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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Ken writes:<br>> Yes, I am replying to myself in order to transmit some interesting
information<br>> from bridgehunter.com that includes results from a
bridge inspection in August, 2012:<br>
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<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bridgehunter.com/id/bonner/30120/" target="_blank">> http://bridgehunter.com/id/bonner/30120/</a> <br>
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If megaloads are planned to cross this bridge, expect a lot of bellyaching from Tom and others. If it's just people driving their cars over it who are risk of death and injury, expect no one to care. You need to keep in mind that the megaload movements need to be blocked because their payload is intended for water purification. That's the real outrage.<br><br>-Scott<br><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 15:02:47 -0700<br>From: kmmos1@frontier.com<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A 1.6 million-pound megaload, huh?<br><br>
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<div class="ecxmoz-cite-prefix">On 5/20/2014 12:57 PM, Kenneth Marcy
wrote:<br>
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<div class="ecxmoz-cite-prefix">On 5/20/2014 12:25 PM, Saundra Lund
wrote:<br>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span 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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Yes, I am replying to myself in order to transmit some interesting
information from bridgehunter.com that includes results from a
bridge inspection in August, 2012:<br>
<br>
<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bridgehunter.com/id/bonner/30120/" target="_blank">http://bridgehunter.com/id/bonner/30120/</a> <br>
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Ken<br>
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