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I think the Pantheon is the most impressive architecture that our species have ever produced. I'd love to see it some day.
There is a lot of "you have to travel there" stuff that people annoy you with imo, but after visiting Rome the Pantheon really hits different live I have to admit.
I often roll my eyes when people talk about aliens traveling to earth to build impossible structures, but when it comes to the Pantheon... it actually does kinda seem like it was built by aliens.
Like... how?! How was the dome supported during construction and how is it still standing? Absolutely wild.
I don't know, but scaffolding isn't to mysterious. Sure it's complicated scaffolding, but looking at it as a spherical upside down boat isn't to outrageous.