[travel] Yup, this thing checks out.

[mattbell]

Good work, engineers.



Taken by me at the Pyramids, Giza, Egypt.

Comments

[agentsteel53.livejournal.com]

the angle of inclination of the faces of that pyramid is ~51.84 degrees.

the apparent difference implies you took the photo from close up with a wide angle lens. given the height of the pyramid, if I weren't so #!@* tired I could tell you exactly how far away you were standing from it!

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

Very clever, sir. I figured someone like you would catch what really went on to get this shot.

[nikitanopants.livejournal.com]

So that Pyramid is actually built at that angle on the hill? You didn't tilt for the artistic camera angle approach? So I'm guessing all the food and mummified cats and servents are piled up in the bottom corner and the Pharoah is gently decomposing in a hammock up near the middle.

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was cheaper to build that way... the stones were quarried up the hill to the right, so they could just let them all slide down into place.

[nikitanopants.livejournal.com]

As long as there was a guy waiting to catch them so they didn't go all the way down the hill...or a bunch of guys.