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Survivorship Bias The ones that are still standing were built really well. Each will have its own reason for standing so long.
by wsinks 5y ago
Survivorship Bias
The ones that are still standing were built really well. Each will have its own reason for standing so long.
- frosted-flakes 5y agoBut what are those reasons?
- dr-detroit 5y ago
- GuB-42 5y agoSure, but the fact that some monuments have held that well is impressive. It might have been a happy accident, it most likely was, but the valuable insight here is that we know that there is a recipe for concrete that lasts for thousands of years in real world conditions. We probably can do better today, we have a much better understanding of chemistry and computer simulations, but what we can't do is conduct a thousand year long experiment, and that's the Roman empire have done to us.