Historical Artifacts

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A collection of glass bottles found in Pompeii, each with double the volume capacity of the previous bottle, Roman Empire, 1st century AD (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by PugJesus to c/historyartifacts

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[–] ReginaPhalange 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Impossible. First thing you need to do is fill the biggest botle, but to do that you have to go to the store.
To get to the store you have to reach half the distance, and the reach half the distance remaining, and then....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But how fast was the glass traveling

[–] ReginaPhalange 3 points 1 month ago

As fast as the air velovelocity of an unladen swallow.

[–] General_Effort 3 points 1 month ago

Calm down, Xeno.