Submitted 2 days ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to science_memes@mander.xyz
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What the FVCK is calculus?
Between the censoring of “fuck” the usage of “anw” and the font changing inexplicably for the word “calculus” the meme’s potential at humor was basically thrown in the garbage. If formatting and spelling makes you stumble that much you lose comedic timing.
TikTok and YouTube censorship is ruining internet culture and memes.
And how was your 50th, did the kids come out?
Modern engineer would built an aquaduct in kilometers, not miles 😅
Roman engineers most probably never heard about miles too.
millia pasuum, literally “1,000 paces,” was a common unit of measure in the empire, and the basis of various modern miles. It was slightly shorter than the modern statute mile.
Unless they’re american, then it’ll be built in freedom units.
Will be built in cheeseburgers and carrying stolen oil.
Hopefully it would have better logistics than Martian probe…
They can build it in kilometers all they want. Plenty of people will still measure it in miles.
there’s a difference.
their engineering was amazing, but to compensate with lack of modern maths, they build with a much larger margin of safety and strength.
that’s why some of those aqueducts last 2000 years.
no one wants to build infrastructure that lasts so long. we could build a bridge designed to last thousands of years, but it’ll cost way way more, and the budget isn’t unlimited.
And even if we could, Autocad crashed again so I can’t
just use msPaint, more reliable
I like the way someone described a similar retort:
Anyone can build a bridge that stays up and lasts a long time, but it takes a skilled engineer to build a bridge that just barely stays up a long time and minimizes costs and materials.
100% not a joke, that is the point.
Also our bridges are subjected to the insane forces of truck freight transportation. Who know how long they would last otherwise.
They were designed for that (usually), if you want a bridge to last multiple millenia you can design it for that. but it will probably add a couple zeroes at the end of the bill.
Romans had the ‘advantage’ of slave labour,
like musical instruments, bridges are meant to be stressed. gotta drive over em with trucks or they’ll shoot off into space
It’s also worth pointing out those structures aren’t subjected to a lot of freeze thaw cycles, not to mention almost no salt.
but it’ll cost way way more, and the budget isn’t unlimited.
I wish things weren’t always so short-sighted by default. I mean sometimes things evolve so maybe it’s better to leave room for teardown and improvement or whatnot.
But it seems if you’re not thinking in “quarterlies”, infrastructure that’s built once and simply maintained should cost a lot less in the long run.
But then I guess the contractors would dry up if they didn’t have to come rebuild it a dozen times a decade. :p
Yhea, it is better to build infrastructure that lasts, but 2000 years?
that is a bit overkill, and more of a vanity project for billionaires which is more of a cry for help (by help I mean guillotine)
Stop censoring mens, please?
I think we should just bad images with censored parts unless the censored part is the point.
Yeah, this is the internet, you can say bad words and fuck these US tech companies that want to stop everyone saying naughty words only because it makes them more money when we don’t
It’s an instant downvote for me.
It’s free engagement.
Calculus tells you how curves work. Aqueducts are famous for their ability to be topologically flat. The math checks out
Flat on top. They tend to be quite curvy underneath, on account of all the arches.
Well yeah. I said they were *topologically flat, not *bottomologically flat ;)
Their tools still used calculus, just indirectly and without their understanding.
Importantly, I replace dy/dx with ∆y/∆x when I need a really quick sanity check for simple calculations.
Water go downhill, what more do you need to know?
Yup, we’re stupid, but at least we have the metric system ¯_(ツ)_/¯
You dropped this: \
Back then you used to have to have a college degree to be able to multiply.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You can say “fuck” on the Internet 🙄
PugJesus@piefed.social 2 days ago
That’s fvcked up, man
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 days ago
Romans used the letter V to transcribe the sound U, then they chamged that later and now we have both V ans U
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I am referring to the picture.
Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 day ago
So where did the “v” sound come from?
Klear@quokk.au 2 days ago
You can, but Romans couldn’t.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well, now I don’t want to.
Tja@programming.dev 2 days ago
Well… fuck.