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[systlin]

GUYS THEY FIGURED OUT THE ROMAN CONCRETE RECIPE THAT MAKES IT IMMUNE TO SEAWATER

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mystery-of-2000-year-old-roman-concrete-solved-by-scientists/ar-BBDO5VC

[beautifultoastdream-deactivated]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[systlin]

I KNOW RIGHT?!???

[ella-raene]

I can’t help but feel this is one of those things where we had actual documents saying “it was done with this and this”, and some old rich white guys looked at it and went “oh mirth, the ancients were so silly. They probably wrote this basic stuff down and the actual builders had Secret Techniques we need to Discover”

For a long time, archeologists didn’t know how greek women did their high-piled braids and hair. There was a word that translated to “needle” in the descriptions. They went, “seems like we’ll never know.” Then a hairdresser took a fucking needle (big needle) and did the fucking thing you do with needles, which is sew - and by sewing the braids into place, she replicated ancient styles.

The Egyptians had diagrams of construction steps for their pyramids. Archeologists went “oooh, ancient primitive people, how they do this?” LITERALLY MYTHBUSTERS OR THE OLD DISCOVERY CHANNEL or someone went “what if we did the thing the pictures said they did” AND GUESS FUCKING WHAT. GUESS FUCKING WHAT.

Also that thing with native Americans saying squirrels taught them how to get sap for maple syrup, and colonizers going “that’s a myth sweaty”

Sincerely, if the scientists had to do actual analysis like spectroscopy or whatever, kudos, and no flame. But swear to god, if all these years, we’ve had the recipes and there was just this fuckin institutional bias against just TRYING THE THING THEY SAID WOULD WORK, HELLFIRE AND DEMENTIA.

[systlin]

In this case, it was more they had roman writings saying what went into it but figured there was some secret because when they followed roman recipes it never turned out quite right. 

Because the sources left by Romans always just said to mix with water. Because, if you were a Roman??? Obviously you knew that you used seawater for cement. Duh. That’s so obvious that they never really bothered specifying that you use seawater to mix it, because it wasn’t necessary, everyone knew that. 

But then the empire fell, other empires rose and fell, time passed, and by the time we were trying to reconstruct the formula the ‘mix the dry ingredients with seawater’ trick had been forgotten, until chemical analysis finally figured it out again. 

It’s sort of like the land of Punt, a ally of Egypt that’s mentioned all the time, but we don’t actually know where it was located. Because it isn’t written down anywhere. Why would they write it down? It’s Punt. Everyone knew where Punt was back then. It’d be ridiculous to waste the ink and space to specify where it was, every child knows about Punt. 

3000 years later and we have no damned clue where it was, simply because at the time it was so blindingly obvious that it was never written down. 

[feitanswife]

So moral of story is be specific

[chronicmuppetbrain]

I was thinking it was stupid that they didn’t specify seawater but then I had the thought that we don’t specify to use chicken eggs in baking because DUH so we just write eggs

[aethersea]

2000 years in the future people are going to be making scrambled fish eggs and crying bc the ancient recipes make no sense

[lierdumoa]

Forget eggs what about milk? They’ll look back in the ancients and think we drank human breast milk by the gallon. When asked for evidence they’ll pull out from the deep archives the historical records of anime tiddies proving ancient humans had huge boobs. i mean some serious honkers. a real set of badonkers. packin some dobonhonkeros. massive dohoonkabhankoloos. big ol’ tonhongerekoo—

[systlin]

GUYS THEY FIGURED OUT THE ROMAN CONCRETE RECIPE THAT MAKES IT IMMUNE TO SEAWATER

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mystery-of-2000-year-old-roman-concrete-solved-by-scientists/ar-BBDO5VC

[beautifultoastdream-deactivated]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[systlin]

I KNOW RIGHT?!???

[ella-raene]

I can’t help but feel this is one of those things where we had actual documents saying “it was done with this and this”, and some old rich white guys looked at it and went “oh mirth, the ancients were so silly. They probably wrote this basic stuff down and the actual builders had Secret Techniques we need to Discover”

For a long time, archeologists didn’t know how greek women did their high-piled braids and hair. There was a word that translated to “needle” in the descriptions. They went, “seems like we’ll never know.” Then a hairdresser took a fucking needle (big needle) and did the fucking thing you do with needles, which is sew - and by sewing the braids into place, she replicated ancient styles.

The Egyptians had diagrams of construction steps for their pyramids. Archeologists went “oooh, ancient primitive people, how they do this?” LITERALLY MYTHBUSTERS OR THE OLD DISCOVERY CHANNEL or someone went “what if we did the thing the pictures said they did” AND GUESS FUCKING WHAT. GUESS FUCKING WHAT.

Also that thing with native Americans saying squirrels taught them how to get sap for maple syrup, and colonizers going “that’s a myth sweaty”

Sincerely, if the scientists had to do actual analysis like spectroscopy or whatever, kudos, and no flame. But swear to god, if all these years, we’ve had the recipes and there was just this fuckin institutional bias against just TRYING THE THING THEY SAID WOULD WORK, HELLFIRE AND DEMENTIA.

[systlin]

In this case, it was more they had roman writings saying what went into it but figured there was some secret because when they followed roman recipes it never turned out quite right. 

Because the sources left by Romans always just said to mix with water. Because, if you were a Roman??? Obviously you knew that you used seawater for cement. Duh. That’s so obvious that they never really bothered specifying that you use seawater to mix it, because it wasn’t necessary, everyone knew that. 

But then the empire fell, other empires rose and fell, time passed, and by the time we were trying to reconstruct the formula the ‘mix the dry ingredients with seawater’ trick had been forgotten, until chemical analysis finally figured it out again. 

It’s sort of like the land of Punt, a ally of Egypt that’s mentioned all the time, but we don’t actually know where it was located. Because it isn’t written down anywhere. Why would they write it down? It’s Punt. Everyone knew where Punt was back then. It’d be ridiculous to waste the ink and space to specify where it was, every child knows about Punt. 

3000 years later and we have no damned clue where it was, simply because at the time it was so blindingly obvious that it was never written down. 

[feitanswife]

So moral of story is be specific

[chronicmuppetbrain]

I was thinking it was stupid that they didn’t specify seawater but then I had the thought that we don’t specify to use chicken eggs in baking because DUH so we just write eggs

[aethersea]

2000 years in the future people are going to be making scrambled fish eggs and crying bc the ancient recipes make no sense

[lierdumoa]

Forget eggs what about milk? They’ll look back in the ancients and think we drank human breast milk by the gallon. When asked for evidence they’ll pull out from the deep archives the historical records of anime tiddies proving ancient humans had huge boobs. i mean some serious honkers. a real set of badonkers. packin some dobonhonkeros. massive dohoonkabhankoloos. big ol’ tonhongerekoo—

[probablybadrpgideas]

As much as you can summon demons and elementals and the like, they can summon you as well to help fight in their battles.

[probablybadrpgideas]

As much as you can summon demons and elementals and the like, they can summon you as well to help fight in their battles.

[spiderrrling]

happy 4th of july to all my americans, remember

all countries matter

[dangerous-territory99]

I'm convinced that 2020 is one of the 14000604 scenarios Dr. Strange saw where we don't win.

[yassmines]

this is a petition to stop mark zuckerb*rg from trying to steal native hawaiian land to build his 11th mansion. eat the rich pls sign n share 🧡

Stop Mark Zuckerberg from colonizing Kauai | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

Stop Mark Zuckerberg from colonizing Kauai | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

[chaos-tea]

only 2 700 signatures out of 100 000

[yassmines]

if they get 100k in a month it will go directly to congress- rn its 7/8

[today-only-happens-once]

To the person reading this, I hope tonight treats you gently, and that tomorrow looks brighter. 

[panopticonmemes]

[weaver-z]

Wonka: You STOLE Fizzy Lifting Drinks!!

Hannibal, drifting around on the ceiling: And if you are wrong, Will?

[bigbosscangotohell]

this is 100% the funniest exchange in mgsv im livid 

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was drawing a bunch of pentagrams in my notebook during math class because I was bored and I think I drew 150 pentagrams in total before a devilish-looking guy wearing a red suit broke down the door of the classroom and yelled “wHAT the fUCK do you wANT?!”

[almost-always-eventually-right]

this username escapes me every single time

[zoozve]

i cant stop thinking about this post

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was drawing a bunch of pentagrams in my notebook during math class because I was bored and I think I drew 150 pentagrams in total before a devilish-looking guy wearing a red suit broke down the door of the classroom and yelled “wHAT the fUCK do you wANT?!”

[almost-always-eventually-right]

this username escapes me every single time

[zoozve]

i cant stop thinking about this post

[probablybadrpgideas]

Instead of having the DM decide what you need to roll for to do something, the player gets to choose any of there skills to roll on. The dm then sets a DC based on the relevance of the skill to the situation.

[flowerthornsart]

on twitter theres a”nobodyartistclub” hashtag going on and people going “oh!! but numbers dont equal the value of your art!!” and i agree with that! but also its super fucking disheartening to work on an art piece only for it it go completely ignored let people share their art and express frustration in the algorithm

[gnarly]

a dress that looks blue and black to some people and to others gold and white this must be the work of

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

what the hell is a parents fairy god?

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

where is my manic pixie dream boy

[firewalkwithmedvd]

he's here (:

[emeraldfoxface]

Thank fuck I honestly have no idea what this is

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

you will