Building Bridges while ignoring physics..doesn't work

[LTS TRN 2]

Here's a rendering of the FIU pedestrian bridge as it was designed to look and function. Notice the graceful (and very important) cable suspension system.


And here it is today, having collapsed five days after it was installed in a pre-fab fashion and opened to the public. But look, those silly engineers had not installed the cable suspension system yet. That's right, they opened the bridge before the suspension support was installed.

[Dinsdale]

opened to the public.

What Fake Fucking News site did you read that on? That's the opposite of "true." It wasn't scheduled to open for another year. Pretty hard to install the cables before the span is up... dipshit.

But what few news sites are reporting -- it involved a bunch of AA (racist) contracting.

[Dr_Phibes]

Strangely think the cables are installed before the span :?

[LTS TRN 2]

Strangely think the cables are installed before the span :?

Makes sense, but there's all that morning traffic from Overtown to Hialeah, so they had to pre-fab and wing it.

Dins, in this case "open to the public" means whoever happens to be be driving underneath..

Roach, the Jews can only be tangentially connected by the (installed) Obama "TIGER" federal funding thang. It's not like Bibi facing actual jail time or anything, but hey, they'll start a war on less threat than that.

As for the actual hapless fucks whose heads will presently be rolling, the head guy seems to be a "towel-head," if that might appease or console the confused and terrified Trump supporters. :P

[Softball Bat]

Did the jews do it?

Jews don't swing hammers, sweat, or strain their backs.

They're off the hook on this one.


Some dumb grunt like Derron is responsible for this tragedy.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Don't worry...they were insured. Just in case of "accidents" such as this...

[Bucmonkey]

post with your "real" nic please...

[BSmack]

post with your "real" nic please...

Doesn't matter. He's doing a better job of promoting liberal ideas now than before.

[Screw_Michigan]

They're off the hook on this one.

I see what you did there

[smackaholic]

Latina project engineer?

What could possibly go wrong?

[smackaholic]

Strangely think the cables are installed before the span :?

Makes sense, but there's all that morning traffic from Overtown to Hialeah, so they had to pre-fab and wing it.

Dins, in this case "open to the public" means whoever happens to be be driving underneath..

Roach, the Jews can only be tangentially connected by the (installed) Obama "TIGER" federal funding thang. It's not like Bibi facing actual jail time or anything, but hey, they'll start a war on less threat than that.

As for the actual hapless fucks whose heads will presently be rolling, the head guy seems to be a "towel-head," if that might appease or console the confused and terrified Trump supporters. :P

Nice job by the resident board KYOA caller outer doing the same.

You install a section, hang a cable. Install a section, hang a cable. Etc..... You imply that they were supposed to install the entire thing, then hang cables, which to me, makes no sense.

[smackaholic]

Strangely think the cables are installed before the span :?

Makes sense, but there's all that morning traffic from Overtown to Hialeah, so they had to pre-fab and wing it.

Dins, in this case "open to the public" means whoever happens to be be driving underneath..

Roach, the Jews can only be tangentially connected by the (installed) Obama "TIGER" federal funding thang. It's not like Bibi facing actual jail time or anything, but hey, they'll start a war on less threat than that.

As for the actual hapless fucks whose heads will presently be rolling, the head guy seems to be a "towel-head," if that might appease or console the confused and terrified Trump supporters. :P

This is an entirely different type of suspension bridge. You have to hang a section prior to the cable, since the cable does not hang vertically. It hangs on a diagonal. It needs the section to attach to. I know a bridge engineer that has designed this type. He did the I-91/95 intersection. It uses this style bridge. He says it is the way of the future as it uses compression as well as tension. Makes for an extremely sturdy bridge......when done right.......usually by white men. :grin:

[Softball Bat]

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

People get out of their vehicles immediately after the collapse and approach the scene to possibly give assistance...not knowing whether this might have been a terrorist attack...

...I'd say that takes some courage.

[smackaholic]

We should be building walls, not bridges

That gets a rack.

[Goober McTuber]

We should be building walls, not bridges

That gets a rack.

From every mongoloid on the board.

[Goober McTuber]

So you're living in SoCal now, Stanley?

[smackaholic]

We should be building walls, not bridges

That gets a rack.

From every mongoloid on the board.

From anyone with the slightest bit of a sense of humor.

[BSmack]

Sometimes the best laid plans just don't work.

Sincerely,
Foghat