Re:Aqueduct of Constantinople: Managing longest water channe...
by hinkley on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @12:51PM
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Bridges are gold. Anyone who tells you they aren't lives by a stream, not a proper river.
In Bangledesh there are families who build living bridges that their children and grandchildren will be the first to use.
I've lived consecutively in two areas for which I thought, "they need more bridges here" and if you stop to think about it, impassable terrain informs just about everything you do. I don't think most flatlanders ever really internalize this.
I-5 in Seattle is in a really stupid spot for a modern city, stretching it out like a noodle. But where else were you going to put it? Water on both sides and hilly terrain everywhere in between. Parts of it - miles of it really - are built into a hillside because in some places there's nowhere else and in others there's a narrows where it can cross water.
In Bangledesh there are families who build living bridges that their children and grandchildren will be the first to use.
I've lived consecutively in two areas for which I thought, "they need more bridges here" and if you stop to think about it, impassable terrain informs just about everything you do. I don't think most flatlanders ever really internalize this.
I-5 in Seattle is in a really stupid spot for a modern city, stretching it out like a noodle. But where else were you going to put it? Water on both sides and hilly terrain everywhere in between. Parts of it - miles of it really - are built into a hillside because in some places there's nowhere else and in others there's a narrows where it can cross water.