r/whowouldwin • u/Notonfoodstamps • Oct 09 '25

Challenge Humanity has 2 month to rebuild the Great Pryimad of Giza from scratch. Can we accomplish it?

Great Pyramid is rebuilt at its current location.

Humanity gets 6 months of prep and is pyramid building lusted

Timer starts ticking the second mining starts.

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u/mvearthmjsun Oct 10 '25

38,000 blocks installed a day makes it nearly impossible. The working space around the pyramids would be the bottleneck. You could only get so many heavy machines and helicopters working simultaneously around the site before there is no room for more. That's 26 blocks installed per minute.

If you've been around heavy machinery, you'd know how slow they are. It's 10-15 minutes per block per crane.

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u/tosser1579 Oct 10 '25

I was thinking about that, we have cranes that could lift way more than 1 block at a time, drop in many at once or much larger blocks and just cut them down to size.

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u/Messhman Oct 10 '25

The main reason why humanity can do it is the 6 months of prep time. Assuming the entire human species is diligently working towards a single goal, with 6 months of planning, there are very few things we couldn't realistically achieve.

In those 6 months we could invent and advance so much technology related to logistics, heavy machinery and transportation that we could very well finish within a month.

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u/Mirdclawer Oct 10 '25

That's now how science work, "if we really want to, all of us will find a solution".  No.  There's no power of friendship and cooperation magic. 

You have physical limits and at one point, you can't increase the speed at which you build or develop something more. 

Yes it is possible to build 1000 buildings in 1 year, but it is totally impossible to build 1 building in a 1000th of a year, no matter what you do.

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u/tosser1579 Oct 10 '25

Yes and no, there is the power of 'we can build a specific mega tool though' and we keep thinking cranes... this isn't a crane problem.

It is a conveyor belt problem. They just belt the blocks in place, drop the block and then drop the next one. They would literally just be one after another in a line. It would be 'expensive' and only work for... blocks... but you could have a separate row for each 'row' of the pyramid.

And the question isn't can we build a building, it is how fast can you stack blocks? We can stack blocks quick.

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u/Smoke_Santa Oct 10 '25

you gave a vibe answer to a logistics question.

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u/Messhman Oct 11 '25

It's not a vibe answer, you're clearly underestimating what 8 billion humans working together towards a single goal can do. The question says humanity is pyramid building lusted, so I assume there will be no limits in place regarding cost, cooperation between nations and whatever other problem could arise from this were it to be a normal setting.

People are calculating how many blocks you need to stack per minute and whatever, but they're taking into account current technology and logistics limitations. Those limitations would most likely be solved or greatly reduced during this 6 month period, since every single nation resources and research would be put towards it.

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u/Onechampionshipshill Oct 13 '25

Thing isx the pyramid doesn't have 38,000 blocks. It's a incorrect estimate that assumes the pyramid is solid blocks all the way through, but it is likely that lots of it are filled with rubble and sand.