[Vision2020] A 1.6 million-pound megaload, huh?

[Kenneth Marcy]

On 5/20/2014 12:57 PM, Kenneth Marcy wrote:
>
> On 5/20/2014 12:25 PM, Saundra Lund wrote:
>>
>> What an asinine thing to say.  But, if we're going for the truly 
>> absurd, which both Scott and Gary seem to want, saying that a best 
>> case scenario for those objecting to the mega-loads would be a 
>> catastrophic bridge collapse is like saying that a best case scenario 
>> for those who worship at the 2A alter is for more school shootings so 
>> that one will eventually happen in a school where a 2Aer has a gun to 
>> "take out" the goblin and hence make the ideal 2"A trumps all" case.
>>
>
> Your use of the words goblin and catastrophic bridge collapse remind 
> me of a new book title -- Raising Steam -- which is the 40th volume in 
> Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of humorous fantasy 
> entertainments.  I borrowed the audio book version of this title from 
> the local library and used it to acclimatize myself to a new pair of 
> headphones -- wireless ones this time -- and was quite pleased with 
> the performance of the audio performer Stephen Briggs of Terry 
> Pratchett's text.
>
> The relevance of this material to the matter at hand is merely to note 
> that, unlike in Discworld, when it seems necessary to move very heavy 
> loads across bridges that may be either non-existent or not designed 
> for such heavy loads, additional calculations and engineering are 
> strongly advised.  In this world, unlike in Discworld, solutions 
> involving the surreptitious use of magical municipal assets are not 
> available.  Getting and applying the knowledge of the sliding rule, as 
> one of the book's characters would suggest, is a prerequisite for 
> becoming a master engineer and successfully solving such problems.

Yes, I am replying to myself in order to transmit some interesting 
information from bridgehunter.com that includes results from a bridge 
inspection in August, 2012:

http://bridgehunter.com/id/bonner/30120/


Ken

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