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This old (1968) bridge structure in the Port of Long Beach (on right) started coming down today. The new one, immediately overhead, is built to accommodate taller ships, deeper shipping channels, & sea level rise. Inestimable tons of concrete, chasing industrial sublime
Cement buttresses and pylons against blue sky, road in foreground
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The arch used to span and connect the lower roadway but this is it severed and being lowered onto a waiting barge. Idk where it goes next. Reclaiming all the steel? Those towers on the right handle cement ingredients. And the scale of all this is… large
Water in foreground and two bridge structures, one being dismantled, as described
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Reminds me of how Seattle’s Alaskan way viaduct came down in pieces over a few years and they drilled a tunnel to replace it that had the drill stuck for a while Big Engineering will never stop impressing me
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STS: The bleeding heart progressive cope for indulging a repressed tech-nerd obsession 🤣 If I just told people you studied radio, open source projects, and port/logistics infrastructure and asked them to guess other things about you it would lead to funny results
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What attributes would you like it to have? More like low power community radio? Concentrations of capital, labor, and know-how needed for critical things unfortunately limit that pattern. Like semiconductors for eg.
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Either semiconductors or industrial chemicals would be a great next topic for you. Both have some really harsh constraints when it comes to decentralizing or allowing small-d input (since they are geopolitically strategic things). The hardest hard cases.
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