Jon Jraper

So let me get this straight. It’s nearly 2027, and nobody on Earth knows exactly how the largest and most precisely built structure in the ancient world was actually made? 2.3 MILLION blocks. 80 tonne granite beams hauled 500 miles upstream and lifted 150 feet into the air. A base level to a few centimetres across 13 acres, squared to true north better than most things built in the last 100 years. Every ramp anyone has proposed runs into the volume, the gradient, or where you’d even put it. And hang on, there’s more. You’re telling me there is no inscription on the building naming who built it, and the whole attribution rests on paint found in a room that stayed sealed until a British officer blew it open with gunpowder in 1837? But wait, there’s even more. In 2017 they fired cosmic ray detectors through it and found a void inside, over 100 feet long, and not one person has ever been in there. And you guessed it... There’s more. The plateau underneath is cut with THOUSANDS of shafts dropping 100 feet into chambers. There is no complete map, and nobody can even give you a firm number. And in the entire recorded history of the building, 3 small objects have come out of it. And I’m supposed to be able to sleep tonight?!