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It's really small in person and thus farts out
by buggythebug 4y ago
It's really small in person and thus farts out
- WilTimSon 4y agoIf size is the only thing that matters to you in a building or structure, I guess you'd admire the Burj Khalifa. Although, incidentally, that's also a bit of an engineering marvel. Perhaps start with something simpler, the Pentagon or something like that. Pretty large.
- mdp2021 4y agothe Burj Khalifa The Burj Khalifa _is_ a certain marvel. Most interesting I find the way they conceived the foundations as a clever and effective system of friction. I must recommend the documentary hosted by Richard Hammond for the "Big!" series (2020), episode Tallest Building On Earth. Probably in terms of occupied surface it is not that much, but some find it helpful when a construction (even "comparatively modest") is conveniently placed in an open air museum as big as a city.
- dboreham 4y agoJust in case readers are confused by this: it's not really small.
- buggythebug 4y agoit's a lot smaller in person than how big people think it is
- mdp2021 4y agoThere are plenty of other areas where size may actually matter, and Romans never complained.
- mdp2021 4y agoReplying here with the data about "the worth of its size": -- the very numbers reported here introductorily estimate a maximum of 80,000 capacity for the Colusseum, and -- a search for "size of stadiums" shows that the Wikipedia page starts listing from 40,000 - up to 100,000 to 132,000 for just a dozen constructions, and -- the Colosseum was built between 72 and 80 AD. This must give an idea of the actual worth of the endeavour.
- prox 4y agoAnd the top one in at that list is at 132,000. The Circus Maximus in Rome for Chariot racing could hold over 150,000! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_Maximus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_Maximus
- bombcar 4y agoIt's also really run down, you'd think they could afford to fix it up a bit!