@SeanFennessey@BillSimmons listening to the Spielberg episode. Have we spent enough time considering the possibility that the Jets never beat the Colts in 1969 & it was all a Stanley Kubrick production? Doesn’t that make more sense than the Jets having a moment of triumph? 😂
🚨 Bryan Mbeumo on Manchester United’s return to the Champions League:
“You know… I’ve never played Champions League football before. Few days ago me and Matheus (Cunha) were talking about how both of us were completely locked in on joining United even before the moves happened because it was genuinely our dream club. And now look at us…we’re about to play Champions League football with United.
What makes it emotional for us is that we didn’t join when everything was already successful & comfortable. We joined when people were still doubting the club. We saw the vision. We saw the potential. We saw a club desperate to bring the glory back. And we said:
‘Yeah… we want to be part of that.’ That’s what makes this feeling special.
Because it’s one thing attaching yourself to success after everything is already built…it’s another thing helping rebuild the success yourself. That’s how you truly become attached to something forever.”
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.
Just wanted to highlight how ridiculous the 1st inning of Kerry Wood’s 20K masterpiece was:
- 100mph to the umps face to start the game
- What HoFer Craig Biggio called his most embarrassing swing of his career
- Strikes out NL batting leader Derek Bell on possibly the nastiest, definition of fall-off-the-table, curveball you’ve ever seen
- Strikes out HoFer and one of the greatest fastball hitters…on three fastballs.
-Just absolutely disgusting stuff
- Kerry Wood Forever
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@kickbackmorales@MavsFilmRoom Kyrie seems to genuinely love mentoring Coop and enjoys the love and respect the city and franchise have given him. I don’t think he will be quick to hit the ejection handle.
@BigLeagueDigest 1999 Texas Rangers batted .293 as a team, hit 230 HRs, and drove in 897 runs. Unfortunately, the pitching gave up just about the same. 😂
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