How Roman aqueducts worked - Upgoat

How Roman aqueducts worked
submitted by shitface9000 to InterestingAsFuck 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 11:58:05 ago (+67/-0) (pomf2.lain.la)
https://pomf2.lain.la/f/v9lhzj7.mp4

[ - ] rabidR04CH 10 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 16:22:22 ago (+10/-0)

The sad part is that such ingenuity has still not reached Africa.

[ - ] Trope 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 16:57:36 ago (+1/-0)

I thought about it. An old friend had been interested in Peace Corps which would have had them helping a remote village in Nambia or Namibia. However spelled.

It was mentioned one of the daily tasks involved traveling a mile for fresh water.

I wonder why they didnt simply relocate to the water source. Perhaps it was a stagnant pool full of bugs?

Perhaps a water tower could be built? Or a channel to stream water into the village?

I pondered ways to help this village quite a bit with the limited information I had. But I also wonder how long such implementations would be maintained without the external influences of the Peace Corps workers.

[ + ] TheNoticing

[ - ] TheNoticing 3 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 17:49:48 ago (+3/-0)

You need either gravity or a pump to fill the water tower. Then what do you do when it's full? And who cleans it? How will pressure be handled?

Africans are too retarded to have a water tower.

[ + ] Pasty

[ - ] Pasty 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 18:22:25 ago (+0/-0)

Curly hair that Africans have is because they were so retarded to not produce combs to take lice out their hair that is became such a section pressure to kill niggers so that they let themselves become more ugly rather than carving out a few slats.

[ + ] Her0n

[ - ] Her0n 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 23:13:55 ago (+0/-0)

Lice prefer clean and combed hair over a filthy mess. Easier to navigate. Your point is incorrect.

The common nigger has kinky hair due to selection from environmental heat more than anything else. Straight, payable hair traps heat. Brillo pad hair disperses heat.

[ + ] PotatoWhisperer2

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 18:48:58 ago (+1/-0)

But I also wonder how long such implementations would be maintained without the external influences

Shit fails immediately. Like, the very day you leave they get failures. Farms can't grow food because they dig up and eat the seeds, water doesn't get boiled long enough because they break the "timer", they start getting the usual diseases back when the doctors leave because they go back to eating their dead, and so on and so on forever.

[ + ] Clubberlang

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 20:33:44 ago (+0/-0)

This guy says otherwise

[ + ] kammmmak

[ - ] kammmmak 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 20:51:22 ago (+0/-0)

Sad? Ffs no.

[ - ] Prairie 4 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 12:30:16 ago (+4/-0)

Holy shit I had no idea those were so advanced. Before engines they had to use the natural potential energy to get it to its destination.

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[ - ] deleted 6 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 16:08:57 ago (+6/-0)

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[ - ] GrayDragon 4 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 12:25:18 ago (+4/-0)

Thanks sf9k! That was really cool.

[ - ] Ragnar 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 18:14:37 ago (+1/-0)

Pajeets never figured this out on their own, let alone the Africans lmao

[ - ] NationalSocialism 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 18:09:12 ago (+2/-1)

How did they figure this out before Christianity was invented?

[ - ] MayhemInChief 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 16:06:37 ago (+1/-0)

Many of these principles are still in use today. We still use gravity for our water systems and rely on suction when dipping below an object and resurfacing. One of the key differences today though is that we have pumps so we can move water back uphill, like into a water tower, in order to reach or maintain higher pressure.

[ - ] Artificial_Intelligentile 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 12:06:22 ago (+4/-3)

LEAD pipes...

it is theorized that lead poisoning reduced the life expectancy of romans below modern levels.

they had no modern medicine, but they lived just as long as we do today. the statistics are flawed because of infant mortality due to Lead poisoning.

[ + ] Prairie

[ - ] Prairie 4 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 12:31:12 ago (+4/-0)

It's an important lesson. If you don't have any baseline to compare, how would you know that something pervasive is poisoning your people?

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[ - ] deleted 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 16:10:12 ago (+1/-0)

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[ + ] TheYiddler

[ - ] TheYiddler 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 19, 2023 07:45:48 ago (+1/-0)

Just like plastic today. The anti androgen effect is turning everyone gay.

[ + ] Pasty

[ - ] Pasty 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 18:24:21 ago (+0/-0)

Same can be said in any era.

[ + ] Ragnar

[ - ] Ragnar 4 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 18:13:55 ago (+4/-0)

they didn’t have modern medicine wah wah

Implying modern medicine is magical.
Bro, modern medicine is killing us

[ + ] Artificial_Intelligentile

[ - ] Artificial_Intelligentile 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 19, 2023 00:15:04 ago (+0/-0)

yes, thats what i said.

[ - ] GreenSaint 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 21:26:55 ago (+0/-0)

They used nuclear energy right? Or was it gravity? I forget

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 20:31:37 ago (+0/-0)

We wuz wakanda duckz eeen sheeeeeeeeeehehehehehehhhiiiit!

[ - ] con77 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 16:55:00 ago (+0/-0)

africans built that

[ - ] oyveyo 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 15:30:21 ago (+0/-0)

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I get this message more and more. Who keeps making RealPlayer videos?

[ + ] Clubberlang

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 20:36:58 ago (+1/-0)

Don't hate the playa hate the gayme nigga gnome seyin?!

[ - ] FacelessOne 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 13:20:59 ago (+4/-4)

With no need to account for the "curvature of the earth" in their slopes.

[ + ] oyveyo

[ - ] oyveyo 7 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 15:33:45 ago (+8/-1)

For fuck sake, gravity exudes an equal amount of force across the curved surface, the center of gravity is always perpendicular to the tangial point along a level path. Level does not mean straight, it means gravimetrically balanced.

I wish you flat tards would go fall off the edge of the Earth.

[ + ] FacelessOne

[ - ] FacelessOne -2 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 19:16:04 ago (+0/-2)

Gravity exudes lol

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[ - ] deleted -4 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 15:50:54 ago (+0/-4)

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[ + ] PeckerwoodPerry

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 15:59:33 ago (+2/-0)

How can a flat object not have an edge?

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[ - ] deleted -4 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 16:04:28 ago (+0/-4)

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[ + ] observation1

[ - ] observation1 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 15:33:43 ago (+0/-0)

Using a plumb every 30meters. Mind blown.

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[ - ] deleted -4 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 16:07:19 ago (+0/-4)

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[ + ] observation1

[ - ] observation1 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 16:34:48 ago (+0/-0)

This piece of shit on ebay can do 60 feet by hand in a day:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/IEAAAOSwo-9h5ElD/s-l1200.webp

There's videos online of people using this (without a bull or ox.)

Imagine thinking this was space tech.

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[ - ] deleted -2 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 18:20:33 ago (+0/-2)

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[ + ] observation1

[ - ] observation1 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 18:31:53 ago (+2/-0)

Blacksmiths forged shields and swords you stupid fuck. You think they couldn't forge a drill larger than 6 inches?

[ + ] Deleted

[ - ] deleted -2 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 18:35:44 ago (+0/-2)

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[ + ] observation1

[ - ] observation1 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 18:40:42 ago (+2/-0)

Steel. I've never met anybody as retarded as you. I guess it's a race with flat earthers. Which one can say something even dumber than the next.

[ + ] Deleted

[ - ] deleted -1 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 18:42:03 ago (+0/-1)

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[ + ] observation1

[ - ] observation1 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 18:45:33 ago (+2/-0)

What do you imagine roman swords were made out of?

Continue thread

[ + ] SteppingRazor

[ - ] SteppingRazor 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 19:53:57 ago (+0/-0)

You can get the dirt out in buckets being lifted out. It’s not rocket science

[ + ] Deleted

[ - ] deleted 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 20:22:14 ago (+0/-0)

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[ + ] Clubberlang

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 20:40:00 ago (+0/-0)

It's definitely not palatial trajectory either!

[ + ] drhitler

[ - ] drhitler 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 19, 2023 01:48:55 ago (+0/-0)

My grandfather in his 80s with cancer dugout a whole basement workshop at his new house, didn't tell the council either, got in a bit of trouble, the main issue was getting rid of the rocks,he got caught out because he was putting boulders in the bins.

you also have to consider people were a lot stronger back then too

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[ - ] deleted 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 19, 2023 10:31:31 ago (+0/-0)

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[ + ] Clubberlang

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 20:37:35 ago (+0/-0)

What did asians have to do with it?

[ + ] NukeAmerica

[ - ] NukeAmerica -1 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 16:50:34 ago (+0/-1)

Christianity dies without the earth being flat, weak jewish religion.

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[ - ] deleted -3 points 1.6 yearsSep 18, 2023 18:29:58 ago (+0/-3)

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