Good read, but should've been posted in a more fitting community.
ruk_n_rul
joined 2 years ago
Actually overenginnering is the thing with pre-modern structures, like the bottom bridge here. Survivorship bias played a role, where things they don't build to last, evidently don't last to this day, but mostly it's because they don't really understand the math behind all of it so they take the most conservative and the tried and tested rules of thumb when doing big structures. This is why big projects back then can take decades to complete.
In the modern day, we design specifically to balance durability and cost, and we are confident of our maths and understanding of material science to use the least amount that does the work for the design life that we choose.
They really should continue the tradition by building a fourth bridge over the current one when the time comes.
You've heard and known the single-issue voter. Now introducing the single-issue senator.
YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR!
Must be why cats bring their catches to their humans, to them we're just giant kitties in their colony who suck at hunting.
Pot and kettle
NASA peaked during the Apollo project, after which budget plummeted and never reach the 1% mark on the national budget again
The resemblance is uncanny!
Become a supporter in increasing the manga and p*rn collection now
Y'all's arguing about semantics, meanwhile USA becomes an absolute monarchy in the latest EO.
I'm feeling this with the full contents of my gut
0
5 hair-raising Asian horror flicks to spook you this Hungry Ghost Month
(www.freemalaysiatoday.com)
183 years ago, to the date
cross-posted from: https://monyet.cc/post/418238
Related to the Bunga Mas^1:
According to a Kedah source, the first time a bunga mas was sent, it was sent as a toy for a new-born Thai prince who was the grandson of Sultan of Kedah himself since his kin, a princess was married to the Thai king^1.
This then set the precedence of Malay Sultans being "required" one way or another to send Bunga Mas to Siam. The culmination of the meme is the Siamese invasion of Kedah in 1821^2 partly due to the Sultan ceasing sending bunga mas, making Kedah Sultanate, the progenitor of the practice, existn't for a time.
* This is a Malay expression meaning paying interests. The principal is the pokok (tree) and the interest is the bunga (blossoms).
Related to the Bunga Mas^1:
According to a Kedah source, the first time a bunga mas was sent, it was sent as a toy for a new-born Thai prince who was the grandson of Sultan of Kedah himself since his kin, a princess was married to the Thai king^1.
This then set the precedence of Malay Sultans being "required" one way or another to send Bunga Mas to Siam. The culmination of the meme is the Siamese invasion of Kedah in 1821^2 partly due to the Sultan ceasing sending bunga mas, making Kedah Sultanate, the progenitor of the practice, existn't for a time.
view more: next ›
Hello, Tom Scott...?