Cyph3rp9nk on Nostr: Very good question. Before answering I leave here this little text fragment about ...
Very good question.
Before answering I leave here this little text fragment about Roman cement.
“Roman cement, made primarily from volcanic ash (pozzolana) and lime, reacted with seawater to create tobermorite, a mineral that improves durability and allows for self-repair of cracks. In contrast, modern cement, usually Portland cement made from limestone and clay, does not naturally form tobermorite and is designed to be inert, lacking these self-repairing properties. Although modern cement can be improved with pozzolanic materials, standard formulations do not match the inherent durability of Roman cement.”
Why it is not used is a question inherent in our new way of life. The first incandescent light bulb still works and change in your house lasted just years, everything is built to be ethereal to last a short time, you want to pay little for products and what you get are perishable products, and you want to pay little because your purchasing power is detrimental with every passing second.
It's for the same reason that now you have shitty music like Taylor Swift and before you had Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach composed for god, an entity you can't fool, an all-seeing entity that will be there after your death, an entity that transcends your existence. Now who/what do musicians compose for? They don't even compose for the court or the king like Mozart, they compose to make money, worthless fake money to consume perishable goods and services without any kind of transcendental spirituality.
The same happens with architects, cathedrals were built for god, the Romans themselves built for their gods and the existence of the building should transcend human life itself. For whom do architects build or why do they build today?
Not everything is cost/benefit, if you want to transcend human existence you must move your goals away from the divine, if you want to go to the moon you have to consider going further, if you only consider climbing 100 meters you will never reach the moon.
With weak money that loses its value, saving is meaningless, and without saving you can not undertake divine works, there are many millionaires, but millionaires on paper, they really have no liquidity, and without liquidity you can not build cathedrals or ships that take you to Mars.
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Before answering I leave here this little text fragment about Roman cement.
“Roman cement, made primarily from volcanic ash (pozzolana) and lime, reacted with seawater to create tobermorite, a mineral that improves durability and allows for self-repair of cracks. In contrast, modern cement, usually Portland cement made from limestone and clay, does not naturally form tobermorite and is designed to be inert, lacking these self-repairing properties. Although modern cement can be improved with pozzolanic materials, standard formulations do not match the inherent durability of Roman cement.”
Why it is not used is a question inherent in our new way of life. The first incandescent light bulb still works and change in your house lasted just years, everything is built to be ethereal to last a short time, you want to pay little for products and what you get are perishable products, and you want to pay little because your purchasing power is detrimental with every passing second.
It's for the same reason that now you have shitty music like Taylor Swift and before you had Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach composed for god, an entity you can't fool, an all-seeing entity that will be there after your death, an entity that transcends your existence. Now who/what do musicians compose for? They don't even compose for the court or the king like Mozart, they compose to make money, worthless fake money to consume perishable goods and services without any kind of transcendental spirituality.
The same happens with architects, cathedrals were built for god, the Romans themselves built for their gods and the existence of the building should transcend human life itself. For whom do architects build or why do they build today?
Not everything is cost/benefit, if you want to transcend human existence you must move your goals away from the divine, if you want to go to the moon you have to consider going further, if you only consider climbing 100 meters you will never reach the moon.
With weak money that loses its value, saving is meaningless, and without saving you can not undertake divine works, there are many millionaires, but millionaires on paper, they really have no liquidity, and without liquidity you can not build cathedrals or ships that take you to Mars.
#Bitcoin
quoting nevent1q…0q8aSo why don’t we start making concrete like this again?