Street View Coolness
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=pompeii,+italy+ruins&sll=40.716428,14.537315&sspn=0.061672,0.132351&ie=UTF8&hq=pompeii,+italy+ruins&hnear=&ll=40.748902,14.484834&spn=0,359.991728&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.748902,14.484834&panoid=1e-bu_kis-dL1BnVGZhDdw&cbp=12,209.48,,0,7.63
This is pretty sweet. Very cool just to cruise around and check it out, but also use it as reference and possibly even texture samples.
This is pretty sweet. Very cool just to cruise around and check it out, but also use it as reference and possibly even texture samples.
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This is awesome though!
Yeah, Pompeii was wiped out from a pyroclastic nightmare of an explosion.
Pyroclastic - hot gas and rock, which travel away from the volcano at speeds generally as great as 450 mi/h. The gas can reach temperatures of about 1,830 °F. The flows normally hug the ground and travel downhill, or spread laterally under gravity.
That's the scariest thing I've read in a long time.
what the fuck.
http://www.balkantravellers.com/images/stories/peak_season/ephesus/toilet.jpg
And these everywhere.
http://images.travelpod.com/users/couchonbp/2.1192972380.a-mosaic-of-a-human-penis.jpg
Lol i remember them from when i visited Pompeii a few years back.
According to our guide, they pointed to brothels.
Another cool thing is that they used to put reflective semi precious stones in the roads as cats eyes.
What have the Romans ever done for us?
All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?