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Pontoon bridges are just linear open-sided waterbeds.
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Source: xkcd.com/3097/
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xkcd #3097: Bridge Types
Submitted 10 months ago by xkcdbot@lemmy.world [bot] to xkcd@lemmy.world
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/bridge_types.png
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termaxima@programming.dev 9 months ago
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Really? Searching Bust Linux distro right now…
Gladaed@feddit.org 10 months ago
“Budget overrun” is the cheapest way to build a bridge, the cable stayed bridge. (youtu.be/YSQhtlyfPtU)
jaschen@lemm.ee 9 months ago
This. Taiwan has a bunch of these because they can stand it up so quickly and cheaply. Plus it looks great!
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Awesome video, I love me some real engineering!
Spzi@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This brought back a flood of memories. I should reread it.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s a very iconic scene in the book, it’s still indelibly written in my brain. I really recommend the book.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The elevator thing is actually real: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2g4u9F9i90
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I recognized the structure in the thumbnail. I clicked the link just to make sure it was the Tom Scott video. Cheers dude.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So sad he stopped doing his regular videos. (Though I totally understand his reasoning.)
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wow, did not see that coming. That is cool as hell.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Missed opportunity for half hearted to be a half pipe!
Klear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As I started reading I was hoping there would be Planck bridge.
slampisko@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I like when draw bridges become temporary jump bridges
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
You forgot the trivial case, of not building a bridge at all. Just go around the gap.
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Someone’s been playing PolyBridge.
Hupf@feddit.org 9 months ago
Guess we need to expand wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:bridge:structure