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I Didn’t Have Eggs

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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well, when you find evidence of the the romans building aquaducts by throwing mud randomly. You let me know.

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Piling rocks in the shape of bridges, then copying the designs of the bridges that survived the best with minor iterations. Some iterations made worse bridges; these weren't copied, but the rest survived and led to better bridges.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

The romans didnt randomly piled rocks and built bridges. They put in a lot of engineer forthought before even beginning construction. Certainly some were primed to fail because of miscalculations and misunderstandings (something that plagues even modern engineering).