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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/20/2014 12:25 PM, Saundra Lund
wrote:<br>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">What
an asinine thing to say. But, if we’re going for the truly
absurd, which both Scott and Gary seem to want, saying that
a best case scenario for those objecting to the mega-loads
would be a catastrophic bridge collapse is like saying that
a best case scenario for those who worship at the 2A alter
is for more school shootings so that one will eventually
happen in a school where a 2Aer has a gun to “take out” the
goblin and hence make the ideal 2”A trumps all” case.</span></p>
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Your use of the words goblin and catastrophic bridge collapse remind
me of a new book title -- Raising Steam -- which is the 40th volume
in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of humorous fantasy
entertainments. I borrowed the audio book version of this title
from the local library and used it to acclimatize myself to a new
pair of headphones -- wireless ones this time -- and was quite
pleased with the performance of the audio performer Stephen Briggs
of Terry Pratchett's text.<br>
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The relevance of this material to the matter at hand is merely to
note that, unlike in Discworld, when it seems necessary to move very
heavy loads across bridges that may be either non-existent or not
designed for such heavy loads, additional calculations and
engineering are strongly advised. In this world, unlike in
Discworld, solutions involving the surreptitious use of magical
municipal assets are not available. Getting and applying the
knowledge of the sliding rule, as one of the book's characters would
suggest, is a prerequisite for becoming a master engineer and
successfully solving such problems.<br>
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Ken<br>
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