WalleyeWarrior comments on days of future past

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[–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 21 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Not really. Most of these old canals were only a couple yards/meters wide and dried up 100 years ago.

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

But are they only 3 feet deep? /s

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[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

not enough attention is being paid to the drunken stumble into the canal that drowned someone! /s

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

Ahh that sucks, we have quite a few of ours still

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[–] SparroHawc@piefed.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

If they're only a couple meters wide, how the heck are they supposed to fit watercraft?

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[–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 8 points 5 months ago

The barges were just a little less than a few meters wide. The manpower to build a 100km long canal that is 2.5-3 meters wide is substantially less than what it takes to dig one 8 meters wide in the era before steam shovels.

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