[Red Badger]

PinGGG!............................

[butlerweave]

Ah those Aliens ,not as good as they thought

[Tax-chick]

They found that the east side of the pyramid originally measured somewhere between 755.561 and 755.817 feet (230.295 to 230.373 meters), while the west side of the pyramid originally measured somewhere between 755.833 and 756.024 feet (230.378 to 230.436 m).

About 5" variance.

[faithhopecharity]

gee. if the pyramid starts learning they’ll make a dam*ed tourist attraction out of it!

[lacrew]

I don’t understand why they need a ‘measuring project’ to measure the base of the pyramid.

[KC_Lion]

Anybody know a good Mudjacker?

[fella]

Wonder if engineer Glen Dash and Egyptologist Mark Lehner had there equipment properly calibrated and adjusted for changing conditions.

[2banana]

Some caulk and dry wall mud will smooth that right out...

[Raycpa]

That’s probably why the stargate no longer operates.

[chajin]

The Leaning Tower of Giza.

[fruser1]

It would’ve measured perfectly square were it not for the disintegration of the shoe molding.

[Popman]

I wonder how many structure build today would last 500 years let alone 4,500 years...

And only be off a few inches...

[gigster]

“Would Erich von Daniken please pick up the white courtesy phone?”

[rigelkentaurus]

If you average all four sides = 755.8088 ft

the variance of each side vs the average is respectively, 0.0032%, 0.0285%, 0.0328%, 0.0011%

I would not want to bet that my house is more exact than that, and I had super builder that I would use again immediately if ever needed!

[nitzy]

Whenever I make a little mistake on one of my home improvement projects (tiling, wood floors, hanging cabinets, etc...) I either call it an “asshole detector” because whoever points out my mistake is an asshole -OR- I say that I did it on purpose because I wanted everyone to know it was a DIY and that I didn’t pay professionals to do it.

[OldSmaj]

Apparently, this has been known long before now.

My old high school shop teacher used this fact way back in l964 or thereabouts, to illustrate the "measure twice, cut once" thingy.

He related that when he went to college (Georgia Tech, as I recall) it was a known and discussed fact that the measurements were just a wee bit off.

Actually, he initially was discussing the concrete footings for one of the NYC bridges, in that quite a few mistakes were made by the guys that built the wooden forms.

I suspect that if one were do extensive research, one would find quite a few of the iconic structures we all know of were measured wrong somewhere or somehow.

[Larry Lucido]

Have to tear it down and rebuild it.

[Billthedrill]

Come on, people, it's a government project. We're lucky it doesn't have five sides.

Geesh.

[broken_arrow1]

Dang rulers weren’t invented yet...

[kabar]

This means that, at most, the west side was only 5.55 inches (14.1 centimeters) longer than the east side. Though that would leave the pyramid not quite square, it's a remarkable level of precision for a monument constructed more than 4,500 years ago, the researchers noted.

"The data show that the Egyptians possessed quite remarkable skills for their time," Dash wrote in the report. "We can only speculate as to how the Egyptians could have laid out these lines with such precision using only the tools they had." [