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There's a zillion people on Twitter, including a bunch of high-profile conservative blue-checks, who think this thread is practical advice for toppling the Washington Monument.
The thread says "you'll want to be standing 30 feet away from obelisk so it won't topple on you." The Washington Monument is 555 feet tall.
The thread suggests looping a chain tightly around the obelisk you want to bring down, "around the top (below pointy bit)." Again, the Washington Monument is 555 feet tall.
The thread suggests using sixty people to bring down a 20-foot monument. Given that weight rises with the cube of height, that means you'd need twenty thousand people pulling on ropes a mile long to bring down the Washington Monument.
(Six miles long, if you wanted to maintain social distancing.)
For reference, the distance shown in this photo is about a mile and a half. For reference.
Weight rises with the cube of height ASSUMING PROPORTIONS REMAIN CONSTANT ACROSS THREE DIMENSIONS, people.
So if she wasn't referring to toppling the Washington Monument, and this tweet wasn't a wan shot for plausible deniability, what obelisk might she have been referring to?
Computer, zoom and enhance.
In conclusion.
Update: I see Christina Sommers and Ian Miles Cheong have jumped on the "antifa Egyptologists are targeting the Washington Monument" bandwagon, bless 'em.
I won't say that there are a LOT of people in my mentions who don't understand that deploying twenty thousand people with a six-mile-long rope isn't a viable strategy for toppling an obelisk twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, but I will say there's a lot more than zero.
Update: The monument in Birmingham that the good professor was advising on was removed by the city last night, after the state AG promised only token retribution. wvtm13.com/article/heavy-…
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