As noted so many times previously, some Americans are so extremist as to want a bigger military and more wars.  Those same people have contempt for America.

Also noted are so many Americans who come home decades later, look at America, and ask why is infrastructure, even in so many third world nations, superior?

NYC is a perfect example.   Verrazano Narrows bridge was a last major construction - early 1960s.  Virtually everything else across the Hudson River was built before WWII - when the purpose of a company back then was its product.  When finance people were only a support function - made no decisions.  When moderates were making decision.  And naysaying extremist had little say.

NYC desperately needs two more transit tunnels.  The few that exist were built by the Pennsylvania RR almost 100 years ago.  How many are even old enough to remember the Pennsylvania RR - now called the Long Island RR - and other names.

An extremist (Gov Christie of NJ) killed it because it cost too much. Bean counter mentality in a right wing extremists (who also blamed teachers for being lazy). An anti-American (a cost controller) rationalizes that way.  And worse, is believed.

In the 1970s, NYC stopping repainting bridges because maintenance does not create profits - does not control costs.  That continued until 1988 when a major structural beam fell off the Williamsburg Bridge.  Business school mentality worships cost controls.  A major disaster was not on their watch - 15 years later.  So they were not guilty.  So many "we's" blamed age.  And not the people who are responsible for 85% of all problems (such as the Challenger explosion).

Bridges fall down only because the boss cannot be bothered to spend money on infrastructure.  These extremists get popular doing fiascos (that accomplished nothing) such as "Shock 'n Awe".  To attack a mythical Saddam - he was not anywhere there.

America is only a great power when it innovates. Business school graduates (ie Trump) stifle innovation to make profits.

Innovation means building things needed and new.  Doing things today that result in profits ten plus years later.   Such as container ship ports that automates unloading of containers immediately from ship to awaiting trains.  We do not even have that.   Instead we have trucks sitting and waiting for someone to finally provide a load.  And backed up (sometimes all day) on long toll booth lines to get in and out.  Due to a cost control mentality taught in business schools.  And endorsed by extremists who only understand popularity by performing bogus military fiascos solving problems with more guns.

That money wasted on Mission Accomplished (because so many believed emotions rather that facts) is why countries such as China are now building the industries and owning ports all over the world.  They use our money to pay for it.
 

Last edited by tw (1/30/2022 8:16 pm)

We spent so much money on bogus wars (ie Mission Accomplished) that we no long have (or will spend) money to make America great.  Extremist love big wars with "Shock and Awe" to waste money that should be spent on infrastructure, innovation, and schools.  Extremists  hate spending money on them.

That bridge (built in 1970) was simply in better shape than most other bridges in Pittsburgh.  Built before WWII.  Extremists hate spending money on anything that does not show up as a profit on this year's spread sheets.   Which also explains badly designed hardware in Space Shuttles, the 737 Max, an obvious boondoggle called Orion, Ares, and Constellation, and Flint water.

Why was the Tappan Zee bridge and Schuylkill Expressway reduced (undersized) when constructed.  Money shortages created by a Korean war.

Some wars must be fought.  But a nation, now more dominated by extremist rhetoric, create a US that is constantly at war where no war need exist.  Mission Accomplished and a resulting surrender to the Taliban in 2005 are but examples.
 

Last edited by tw (2/02/2022 10:23 am)

yikes

that looks like eleven kinds of bad

They were waiting for you to tell them how to do it.

TheNeverWas wrote:

They were waiting for you to tell them how to do it.

They never asked.
 

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Somebody did some science to build that crane.

There's a better pic of that scene that shows the crane more completely.

I'll look for ten seconds and see if I can find it.

Sorry for the overlarge image:



I'm pretty impressed by the structural integrity of the bendy part of that bus.  I would have thought it would bend in a vertical fashion if rigged that way.

Last edited by TheNeverWas (3/14/2022 3:37 pm)

♫ my fair lady ♫

TheNeverWas wrote:

I'm pretty impressed by the structural integrity of the bendy part of that bus. 

That hitch has specification numbers both for forces front to back.  And another spec for yaw and pitch.  It must be able to withstand all forces that might occur with all motion of the back half - from that back wheel up to the hitch.

Dynamic forces (ie when a bus is moving) would be greater than static forces in that picture.  But then one knows that when one learns how things work rather than posting only emotions.

 

TheNeverWas wrote:

  Are you saying that the force on ...
 

Please observe what is obvious before asking questions based only in emotions.

 

And that question wasn't based ON (not IN) emotion.

It was based on physics.

Which explains why you wouldn't answer it.