*puts on barbarian accent* Those crazy romans, killing themselves with uranium roof tiles and lead pipes. We barbarians just drink our water from that muddy people over there, and make our roofs out of straw so that they leak.
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*puts on barbarian accent* Those crazy romans, killing themselves with uranium roof tiles and lead pipes. We barbarians just drink our water from that muddy people over there, and make our roofs out of straw so that they leak.
ok this is off topic (again) but how do you mke that little icon thing on the edge something else istead of the british guy same question on the little message at the bottom of the screen the best i can get is...
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please help me A TRUE ROMAN SHOULD NOT BE REDUCED TO THIS :furious3:
Ah-hah! So the Roman Empire fell because the barabarians were at the gates with boomboxes and Iron Maiden records...Quote:
Originally Posted by Simetrical
No dah-a!
Hey, it got Noriega to surrender...Quote:
Originally Posted by Axeknight
lol RH!! Right, I remember that, how loony.
Lol, another funny theory....Quote:
Ah-hah! So the Roman Empire fell because the barabarians were at the gates with boomboxes and Iron Maiden records...
Well hey since the subject was brought up about music the Parthians would beat the drums before battle.
Bit let me throw some evilness into this subject ................... Hanson HMMMMM BOP.
This thread has been so derailed its so much fun.. lol.
Rails. Don't get me started.Quote:
Originally Posted by m4rt14n
Amazing that a Roman civilization which expended so much time and effort on shallow-crust uranium mining, transmuting radioactive ore into lead and exothermic road surfacing never discovered the simple expediency of propelling a cart along two strips of metal.
After all they had carts. And strips of metal.
Oh well, it's a shame the two didn't go together. They might have utilised their uranium, and used it power their little carts somehow.Quote:
After all they had carts. And strips of metal.
Actually, 20% of 80 is 16, so the army would travel at 96% of normal speed, and if you take into account the time needed to go off track to raid the settlements, heat up the hot chocolate, then let it cool to a drinkable temperature....Quote:
No, no, no... this is all the wrong way to think of the problem. Snow does not slow an army's travel rate.
The soldiery have to slog through mud and drifts, and the baggage train is especially affected by this, leading to a slowdown of about 20% in movement speed.
However, an army on the march in the ancient world would invariably launch raids on neighbouring villages, forcibly requisitioning their hot chocolate. The added energy from the chocolate's phenylethylamines allowed the army to march about 20% farther each day.
All in all, it's a wash.
BTW, this is a very silly thread.
Though, if they added caffiene to the hot chocolate, then they could probably go 25% faster, thus negating the effect of the snow.
This leads us to a new strategy: if one army is running from another in winter, and they use up all the hot chocolate reserves for a month when they pass through the villages, then the pursuing army would not be able to keep up, being without hot chocolate.
Unless, of course, the pursuing army sent light cavalry ahead to destroy or capture all the hot chocolate....or perhaps poison it...or something.
I suppose this is all academic, unfortunately. I really wanted some hot chocolate.
Crazed Rabbit
Yes, but then some roman alchemist would have put uranium hexaflouride through gas diffusion and accidentally ended the roman empire in a much bigger bang. (Barbarian: "hey those romans have decided to make their own clouds, its big, mushroom shaped, ... )Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeus Caesar
mfberg
That is true. But what if they had utilised nuclear power? They could have started making nuclear powered carts, and got their armies zooming about all over europe. Then they might have stood a chance of the empire standing forever!!! And once they had used up some of the uranium from one of their reactors, they could have put it in an onager and shot depleted uranium at those dastardly barbarians. Or sent in spies to make 'clouds' for the barbarians.