It'd be neat to integrate ChatGPT into a "bridge builder simulator" type game, and have it generate post-mortem news reports like this one for the bridge failures.
‘Significant overload’ caused Norway’s timber bridge collapse
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#22I frequently cross the Golden Gate bridge. This is my nightmare. Can you imagine plunging to your doom if that bridge failed? Yikes!
Suggested viewing: Final Destination 5
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#23> head of the Centre for Wood Science ..., identified steel truss issues as a possible factor. You don't say...
Wood community vs the steel folks. Worse than emacs vs vim
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to enjoy a game called game developer simulator and I do wonder if modern day software development coukd start there instead of with a committee of diluted opinions tied to a budget irrelevant to the budget of software developer beyond a career or two In a sense star citizen may be the best managed game of all time Sometimes I wonder how experts in a technical field play a mobile bridge building game with toy…
So many assumptions you're almost as bad as I am!
did you edit the post i replied to so that people can't read what you wrote but are still defending your ego replying to me?
for all the latecomers photogrant made a comment which was the first paragraph of my above comment except he played a bridge design simulator game and wondered why bridge design engineers werent using it to brainstorm solutions.
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#26I think a fairly good argument can be made that the design of this bridge was novel to the point of being negligent as per https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSPI0xkTifI
Damn, this is a really high quality, high effort video, with a lot of nice pictures. Thanks for posting.
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#27I frequently cross the Golden Gate bridge. This is my nightmare. Can you imagine plunging to your doom if that bridge failed? Yikes!
My intuition is that the huge iconic ones in globally significant metro areas probably receive closest to an adequate amount of attention and maintenance.
I'm much more worried about like, a random 40 foot bridge outside of the second largest suburb of the third largest city in a southern state or whatever. A short fall into icy water or just getting bonked by a piece of the falling bridge at the bottom is less dramatic but you'd be just as dead. And I'm pretty sure those bridges haven't seen an attentive engineer since whenever they were finished.
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So many assumptions you're almost as bad as I am!
did you edit the post i replied to so that people can't read what you wrote but are still defending your ego replying to me? for all the latecomers photogrant made a comment which was the first paragraph of my above comment except he played a bridge design simulator game and wondered why bridge design engineers werent using it to brainstorm solutions.
> did you edit the post i replied to so that people can't read what you wrote but are still defending your ego replying to me?
I've found that it's worth quoting people you talk with on this forum
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There are a number of bridges where I live that cannot handle a truck with trailer. They have large signs warning what the maximum load is. They are mostly on rarely used roads in farm country (as in a handful of cars per week cross), so a truck with lime is one of the more likely potential loads, but of course the local farmers know that bridge can't handle the weight of a truck and plan their deliveries to take a d…
Here that doesn't seem to be the case. If you look at the western approach to the bridge in StreetView (which is from 2019, the eastern part has imagery after the collapse), there is no weight limitation sign to be seen. As such, you would expect the bridge to be able to carry the load in the worst case scenario of both lanes being filled to capacity with heavy vehicles, so failing because of one single truck and one…
Reaction: +1...but there is still an "on any public road or bridge" weight limit for trucks, buried somewhere in Norway's regulations for trucking & highways.
The stereotype would be that the law-abiding Norwegian truckers are always careful to keep their trucks below the legal weight limits...but stereotypes aren't always true.