Comment on Engineer: Egyptians built pyramids by piling rubble and attaching bricks laterparentComments−yason12yI'm tired but isn't that just 1.5 times?Tied together, a 1m³ block of limestone and a volume of 1.5m³ of floats displace 2.5m³ of water. Assuming the mass of the floats themselves isn't much then already that would lift 2.5 tons off from the bottom of the water pool.−maxerickson12yYeah, I got it wrong.
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I'm tired but isn't that just 1.5 times?
Tied together, a 1m³ block of limestone and a volume of 1.5m³ of floats displace 2.5m³ of water. Assuming the mass of the floats themselves isn't much then already that would lift 2.5 tons off from the bottom of the water pool.
Yeah, I got it wrong.