DarthOne
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They are quite the idea and quite the architecture wonder.
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They are quite the idea and quite the architecture wonder.
Lord Sovereign
The resident Britbong
The humble Roman road, although not as grand as the Aqueduct, has endured down the centuries embarrassingly better than our modern roads which can’t go a year without falling apart.
Such was the glory of Rome.
Such was the glory of Rome.
DarthOne
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You ignore the fact that the Roman roads still lasted far, far longer than the modern ones do.
Basically: Roman road can handle the combined traffic of a hundred years or more before needing serious repairs.
Modern road: barely lasts a decade or less before needing a serious repair.
Modern roads are also quickly able to put down and be repaired. We also lost the recipe to Roman concrete so there is that.
The amount of traffic over a day of heavy weight compared to standard foot traffic wears down things a lot quicker. Same with most things.
Compare a heavy road used by all sorts of vehicles vs a walkway used by people.
Drive some semi's over them for years and see how they last then.
DarthOne
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Probably pretty well, if you were to take a newly-made Roman road.
No, it wouldn't last at all. Trucks are the cause of at least 95% of road deterioration.
Look at some photos of original Chernobyl roads, not used since the 80's. They aren't looking too bad despite being made at commie quality. The roads in use had to be remade a few times since then.
Roman roads were built ok, for their time, but what really made them last is the very light loads they were under. Also probably most of them being in mild climate, frost/thaw cycles help fuck up roads too.
DarthOne
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Huh. The more you know then. Thank you.
Yeah, Roman roads were a godsend for many reasons, and in the UK, France, and Italy they formed the routes for pretty much all of the road routes/highways in use today (like the M25), but you guys are deifying them way too much.
Even when new, a Roman road having the average traffic a modern road has? It wouldn't last a few months or so.
Not only are modern vehicles much heavier than anything those roads were designed to accommodate (except for the rare elephant, but, ya know, that's not exactly a normal thing back in Roman times, haha), the wear and tear effect of tires would literally grind down the surface materials to the drainage layers/under materials very quickly.
Remember, Roman roads only had to contend with foot traffic, carts and horses, and... well, that's about it, elements aside.
Even when new, a Roman road having the average traffic a modern road has? It wouldn't last a few months or so.
Not only are modern vehicles much heavier than anything those roads were designed to accommodate (except for the rare elephant, but, ya know, that's not exactly a normal thing back in Roman times, haha), the wear and tear effect of tires would literally grind down the surface materials to the drainage layers/under materials very quickly.
Remember, Roman roads only had to contend with foot traffic, carts and horses, and... well, that's about it, elements aside.
mrttao
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What prompted that?
DarthOne
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Media matters doing a lot of shady shit.
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StormEagle
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Media Matters decided to go after Musk and Twitter by smearing the platform as a hive of nazis.
They did this by thoroughly gaming the algorithm to force ads to show up next to racist( or “racist”, I don’t know as I haven’t actually seen the screenshots) twitter posts, and then contacted said advertisers with screenshots of their products next to said posts.
Suffice to say, Musk is pissed.
Yeah, they fucked around and are finding out that their usual tactics used on other people don't work on Musk.
These people literally cannot comprehend that they can't pull this shit off against him.
These people literally cannot comprehend that they can't pull this shit off against him.
LordsFire
Internet Wizard
Which modern roads?
Different roads are built to different quality, and exist in different climate areas, that subject them to different levels of corrosion.
Have a look at some of the roads in the Southwest USA that aren't subject to regular heavy truck traffic. See how well they're holding up.
mrttao
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Ah, thank you.
And wow. that is actually very suable. they fucked up.
They are a massive NGO of leftist shitheads famous for pushing censorship of everything they disagree with, and Musk got really miffed about them trying to pull off advertiser exodus on his business due to not cooperating.
Yep.
They fucked around and are now feeling the consequences. He can outlast them in court, has money to burn, and is going to destroy them.
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