why remove that? it doesn't affect the new bridge in any way, except maybe making access easier
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There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution that works.
I once learned that Norwegians have a word for that. It's something like permasorium (provisorium being a temporary solution) and I try to introduce it into German because German does not have a word for it.
Try to remember this everytime I bastardize something. Will always see it 4 months later and be like "heh"
Every game engine older than two console generations in existence.
The primordial code from the Quake engine in pretty much ever 3d game giggles at the passage of time
I've been to this bridge. It's the Devil's Bridge in Wales.
Here's another angle, ripped from Wikipedia:
The river underneath is insanely deep. Pictures do not do it justice just how much further it goes out of the bottom of this frame. You do not get out of there. That is death.
The bottom-most bridge was built around the 12th century. How the hell they managed to build stuff like this way back then staggers me.
The river underneath is insanely deep.
That's when you just say frick it and caulk the wagon.
If you're trying to get from Missouri to Oregon and you end up in Wales then you've got bigger problems.
Somewhere Christopher Columbus^*^ shifted uncomfortably in his seat
^*^Obligatory frick Christopher Columbus
The bottom-most bridge was built around the 12th century. How the hell they managed to build stuff like this way back then staggers me.
I find it hard to relate with this sentence. That's just 3 bridges on the top of what seems like a natural rock formation, right? With 2 being arches and the top one being a modern-ish structure.
No matter how deep it is, it's narrow enough to just move a prebuild wooden foot bridge used for people to go around constructing the thing.
90m, that is deep.
Duh, the Devil helpedz it's in the name.
You may joke, but that's actually part of the legend of the bridge!
The legend goes that a woman saw her cow grazing on the opposite side of the river.
To get it back, the devil offered to build a bridge in exchange for a living soul.
The woman threw a piece of bread across the new bridge and her dog went to eat it. The devil got the dog's soul 👍
Poor dog
While we're talking about Devil's Bridges, Hamburg has one, too: It was built to make crossing the devil's ford easier, so called because there were so many accidents there people couldn't explain it otherwise. A carpenter was contracted, who is said to have made a pact with the devil, that the bridge may stay, at the price of the soul of the first living thing to cross the bridge. On inauguration day, then, the local reverend blessed the bridge and set off to cross it, when out of the bushes a rabbit appeared and sprinted across the bridge. A statute memorialises the occasion:
...the less exciting explanation is that back when Holstein was still under Danish rule there were two bridges close together, and the double bridge then turned into the devil's one. dövelt -> Düvel in Low Saxon makes a lot of sense but is boring.
They really should continue the tradition by building a fourth bridge over the current one when the time comes.
That's why they stopped at three. The fourth bridge always takes forever to paint.
This deserves many more upvotes than you've had. I guess most people here just don't get the reference.
They really needed to pass that river.
Clearly a cousin of The Strid. Except the Strid is usually full to the brim and you can't see the literal death walls that lie beneath the surface.
Tom Scott made a video about it during his many adventures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8
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What are some good real life examples of this? The closest I can think of is that MSI Afterburner is being maintained by one guy in Russia.
looks like they took a bridge too far...😎
Ah yes the ever elusive "tech debt"
Bridge over troubled bridges
We should go back to building things with rocks
My house is made of limestone and is only a few years old…
Your entire house is made out of limestone? Or you have limestone veneer
Limestone (thick bastard haha) but the inside is still stud walls, plaster board, etc. Quarry is nearby so it was practically a steal.
Tbh I don't think my code could last several hundred years.
I wanna put some plywood walls up and live in it like a troll
Just don't look down, it's awfully deep
Laughs in hang glider
If it's not broke...
…marry it!
That bridge looks pretty stout.
Don't worry, if the bridge breaks there are two backup bridges conveniently located close by!
Surely the devil has something to say about all of this?
Due to lack of participation, I’m pretty sure he’s in Georgia dealing with a musical competition at the moment.
I see what you did there.
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