I see your canal, and raise you a water bridge

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• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thankfully that waterway has a bridge so it doesn’t have to get wet crossing the river!

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• batmaniam@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here’s a fun fact action lab pointed out: setting aside wind, etc, the load the bridge has to be designed for is only the water that fills it.

  That bridge will have the same force on it from a tanker or a kyaker.

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  • clockworkrat@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because boats and ships displace the heavier water?

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    • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Boat displacement is the amount of water the boat displaces while floating. It is equal to boat weight.

      So, if you put a 100 ton boat in enclosed bowl, you will of course get 100 tons more on a scale. However, if you do the same with a large surface body of water (river, lake, ocean), the water will be displaced equally over a large surface area, thus distributing the weight. You still get 100 tons more, but less over the are “under” the boat.

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Drinking water vs. animal/human effluent/carcass water?

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• hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In the documentary Canal Boat Diaries the dude goes over several of these, each time i was like phhhrrrrfuckwhat

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• abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I see your Waterbridge and I raise you this 200 year old Waterbridge.

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s some Water 7 type boat highway.

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• Pudutr0n@feddit.cl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  gamechanger

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• JetpackJackson@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yo dawg I heard you like water bridges… Etc

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wanna see two boats cross this at the same time.

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• iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I ii
  II L

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• SARGE@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bridge under the river Kwai?

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• then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aquaduct

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