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Engineers usually build aqueducts to move maximum water volume as efficiently as possible, but Cumbemayo does the exact opposite. The channel repeatedly narrows, drops, and twists through hard rock outcrops to deliberately slow the current and create distinct acoustic rhythms as the water moves. It leaves a curious overlap...

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West Bestern 🛡️22 days ago

How'd they make the water sound like a piano and stringed instrument? That's amazing!

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Adam Penn22 days ago

Annnnnd you put a fucking soundtrack over it 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🖕🖕

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Penny Fleamarket21 days ago

Bummer there’s music in place of the sound of flowing water.

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AlphaRomeoSierra22 days ago

wow it's amazing it sounds just like a piano

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Tony 🇺🇸22 days ago

I actually put my headphones in for this?

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🇮🇶☀️مرتزا X22 days ago

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Doug22 days ago

Maybe they were just dudes making a trench.

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TomSa, destroyer of chords 🦇🔊22 days ago

Super cool. Would've loved to hear what you described. I already know what a piano sounds like. Slop content.

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RooBait22 days ago

I wonder if the acoustics were actually planned to different keys for different sections? We could probably check that.

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Hello Chicken21 days ago

And strings!

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SomacoSF22 days ago

maybe it wa to feed specific food crop terraces with specific amount of water for wach thing?

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Scottie21 days ago

When you pinch the magnetosphere to ground you need a run off!

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mandyde21 days ago

Okay then shut the fucking music off

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Nivaren Dalen22 days ago

shocking how our ancestors were able to design piano water

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Iz22 days ago

I find it hard to believe that the original engineers had 'sound quality' as one of the design parameters. Awesome feat nevertheless and outstanding evidence of prior advanced tech.

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Mariana in her moated grange21 days ago

Ancient aqueducts were NOT generally built to move a lot of water quickly, but to provide a constant steady flow

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Zergotron21 days ago

Look, what you see now as a stone was once a muddy mass in which something was embedded—something that now appears as an empty channel with right angles in the stone mass. Time has destroyed this content, leaving only an empty space. Naturally, people who have no idea what might have been there will come up with hypotheses about the channels being carved out, but nature can facilitate construction in easier ways.

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lspreack22 days ago

I want to listen to that amazing @grok what are the facts about this aqueduct in Cumbemayo

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Thanh Phi | Masu21 days ago

Cumbemayo kỳ diệu ở chỗ dòng nước không chỉ được dẫn lối, mà dường như còn được người xưa trao cho tiếng nói.

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RPM4HIM21 days ago

Frequency & water are 2 of the puzzle pieces my friends. God bless

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