this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
765 points (98.2% liked)

Science Memes

10905 readers
1776 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
765
the internet (mander.xyz)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
51 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Oh, you bright and wonderful soul, untarnished by the knowledge of the depths of Musk’s stupidity, I envy you. I envy you and will destroy your blissful ignorance: he suggested reusing the collapsed truss steel.

You know, steel! The material that deals fantastically with being bent and twisted and doesn’t lose any strength at all from it! 😬

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

FFS that's dumb, that steel can't be reused without being reforged (or whatever the term is)

That broken bridge needs removed (hopefully recycled) and then a new one built in it's place

Hopefully it goes faster than the project to replace a bridge near me. It was built before WWI and it's still there, the talks have been going on for decades.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like a bridge near me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

There is a bridge near me that was rebuild so cars can cross like 30 years ago. They had plans to repaint it, because it looks weathered. They put on 3 different kinds of paint to see which one would look best. The 3 samples are already weathered and peeling by now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

and my axe i mean bridge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And let me guess; hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent on multiple studies figuring out whether or not the bridge should be replaced?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Funnily enough no

Everyone knows it needs replaced

No one wants to agree on what should replace it though

Basically 2 different jurisdictions want to replace the bridge and then either one will propose a plan that inevitably gets shot down and then it's back to the drawing board

So the money is being wasted there not on whether it should be replaced or not