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Spoken like someone who didn't read the comment properly, or at all. Building a big red bridge quickly isn't that much of a testament to the ability of people
by notahacker 4y ago
Spoken like someone who didn't read the comment properly, or at all.
Building a big red bridge quickly isn't that much of a testament to the ability of people in the 30s to get stuff done if people in the 30s also spent their entire childhood drinking dirty well water because in many parts of the US people hadn't got around to implementing the ancient technology of piped water
Not going to lie, I'd pick the society where taps are standard but a bridge might take a long time to build over the one where the bridge building progresses more quickly but you'll be waiting 15 years to get a tap and need to boil what comes out of it.
- thrown_22 4y agoThere's a difference between flowing piped water, which is a technology as old as Rome, and static piped water, something that was figured out only in the 20th century.
- notahacker 4y agoWater towers and pumping were not twentieth century technologies (and nor were water closet toilets and sewerage). London had steam-pumped water supply two-hundred years earlier, and those pesky regulators forced every multi-storey building in NYC to have them during the 19th century. Piped water wasn't the future in the 1930s, it was just unevenly distributed.