Re:We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019)
by inglor_cz on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:50AM
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"they couldn't run the numbers, so for safety margins, they just overengineered."
That was definitely the case in the Ancient World and may be the reason why some Roman buildings are still standing.
(Roman concrete was awesome, BTW. Rebar is a major source of eventual concrete failure and Romans did not use any. On the other hand, they used volcanic ash in their concrete. Some Roman concrete piers are still standing, 2000 years of waves beating on them made them harder!)
That was definitely the case in the Ancient World and may be the reason why some Roman buildings are still standing.
(Roman concrete was awesome, BTW. Rebar is a major source of eventual concrete failure and Romans did not use any. On the other hand, they used volcanic ash in their concrete. Some Roman concrete piers are still standing, 2000 years of waves beating on them made them harder!)