27 points by akyuu 22 hours ago | 4 comments
- Someone might have to take up the Mr. Floatie mantle - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mr-floatie-r...
- On a semi-related note... one of the more interesting things I've learned lately is why Venice, Italy was designed the way it is...
- If only there was a way that other people could benefit from your having learned it
- It's a google search away! apologies for not revealing the punchline. I thought it was interesting, since Gibraltar and Venice aren't far from each other on a worldwide scale.
....Sewage transport ironically was a large use case. Natural tides come in, fill the lagoon, flush it out.
The network of bridges and canals were also key infrastructure for transport of goods and people.