Sensible Erection | Calls to destroy Pyramids, have sex with dead wives hoaxes.

Monday, 16 July 2012

Calls to destroy Pyramids, have sex with dead wives hoaxes.

quote [ Calls from a Bahraini Sunni cleric urging President Mohamed Morsy to destroy the Giza Pyramids were issued from a parody Twitter account online, the Daily News Egypt has learned. ]

[politics] [by psychotim@7:26pmGMT] [+3 Informative]

Comments

atter_cob said @ 7:39pm GMT on 16th Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
It's so silly we all believed this to be true. After all what nonsense it is that religious persons would advocate destroying ancient historical artifacts.

Right?

cb361 said @ 7:44pm GMT on 16th Jul
I miss maryyugo.

happiest_sadist said @ 5:42am GMT on 18th Jul
Dude, mary's right here...

Uh, mary?

ENZ said @ 8:57pm GMT on 16th Jul
The Pyramids attract tourists, which promote decadence!

Ankylosaur said @ 9:35pm GMT on 16th Jul [Score:1 Funny]
Which leads to POOL!

structured_spirits said @ 6:17am GMT on 17th Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
Yeah now consider that we're apparently the equal of major multi-million dollar news outlets who also apparently repost unverified twitter feeds as true to millions of viewers.

ComposerNate said @ 9:21pm GMT on 16th Jul

oxyrosis said @ 9:29pm GMT on 16th Jul
this prompted me to think about just how MUCH explosive would be needed to demolish the pyramids, those damn things are HUGE.

i dont think egypt has enough money lying around to do that, let alone islamist fundies.

arrowhen said @ 9:48pm GMT on 16th Jul
Much easier to have sex with the pyramids and destroy dead wives instead.

the belt said @ 11:37pm GMT on 16th Jul [Score:2 Funny]
I'm no expert in explosives, but I'm pretty sure it takes 5 direct hits to sink a carrier, four for a battleship, and three for a destroyer. Therefore the pyramid is 3.5 shots?

swiggy said @ 4:16am GMT on 17th Jul
you would also have to take into consideration that the pyramids are also almost completely solid too.

You basically have to level several large stone hills.

oxyrosis said @ 1:37pm GMT on 17th Jul
that was my point, yeah.

mindbogglingly large.

happiest_sadist said @ 5:45am GMT on 18th Jul
Lots of mass or lots of energy would do it.

If you could drop a good-sized asteroid from the Belt on it, that would be more than sufficient. Ceres would probably crack the mantle with that much Δv.

damnit said @ 11:57pm GMT on 16th Jul

psychotim said @ 6:35am GMT on 17th Jul
Yes. Egypt is exactly like Afghanistan. Muslim nations are indistinguishable.

damnit said @ 7:25am GMT on 17th Jul
Was referring to religious extremist destroying priceless wonders.

mrcucumber said @ 1:49pm GMT on 17th Jul
If you haven't already seen this....

The Giant Buddhas

If it is in fact the movie I saw (netflix says I did) then it's a fascinating movie. The area in which these Buddhas were located is a completely different culture than the rest of Afghanistan. Different language, religious sentiments, everything. They had been living with them for generations, and didn't want them to be destroyed.

mrcucumber said @ 1:51pm GMT on 17th Jul
..and then there is the doc about a group that wants to reconstruct them from photo and video...

antares said @ 4:25am GMT on 17th Jul
And they would NEVER destroy Timbuktu - It's a World Heritage site