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Turns out he probably wasn't making Roman concrete (just a bad modern imitation) as recent discovery suggests a vital component of their mix was hot mixing/using quicklime - https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-casts-0106 - which results in self-healing/protective lumps which react to water ingress to protect the whole structure. In my understanding this is kind of like what he did in the initial (prep of ingredients) steps but actually during the mixing (which he did cold). Interestingly this results in a much less consistently mixed result -which had been written off as bad mixing.
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and "Titanic's original design called for 64 lifeboats. That number was later cut in half, then nearly halved again. The ship's owners felt that too many lifeboats would clutter the deck and obscure the First Class passengers' views." .. it wasn't the designers' faults.
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Unfortunately tech companies (etc) regularly patent things not because they are possible or because they are working on them but for other reasons (eg: to profit if someone works it out, to block others from developing things, as wild "just in case we need it in 30 years", etc). Just registering a patent means almost nothing about the future chance of things happening. Because the patent system is broken.
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