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2008-05-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Mike 2008-05-23 09:49|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 It's for sale. Call me for details.

Posted by tu3031 2008-05-23 10:54|| 2008-05-23 10:54|| Front Page Top

#2 tu, I thought the UN had bought it.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-05-23 13:21|| 2008-05-23 13:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah. So?

Posted by tu3031 2008-05-23 13:44|| 2008-05-23 13:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Roebling designed a bridge and truss system that was six times as strong as he thought it needed to be. Because of this, the Brooklyn Bridge is still standing when many of the bridges built around the same time have vanished into history and been replaced.

Unfortunately, Mr. Roebling was not available for to manage the construction of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis which lasted only 40 years.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-05-23 13:51|| 2008-05-23 13:51|| Front Page Top

#5 "At the time the bridge was built, the aerodynamics of bridge building had not been worked out."

Since that time however, McDonnell-Douglas proved that unaerodynamic objects COULD fly; witnesss the F-4 Phantom....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-05-23 15:15|| 2008-05-23 15:15|| Front Page Top

#6 I have walked across it a few times. There is a large boardwalk, raised above traffic. I have pics of the bridge, taken from the WTC.

Trivia: only the Manhattan end is built on bedrock. Caissons Disease (Bends) was first noted during construction in the pressurized below the waterline pods (caissons).

Posted by McZoid 2008-05-23 20:08|| 2008-05-23 20:08|| Front Page Top

#7 true, McZoids, Caissons was first "discovered" there.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-05-23 20:26|| 2008-05-23 20:26|| Front Page Top

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