@NickSzabo4 Pic courtesy Wikipedia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Map_of_canals_of_the_United_Kingdom.png … & h/t frojack on SoylentNews.
British canals mostly built 18th-19th cen: space-filling flow network akin to circulatory systems & highways/streets.pic.twitter.com/E9aEDaiCRR
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@NickSzabo4 Is SoylentNews a fan club for the "Soylent" nutrition product? -
@zooko The virtual kind -- http://soylentnews.org -- "SoylentNews is people"
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@NickSzabo4 Amazing! Thanks for the article about transportation and industrial revolution. Actually my first time saw the horse-drawn barge -
@yang140 Thanks & you're welcome!
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@NickSzabo4 lots of embedded energy in that system. unclear it could economically be created today, despite payoff of waterborne transport. -
@GregorMacdonald Too much environmental disruption & worker risk & long time scale for modern tastes. -
@NickSzabo4 Yes, big change since 19thC as society faces up to externalities. Creates tension: doing big stuff vs small footprint stuff.
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Yet you don't understand that bitcoin is a small world network ...
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Is a denditric network of Merkle trees possible or useful?
pic.twitter.com/7DfROgxivg
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The dendritic pattern shows an orderly pattern of division that facilitates movement and exchange.https://treeyopermacultureedu.wordpress.com/chapter-4-pattern-understanding/dendritic/ …
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BBC did a nice little documentary on this. Interesting how the British govt promoted private enterprise to build road and canal building between trade towns. France adopted using govt to build roads and then only to link military centers. https://youtu.be/UM2Aw4kmA0s skip to 48m 30s
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@NickSzabo4 Traveling in the canals is still probably faster than using the A1...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NickSzabo4 incredible history of these canals still working today. One must traverse these canals sometime in their life to experience it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NickSzabo4@strlen another instance of the Diffusion Limited Aggregation fractal!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Eventually, we will all agree that human collective is the creator of all things real. Nothing can be new, only realized to be connected.
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also somewhat 'regulated' by natural phenomenon (e.g. Snowdownia, Peak District, Pennines, Brecon Beacons), and awkward natives
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so Britain leaks
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Canal bridge brickwork, lock walls and wooden gates in the UK still bare the scars from the days of horse-drawn barges, the abrasiveness of the wet gritty towline could be quite destructive to anything it rubbed against.
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