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On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:17:39 -0700, John Ames wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 17:54:15 +0100 Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> > Funny you should cite bridge-building. As a friend once observed:
>> > 
>> > "The Romans made their architects stand under the arches they
>> > designed while the keystone was put in place and the supports
>> > removed.
>> > 
>> > The Romans built bridges that stayed the #&@! up."
>> 
>> AIUI, The reason Roman bridges stayed put, is that they massively over
>> specced. I don't think they really understood enough to make
>> appropriate structures for the required load.
> 
> That may well be so - but I'd be willing to bet that they *didn't* make
> a habit of *not checking where they'd put the end of the bridge* and
> trusting that it'd work itself out as long as they built extra.

I'm not sure how to parse the double negatives but it reminded me of a 
local project to build a railroad overpass over a new road. Short story -- 
the crew building the rail bed missed the bridge. It was only by a few 
feet but I'm sure it was quite a cat fight while they figured out who 
screwed up.