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Hexagonal queen

Cool thing about this is that it is almost a completely outdated idea in that it isn't really necessary anymore, but you can't easily move a whole city. It was originally because when those areas flooded and then receded it would leave far more fertile soil, the Nile is the most famous example. So when people started farming they needed to stay in one place and the place where all the fish and yearly refertilised soil and a body of water for irrigation are is really nice. Later trade was a lot harder over land so coastal cities near rivers were important trade hubs, so there were more jobs, so more migrants, so more people and bigger cities. Nowadays overland logistics networks are efficient enough that inland cities have a lot easier of a time existing. So that's cool.

Where we put Cities

Even without the brakes if the elevator fits the shaft snugly the air will cushion it as it falls.

Just discovered that I have to hunt vampires in Dwarf Fortress. He killed my axelord and I immediately go to the wiki because there is no way I can deal with a (literally) goddamned vampire. After the mandatory rabbit hole, I did manage to find out that this is a very common issue that I've somehow never experienced.

Anyway, I found the vampire (unfortunately they killed another dwarf and somehow no one saw despite being in a 5x10 burrow with the victim and murderer, and for whatever reason the vampire traumatized themselves) but I am keeping the rest of the suspects detained for investigation because now I'm paranoid.

I have become the first victim of calculator related accidents that my physics teacher has had in his fifteen year career.

Remember guys, murdering murderers is wrong except when the government says so.