What I want to know is did the squids use the chalk roads or did the squids become the chalk roads.
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It is said that eons ago, a wise and benevolent squid elder named Ozymandias possessed the power to manipulate the very essence of chalk.
When the squid community faced a perilous migration across treacherous terrains, Ozymandias would emerge from the depths and lay down chalk roads, imbued with his magical ink, to guide his fellow squids safely to their destination. These chalk roads glowed with an ethereal blue light, illuminating the darkest depths of the ocean.
As time passed, the squids would harness the power of Ozymandias' magical ink to transform themselves temporarily into living chalk roads. By intertwining their arms and tentacles, they would create a network of living paths on the ocean floor, allowing other marine creatures to traverse great distances with ease.
And thus the squid was enlightened
It is said that if the squids are in great danger, the squid king can awaken the giant squid in the living chalk paths. This apocalyptic event is known as the bubbling.
~Bubbling. Bubbling. It's coming ~
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great story!
Yes.
Seems to me based on your username the squids didn't need roads at all
You gotta land sometime.
This is waaaaay to simple of a depiction of modern roads. Modern infrastructure is super complex, with roads going down meters with many different layers and components.
I would recommend the Practical Engineering YouTube channel to get some insight in how complex our modern infrastructure actually is. Things that seem so simple on the surface are often really complex.
Also: roads aren't designed for cars, they are designed for super heavy big vehicles carrying tons of materials. If the road can handle those, the cars don't really matter all that much.
Practical Engineering is a great channel for anyone even slightly curious about civil engineering! Grady does a great job at making infrastructure perfectly accessible
He's recently dived into electrical stuff as well. He's a great presenter and I always enjoy his demo setups.
Back when trader squids roamed the planet
I'm more of a bartering squid.
I long to end the age of capitsquidism and return to a ancephalo-communist way of living
Squids of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our ink!
I’d shop at a store named Trader Squids, that sounds awesome
The medieval cart track looks like a smoother ride than the turnpike road.
The medieval track probably turned into a long mud pit after any prolonged rain.
Yeah, I was more than a little bit surprised by just how unpleasant victorian roads would seem to feel. I knew it was bumpier, but that's all bumps and nobody cared? They just left it and went home?
Love it that they illustrated cars with a Jaguar XJ220!
It's a British display and Jaguar was a British company. It's owned by Ford now.
Ford sold it years ago, now it’s owned by an Indian company.
The Indians traded it away eons ago. It's now a Crimean non-profit.
I thought the same thing, interesting choice.
From our humble origins riding squids, to blasting down the highways in our Jaguar XJ220s - we've come a long way baby.
I had to look up this road, it goes right by Stonehenge in England. Absolutely wild.
I mean some road had to be near Stonehenge. Just like theres a nearest road to the Pyramids or the Eiffle Tower or the grand canyon.
Yeah I used to live in the area and the 303 has a local reputation for being absurdly busy at the roundabout near stonehenge, especially during the summer solstice.
Next step is going to be chalk again when the cephalopods join the orcas in spreading Poseidon’s wrath.
The turnpike road seems scarcely different from the bottom Roman road.
Roman road was likely better. They knew what they were doing and the quality of turnpikes were mixed at best.
What's above modern road? Silicon?
"Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads"
You think it's motivational and uplifting, but really we're just all going to scavenge in the ruins
Charred bones.
Metal rails
High tech Japanese superconducting MAGLEV trains (someday).
Most likely Chinese.
They're burying it, so... air, then the top of a tunnel.
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This is really cool! Which museum/where is something like this?
This is really cool! Which museum/where is something like this?
If you bring your own shovel it's a lot of roads over here in the UK
You can find your way home, on the 303
You can let somebody know, on the 303
Oh on the 303