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Proteus Jones posted:At 174 feet with no arching to transfer the load to the end points, I am in no way surprised it collapsed. Even with an arch I would expect a central pylon over that length. A cable-stayed bridge of this size is not "to look pretty". Those cables are an integral part of supporting a span like this. The tower should have been the first element erected, and then cabling attached as the span is moved into place for this type of bridge. I feel like I learned this from Bridge Constructor Portal.
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Apparently one of the crane operators was overheard saying that they accidentally dropped a "Big Blue Box" on the bridge, causing the collapse.
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Also it may be worse than just poor planning.Party Plane Jones posted:https://twitter.com/brownblaze/status/974369816046809088
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Zil posted:Also it may be worse than just poor planning. 
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haveblue posted:-------------8<----------------- Finalist, 2018 most annoying speech mannerisms
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Construction Firms Behind Collapsed FIU Bridge Faced Accusations of Unsafe Practicesquote:The FIU project isn't the first major bridge built by Figg to collapse in recent years. A Figg-assembled span in Virginia fell apart in June 2012 while under construction. Workers were installing a 90-ton concrete portion of the South Norfolk Jordan Bridge when it dropped 40 feet onto railroad tracks below, according to the Virginian-Pilot.
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Mar 15, 2018 22:05
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I just got sent this at work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3gdQm7pAMk
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chitoryu12 posted:I just got sent this at work. He wasn't getting burnt, that's an injection injury
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Wobbulated posted:Finalist, 2018 most annoying speech mannerisms ???
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Wobbulated posted:Finalist, 2018 most annoying speech mannerisms We're casually, just, you know..................living
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chitoryu12 posted:I just got sent this at work.
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Mar 15, 2018 22:20
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chitoryu12 posted:I just got sent this at work. "How many black electricians you know?"
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Mar 15, 2018 22:25
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Cthulu Carl posted:"How many black electricians you know?" Have comic books been lying to me all these years..?
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ExecuDork posted:Look up the TSR-2 and the XB-70 Valkyrie if you're interested. My mom worked in the film shack at North American way back in the day, so she has 8mm film of XB-70 Valkyrie test flights at her house. Not a lot, just a few minutes, but still super cool.
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Cthulu Carl posted:I feel like I learned this from Bridge Constructor Portal. Pontifex was what jumped into my mind
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Zil posted:Also it may be worse than just poor planning. Okay, but what country did the steel come from? I expect Trump will be telling us soon if it was Chinese steel.
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loving hell how hard would it have been to prop the bridge mid-span? It probably could have been done with minimal traffic disruption.
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Robo Captain posted:loving hell how hard would it have been to prop the bridge mid-span? It probably could have been done with minimal traffic disruption. Do you know how many tens of dollars that might have cost?
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Bacon Taco posted:My mom worked in the film shack at North American way back in the day, so she has 8mm film of XB-70 Valkyrie test flights at her house. Not a lot, just a few minutes, but still super cool. That is super cool! Any chance any of that is online somewhere?
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Mar 15, 2018 23:06
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Not even kidding when I say that the top 30% of people involved with this FiU bridge poo poo should be out right executed.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Not even kidding when I say that the top 30% of people should be out right executed.
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Has anyone seen a model of what this finished bridge was supposed to look like? Just seeing the proportions of it across the road, I don’t know how anyone could have felt comfortable on that jobsite putting that up and just letting it be.
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SpaceCadetBob posted:Has anyone seen a model of what this finished bridge was supposed to look like? Just seeing the proportions of it across the road, I don’t know how anyone could have felt comfortable on that jobsite putting that up and just letting it be. shame on an IGA posted:Looks like just spectacular incompetence at the intersection of design and construction: This was supposed to be a cable stayed bridge.
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oohhboy posted:The Concord has to use afterburners too. Super cruise just wasn't possible back then. The Concord fleet spent more time in supercruise than all other aircraft put together. It turns out that using afterburner to quickly reach cruising speed actually consumed less total fuel than doing it dry.
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Bacon Taco posted:My mom worked in the film shack at North American way back in the day, so she has 8mm film of XB-70 Valkyrie test flights at her house. Not a lot, just a few minutes, but still super cool. Oh poo poo, that's awesome! I went to see the surviving XB70 at the USAF National Museum, and it was an amazing aircraft.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Oh poo poo, that's awesome! I went to see the surviving XB70 at the USAF National Museum, and it was an amazing aircraft. I need to go back someday, my one trip to dayton was when all the secret squirrel stuff was still on base and I didn't have time to phone ahead for bus tickets
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Bacon Taco posted:My mom worked in the film shack at North American way back in the day, so she has 8mm film of XB-70 Valkyrie test flights at her house. Not a lot, just a few minutes, but still super cool. You need to get that poo poo scanned, stat.
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Mar 16, 2018 01:10
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Huh, I guess they don't always land on their feet
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Mar 16, 2018 08:56
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Where the next photo when they've poked it with a stick and it rolled down the hill into a river?
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Mar 16, 2018 09:20
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioC61QW7SHQ
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Huh, I guess they don't always land on their feet 
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Apparently one of the crane operators was overheard saying that they accidentally dropped a "Big Blue Box" on the bridge, causing the collapse. this is definitely what happened there's a video going around of the immediate aftermath, and you can see the crane at the collapsed end, hook still swinging they dropped it a good long ways from the looks of it too
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https://twitter.com/ShadenFM/status/974608801604292608
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Whelp I'm never going skiing again
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Just when you though it was safe to go back in the snow ... Killlift, coming to cinemas this summer.
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I was like "Why are they all falling off right there and not when closer to the ground?" Then I saw why when someone stayed on.
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Skis came off. Ded. Translation of the tweet: quote:In Georgia, at the ski resort of Gudauri, a lift broke down and people flew down at a tremendous speed
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Mar 16, 2018 15:29
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I'm actually kind of impressed with how many chairs could pile up without the lift jamming even a little.
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Jesus, that one person who stayed on at 47 seconds and just got loving whipped into the mass of broken chairs.chitoryu12 posted:I'm actually kind of impressed with how many chairs could pile up without the lift jamming even a little. It looked like it was running backwards, so that probably had something to do with it.
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