/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.11969550]

How the hell are Romans still kicking our ass at making concrete 1800 years later?

[Anonymous No.11969577]

>>11969550
they had special rocks that aren't common outside certain regions of Italy

[Anonymous No.11969801]

Romans is actually an abbreviation for Road-mans

[Anonymous No.11969811]

>>11969550
Selection bias. All the ancient Roman structures you see now are the ones that miraculously didn't collapse on itself.

[Anonymous No.11969866]

>>11969550
There are couple of reasons:

1. They used expensive materials. Concrete that we use us made to be as cheap as possible to maximize profit, romans used good quality stone. Not onlu that, but they also built a good fountation for it, we don't.

2. Building roads was expected to take time so they could do it right. Now they're pretty much expected to shit out a road overnight and the result is what you'd expect.

3. Their roads didn't have to deal with trucks and shit. After a while of full on traffic with trucks and other big vehicles you can bet your ass they'd break too.

In short, we can make as good, and even better, roads than the romans. We choose not to because we're greedy bastards.

[Anonymous No.11969920]

>>11969866
Who makes/made the best modern roads? As an American i'm generally embarrassed by most roads. Except maybe Utahs.

[Anonymous No.11969955]

>>11969866
If roads were expected to be made overnight, every paving business would be summarily executed. Instead these tax raping cock goblins see to maximize constructions and delays. In place of bullets weinerschleiden is copiously applied. Any who opposes untimely work obviously wouldn't be a good fit in the cocksucker brigade. This is the real qabal of the crony dick weasel and government contracts. It is a shadowy underworld, dark and long, long for tax payers far and wide. The fact that it comes well-lit and fluffed only adds insult to injury upon honest working men. I don't know what union you herald from, but you're propaganda is not welcome here.

[Anonymous No.11969966]

>>11969801
this

[Anonymous No.11970130]

>>11969550
the Romans built their buildings VERY heavy because they didn't have iron reinforced concrete (which lets you build your buildings lighter and taller, but rusts and decays faster)

[Anonymous No.11970507]

>>11969920
whats so great about Utah roads

[Anonymous No.11970527]

Can anyone name a single Roman road that has thousands of cars going over it daily
I don't understand this meme otherwise, it's such a retarded obvious answer unless there are Roman roads that are actually used daily

[Anonymous No.11970712]

>>11970527
the roman concrete meme is about their structures, not their roads

[Anonymous No.11971427]

>>11970507
They have high quality smooth roads.

[Anonymous No.11971447]

>>11970712
Every single time this topic has come up it's about roads, there have been multiple threads on this

[Anonymous No.11971457]

>>11970712
Armys and trade caravans marching vast distances was integral to the continuance and dominance of the greater Roman empire. So it makes sense they would build it to last.

[Anonymous No.11971459]

>>11971447
yes, because /sci/ are dipshits who are wrong
the Roman concrete that's so impressive is their structures, they have massive concrete buildings that survive to this day
>>11971457
yeah they had good roads too but that's not because of their concrete

[El Arcón No.11971561]

Romans were trying to make concrete that would last for a long time. Today we make concrete that's going to make another contract for some guys to go pour concrete again in 10-15 years.

[Anonymous No.11971572]

>>11971427
That take 30 years to complete. I swear they started fixing a road when I was 10 and by the time I graduated high school they still weren't done.

[Anonymous No.11971635]

>>11969920
The US makes shitty roads in part because they keep people employed that way.