuments still standing? by kmonsen on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @12:43PM (#29639898)

Right, of course aliens are extremely unlikely. The reason it is even talked about is because there are few convincing explanations how the Egyptians could theoretically have built the pyramids at that time.

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Re:How are Rome's monuments still standing? by tastyfreeze on Monday December 20, 2021 @06:47PM (#29632014)

I spent a few months devouring information on geopolymers. This theory seems very likely. But, Davidovits is the only researcher that has published on the subject that I have seen.

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Re:How are Rome's monuments still standing? by kmonsen on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @12:24PM (#29639625)

Thank you! Very interesting.

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