Scientists? You mean Civil Engineers?
Doctors? You mean dentists?
Why no, not like that.
More like “doctors? You mean bio-chem researches”.
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.
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.
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.
“This article is more than 24 years old”
Still an awesome article if you’ve never read it.
Am I missing something here? The article was posted in 2019
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
Oh that’s awesome that a version of it got built! Thanks for sharing
And the thesis is from 2019 too.
A bridge that doesn’t get built doesn’t work, so.
“You can’t cross 100% of the bridges you don’t build.”
I donno, pretty sure crossing 0 of 0 bridges is something I can manage.
There are infinite bridges you didn’t build, unless you already did build infinity in which case I retract my comment.
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!
3069: " hey look at that! The left leptomagnetic symbophone is just as Einstein said it would be! "
I swear sometimes that da Vinci was a time traveler trolling the lot of us.
Ia this part of the 28 days later franxhise ? 500 years ago ? Was the bridge to contain zombies ?
