[HN Gopher] The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light
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       The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light
        
       Author : rolph
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2026-04-18 16:05 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | nasretdinov wrote:
       | It's just that the French left the greastet Easter Egg of all
       | time when creating the Metric System. They could've just made
       | speed of light some round number, e.g. 1 million km/sec, but that
       | sounded too bland, so they chose the Great Pyramid of Giza
       | instead. The same for the charge of the electron
        
       | elashri wrote:
       | The conspiracy theorist inside me would say that the French might
       | not be the first to define the metric this way /s.
        
         | krapp wrote:
         | You're reminding me of a miniminuteman video debunking this
         | conspiracy theory, asking how it was that the aliens who built
         | the pyramids were using the metric system.
         | 
         | I guess it's literally everyone in the galaxy _except for
         | Americans_ using the metric system.
        
           | elashri wrote:
           | > I guess it's literally everyone in the galaxy except for
           | Americans using the metric system.
           | 
           | So the reason the aliens always start their invasion or
           | encounter with humans from America in Hollywood movies is
           | because they are angry/curious to see the only people in the
           | galaxy not using the metric system?
        
             | krapp wrote:
             | They hate us for our freedoms!
        
       | m3047 wrote:
       | "Of course it's a coincidence" doesn't leave me with good feels.
       | See, we don't know what a "normal distribution" is for a
       | correlation like this, it's not like we have a huge bag of
       | samples to determine the variance from.
        
       | JohnnyLarue wrote:
       | The pyramid exists on every latitude between 29.9782000 and
       | 29.9801000, it's not that precise.
        
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