Lots and lots of information I didn't know, most of it quite interesting. Sadly, the speaker employs an execrable narrative style of pauses and emphasis that has to be tolerated to extract the info.
Reposted from 2022 to add a much higher quality video which uses animation to explain some of the engineering challenges facing the Roman architects.
The engineering of roman aqueducts explained.
byu/cosmic_voyager01 inDamnthatsinteresting
Execrable. Nice one :)
ReplyDeleteThe roamin' rhodes :-) videos are good:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1aFWtBXHII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMtw1I_ro84
You should check this one, Las Medulas, they built the conducts in rock
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkMyBida63I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgf9Jy5_Oho
the speaker employs an execrable narrative style of pauses and emphasis
ReplyDeletePretty sure this text would be a delight to read for someone who likes complicated phrases and slightly off-spoken language synonyms. But 'execrable' is - I guess - a nice euphemism for its erudite poshness. tldr: This text was written to be read, not to be listened to. These are very different things.
Was it Marianne Faithfull that sang 'Broken English' ?
ReplyDeleteMy ears hurt and my brain got bent, from this robotic voiced narrator.
I have a ginger cat that could do better.
"My ears hurt and my brain got bent, from this robotic voiced narrator.
DeleteI have a ginger cat that could do better." Doesn't sound like one of Marianne's better lyrics, but I could probably bop to it.
Of course when the aqueducts were being built there was nothing but protests from locals, complaining that they were an eyesore and couldn't they be built somewhere else because they were going to affect property prices. Probably.
ReplyDeleteAs the man said, this infrastructure was developed for the super rich. Bigger gardens, bigger baths, bigger fountains. Built by slaves who could choose brutalization or crucifixion. "Protests" of any kind were off the table, whereas today we're pretty much free to complain publicly, even as distribution of wealth remains fairly constant through the ages: top 10% own 90%, bottom 90% own 10%.
Delete