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Why are there so many expensive homes?
  • In my area the biggest factor is multiple families purchasing homes together. When you're splitting the mortgage it's a lot more affordable.

  • Why Android camera app uses JPEG format?
  • The overlap between "cares enough about image quality to not be okay with jpeg" and "doesn't know to install a third party app" is probably too small for most manufacturers to care about.

  • ELI5: Why haven’t we fully explored the pyramids yet?
  • The base has a length of 230 meters on each side and the largest interior chamber measures roughly 10 x 5 x 6 meters so yeah, loads of dense solid stone there.

  • ELI5: Why haven’t we fully explored the pyramids yet?
  • Not sure how old the program was OP watched but they found one void in 2017 using cosmic rays. I'm guessing the pyramids are way too solid for ultrasound or x-ray to work.

    https://www.science.org/content/article/cosmic-rays-reveal-unknown-void-great-pyramid-giza

  • ELI5: Why haven’t we fully explored the pyramids yet?
  • The void isn't like a room we simply haven't entered, it's more like the equivalent to an empty space inside the walls of your home. It's there, but there are no passages leading to it. About 75-80% of the interior volume of the pyramids is solid stone as far as we know so it's much less like a modern building and more of a huge pile of stones that happens to have a few open spaces with passages leading to them.

    Here's an article that includes an illustration showing just how solid they are as well as the recently discovered void and more info on how they found it using cosmic rays of all things: https://www.science.org/content/article/cosmic-rays-reveal-unknown-void-great-pyramid-giza

  • Say hi to Vader and Binx, recently apprehended fugitives

    Somebody dumped these two in a nearby park. My wife found them this morning while on a walk so of course we brought them home. They're both social, flea-free, and still had full bellies so it much have just happened. We've got a pretty full house already so if anyone happens to be in the socal area and is looking for a pair of happy little voids, let me know!

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  • My money's on the chairman not learning from the experience either; he still blamed you even though he was totally unable to find a way to actually blame you.

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