To: SunkenCiv
Follow up question: If not, why not?
3 posted on
04/14/2022 9:51:32 AM PDT by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: Yo-Yo
Most ancient people could have used a good scrubbin’, at least.
4 posted on
04/14/2022 9:53:14 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Yo-Yo
“Follow up question: If not, why not?”
Why follow up with a question already answered?
6 posted on
04/14/2022 9:55:57 AM PDT by
TexasGator
(UF)
To: Yo-Yo
Follow up question: If not, why not? Because the corn-dog and 32 oz cola to sell to the water-slide customers had not yet been invented
12 posted on
04/14/2022 10:07:54 AM PDT by
PGR88
To: Yo-Yo
"Follow up question: If not, why not?" Because the slopes are too shallow.
Aqua Virgo, which is still in operation and is what to this day is the source for the water in the Trevi Fountain, is 20.5 km in length and has a total drop of four meters. That means its average slope is 0.02%. As in 7/10ths of one inch of drop per 100 yards of viaduct. You wouldn't build up much of a head of steam on anything that shallow.
Which was part of the point. Fast-flowing water would have accelerated erosion. They built the aqueducts to last. Most of the rest were demolished for their stone but Aqua Virgo has lasted (with infrequent updates and repairs) for 2040 years.
What's that old saying, "They don't build 'em like that any more!"
To: Yo-Yo
Not enough slope to be any fun. They were more like a long linear lake than a high speed trough, very similar to the head portion of a water mill.
34 posted on
04/14/2022 3:47:58 PM PDT by
GingisK
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