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Old 08-03-07, 08:08 AM
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Minneapolis bridge tragedy


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Originally Posted by richw View Post
I have a new engineering based crack pot theory....

what if due to the construction bumper to bumper on side of the bridge all stomped their brakes. The otherside could add to it if they were accelerating simultaneously. This would put a feirce horizontal load on a structure designed for weight loading :nuts:

green house gases
endangered species
Greenland Ice thickness

Seems like it might work trick is to have a everyone in the same car to provide the same load and acceleration force to the bridge and the same time.

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