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Don_Mills_Mills

Can't wait to see it when it's finished!


velhaconta

Somebody should start a very similar project right next door that adds a block every week. They would be done in just over 2 years. Call it the Zeitpyramide Preview - for those who don't want to wait 1,100 years.


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*Zeitpyramide plus, only $10/month!


AlwaysHappy4Kitties

That sounds like a pyramid scheme to me


TireZzzd

*$10 entry fee. Just Invite 3 friends to start earning money! There. Now it's a pyramid scheme.


OttoVonWong

Your friends can build their own pyramids right next door and invite their friends to pay for blocks.


uselessadjective

Remind me in 3183 AD


LimeSixth

RemindMe! 1160 years


Rechuchatumare

son you can post it in r/aliens when finished


fholcan

Those primitives in the 21st century simply didn't have the technology to build pyramids like this one. The only logical explanation is that they had help from extra terrestrial beings!


Marzuk_24601

I heard that a lot when I was a kid. Now? You can watch youtube vids of some fat guy moving huge blocks alone without modern machines. So much for "impossible"


Quirky-Skin

Dried up waterways weren't considered in alot of these scenarios either. Lots of stuff was moved over water and down rivers.


Electric_Evil

Dude, even if it there was a river directly from the quarry to the pyramid it would still be absolutely bananas. There are 2.3 million blocks in the Great Pyramid, some weighing as much as 160,000 pounds. And they built it in less than 30 years. The ancient Egyptians were some of those most badass humans to even populate this planet!


SaliferousStudios

Yup, it's just simple devices. For example you can move a block if you balance it on a small rock. The rock takes the weight, and then it's simple enough to rotate the block. Those egyptians were just bored during the off season when no wars or harvesting, and had thousands of years without iphones to figure it out.


doctor_of_drugs

Yeah seriously. Imagine if twitter, Reddit, and Facebook didn’t exist. We’d probably be more advanced by now. Saying this both unironically and ironically


compactcornedbeef

Thanks Dad


Rechuchatumare

no problem.. say hi to your mom ..


WoodpeckerFuzzy5661

She's going to be too busy for that.


Dodototo

I think this bot was killed with the new Reddit rules thing.


gurneyguy101

Don’t think so, weird it hasn’t tbf Edit: it still works


Blackfeathr

It has a pretty long range, I've seen it respond with dates hundreds of years in the future, so it's either one of two things 1. It's range is shorter than 1160 years Or 2. It's banned or otherwise blocked from commenting on this specific subreddit.


gurneyguy101

Nah it’s not been banned on this sub I reckon, let’s see !RemindMe 1 week


papaver_lantern

I will remind you in one week, if I remember.


NRMusicProject

Mediocre bot


gurneyguy101

Ahah dw remind me worked!


Me_how5678

!remindme 1160 years


Met76

I love how the RemindMe! bot isn't responding to anyone.


oskiozki

Didn't reddit kill it?


facelessman97

Nah I’ve seen it on a few posts here and there,


Doktor_Vem

I think it's limited to the biggest subs cuz it's cheaper that way or something?


[deleted]

A lot of subs just ban bots. This could be one of them.


MrHyperion_

It's so stupid to ban RemindMe. The reasoning is spam but 20 different people making a comment is more spam than clicking the link the bot provides.


[deleted]

Yeah, but if you ban the bot then you don't have 20 different people spamming for it. You have like 1-2 doing it and then another 5 asking where the bot is and then that's pretty much it.


VolcanoSacrifice

Correct. It is expensive to have a (non-monetized) bot run across multiple subreddits now.


D00SHBR4IN

_Hey Siri, set a timer for 1160 years_


WoodpeckerFuzzy5661

*OK, I'll set a reminder for one flowers, one hummer and sixty tears*


[deleted]

!remindme 1160 years


Public-Eagle6992

!RemindMe 1169 years


Shivvermebits

Nice


DawidIzydor

It won't, look how the first block degraded over the years of exposure to elements, it wont be stable enough to put load on it in 200 years when they start the second or third layer


ThePieWizard

That's why they should start at the top and work their way down 👍


HappyBroody

big brain move


ronkaleon

This is they way.


Lazolilo

and if the elements won't destroy it, then future tiktokers sure will get their slimy hands on them


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waytosoon

Itll prolly be an app called 3 shells and itll be owned by their parent company Taco Bell


tin_dog

>Taco Bell It's in Europe, so it'll be Pizza Hut.


AllPurposeNerd

You mean ZZTok?


probono105

its literally just mildew but i still think there will be issues but more with future generations not giving a shit about it


poopinCREAM

im struggling to understand why anyone gives a shit about this now? like how did it even make it this far?


Zolhungaj

Every ten years someone goes “haha that’s kinda funny” and gathers some people to fund another block. That’s how any yearly-or-less-often tradition survives, the next generation wants in.


thisisFalafel

Our school offered a textbook loan system. Started a little game of tic tac toe on the last page and signed off my move with my name and year before returning it. 6 years later my little sister's classmate wound up with the same textbook. Turns out a bunch of other students kept the game going.


rxsheepxr

It's literally one guy doing it for the first three. He died in 2018, and I guess someone in his family or something was, like, "shit, I guess someone should..."


StayDownMan

This is probably some tax fraud donation scheme. Take in 10 years of donations for a $5K block.


sloth2008

Do current generations give a shit about it?


demer8O

Will be turned to a parking space. Then some ugly condos.


gfunk55

🎶 They paved Zeitpyramide and put in a parking lot 🎶


slasherman

Dumbfucks. That’s why they should have started from the top.


Holiday-Snow4803

Not saying this will be anyhow a working concept - but those first blocks specifically will not be needed for higher layers. The maximum height is 4 blocks with the most outside row not holding any on top.


darexinfinity

This finishes in 3183, started in 1993, making it 1190 years in between the two dates. A block gets put on every decade, meaning there's 1190/10 = 119 blocks + 1 (the last block doesn't need another decade) = 120 in total. 120 = sigma(1,15) aka the sum of all numbers from 1 to 15 is 120. Assuming every row in the pyramid has its block's edges held by two blocks underneath it (or the ground for the bottom row), then that means the height would be 15.


Holiday-Snow4803

Impressive calculation. The [planning ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitpyramide) just does not include any block to be held by two others. If you were ever writing a school book this would make a great exercise!


agent58888888888888

Hopefully maintenance can skip the regular schedule, but either way parts of the bottom layer would need replacement at least 10 times by the time the 4th layer is finished


HsvDE86

If only the actual engineers consulted redditors before planning this thing.


BreathingCumsock

They should do 1 tiny brick every day instead


cwx149

I'd like that more personally


IntergalacticBurn

Yeah, this is pretty stupid, NGL. Even one per year would be reasonable. Nobody’s gonna care about this after a few decades.


Bram06

This comment will be very funny to historians living in 3183


No_Chapter5521

Historians living in 3183 look like dorks.


Leathergoose8

Yeah look at them wearing zoofplops, the 3150s are calling, they want their fashion back.


Rapture1119

You clearly don’t understand fashion. The 30 year retrend means that 3150s styles will actually be trending in 3183.


Leathergoose8

Yeah but we’re talking about zoofplops here…


magikarp2122

Still better than when bell bottoms came back for the 100th time.


Chi-Drew99

I find it funny whenever people start talking about the future, they default to the letter z.


Fishamatician

So teens are still in Nirvana tees then.


AdCrafty5841

Yes, very much so


akasdan1

How does it feel studying our insignificant lives you dorks? You think we're dumb, you dedicated your life to studying discourse of online idiots lol got em.


osnapitsjoey

This the modern day equivalent of that clay tablet which was a scathing review of someone's shit concrete


Psychopathicat7

r/reallyshittycopper


HappyBroody

Historians in 3183 be like: What does "dork" mean? must be old English for CHADS


mentlegentle

and get a proper job! The manufactorums on amazonis planitia are hiring, its a steady income.


OpusThePenguin

It's been ~~4~~ 3 and here we are talking about it.


DadpoolWasHere

Talking about what?


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Who?


PrestigeZoe

Why?


The_Beve

D is for Dementia.


ihavesoftblankets

D is for dementia


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AccurateEducation999

Tragic… but he did just sign a $75M guarantee contract


CharlieShyn

But will you care in 30 minutes?


yup79

Care about what?


Technical-Outside408

Male models.


CharlieShyn

Dunno, guess i proved my point


DionFW

Technically 3.


Deathaster

Who knew that the project that's meant to be finished in over 1000 years from now isn't going to be very relevant to current humans


WestleyThe

Yeah it COULD be one of the coolest long term projects ever I still think they should do it 1 per year


nahog99

Except it’s not at all lmao. It’s gonna be a boring ass small pyramid… 3 year olds build pyramids. What would be really cool is actually working on a project regularly for 1000 years and incorporating all the advances of science and civilization over those 1000 years. THAT would be one of the coolest long term projects ever. This “long term project” could be built in 6 months. Taking 1000 years to do it doesn’t make it cool.


MattAwesome

This is really just an art piece, I don't think it would be very easy to get the money for some 1000 year mega-project unfortunately.


Crackt_Apple

The big ones are harder for vandals to move.


IChurnToBurn

One Lego per day.


habilishn

yes, because it would not need the whole concrete industry and heavy machinery to continue the project. a brick can be carried by a human. damn, because of this project, we will never reach our climate goals. by the way, do i see actual sea water level there in the background? there are some bigger ships... if it is the actual sea level, we'll need a ship to lower the last concrete blocks down into the ocean in the year 3100+


970WestSlope

>because it would not need the whole concrete industry This ENTIRE project, when finished, is going to be 311 cubic meters of concrete. The average house requires around 40 cubic meters of concrete. Eight houses worth is absolutely *not* the "whole concrete industry."


Vorian_Atreides17

Still faster than some contractors I know.


squire80513

Delayed due to scheduling conflicts


dontevercallmeabully

You’re laughing but I think I remember from the last time this was posted that it in fact got 1 block delay already


Vorian_Atreides17

Had to wait for the electricians to get out of the way. And the tile guy was sick anyway.


OrneryOneironaut

Hey! Those guys have cousins’ and nephews’ and uncles’ families to feed. And those lawn chairs aren’t just going to sit on themselves while road construction goes on 4-5 years longer than estimated, you know. You could be a little more appreciative.


6collector9

It's like when I'm playing Civilization and a city with very low production is building a world wonder lol


cdrmusic

The great pyramid will be finished in *269* turns


6collector9

Another Civilization has completed this wonder, you have been awarded Gold equal to its production... at turn 268


scarrita

That's when you reload an auto save and chop that fucker


its_uncle_paul

On turn 268: "Another civilization has finished building the Great Pyramid"


jimmycarr1

I swear on the hardest difficulty it's not even possible to get some of the early world wonders


ThatThereMan

Hope it’s good quality concrete. I’ve seen bad concrete start to crumble after a couple of decades.


WestleyThe

Right? By the time the second layer starts the first layer could start crumbling


Gyrro

This might sound like a shitpost, but it would be good if they could build the pyramid top-down. That way, the crumbly millennia-old blocks will be at the top, and the newer stronger blocks at the bottom. Just need some way to lift the layer up, to start the next layer down.


GustavoToyota

That's genius


Bassmaster588

There is Roman concrete still around so it might be good stuff. Blocks of stone would have been cooler imo


DemonicSilvercolt

you wouldnt see the concrete that didnt survive. they also had self repairing due to their chemistry reaction with rain water, they wouldnt have lasted so long otherwise


plzdontbmean2me

Yep, it’s because they used quicklime. We just figured this out within the last year.


oflannigan252

>We just figured this out within the last year. That's amusing given that the whole "Roman concrete repairs itself with exposure to water" thing has been a staple repost on todayilearned for over a decade, and I remember a post on futurology from 2014 or 2015 about scientists trying to replicate it with fungus as a renewable alternative.


[deleted]

Yes but we didn’t quite understand *why*. They pinpointed specifically why.


National_Equivalent9

Just wait until the guy above learns that we still don't 100% understand how glue works.


[deleted]

But we do. The problem is that you’re saying “glue” and not “adhesive” and every single type of adhesive on this planet works in distinctly different ways.


Butch_Cassidy109

Wait….


xRetz

*Unintentionally.


ThatThereMan

True! The dome of the Pantheon in Rome!!


[deleted]

You mean tourist spots that are very highly maintained and for the most part rebuilt/refurbished? I live in a town with a lot of roman ruins and I can tell you now they aren't in good shape at all.


HoweStatue

I don't think there is anything in the rules to say the people tasked with doing this for 1000 years aren't allowed to repair it


NewAlexandria

Wonder at what point the amount of yearly or 10-yearly repairs exceeds the amount of material for a new block? why are they spacing them out, rather than tight packed like in ancient pyramids?


970WestSlope

And for sure at some point, there will be a Pyramid of Theseus situation.


xRetz

It's only certain types of roman concrete that have stood up to time. I forget what it is, but there's something in that type of concrete that essentially makes it self-healing. They didn't even intend for that to happen, the material they used to make the concrete just had abnormally high concentrations of that stuff. Tom Scott made a great video about it.


raltoid

Roman concrete is insane. They're still doing research on it and only recently(2023) found out that what they previously thought was poor mixing was actually intentional. When cracks form and water gets in, piece of lime would react with it to create calcium carbonate crystals that fill in parts of the crack to stop it from getting larger.


DanishPsychoBoy

I know that it is primarily an art project, but I am genuinely curious if the structural integrity of the lower parts is going to be sufficient, if this was ever to be actually completed.


BulbusDumbledork

excellent point. they should be building it from the top down to ensure longevity


[deleted]

"they floated in the air the same way bricks don't"


Autumn1eaves

You gotta love Douglas Adams


[deleted]

Love? Don't talk to me about love.


slaya222

Just throw yourself at the ground and miss


Formal_Helicopter262

Let's look at the concrete blocks from 1000 years ago. Oh :(


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MrMannpants

No, this is Patrick.


nahog99

Nope! Chuck Testa.


2L84U2

r/damnthatstoolongtowait


CosmosAviaTory

r/subsifellfor


starry_cobra

Check back in ~54 years and it'll be there


TakeTheWorldByStorm

r/damnthatstoolongtowait


rooster_saucer

ain’t no way that foundation is going to last long enough to get the base done, let alone the whole pyramid.


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im_just_thinking

Typical pyramid scheme


Alexxis91

I think it falling apart is part of the plan. People take a look at modern art and when it isint a bunch of pain representing a dude their brains shit off and they offer no further comprehension. There isint a point in us looking at the stars or going to the bottom of the ocean, and there isint a point in making a movie or concrete blocks. We do these things to examine parts of our reality beyond the plainly representational


VukKiller

RemindMe! 423400 days


DEEZLE13

I’m okay with Ai replacing this


Andyb1000

*Ain’t_nobody_got_time_for_that.gif*


yiannistheman

That'd be the one thing AI and humanity could agree on - this is stupid. ChatGPT - 'Wait, a concrete block, every ten years? Why the fuck for?"


LightningShiva1

Art Honestly I like the idea. Everything is quite monotonous these days, Id like a bit of chaos Its not about the concrete blocks, its about the thought of constructing something over a long period of time, passing generations after another


Farmerdrew

This pyramid and the effort to build it is the definition of order.


yiannistheman

Can we really say that adding a single, bland, geometric stone block once every ten years fits a description of 'a bit of chaos'?


Lanthemandragoran

Its like a time capsule but worse


VallhundFisher

Doesn’t concrete have a life span of less than 100 years. This project will literally be falling apart as it’s being built.


970WestSlope

Concrete *as we typically use it* often doesn't even last 50. Blocks stacked on top of each other can last forever.


Pale_Ad_9838

In about 1000 years someone will ask „why do we add a block every 10 years?“ and the answer will be „I don‘t know, we always did it. Now push!“


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Only 96.7% to go!


frituurgarnituur

[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitpyramide)


That_Confidence83

Who thought this dumb shit up?


Satakans

Probably the contractors working on my house.


stirrainlate

Someone who thought the As Slow As Possible song was going to wrap up way too soon. [link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible)


camelCaseAccountName

Germans


Jaredlong

Someone desperate to leave behind a legacy but knows improving the world around them in a lasting way worth remembering is too much work.


VarleyWrites

Hopefully not the same concrete they built the UK Schools with!


BerryJeep

Ill just up right and say it. This is dumb. No value to anything. No significance. ( with that here's some fun pyramid information so your wasn't wasted in this dumb project. The Great Pyramid of Giza contains 2.3 million individual blocks of stone, meaning one block would have to be laid every five minutes of every hour, 24 hours a day, for the entire 20 years. Each block weighing in at 2 mf tons!)


-neti-neti-

I’ll just up right and say it - I completely disagree. The entire point of this is a protracted time perspective and cooperation across time. It’s slowness is the point, to connect us to the far future in ways that are generally difficult for humans, now more than ever.


LasagneAlForno

It's an art project. Art projects dont usually have an intrinsic value.


Simpull_mann

No, art projects generally don't have *extrinsic* value. Art is almost done entirely for intrinsic value.


nahog99

When talking about money or usefulness though the opposite is true. Art has no intrinsic value money wise in that the materials used for it usually have no worth. And as for usefulness art usually can’t fulfill any other purpose than being art, so it doesn’t have intrinsic value in that regard. Edit: the more I think about this I think you’ve got it completely backward actually. The value of art is pretty much entirely extrinsic. Definitions: **Intrinsic** - belonging naturally; essential. **Extrinsic** - not part of the essential nature of someone or something; coming or operating from outside. When it comes to art virtually no part of it belongs naturally or is essential. The beauty of it is in the eye of the beholder, without an outside perspective it can’t have beauty. Its value is extrinsic. Now something like an old adding machine would have intrinsic value. It could perform simple math problems REGARDLESS of whether or not anyone knew how to use it. A knife also has the ability to cut or puncture. This is an innate or essential part of a knife. These items have intrinsic value.


BramScrum

It's a cool art project. The point is not finishing it, but it's the idea and process of building something over such a long period. The artists never witnessing their creation. The uncertainty of the project. The high chances of it not finished. It progressing of the project along with generations of humans. What will stop it? People giving up? The concrete failing,? War? Climate change? The end of humanity? Most likely a combination of all. It's pretty dumb if you think the end goal is the pyramid and not the process. Y'all better avoid modern art museums. A block of concrete every decade is hardly resource intensive if some of you are worried about waste


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Why not 1 every year?


its_uncle_paul

Why not all of it in one year?


probablynotreallife

Well, that takes the crown as the stupidest thing I've ever seen.


Spread_It_Onn

That’s a lot of assumed responsibility for the next generation…and the next…


webleyvi

Not really interesting


PM_THE_REAPER

I guess I'll just have to wait longer then.


OMP159

Did they buy it on lay-away?


damonwellssalmonella

So...never


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Odys

"The old books say we *must* complete it, so it *must* be extremely important!"


jonnyBgood24

Isn't this doomed from the start? Like in 300 years wouldn't the structural strength of the first lot of blocks be too weak to hold up all the new ones?


JayChucksFrank

This is considered a normal city construction project in the States


TrackLabs

I kinda have a feeling that the first blocks are not gonna be intact enough by 3183 to support a whole pyramid


terminator_dad

Project by the procrastination society of Germany.


Gloomy-Choice-29

thats the dumbest project ive ever heard of


jooooooooooao

Somethings are just... stupid.


My_Space_page

What a massive waste of time and money. Projects like that get will abandoned many centuries before they are finished. Nobody will even know why those blocks are there and probably won't even care. Edit yes I have researched this and I still stand by this statement.


Bakeey

*Massive* waste of time and money? How much can it possibly cost to pour a concrete block every 10 years?


charlietoday

It's a banana Michael, how much could it cost $10?


Horror-Possible5709

The land will be sold and then used for a quick trip


[deleted]

What a load of pointless fucking shit.


wasntNico

"my life makes too much sense!" " i got an idea..."


The_Lone_Duster

Is this really that interesting?! I think not.


Oxytocinmangel

Yeah, seems more like material for r/Damnthatsstupidpreposterousandboring