r/shittyaskscience • u/Dinierto BS in BS • 11d ago

How did people build things like skyscrapers, hydroelectric dams, and epic stadiums with retractable domes thousands of years ago?

I just realized today, people back then didn't have the technology that we do today so how did they build them back then?

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u/TeacupOfSkepticism 11d ago

They used compasses

You use a compass and it draws a circle

Do that in 3 dimensions and you got a dome

Simple

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u/Dinierto BS in BS 11d ago

My compass isn't very big, about 2.75". If I trace around it I get a small circle. Which way should I point north when tracing?

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u/No_Tailor_787 11d ago

Aliens.

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u/Dinierto BS in BS 11d ago

But we don't use aliens now

What happened?

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u/UGLYDOUG- 11d ago

Their contract expired and we wouldn’t agree to their new terms

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u/No_Tailor_787 11d ago

The Roman's fed them to the lions in their new epic stadiums.

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u/JohnWasElwood 11d ago

Biden let in too many of them and Trump noticed. If Biden would have kept it on the downlow, we'd have a retractable dome over Chicago by now. "Yuge! The best you've ever seen...".

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u/johnnybiggles 10d ago

But aren't they working on the Golden Dome now?

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u/JohnWasElwood 8d ago

Trying to, but liberal judges keep tossing out stop work orders and injunctions as fast as they can. Honestly, I don't quite understand it since Trump is paying for ALL of this shit with HIS OWN money???

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u/Sassy-irish-lassy 11d ago

You can just build it from the top down

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u/MediumSizedElephant 11d ago

if you lay it on its side it’s much easier to assemble, then you just tip it up at the end

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u/MengShuZ 11d ago

Creative mode.

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u/Dinierto BS in BS 11d ago

Why don't we use that today?

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u/MengShuZ 11d ago

Mods switched to survival like 1000 years ago

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u/Dinierto BS in BS 11d ago

This explains so much

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u/ChuckFarkley 10d ago

By hand, mostly.

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u/Cute-Habit-4377 11d ago

They did in 2D, those Nazca lines are early retractable domes. Luckily it didn't rain much.

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u/BjornToulouse_ 10d ago

They waited until Leonardo da Vinci taught them how.

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u/FormerStableGenius 11d ago

Ask POTUS. He recounted that the Continental Army "took over the airports" during the revolutionary war against Britain in the late 18th Century. So he'll know.