TangledPoet2

Retired Ice Hockey Coach/player who loves to make things with his hands.

[TangledPoet2 @MarkWBryan]

@RCPolitics Go read one of your own books, David. I'd recommend "How to Know a Person".

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@davidfrum This is why Democrats get their butts handed to them. Sanctimonious bullshit. Take the grandiose spin off your egocentric yarn & use your platform to actually narrow the focus on the race, the candidates, and what they'll deliver to the constituency. Blah blah blah...

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@MakarTruther98 @AspenHeatdRival Lack of playoff hockey can shake you up, huh?

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@thathawksgirl @JDMorgan @nyknicks Suuuuuuuuupersonics fer’ sure.

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@thathawksgirl The thing is, that every now and then, you round a corner and there it is. A view similar to this one.

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@stacycay Completely agree.

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@vgkpetey Nope.

Eichel & Dorofeyev, sure.

Svechnikov & Slavin are paramount world class talents.

To me, it's the "second tier" talent that will decide this one. With Aho, Jarvis, Miller and Stankoven, there's a lot of hungry youth for Vegas to counter. Too much IMO.

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@XMartinsMusicX Roxy Music. The cover always kept me from reading ...

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@SDeansly @Avsfanjake They're young enough to accept losing. Just wait until that changes... The Ducks have more talent than the Sharks IMO.

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@Avsfanjake The Avs were very good, but overhyped. More disciplined than blessed with superior talent. The Knights have matching talent & found the will. That simple. NHL parity is real. Any given day...

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@thathawksgirl Let 'er rip.

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@thathawksgirl I received an envelope full of tickets for the remainder of the season, just in time to watch the "Refuse to Lose" Mariners save baseball in Seattle. I saw it all & became a legend to a few close friends. Epic time.

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@thathawksgirl In 1995, I was teaching ice hockey skills to a family from Texas who'd purchased Mariner's season tickets in the Kingdome, four seats just a few rows up from first base. The M's weren't going to make the post-season, and the family had vacation plans for Whistler... (1/2)

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@LucasSa56947288 "Hair Care for Men"

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

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@ryneschill Only natural that basement dwellers would pipe up.

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@burnsieoriginal 1983-84?

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@otokyo "Chiclet"

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@BillKristol @StevenCheung47 So true.

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@Canes These guys going to drop the gloves, or just dance?

Sheesh.