simon-newman:eldritchgentleman: dasha-aibo:eldritchgentleman: eric-coldfire:simon-newman:postmodernm
simon-newman:eldritchgentleman: dasha-aibo:eldritchgentleman: eric-coldfire:simon-newman:postmodernmulticoloredcloak: awed-frog: somethingdnd: brunhiddensmusings: pochowek: pondwitch: tyloriousrex: chrissongzzz: So how do they make that? This just raises more questions for me ♂️ what the FUCK this is whats called a ‘coffer dam’, you basically build some walls, drop them in the water, tie them together, and then pump out the water from your new hole in the water so you can build while staying dryits oddly not that hard- the flippin ROMANS were able to do it with logs and mud occasionally particularly devious people would use this to hide treasure or tombs underneath the river so its not only impossible to find but impossible to get to without an engineer division that last part gives me ideas for campaigns “Not that hard - the ROMANS were able to do it” - people seriously underestimate how advanced some ancient cultures were and the organized effort it takes to come up with something like this and actually implement it. The Romans had heated floors, glass windows and ceilings that could be rotated to reflect what you were eating (forests for game, sea landscapes for fish). Hell, the Greeks built cameras and moving robots. The Minoans, who lived four thousands years ago and were wiped out by a tsunami three times as powerful as the one which devasted Japan in 2011, had running water and modern toilets. And let’s not get into how China basically invented everything centuries before anyone else. Bottom line: just because someone was already doing it thousands of years ago, doesn’t mean it’s not very difficult and an extraordinary feat of engineering. someone: you build how many bridges on a single military campaign…? Caesar: what, like it’s hard? Ancient Romans?You mean the guys who could move mountains, drain lakes, stage naval fights in a theatre, build rotating theatres or build palaces around statues 15 times bigger than a person?Romans whose some inventions can’t be replicated even today?Those Ancient Romans? I mean, Romans did try to wage war on Neptune by stabbing the ocean.They weren’t all geniuses. Well that was just one bonkers guy getting into power, something we have plenty of experience with as well. Those same Romans that failed to improve agriculture in their whole 1000 years of rule?The same that poisoned whole cities with lead? Eh, no one is perfect. No improvements?We brought water where there was none, we turned wastelands to farmland and allowed for water wheels to operate mills where there was no river to flow before.Many tools used to this day changed little from the days of the Imperium and we separated crops by planting season well before the holy-men calendar did the same centuries later.Also. A bit of lead hardly killed anyone. We? Simon, are you 2500 years old??? -- source link