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Roman Roads (2017)
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#102Much better resolution: https://video-images.vice.com/articles/593594e8c270a8484d1d1...
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#103I guess Darioritum is how they got to Asterix' place...
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Drive a semi over those cobblestones daily for a year and we'll see how they are doing.
For sure, but unfair comparison. Leave an asphalt road unattended for 10 years and it's cracked and overgrown, barely better than a dirtroad. A cobblestone at least will be salvageable, just will need a good weed wacking. Baseline quality is just higher.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Drive a semi over those cobblestones daily for a year and we'll see how they are doing.
For sure, but unfair comparison. Leave an asphalt road unattended for 10 years and it's cracked and overgrown, barely better than a dirtroad. A cobblestone at least will be salvageable, just will need a good weed wacking. Baseline quality is just higher.
They're pointing out the ridiculousness of the original comparison.
But you made the same bad comparison as the original one since only the asphalt road can bear the loads of modern traffic.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Sometimes I wonder if we've regressed in terms of attention to quality. In a way we have, yes! In our modern society we optimize for profit. Always, everywhere. The reasons our roads won't last thousands of years is precisely that it would be less profitable.
The Roman roads wouldn’t be pleasant to drive on at all. Also the Romans certainly must have been more obsessed by profit than us? They state was built on subjugation and enslavement of basically all the people they came into contact with.
> The Roman roads wouldn’t be pleasant to drive on at all.
Sure, but that was not my point.
> Also the Romans certainly must have been more obsessed by profit than us?
I don't know, I wouldn't say "certainly". I am not really sure how one can be more obsessed by profit than us. We literally care more about profit (GNI) than our survival (climate change, energy crisis, biodiversity crisis).
> They state was built on subjugation and enslavement of basically all the people they came into contact with.
You don't really know how Rome worked, do you? Because they had slaves does not mean they enslaved "all the people they came into contact with". The Roman society is actually super interesting when you look into it.
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#107There's a series on Amazon Prime where a Brit actually travels the main Roman Roads in England, revisiting the history while he goes. They actually demonstrate how they got the roads so straight.
Is it this? Britain's Ancient Tracks with Tony Robinson https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6165532/
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#108I've been always fascinated by subway maps. The best ones are usually made manually and require update from contractors on every infrastructure extension. Were there any efforts to make autogenerated styled subway maps? Not like stylization of OSM data, but real schemes that show the whole system without sensory overload?
Not that you asked, but here's a great video about the history of this style of map: https://youtu.be/cTLCfl01zuE
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Saying that 60km "can be easily done" is quite a stretch. After 30-40km, even on flat, most people wouldn't do it easily at all. And I walk about 10km daily in one session and often do 30+km hikes.
When I was in elementary school, we would do charity walks every year to raise money for the poor. They were 20 miles. It took us all day, but if a bunch of kids between fourth and eighth grades and their nun teachers can do it, I'm surprised how many adults on this web site think it's too far.
> I'm surprised how many adults on this web site think it's too far.
Kids these days are often a lot fitter than adults. I know people who think a 10 minute walk is too far.
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#110The Roman Empire was very advanced for the time, and it left such a huge imprint on the civilization even centuries, and thousands of years after it. The organization was a different scale. Fun fact: Some of the most famous battles in England in the middle ages, such as battle of Hasting, were basically 5k - 9k soldiers in each side. That's just one and a half Roman legion. Rome, could field 12 legions at a time, and…
To be fair England was a complete backwater in Roman times, just like much of Europe away from the Mediterranean. IIRC by the 1000s Germany, France and Britain had already well surpassed their Roman population peaks, Italy on the other hand took another 500 years or so.
Even by the time of the Norman invasion it was still a back water that was being horse traded around by Danes.