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Pontoon bridges are just linear open-sided waterbeds.
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Source: xkcd.com/3097/
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Title text:
Pontoon bridges are just linear open-sided waterbeds.
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Source: xkcd.com/3097/
I needed this explanation for “L’Engle”:
References A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Characters cross great distances by “tessering”, moving via a tesseract through a higher dimension which essentially brings the two ends of the journey together from the perspective of the traveler. The image shows the two ends of the gap being brought together, with the gap apparently crumpled in between them.
It’s a very iconic scene in the book, it’s still indelibly written in my brain. I really recommend the book.
This brought back a flood of memories. I should reread it.
Someone’s been playing PolyBridge.
The elevator thing is actually real: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2g4u9F9i90
I recognized the structure in the thumbnail. I clicked the link just to make sure it was the Tom Scott video. Cheers dude.
So sad he stopped doing his regular videos. (Though I totally understand his reasoning.)
Wow, did not see that coming. That is cool as hell.
It’s almost disappointing when the absurdist punchline of an xkcd comic is an actual thing that exists in reality. But then again, it’s cool as hell.
“Budget overrun” is the cheapest way to build a bridge, the cable stayed bridge. (youtu.be/YSQhtlyfPtU)
Awesome video, I love me some real engineering!
This. Taiwan has a bunch of these because they can stand it up so quickly and cheaply. Plus it looks great!
You forgot the trivial case, of not building a bridge at all. Just go around the gap.
Missed opportunity for half hearted to be a half pipe!
As I started reading I was hoping there would be Planck bridge.
I like when draw bridges become temporary jump bridges
Guess we need to expand wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:bridge:structure
Really? Searching Bust Linux distro right now…
halfapage@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well done.