New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie
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#2I was working outside yesterday afternoon and this humming was driving me insane. I thought it was some instrument at a monastery nearby.
I can’t believe it’s the bridge.
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#3I’m curious if there can be an impact on the wildlife out here. Animals don’t understand what the noise is, so can it disorient them in some way that could have a harmful effect?
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#4Worse mistakes have been made
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)
Pretty sure every bridge engineer knows that one. Amusing that the lesson didn't generalize.
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#5Oops. How did they not notice the noise while installing it?
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#6Wonder how this will affect housing prices? That is if it's there to stay...
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#7Oops. How did they not notice the noise while installing it?
the people who designed it were probably nowhere near the people who installed it
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#8This sounds so beautiful and desolate, reminding me of a combination of the first two tracks from Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol 2, disc 2, in particular "Blue Calx" and "Parallel Stripes" starting from 40 seconds. [0]
Thank you for sharing.
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#9Sounds like the song from Devs.
Re: New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie
#10Worse mistakes have been made https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940) Pretty sure every bridge engineer knows that one. Amusing that the lesson didn't generalize.
Every engineer, not just the ones building bridges. I was required to take an Engineering Ethics course that covered Tacoma Narrows as well as other incidents, such as the famous Hyatt Regency walkway.