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How Roman aqueducts worked

submitted by shitface9000 to InterestingAsFuck 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 11:58:05 ago (+67/-0)     (pomf2.lain.la)

https://pomf2.lain.la/f/v9lhzj7.mp4



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[ - ] rabidR04CH 10 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 16:22:22 ago (+10/-0)

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

[ - ] Trope 1 point 7 monthsSep 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 3 points 7 monthsSep 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 0 points 7 monthsSep 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 0 points 7 monthsSep 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 1 point 7 monthsSep 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 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 20:33:44 ago (+0/-0)

[ - ] kammmmak 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 20:51:22 ago (+0/-0)

Sad? Ffs no.

[ - ] Prairie 4 points 7 monthsSep 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.

[ - ] sarkbear 6 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 16:08:57 ago (+6/-0)

They pretty much wrote the book on simple hydraulic engineering.

[ - ] GrayDragon 4 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 12:25:18 ago (+4/-0)

Thanks sf9k! That was really cool.

[ - ] Ragnar 1 point 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 18:14:37 ago (+1/-0)

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

[ - ] NationalSocialism 1 point 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 18:09:12 ago (+2/-1)

How did they figure this out before Christianity was invented?

[ - ] MayhemInChief 1 point 7 monthsSep 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 7 monthsSep 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 4 points 7 monthsSep 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?

[ - ] sarkbear 1 point 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 16:10:12 ago (+1/-0)

I don't remember where I read it, but it's thought that they knew lead wasn't a good material for potable water - but there wasn't anything else besides terracotta.

[ - ] TheYiddler 1 point 7 monthsSep 19, 2023 07:45:48 ago (+1/-0)

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

[ - ] Pasty 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 18:24:21 ago (+0/-0)

Same can be said in any era.

[ - ] Ragnar 4 points 7 monthsSep 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 0 points 7 monthsSep 19, 2023 00:15:04 ago (+0/-0)

yes, thats what i said.

[ - ] GreenSaint 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 21:26:55 ago (+0/-0)

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

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 20:31:37 ago (+0/-0)

We wuz wakanda duckz eeen sheeeeeeeeeehehehehehehhhiiiit!

[ - ] con77 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 16:55:00 ago (+0/-0)

africans built that

[ - ] oyveyo 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 15:30:21 ago (+0/-0)

No video with supported format and MIME type found.

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

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 20:36:58 ago (+1/-0)

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

[ - ] FacelessOne 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 13:20:59 ago (+4/-4)

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

[ - ] oyveyo 7 points 7 monthsSep 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 -2 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 19:16:04 ago (+0/-2)

Gravity exudes lol

[ - ] BushChuck -4 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 15:50:54 ago (+0/-4)

Gravity sure is magical, isn't it?

Anything you need answered, gravity is there for you.


There is no edge, dipshit.

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 2 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 15:59:33 ago (+2/-0)

How can a flat object not have an edge?

[ - ] BushChuck -4 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 16:04:28 ago (+0/-4)

Who said anything about a "flat object"?

Your cosmology is incorrect. There is no "outer space", there is only our stationary, level Realm.

Probably an infinite plane.

Not one single helioskeptic thinks the Earth is fucking dinner plate, floating in (((space))).

[ - ] observation1 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 15:33:43 ago (+0/-0)

Using a plumb every 30meters. Mind blown.

[ - ] BushChuck -4 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 16:07:19 ago (+0/-4)

Go dig a thirty meter deep hole without machines.

You're going to give up after less than two meters, because it's essentially impossible to dig a hole that deep without heavy machinery.

No primitive, animal power society built these things.

History we are taught is a lie.

[ - ] observation1 0 points 7 monthsSep 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.

[ - ] BushChuck -2 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 18:20:33 ago (+0/-2)

lol. So they had the ability to machine steel?

Imagine referencing a modern manufactured tool, and thinking that has some relevance to this conversation.

Also, those weren't 6" shafts, dipshit. They were big enough to allow men to go down to continue tunneling horizontally.

See the problem is that none of you soft cocks have ever done a day's work, and have no frame of reference.

Dig a thirty meter vertical shaft with hand tools. lol.

[ - ] observation1 2 points 7 monthsSep 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?

[ - ] BushChuck -2 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 18:35:44 ago (+0/-2)

Holy fuck you are stupid.

What metal did the Romans use, fucktard?

Was it hardened steel, or fucking bronze?

You are too fucking stupid for this conversation.

"don't you think they could have forged…" no you fucking imbecile, they couldn't. They didn't know how to make steel, and they certainly didn't have hardened steel.

Go make a bronze auger, and see how far into the ground you can drill. Not that it's relevant to this conversation, because a work crew isn't climbing down your imaginary 6" wide shaft.

Fucking tarded as fuck.

[ - ] observation1 2 points 7 monthsSep 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.

[ - ] BushChuck -1 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 18:42:03 ago (+0/-1)

Okay. Your imaginary Romans who had steel, and could easily dig thirty meter shafts, that men could enter, with hand tools.

I've got some lovely real estate in Florida you would probably be keen on.

[ - ] observation1 2 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 18:45:33 ago (+2/-0)

What do you imagine roman swords were made out of?
Continue thread

[ - ] SteppingRazor 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 19:53:57 ago (+0/-0)

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

[ - ] BushChuck 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 20:22:14 ago (+0/-0)

lol. You've never dug even a small hole, have you?

You have no idea the amount of work you are talking about.

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 20:40:00 ago (+0/-0)

It's definitely not palatial trajectory either!

[ - ] drhitler 0 points 7 monthsSep 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

[ - ] BushChuck 0 points 7 monthsSep 19, 2023 10:31:31 ago (+0/-0)

I get what you are saying, still does not apply.

There is a world of difference between surface excavation, and shaft/tunnel construction.

There is no way a society that functioned primarily on human power built tens of thousands of kilometres of aqueduct, through mountains, over valleys. Just no fucking way.

is building aqueducts all they did as a society? Do you have any concept of how much time, and manpower you would need?

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 20:37:35 ago (+0/-0)

What did asians have to do with it?

[ - ] NukeAmerica -1 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 16:50:34 ago (+0/-1)

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

[ - ] BushChuck -3 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 18:29:58 ago (+0/-3)

Interesting take, considering that 85% of the radio telescopes are owned by the vatican.

The spread of heliocentrism is directly proportional to the spread of christcuckery.

[ - ] Anus_Expander -2 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 17:42:25 ago (+1/-3)

All invented and built by Africans

[ - ] BushChuck -7 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 14:09:36 ago (+0/-7)

lol, yeah. Horse and buggy people with no power tools built that.

Sure they did.

[ - ] NukeAmerica 1 point 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 16:52:57 ago (+1/-0)

Humans also built The great wall of China, the pyramids of Egypt, the Easter island statues, and Stonehenge without any help from LMAOs.

[ - ] Ragnar 1 point 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 18:18:46 ago (+1/-0)

Note how none of those were muzzies

[ - ] NukeAmerica -1 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 18:22:09 ago (+0/-1)

Okay and?

[ - ] Ragnar 1 point 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 18:30:58 ago (+1/-0)

Don’t pretend to not understand

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 20:41:26 ago (+2/-1)

Shills play stupid they are only paid by the jew to elicit a reaction.

[ - ] NukeAmerica -1 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 23:25:58 ago (+0/-1)

You take this gay little website way to seriously, you are not that important

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 7 monthsSep 19, 2023 23:02:10 ago (+0/-0)

Your reaction is cause for concern.

[ - ] NukeAmerica 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 23:27:24 ago (+0/-0)

Muslims have contributed, like math.

[ - ] Ragnar 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 23:58:56 ago (+0/-0)

Bahaha haha ok good one

[ - ] BushChuck -3 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 18:41:03 ago (+0/-3)

What's a lmao?

muh aliens?

I have never once stated that I believe in muh aliens.

Space is false and homosexual.

[ - ] Inward 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 20:24:53 ago (+1/-1)

Funny how you shills come out to ruin good posts about White innovations and life. You glow. You absolutely glow.

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 20:42:10 ago (+0/-0)

It's a kangajew!

[ - ] BushChuck 0 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 22:13:08 ago (+1/-1)

Absolutely, or absolutely?

What am I shilling, exactly?

White innovations, and life supposedly 2000 years ago? Are you retarded?

And how am I ruining anything? Do I really glow? Do I?

Fucking hang yourself, dipshit.

[ - ] mikenigger -1 points 7 monthsSep 18, 2023 14:28:55 ago (+2/-3)

romans went to the moon brah