https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=172.71.170.166explain xkcd - User contributions [en]2026-04-17T09:14:06ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2988:_Maslow%27s_Pyramid&diff=350896Talk:2988: Maslow's Pyramid2024-09-22T00:50:04Z<p>172.71.170.166: No food or water? He was doing it wrong.</p>
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Oh wow, first post! [[User:RadiantRainwing|RadiantRainwing]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 23:11, 20 September 2024 (UTC)<br />
: Congratulations on learning how to post![[Special:Contributions/172.68.245.228|172.68.245.228]] 03:40, 21 September 2024 (UTC)<br />
The 20% figure is incorrect. The lower levels of the pyramid have more volume than the upper levels. By my arithmetic, the breakdown is (rounded) 1%, 6%, 15%, 30%, and 49%, so the "safety" level provides 30% of his needs. [[User:Jordan Brown|Jordan Brown]] ([[User talk:Jordan Brown|talk]]) 00:27, 21 September 2024 (UTC)<br />
:Plus the bottom layer ought to get partial credit for supplying basic shelter. [[User:Jordan Brown|Jordan Brown]] ([[User talk:Jordan Brown|talk]]) 00:29, 21 September 2024 (UTC)<br />
:: I question this Cueball's ability to get anything okay enough. {{unsigned|172.70.38.122|03:32, 21 September 2024}}<br />
::Seems like he's judging each layer on a pass-fail basis, no partial credit. So the bottom layer fails because it only provides shelter, but no food or water. Like a crypt, which is what the Egyptian pyramids were for. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 18:19, 21 September 2024 (UTC)<br />
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Oh crud. What did I do that I think totally messed up the attributions? 172.68.245.228 [[Special:Contributions/172.68.245.228|172.68.245.228]] 03:53, 21 September 2024 (UTC)<br />
:I think you probably put some ~s in the wrong places? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.41.181|162.158.41.181]] 19:01, 21 September 2024 (UTC)<br />
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But *how* did he build it? Was there some sort of internal ramp? Were extraterrestrials involved? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.163.48|172.70.163.48]] 06:58, 21 September 2024 (UTC)<br />
: Couldn't care less. Cueball, I AM impressed. If your friends aren't, you need new friends. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.160.115|172.71.160.115]] 07:37, 21 September 2024 (UTC)<br />
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I assumed Cueball was trying to meet the needs, inside the pyramid. :-) Robert Carnegie rja.carnegie@gmail.com [[Special:Contributions/172.70.160.231|172.70.160.231]] 10:49, 21 September 2024 (UTC)<br />
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And a pyramid is a very safe building, except for emergency exits. ;-) (Also traps, but no one asked you in.) But it's not going to fall over. Robert Carnegie rja.carnegie@gmail.com [[Special:Contributions/172.69.194.227|172.69.194.227]] 10:53, 21 September 2024 (UTC)<br />
:It's harder to climb over an ''inverted'' pyramid, looking for weak-points. But then it has a weak-point insofar as having to be balanced upon its point, and one of those definitely ''might'' fall over... [[Special:Contributions/162.158.33.237|162.158.33.237]] 17:29, 21 September 2024 (UTC)<br />
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No food or water? He was doing it wrong: [https://mused.com/stories/145/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-great-pyramid-and-giza/ Above ground there was a separate chamber for holding food and drink for use by the deceased person in the afterlife.] [[Special:Contributions/172.71.170.166|172.71.170.166]] 00:50, 22 September 2024 (UTC)</div>172.71.170.166