Two thousand year old Roman aqueduct discovered

The Telegraph ^ | 1/25/2008 | Nick Squires in Rome

[Right Wing Assault]

I like the diamond pattern.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I see, I SEE, three men upon an aquaduct singing...

Every body aught to have a maid!
Every body aught to have a working girl,
A serving girl, to putt her around the house!

[Wiggins]

Romans were so cool.

Your not kidding when you said they were so cool.

[chadwimc]

“...I have no idea how they were able to build the aqueducts without computers. The level had to be a gradual descent sometimes for hundreds of miles. Too steep or not steep enough and it would not work...”

They used a level and plumb bob. The Romans seemed to have perfected it. I'm pretty sure it was worked out before the Romans...

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks GeronL and colorado tanker for those lively pings, and thanks bruinbirdman for posting this topic. The Romans were great at cherry-picking good ideas, which means their main talent was in knowing what to pick. The people who built the machinery and architecture were considered pretty low class, and yet they made the Roman Empire possible. The Etruscans are generally considered the source for a lot of the quintessentially Roman stuff such as roadbuilding and aqueducts. The Roman Woodstock was held to celebrate the completion of an earlier hydraulic project, here's an interesting description, oh, try the Wayback Machine on this dead link: Those About To Die by Daniel P. Mannix [Chapter III] To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[Cacique]

The formula is still lost. To tis day we have no clue how they did. Some speculate it had to do with mixing in volcanic ash, which incidentally does make superior cement, but as far as to how thw Romans made cement, we have no clue.

[GeronL]

lol.

woohoo 2000 year old water!!

lol

[GeronL]

hey... it LOOKED like a sewer in the pic. heh

[GeronL]

You never saw that show What the Romans did for us on the BBC America?

[GeronL]

The angle of decline on the aquiduct if I remember was very tiny per mile

[jpsb]

"Other than the aqueducts, what did the Romans ever do for us?"

I know they say that no question is a stupid question but really from an adult? Dude Rome gave us EVERYTHING!

[packrat35]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto_(1571)

[Ramius]

Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace - shut up!
Reg: There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all.
Dissenter: Uh, well, one.
Reg: Oh, yeah, yeah, there’s one. But otherwise, we’re solid.

[winodog]

I thought they used a water level

[Frantzie]

I would love to see that. Some of the stuff they built is almost scary how well it held up. Thanks.

What is interesting is the knowledge that was probably lost from the fall of Rome. This is probably why the Medieval was so bridge was so crude.

[Frantzie]

“public order”

Yup - Obama is going to give us the reverse of public order. We may end up devolving into chaos.

The running & fresh water and sanitation were a huge thing.

The city-state could never have grown because without water/sanitation you would have had disease.

[tet68]

Shoes for the dead.

What chance does that returning deceased war veteran
have for the mule he’s been dreaming about?

[patton]

Well, there is that whole “Res Publica” thing. “That thing of the people.” We call it, the rule of law. Maybe a better tranlation would be “The Roman Constitution.”

Of course, we have abandoned it, for the rule of a demi-god - “What is legal for the god, is illegal for the people.”

See the complete set aside of the rule of law in the Chrysler bankruptcy, eg.

[BunnySlippers]

Go, Romans!

[C19fan]

After the Western Empire collapsed the West would not achieve what the Romans did in terms of water works and sanitation until the mid-19th century.