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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days ago

500 Years Later, Scientists Prove That Leonardo da Vinci’s Bridge Design Works

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500 Years Later, Scientists Prove That Leonardo da Vinci’s Bridge Design Works

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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days ago
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If accepted at the time, the design would have likely revolutionized architecture.
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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    Scientists? You mean Civil Engineers?

    • HowAbt2day@futurology.today
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      Doctors? You mean dentists?

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        Why no, not like that.

        More like “doctors? You mean bio-chem researches”.

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    To construct it they would have had to build a support structure nearly a thousand feet long, across a river, that could take the weight of a masonry arch bridge nearly a thousand feet long until the keystones could be put in. Not hard to imagine why it got rejected.

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      That was basically just the process of creating bridges back then, it’s not far off from how it works today…

      I don’t think that was an avoidable issue, you need to build temporary support structures while bridge building is in progress. In other words, if an extensive support structure is a deal breaker for you, it turns out you’re not building a bridge today.

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    A bridge that doesn’t get built doesn’t work, so.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      “You can’t cross 100% of the bridges you don’t build.”

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        I donno, pretty sure crossing 0 of 0 bridges is something I can manage.

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          There are infinite bridges you didn’t build, unless you already did build infinity in which case I retract my comment.

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            Why would there be infinite possible bridges for me to build? There are only so many places where I would reasonable want to build a bridge. I also have a finite life, totally possible bridges are further limited.

            Besides, 100% of the bridges I didn’t build is 0, infinity doesn’t even come into the equation.

            Good try tough. I’m sure 60% of the time it works every time!

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    “This article is more than 24 years old”

    Still an awesome article if you’ve never read it.

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      Am I missing something here? The article was posted in 2019

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        I’m an shit! I was trying to find the actual bridge that has since been built, based on the design. I found an article on The Guardian from 2001 (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/01/engineering.internationaleducationnews) , about the same work that was done. And I conflated the two because it’s a damn old article. Now, this one is from 6 years ago, which is still pretty old… but it’s a cool article

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          Oh that’s awesome that a version of it got built! Thanks for sharing

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    Ia this part of the 28 days later franxhise ? 500 years ago ? Was the bridge to contain zombies ?

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    The article: https://techxplore.com/news/2019-10-leonardo-da-vinci-bridge.html

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    I swear sometimes that da Vinci was a time traveler trolling the lot of us.

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