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How the Pantheon has stayed intact for almost 2,000 years: Study reveals how small chunks of lime gave Roman concrete 'self-healing' capabilities
Daily Mail UK ^
| January 6, 2023
| Xantha Leatham, Deputy Science Editor
Posted on 01/06/2023 10:19:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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01/07/2023 10:39:25 AM PST
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blam
To: wgmalabama
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01/07/2023 10:49:50 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: blam
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01/07/2023 11:26:39 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
As brilliant a piece of engineering as it is, it still bears proof to the old axiom,
"The best laid plans of mice and men, oft go astray." Something you might never have noticed if you've only seen it from ground level.
See the "chevron" on the wall above the roof of the portico (indicated by arrows)? That's where the designer intended the portico's roof to have come to.
So why doesn't it? Nobody knows. But the columns are mismatched, too, different diameters, different styles, and made from stone from different quarries. Which gives rise to speculation that the original columns never arrived so the builders had to make do with whatever they could scrounge. They were supposed to have been quarried in Egypt, and the majority of the shipping route to Rome would have been over water, and shipwrecks were a common occurrence. Maybe pirates. Maybe Egyptian bureaucracy, who knows?
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01/07/2023 12:12:06 PM PST
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Paal Gulli
(The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch and do nothing.)
To: SunkenCiv
And in case you were wondering, the answer is, “Yes.”
When it rains, the floor inside the Pantheon gets wet. The “oculus” is just like any other hole in a roof, only bigger.
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01/07/2023 12:18:48 PM PST
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Paal Gulli
(The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch and do nothing.)
To: 11th_VA
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01/07/2023 12:39:55 PM PST
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GOPJ
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
To: Hootowl99
I'd like to see supercharged lime clasts that can eliminate driveway cracking caused by poor base preparation before laying down the concrete slab. Good idea. Better for the short sighted would be coatings on existing 'cracked' driveways...
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01/07/2023 12:45:39 PM PST
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GOPJ
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
To: SunkenCiv
At its like time travel back to the Roman world. Amazing.
To: Paal Gulli
I’ve often wondered if the portico was either changed, or as it was the last thing constructed, there was a budget problem, maybe that whole part was available from another project, so they used that. Perhaps the portico survived from the original version, which was largely wood construction.
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01/07/2023 10:15:12 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: colorado tanker
The Roman world is not so far away from us. The last gasp of the Roman Empire was the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, in 1453 -- 39 years before Columbus sailed off with his famous three ships.
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01/07/2023 10:18:27 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
They didn’t use Union Labor.....................
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01/09/2023 5:31:32 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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