Well it had to happen eventually, the international community has decided it has finally had enough of the Pyramids sitting there, mocking them, like a giant middle-finger to the rest of the world, and by unanimous vote* and over the objections of the Egyptians they’ve decided to blow them up.
They’ve decided to make this pay per view and a bit more entertaining than just dismantling them with jackhammers and trucks or letting busloads of tourists tramp up and down them all day so they’re going to use military weapons to do so.
How effective would an airstrike be against them? Or surround them by tanks and start blasting away? Basically what would be the best combination of efficiency and entertainment value?
I used to think a nuclear weapon was a ‘destroy everything’ device until I read about how carbon-coated spheres were emplaced at the centre of one test and were subsquently found some distance away scorched but basically unharmed. So how effective would they be against what is basically a giant lump of rock?
*well except for Chile who doesn’t like the way everyone is now eyeing the Easter Island giant heads
**yes this was inspired by the current shenanigans in the USA regarding the removal of historic statues, I have my own opinions on that but its not what the thread is about
I think the answer would be an explosion from inside. Either a well placed charge or maybe a bunker buster.
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I was going to suggest at least as a trial effort some of the intestinal gas from our Dear Leader (post mortem, of course) but I doubt it would be sufficient. Might be fun to try, though!
No offense, but these ideas are all fucking boring. Nuclear bomb? So last century.
Here’s the plan:
Launch a missile with a small, dense payload. The trajectory is just right so that it re-enters orbit with a dazzling white hot tail and smashes into the pyramid with enough force to obliterate the whole thing.
Re-route the Nile so it undermines them and they collapse. the Nile’s only 5 miles from the Giza complex.
You’d probably say that’s too boring, though.
It is interesting that most photos of the pyramids (even modern ones) are framed to make it look like they are located deep in a sweeping desert, possibly with a few Bedouin and camels in the photo to imply the long and arduous journey that you have to take to reach them. Then there is this, showing that now, they are basically a theme park in the middle of a city.
No, no, no. Put up a sign that says “Rocks $25 each” then don’t guard it well.
Or re-trigger the geysers that were used to build them. (For those that don’t know, that’s a reference to a train wreck of a thread that I refuse to go looking for.)
