The Construction Thread

[thør]

3-D Printing Spurs A Manufacturing Revolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_printing

Let's get that into the UBC.

 

[rosco rathbone]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/nyregion/08tunnel.html

 

[Saint Peter]

That sucks.

 

[rosco rathbone]

INteresting comment:

e New Jersey Hudson River tunnel project as it stands is badly misconceived. It was supposed to connect to Penn and eventually also to Grand Central. Instead, bureaucratic turf wars led to a project that dead ends way deeply under 34th street, requiring a long escalator journey to the surface and also requiring an expensive new terminal station in Manhattan. The project they designed cannot be used by Amtrak for current services or Metro North or Long Island Rail Road for services that might go through the city -- only by New Jersey Transit. And worst of all, the tunnel project costs much more than it would have to connect directly to Penn like it was supposed to. And it leaves Amtrak stuck with the current 100 year old tunnels without any backup.

Of course, there's a catch. There always is with this generation of Republican. Christie could have told the planners and the bureaucrats to go back to the drawing board and do it properly. Instead, he seems intent on using the money to bail out the state's highway funding -- an insanity considering how low the New Jersey gas tax is and how much room there is for raising it and still staying below the cost of neighboring states.

But please don't kid yourselves thinking that the NJ tunnel project is a genuinely good project. It is a horrible bureaucratic kludge, the sort of thing that exemplifies everything that's wrong with government today, a scheme driven by stupid turf wars between different agencies rather than a desire to serve the public.
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[Byron In Exile]

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[rosco rathbone]

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n307/byroninexile/hh/khufu1.jpg

And they did it all with the inclined plane, the lever, and other simple machines.

It's amazing what you can raise with some big levers and a lot of cribbing.

 

[islandman]

INteresting comment:

I don't know if he's a complete idiot or a prudent administrator. Either way, he's got balls.

 

[Byron In Exile]

And they did it all with the inclined plane, the lever, and other simple machines.

It's amazing what you can raise with some big levers and a lot of cribbing.

Honestly... how they did this is quite beyond my understanding.

Everyone's really, as they're still trying to figure it out.

 

[Byron In Exile]

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[Byron In Exile]

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[rosco rathbone]

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n307/byroninexile/hh/leg1.jpg

So those are details of different copes on the masonry?

 

[rosco rathbone]

I don't know if he's a complete idiot or a prudent administrator. Either way, he's got balls.

Kinda hatin' him right now, but what can you do.

 

[Byron In Exile]

So those are details of different copes on the masonry?

For the shafts that ran up from the two chambers to the outside.

The whole building was disrupted by them, as they ran up at almost a 45-degree angle. The force of so many two-ton stones on such an incline could have collapsed the chambers.

 

[Byron In Exile]

What is amazing is that, after 4,500 years, that collapse has not happened.

Except for some settling, which has caused some shifting in the shafts, the structure still holds firm.

That's some serious fucking engineering.

 

[Byron In Exile]

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[thør]

INteresting comment:

"Paul Krugman says Christie's move "was a destructive and incredibly foolish decision on multiple levels. But it shouldn't have been all that surprising. We are no longer the nation that used to amaze the world with its visionary projects. We have become, instead, a nation whose politicians seem to compete over who can show the least vision, the least concern about the future and the greatest willingness to pander to short-term, narrow-minded selfishness.""


One still has to pay to get the work done.

 

[thør]

And they did it all with the inclined plane, the lever, and other simple machines.

It's amazing what you can raise with some big levers, a lot of cribbing and cheap labor.

Fixed your post.....

 

[Byron In Exile]

One still has to pay to get the work done.

And who paid 4,500 years ago?

And with what?

 

[Byron In Exile]

Fixed your post.....

I don't think you did.

 

[Saint Peter]

And who paid 4,500 years ago?

And with what?

Those blocks did not move themselves.

 

[thør]

And who paid 4,500 years ago?

And with what?

You had to feed 'em.

And not kill 'em.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Those blocks did not move themselves.

That's certainly correct.

Why were they moved at all is the question.

 

[Byron In Exile]

You had to feed 'em.

And not kill 'em.

There was enough food.

Read some history.

 

[thør]

That's certainly correct.

Why were they moved at all is the question.

I won't lose any sleep over that.......

until the space ships come

 

[Byron In Exile]

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