boeing747:

nothing in the world is mundane someone spent years of their life studying and thinking about culverts and building upon the countless work of others and our historical collected knowledge of fluid dynamics and construction materials just so that your shit doesn’t get flooded all the time and you dont even think about it! have you ever considered the culvert really? and its like. fucking everything is like this

One of the things that first got me into learning like, the structures underlying everything, was realizing one day as a kid that utility poles didn’t just grow that way, each one was put there, by people who decided to put it there in particular, for a reason