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Things that will happen in the future (based on my own experiences with time travel):

***FAQs at the end***

*All of these observations are copied directly from my notes in roughly the order I took them in

*Don’t ask about the interchanging use of past/present/future tense, you know how that stuff is with time travel

Women just started all growing three boobs instead of two. Scientists baffled

Genetically engineered catboys (no literally)

The great pyramid of Giza has been converted into a Bass Pro Shop

The entire state of Rhode Island was bought by some rich tech CEO who promptly dug a 500 foot wide trench around the entire state so that it could in fact be an island. It was soon converted into the world’s largest parking lot

Pollution has gotten so bad that fresh oxygen is now delivered straight to most homes via a subscription service

Basic necessities such as food, water, and housing are now provided for free by the government, but only for the top 1% of wealth holders

Insulin now costs twice as much as rent. “Get fucked,” say pharma companies

92.6% of new electronic appliances now have smartphone integration and require a monthly subscription to use

Most billionaires have real estate on earth’s moon

As an ongoing film experiment, Taika Waititi successfully convinced a Nebraska man that he’s been raptured and is now in heaven. He actually got Truman Show’d and now millions of viewers tune in every week to watch God (played by John DiMaggio) manipulate Robert into confronting his own views, battle cognitive dissonance, and face the realization that he might not have been as good of a person on Earth as he thought he was

Carrots have gone extinct, as have highland cows

Species of extinct animals and plants now are being posthumously renamed after the billionaires and elites most directly responsible for killing then off

Researchers discovered a sentient colony of fungus off the coast of Chile, it prefers to go by Fleebo and appears to have a incredibly complex intelligence far greater than any other observed organic being

Nobody knows where Ireland went. It literally just disappeared off the face of the earth one day and nobody bothered to question it. The story couldn’t compete in the news cycle with the recent news about a company in China that made the first real life pokemon. An entire civilization of people gone and I’m the only one who seems to remember it or even care

Fleebo and its offspring have annexed Madagascar and are threatening any retaliation with nuclear warfare and “making The Last of Us a reality.” Nobody knows if Fleebo actually has the capabilities to do this, but after the Lovecraft incident we’re all TOO goddam scared to fuck around and find out

Large snails have replaced cats and dogs as the most common household pet. Snail culture has largely taken over the world, especially Japan

The president of the United States is now decided with an oiled up twerking competition. Most people were hesitant at first but this has produced vastly more competent leaders so now everyone just kinda goes along with it

With the cost of living crisis only worsening with time, selling tattoo space on your body to advertisers has become common as people struggle to afford rent and pay their bills

North and South Korea have reunited into “Korea 2.0”

Germany has split up into East and West Germany again

Belgium and France have been annexed by West Germany and renamed “Wester Germany” and “Westest Germany” respectively

The entirety of Florida is now underwater. Most of Kansas is too for some reason that scientists refuse to explain because they’ve “sworn an oath to the eldritch gods” and that “much worse things would happen” if they did

The melting ice caps in Antarctica unveiled a lost civilization of intelligent creatures descended from a species of lungfish, predating human civilization by millions of years. They planned on hibernating for another 10-15 million years to observe the course of evolution on Earth and are very very angry at humans for waking them up prematurely and ruining all of that with global warming

The politically correct term for lungfish people is “Dipnoid” but most people refer to them by a variety of slurs, such as “finwalker” and “kelp muncher” (not that they even eat kelp)

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has now increased to nearly half the size of what was formerly known as Canada and has been colonized entirely by pirates (the flag is actually pretty cool). The pirate nation has the 17th largest economy in the world and is projected to surpass the United States in GDP

Africa is about 2% smaller. Nobody knows why. Most people point to Fleebo, who denies having any involvement

All human-Dipnoid interaction was promptly banned by most world governments, except for the GPGPRP (Great Pacific Garbage Patch Republic of Pirates), whom the Dipnoids rely upon extensively for trade

Scientists have used DNA from fossils to recreate other species of humans. We now live alongside them like we did for thousands of years before everyone besides Homo sapiens went extinct. Racism is at an all time high

Class C and above robots are now legally recognized by most progressive countries as people

The United States government has been exposed for secretly funneling billions of dollars into the GPGPRP and using it to fund terrorist operations all over the world.

A new major religion revolving around Dave Grohl has skyrocketed in popularity. Grohilsm is now the world’s largest religion, second only to Fleeboism

Scientists discovered a new continent in the Pacific Ocean, and then promptly lost it again. Most people are convinced this was just an elaborate practical joke, but scientists “swear it definitely happened”

For a brief period of about 30 years, everything in George Orwell’s 1984 happened almost exactly as written in the book. Literally 1984

It was revealed that Jeff Epstein didn’t kill himself. He actually faked his death and spent the next few years in a drug-fueled episode of psychosis making sock puppets in a cave in Italy and then molesting said sock puppets until he died from a sock puppet related illness

Bigfoot was discovered off the coast of Georgia doing cocaine with a congregation of alligators. When questioned, he said he normally lives in Montana and was only there on vacation. He is now a celebrity, and has been featured in a number of tv shows and films, two of which he won an Oscar for. Last I checked, he was a washed up actor living in Hollywood with a reanimated Neanderthal woman

The GPGPRP raided most of England’s museums with the object of “doing exactly what they did for the last few centuries” England was understandably furious, but the rest of the world found it rather amusing

England declared war on the GPGPRP, which it promptly lost after hackers brought down the entire country’s military overnight. Much like in the 21st century, England is the world’s laughing stock

The entirety of Luxembourg relocated itself to the moon

Russia attempted to take over most of Eurasia. In retaliation to the full global effort to stop them, they launched nukes at the world’s 600 most populous cities outside of its current territory. Most of the warheads were stopped in time, but a few major metropolitan areas got hit pretty badly, including Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Chengdu, Mexico City, and Istanbul. Japan was understandably super pissed that Hiroshima and Nagasaki got nuked for a second time

In the wake of the nuclear holocaust, Canada assumed control over what was formerly Russia and assimilated many of its citizens and leaders into its own society and government. Under the new rule of formerly Russian leaders, Canada became a puppet state for the second coming of Russia. It annexed much of the United States, Mongolia, China, and a handful of other countries, becoming “the world’s first megacountry.” Crungolaska now controls a majority of the northern hemisphere

As part of a practical joke by Adam Sandler, Tom Hanks was actually marooned on a desert island like in Castaway. He lasted less than a week before he died. When I left this era of the future, Adam Sandler was serving a lifetime sentence in prison for murder

Fringe groups of crows with above-average intelligence have started popping up around the world. So far they have been observed forming small communities, crafting relatively complex tools, using rudimentary speech, performing rituals, and creating music

Aliens visited earth and had a formal meeting with many of our world leaders, but decided to leave us alone for a few thousand more years because humanity is “not yet mature enough to handle the responsibilities of interstellar travel.” They have incentivized us with a the blueprints for an Alcubierre Drive and a means to produce the exotic matter to fuel it once they deem us as being ready

The original colony of settlers on Mars has declared independence, officially becoming the first country not on Earth

We sent Tom Cruise back to space but this time we just left him there

The tether for the space elevator broke. The town known as Vatorville, famous for being the location of the takeoff point of the elevator shuttle on Earth, was completely decimated as tens of thousands of miles of steel cable came crashing back down. There were no survivors

Most people in first and second world countries have mandatory microchip implants that serve as a personal ID

Last Thursdayism has been largely denounced by quantum physicists. Current theories now revolve around “Next Thursdayism,” the belief that the entire universe was created in the future and that we all exist as a memory in the past

Synthetic organ farms for transplants and research have become a massive industry worth billions of dollars. However, there is still a huge black market for organically grown human organs, as they’re much cheaper to acquire and aren’t taxed at the exorbitant rates that lab-grown organs are

China dug a hole all the way to the center of the Earth. Turns out it’s hollow and there are people living inside. Who knew?

A university reconstructed the entire city of Rome as it was in its early days during the Roman Empire. It’s actually pretty historically accurate, except for the fact that there’s a lot less sex because it’s run by a bunch of sweaty history nerds

After Rome 2 resulted in the creation of a cult revolving around the Roman god of the dead that gained traction as a minor religion, Pluto was officially reinstated as a planet by NASA when cultists picketed their headquarters every day for nearly 3 years straight. “Fine, we’ll give these fucking virgins what they want so they’ll finally shut the hell up,” said NASA’s administrator in chief

In a display of the biotechnical prowess of Disney’s Imagineers, all the animatronics in Disney’s Hall of Presidents were replaced with clones of the originals, which went about exactly as well as you’d expect. After reports of the presidents hurling a series of racial slurs and other obscenities at the first black family to enter surfaced, the project was shut down almost immediately after it had opened. Minority admission to Magic Kingdom plummeted to 2.3% of its numbers from the previous year, making it the second whitest place on earth after a taylor swift concert

Plastic now makes up about 3% of every organism on earth by weight

Public officials are now required by law to take shrooms before running for office

Trees are considered a rare and highly sought after commodity, and are usually only owned by public institutions and the rich (the vast majority of oxygen farms use algae to produce oxygen)

FAQs:

FAQ: What time period(s) did you go to?

A: I have no fucking clue. The world stopped using the Gregorian calendar in 2063 after a gamma ray burst hit the sun. The GRB led to stellar ablation, which changed the length of a year on Earth. The sun would continue to lose mass at an accelerated rate for several more years, with the length of the year changing slightly from year to year. The world adopted a variety of different calendars which kept being updated frequently and were often super confusing and contradictory. I traveled to about a dozen different points in time, which based on my best estimates spanned within a few millennia of the current date.

FAQ: How did you obtain a time machine?

A: I think it was the 17th or 18th of June, 2055? That night, a large sci-fi looking box thingy roughly the size of a VW Bus appeared a few hundred yards away in the open field in front of my house. I tried to take a picture of the box, but for some reason the closer I got, the more the image on my camera started to become fuzzy, and by the time I got close enough to take a decent picture, the camera had stopped working altogether. I pulled open a door to reveal a corpse inside that was charred beyond recognition, who appeared to have suffocated and/or burned to death during a fire that damaged most of the interior. I also noticed a number of strange tumors and growths on the body. I pressed a random button on the remains of what I believed to be a control panel, expecting nothing to happen, but the door closed automatically and I suddenly lost consciousness. When I came to, I exited the box, expecting to still be in the field in front of my house, but instead found myself a ways outside of a small snowy village that based on my best estimates, was somewhere in northern Asia around 2-3 thousand years ago. The villagers started coming after me with spears, so I quickly ran back to the box and pressed another button, hoping it would return me to from whence I came. This time, the people I found (who were thankfully much nicer and spoke a dialect of English that I could mostly understand) told me that it was the year 506 of the PGRB-Δ4 calendar (the calendar that the United Territories was using at the time). I repeated this maybe a dozen more times trying to get home until I landed in 2023, which as far as I could tell, was the closest I had gotten back to my original time so far. It was at this point that I decided to stay and seek medical attention, as I was rather concerned about some nasty new growths on my arms and legs similar to that which I had seen on the corpse.

FAQ: Where is the time machine now?

A: No idea. It disappeared a few days after I landed in 2023. My best guess is that some poor sap found it and ended up sometime else.

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The Giza Pyramid Complex by Sebastien Nagy

#art #landscape #giza #pyramid #nature #sebastien nagy #u #z

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rudjedet · 7 months

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i'm unsure what your opinion of zahi hawass is but i want you to know that he has a tiktok and he replied to someone spewing misinformation about ancient egypt by posting a picture of a fake diploma saying clown school graduate w/ clown music playing in the background

I have complex and largely negative feelings about that man but that is king shit behaviour. absolutely fucking iconic. 12/10 no notes we are united in our hatred of misinformation.

#egyptology #zahi hawass #tiktok

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quotesfrommyreading · 1 year

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High-rises have become so ubiquitous, it’s easy to forget what a triumph it is to build even a humdrum office tower. For millennia, our ancestors inched slowly but steadily toward the clouds. Archaeologists have called the Tower of Jericho, completed about 10,000 years ago, the “super-skyscraper of its day.” It reached a grand total of 28 feet. Around 2,600 B.C., the Great Pyramid of Giza broke records when it hit 480 feet—less than half the height of the Eiffel Tower—and humans took nearly 4,000 years to go higher. (The spire of an English cathedral eventually surpassed the Great Pyramid in 1311, but only by about three floors.)

From the Tower of Jericho through the Industrial Revolution, there was basically one way to go high: stone. Traditionally, masonry walls supported a building’s weight and structure, which curtailed their height. Going taller required thicker walls, which, beyond a certain point, risked monopolizing floor space and squeezing tenants into sunless cavities. The New York World Building, briefly the city’s tallest in 1890, had some walls wider than a garbage truck.

Steel skeletons sent us higher, to mixed reviews. As skyscrapers began appearing on the New York skyline at the turn of the century—back when skyscraper meant any building with more than a dozen floors—observers warned that these buildings were a “menace to public health and safety” that would surely collapse. After a building spree in the ’70s, the urban historian Dolores Hayden criticized skyscrapers as “phallic monuments” that had been forced on cities by unchecked capitalists and stood as emblems of “architectural rape.”

And yet for as long as we’ve been finding new ways to build taller, we’ve usually felt uneasy about doing so. The biblical story of the Tower of Babel is an early example of our altitude-lust going hand in hand with regret over our hubris: After that supertall scraped the heavens, God supposedly punished humans by taking away our shared language and scattering us around the globe.

Some cities tried to restrict skyscrapers after watching them transform New York’s skyline in the early 20th century, and lots of places still have laws meant to limit buildings’ height. Bali restricts buildings to the approximate height of a lanky palm tree, and Washington, D.C., imposes a height maximum based on street width. Even China, after a two-decade supertall spree, recently imposed a height limit of sorts, outlawing the construction of buildings over 500 meters—slightly taller than the Steinway Tower outside my window.

But humans keep hungering to go higher. “Boy, it is innate in us,” says Bill Baker, a structural engineer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill who played a key role in designing the Burj Khalifa. During the latter half of the 20th century, the record for the world’s tallest building crept up approximately 16 stories; in the past 20 years, it’s shot up nearly 90 floors. We’ve never witnessed buildings rise so much, so quickly. From high-rises, we’ve stretched to supertalls and even megatalls (double the height of a supertall), and engineers are already discussing “ultratalls” that would take us higher still. Over the past few decades, new combinations of materials like microsilica and fly ash (a residue that results from burning coal) have made concrete steroidally strong—“10 times as strong as the stuff down on the sidewalk” in some cases, Baker told me—and steel has gotten sturdier too, all of which has helped spur the supertall boom. Advances in elevator technology—such as ultra-strong, lightweight cables and algorithms that efficiently consolidate passengers—have also helped buildings stretch. But engineering advances aren’t the main reason supertalls keep growing. “It’s a message of power,” the developer Don Peebles, who in 2021 proposed a 1,600-foot tower in Midtown Manhattan, told me. “It’s not trying to blend in. It’s trying to stand out.”

The symbolism attached to height is no doubt part of what makes tall buildings so divisive. A century ago, many New York churchgoers felt a moral duty not to let offices rise over their houses of worship, whose spires had dominated the city’s skyline for decades. In 1923, rallying around a cry to “restore the cross to the skyline!,” a Methodist congregation unveiled plans for a skyscraper church that would be the tallest building in history, topped with a glowing, revolving, five-story cross. But the building never reached its full grandeur, topping out at a little more than three stories as new, taller office towers continued to overtake the skyline.

The evolution of our nation’s tallest structures can arguably be divided into three broad phases. First the tallest buildings were built in honor of deities, then commerce, and now: billionaires.

— The Marvels—And Mistakes—Of Supertall Skyscrapers

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 1 year

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The three main pyramids at Giza, together with subsidiary pyramids and the remains of other structures

#Giza pyramid complex #pyramids #Giza #structures #ancient egypt #ancient civilizations #pyramid #the Giza pyramids in Egypt

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Giza Pyramid Complex - EGYPT

#Ancient Egypt #Pyramids #Desert #Al Giza Desert #Giza Pyramid Complex #Giza Plateau #Giza #Egypt

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holycosmolo9y · 6 months

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Bucegi Sphinx of Romania, also known as the Carpathian Sphinx,

curious for how it looks like a complete replica of the Sphinx at the Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo, Egypt

Nestled in the Bucegi Mountains' Babele complex of rock formations at an altitude of 2,216 metres (7270 feet), the Sphinx faces west, where the sun sets and perfectly aligns with the eyes of the structure

Some geologists have speculated that this formation could have possibly been human-made, specifically due to the different types of sediment that make up the formation, however the level of erosion make these claims inconclusive

#art #archaeology #ancient culture #ancient #ancient art #nature art #sphinx #romania #bucegi #carpathian mountains #rock formation #geology #rock sculpture #stone sculpture

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The Collapsed, Bent and Red Pyramids of Dahshur. Guest appearance by Ra.

Following the creation of Djoser's step pyramid, the Ancient Egyptians began to experiment with the true pyramid form. Snofru appears to have built no less than three pyramids. What happened to the Collapsed Pyramid is somewhat self explanatory. When it came to the Bent Pyramid, someone seem to have realised that if they continued to build at such a steep angle, they would soon have a Collapsed Pyramid Mark 2, so the angle was changed partway through to be less steep, leading to its characteristic 'bent profile. Finally, Snofru's labour force completed the Red Pyramid, the first true pyramid built in Egypt. It's not as large as the Great Pyramid on Giza, but it's y'know pretty big and impressive anyway. And as you can see by the landscape, delightfully empty of tourists! (Because somehow, most tourists groups forget that the Dahshur and Meidum cemetery complexes exist).

#Dahshur #meidum #Egypt #ancient egypt #egyptology #Kemet #Kemetic #Kemeticism #pyramid #pyramids #red pyramid #bent pyramid #collapsed pyramid #desert

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Giza Pyramids Combo Tour

Giza Pyramids Combo Tour, By the time you arrive, you will have seen a thousand pictures of the Pyramids of Giza, but nothing compares to actually seeing these historic structures in person.

Giza Pyramids Tomb Tours,The three 4th-dynasty pyramids of Giza, Arabic Ahrmt Al-Jzah, Giza sometimes written Gizeh, were built on a rocky plateau on the west bank of the Nile River close to Al-Jzah (Giza), in northern Egypt. They were once listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. In 1979, the UNESCO classified the Memphis region's ancient ruins, including the Pyramids of Giza, aqqrah, Dahshr, Ab Ruwaysh, and Abr, as a World Heritage Site.

Awake in the shadows of the dazzling extolled Pyramids in Giza plateau, Enjoy your luscious breakfast and your gourmet coffee and by ready to start our Combo tour to visit Giza pyramids, It is an amazing tour around the superior historical sites we only know about it from books, reveal the mysteries of Egypt, with peace of mind. Giza Combo tour was designed for tourists who want to see all the Giza plateau details and not to be in rush, You will meet your private guide ( Expert in Egyptology ) and will be transferred to the Giza pyramids plateau ( Enry in Cheops is optional as the government sell only 300 tickets per day and no one can book it in advance, but in case You want it included You have to bein Giza pyramids area at 7:00AM or at 13:00Pm exactly to be from first tourist booking it, They sell 150 tickets in morning and the other 150 at 13:00PM)

Adorable time for promenading around the pyramids with a nice payoff at the panorama where You will see the three pyramids on one line, riding camels to go in the Sahara ( Egypt desert ) and see the 9 pyramids panorama, enjoy Egyptian traditional tea or a soft drink with the bedouin people ( desert inhabitants ) while you are enjoying to the unrepeated view of Giza pyramids with a background of Giza city.

Retrace history of 5000 years ago & uncover El-Giza pyramids and the Sphinx history and legends, Now it is walking tour behind Cheops pyramid to enter the Solar boat barques museum and then walking tour to arrive the tomb of Khufu Kha Ef (G7130-7140 ), who supposed to be one of Cheops sons ( Brother of Chephren ), and he carried many titles such as Chief of justice an vizier, not so far from his tomb is located other tombs such as Meres Ankh tomb and Seshem Nefer Theti tomb ( LG53 ), Seshem Nefer was the director of the two seats in the mansion of life and secretary of all secret commands of king Cheops, Your guide will take you inside it to explain for you about what is the mastaba and you will see few details of daily life on the walls of the tomb such as a lion attacking another animal but best scenes for daily life are not in Giza pyramids area but they are located in Saqqara pyramid complex area as their colors still preserved, Proceed tour to the valley temple and the mysterious Sphinx.

Dazzling neighbour to the ambiguous Sphinx, with enormous ancient stones, the Valley Temple, Granite and basalt wall blocks, marble floor, The valley temple not only shows models of stunning building practices with megalithic blocks , but gives an idea about Giza plateau age, The temple contains no incised inscriptions or reliefs, Free time for wandering in the temple, then visit the Sphinx, The famous ambiguous Sphinx at Giza is a tremendous statue, sculptured in rock, representing a icon of the ancient Egyptian mythology with body of lion and head of a man to represent the power and intelligence of the king. It is 17 m high and 39 m total length. It was constructed in the reign of Khafre, about 2470 B.C

After Giza Combo full day tour You will have time to visit the famous local shops either to buy souvenirs or to have idea about the Egyptian handicrafts, then enjoy lunch meal and back to hotel

Note at night We arrange also Pyramids by night ( Sound and light show in front of Giza pyramids and the Sphinx)

Giza Combo Day Tour Includes

- Pick up and drop off service from your hotel in Cairo by World tour advice private tour guide

- All Giza pyramids Combo day tour transfers by modern Ac van + 40 minutes by camel or horse carriage 30 minutes

- All tickets of entry in Giza pyramids plateau, Valley temple, Sphinx, Solar boat barque museum,

- Entry inside two of the following tombs Seshem Nefer Theti tomb, Khufu Kha Ef tomb or Meres Ankh tomb

- Private English speaking tour guide (Expert in Egyptology )

- Free time for shopping around Giza pyramids area

- Lunch meal at local restaurant included 1 soft drink

- Mineral water on board during the tour

- 1 soft drink in Giza pyramids panorama area in the bedouin camp

Giza Combo Day Tour Excludes

- Anything not mentioned in our Combo tour to Giza pyramids

- Tipping, recommended but not obligatory

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