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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 12 hours ago

Ia this part of the 28 days later franxhise ? 500 years ago ? Was the bridge to contain zombies ?

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I swear sometimes that da Vinci was a time traveler trolling the lot of us.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A bridge that doesn't get built doesn't work, so.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"You can't cross 100% of the bridges you don't build."

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I donno, pretty sure crossing 0 of 0 bridges is something I can manage.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

There are infinite bridges you didn't build, unless you already did build infinity in which case I retract my comment.

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

Why would there be infinite possible bridges for me to build? There are only so many places where I would reasonable want to build a bridge. I also have a finite life, totally possible bridges are further limited.

Besides, 100% of the bridges I didn't build is 0, infinity doesn't even come into the equation.

Good try tough. I'm sure 60% of the time it works every time!

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

To construct it they would have had to build a support structure nearly a thousand feet long, across a river, that could take the weight of a masonry arch bridge nearly a thousand feet long until the keystones could be put in. Not hard to imagine why it got rejected.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That was basically just the process of creating bridges back then, it's not far off from how it works today...

I don't think that was an avoidable issue, you need to build temporary support structures while bridge building is in progress. In other words, if an extensive support structure is a deal breaker for you, it turns out you're not building a bridge today.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Sure, but think of the scale of what they would need and the technology they had. 1000 feet long and as tall as a ship, carrying a stone structure that would weigh probably hundreds or thousands of tons, across what I'd imagine was a pretty busy waterway.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Scientists? You mean Civil Engineers?

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doctors? You mean dentists?

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Why no, not like that.

More like "doctors? You mean bio-chem researches".

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“This article is more than 24 years old

Still an awesome article if you’ve never read it.

[–] Tithen@anarchist.nexus 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Am I missing something here? The article was posted in 2019

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m an shit! I was trying to find the actual bridge that has since been built, based on the design. I found an article on The Guardian from 2001 (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/01/engineering.internationaleducationnews) , about the same work that was done. And I conflated the two because it’s a damn old article. Now, this one is from 6 years ago, which is still pretty old… but it’s a cool article

[–] Tithen@anarchist.nexus 5 points 1 day ago

Oh that's awesome that a version of it got built! Thanks for sharing

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

And the thesis is from 2019 too.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

3069: " hey look at that! The left leptomagnetic symbophone is just as Einstein said it would be! "

[–] NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago