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That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video. Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments. The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times. Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it. Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

Roidcels coping Blowing bubbles Slapping the water

25 years ago PRIDE would have had this guy debut against prime Fedor. They'd make a 5 minute video package questioning if Fedor could submit "The man with no neck." he'd lose in 12 seconds and then immediately end up in commercials for a Japanese turtleneck company.

Toshifumi Suzuki, the "father of the conbini" and the man who created the modern Japanese convenience store, has died at the age of 93. He set up the 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores in Japan in the 1970s and came up with the idea of selling onigiri, before being ousted in a power struggle in 2016.

“PLEASE FREIKORP I’LL DO ANYTHING!! I’LL FUCKING SUCK YOUR DICK! YOU WANT ME TO EAT YOUR SHIT??? I’LL EAT YOUR FUCKING SHIT IN THE REICHSTAG LAWN!!”

Federal officials have served subpoenas to Marxist political influencer Hasan Piker and CodePink cofounder Susan Medea Benjamin as part of a wider investigation into whether U.S. organizations and leaders violated U.S. laws and sanctions in supporting Cuba's communist regime, Fox News Digital has learned. foxnews.com/politics/feds-…

The predicted IQ spread between their top and bottom embryo is ~24 points. People often underestimate how much siblings can differ genetically. We do more than IQ: we also screen for common diseases and NDDs such as severe autism. Book a call if you’d like to learn more: herasight.com/get-access

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An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply. This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes. The era of abusing our nation’s immigration system is over.

Zohran Mamdani. Mayor of NYC, decided to start a twitch channel but forgot to hire mods. What happened next is obvious.

You should never as a man admit you weigh less than 140lbs

It is day 5 of the Libertarian Party fighting over the request that men not wear dresses or diapers at convention. Their left-wing homosexual nominee for President called it an "anti-trans dogwhistle". "Bite me", the Party's pink-haired former secretary said (gender unknown).

Marrying his wife's sister is by far the healthiest thing he can do for his child. Closest thing to his mother. It's actually really weird and another example of our society's disconnect from common sense that this would be considered "wrong" or a "betrayal" to the modern mind.

Is this a Japanese family?

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I just can't stop laughing at this tough guy who doesn't have the grip strength to lift his own rifle without swinging it. Go jihadi on a bench press, little bro.

You can tell a SNAP recipient to eat rice and beans. You can’t tell a net contributor taxpayer to just eat rice and beans. These are mammoth hunting first principles and resource allocation at play here

The boys sucked. Good riddance to the most bloodthirsty leftist tripe ever produced. These people want to kill us so bad

Elon in the boys!?! So subtle!

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