# Best way to blow up the Pyramids? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 23, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-blow-up-the-pyramids/794469 "2017-08-23T15:53:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-blow-up-the-pyramids/794469/101 "2017-08-28T23:03:00Z")
I personally favor the idea of making them more interesting to visit. Maybe drill a hole (BIG hole) in the top of each all the way down, fill that with something explosive like, um, coke and mentos, and have a geyser show each day. Sorta like old faithful, but more fizzy. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-blow-up-the-pyramids/794469/102 "2017-08-28T23:29:26Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Here’s what we do. We set up a factory to make granite blocks. Those millions of granite blocks are etched on all six sides with an encyclopedia’s worth of historical and scientific data, one page per side. Now, we could bury those blocks out in the desert and hope that future archaeologists will uncover them. Statues are not just records of history–statues are history. Given the choice, what would be better–reading that there was once a statue of Zeus at Olympia and a Colossus at Rhodes or actually still having them around to see? Every piece of art that is destroyed is–to me, at least–a shameful loss no _matter what you think of the subject of the art_. If any historians are around 2 or 3 or 5 thousand years from now, they would appreciate having statues from the barely-remembered past, and would have no more passion about whether the statue was of a Union or a Confederate leader than people today care about which side of the Greek Servile Wars a recovered statue glorifies. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-blow-up-the-pyramids/794469/103 "2017-08-28T23:47:52Z")
Drill a tunnel at an angle into the ground about fifteen foot under each pyramid. Start digging huge holes, much deeper than the height of each pyramid above and just as wide and convey the material out using conveyor belts. Collect the debris. Support the newly dug caverns using wooden beams which you erect as you go along so the pyramids don’t collapse. Now you have giant holes under each pyramid and a number of very large piles of sand. Now erect very high walls made from toughened glass around each pyramid. Start dropping your excavated sand into the glass enclosures containing the pyramids. Do this at the rate of one ton per hour per pyramid. Start taking bets. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-blow-up-the-pyramids/794469/104 "2017-08-28T23:55:51Z")
Stuff the innards with tnt, detonate, done deal. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-blow-up-the-pyramids/794469/105 "2017-08-29T00:01:54Z")
What innards? You could pack every available space with TNT and detonate and the things wouldn’t budge or sag an inch. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-blow-up-the-pyramids/794469/106 "2017-08-29T01:57:44Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Declare them to be racist symbols. Somebody will find a way to remove them. They’re monuments to slavery Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-blow-up-the-pyramids/794469/107 "2017-08-29T10:47:07Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Blow up the Pyramids? > > I didn’t even know they were inflatable! 😃 Clearly you’ve never seen _Despicable Me_. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-blow-up-the-pyramids/794469/108 "2017-09-08T20:00:11Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > There is also the concept (which I’m not successfully googling up at the moment) of surrounding a star with a Dyson shell of mirrors and using those to focus a large percentage of that star’s energy on a single target, possibly using it as an interstellar weapon to vaporize planets in nearby solar systems. Bumping because I just now accidentally stumbled across the term for this while looking for something else–a [Nicoll-Dyson laser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll#Nicoll-Dyson_Laser) (or [Nicoll-Dyson beam](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Nicoll-Dyson+beam%22&oq=%22Nicoll-Dyson+beam%22).) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-blow-up-the-pyramids/794469.md?page=5)