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[jedidia]

"Mommy, made fire!" "Mhmmm, that's very nice... wait, WHAT?"

Thanks God the couch is leather... :facepalm:

 

[mojoey]

"Mommy, made fire!" "Mhmmm, that's very nice... wait, WHAT?"

Thanks God the couch is leather... :facepalm:

You shouldn't try and set the couch on fire then.

 

[Urwumpe]

Uh, that Bayern Munich that I just watched is the same team that was thrashed by Barcelona 6 months ago? :huh:

No. They got replaced by clone football players. Messi only wanted to keep one of the clones for himself.

Most of the league still tries to find out, what they have put into Lewandowskis food.

 

[jedidia]

You shouldn't try and set the couch on fire then.

Thanks God it's leather so it didn't catch fire is what I meant

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Has this been posted already? Nasa has put hi-res images of all apollo footage on Flickr.

 

[Urwumpe]

Has this been posted already? Nasa has put hi-res images of all apollo footage on Flickr.

Not NASA. Those are by Kip Teague of the Project Apollo Archive, which is unrelated to NASA.

 

[n122vu]

80's hard rock on Spotify and LiveATC.net of a local airport make a surprisingly beautiful combination.

 

[Urwumpe]

The next disaster for Wolfsburg...

A pedestrian arc bridge over the most important road into the city has become extremely unstable on Saturday (abutment sagged) and may collapse anytime without supports, according to an architect who inspected it.

The road to the Autobahn had to be blocked completely now in both directions, which means that the alternative routes to the south will be overcrowded by the additional traffic (They are already close to a full traffic jam on a usual day, you have to calculate for 30 minutes stop and go for the final 3 km to the Autobahn A39)

The detailed reason why the bridge is close to collapse: tendons inside the prestressed concrete have been torn and failed.

(Additionally, the bridge was already in a very poor state in 2009, with water entering the structure and corroding the tendons, and was superficially repaired for 330,000 € in that year)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestressed_concrete

And now the incident made it into national news:

http://www.welt.de/regionales/niede...e-Bruecke-blockiert-Verkehr-in-Wolfsburg.html

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Damn... just needed 45 minutes for the 2.5 km back home. Sadly, I was not able to simply let my car park in the garage at work, going home would have been much faster than driving (about 20 minutes).

 

[Artlav]

Why close the road? Isn't there a 5 minute fix?

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Why close the road? Isn't there a 5 minute fix?

Look, we found the CalTrans engineer! :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

Why close the road? Isn't there a 5 minute fix?

The city is still looking for a company that could provide such a fix in a short time and in the right scale, the bridge is 80 meters long and only 2.5 meters wide.


Here is a photograph of the bridge:

http://www.wolfsburg.de/~/media/wol...wettbewerb/bruecke-suhlerstr_004.jpg?la=de-DE

The tiny darker spots on the underside are the places that got superficially repaired in 2009.

 

[Artlav]

Huh, that does not look like an important bridge.
Blow it up, swipe the rubble and open the road!

Seriously, however, this eats on my preconceptions about high quality/pedantic german engineering. On the plus side, at least yours noticed the bridge is in a bad shape before it collapsed.

 

[Urwumpe]

Huh, that does not look like an important bridge.
Blow it up, swipe the rubble and open the road!

Seriously, however, this eats on my preconceptions about high quality/pedantic german engineering. On the plus side, at least yours noticed the bridge is in a bad shape before it collapsed.

The road below it is important. The bridge only shortens the distance for pedestrians and bikers by a few kilometers. :lol:

And yes, we really have a streak of bad luck lately. But on the other hand... it took the world almost 10 years to discover the defeat device. :lol:

Also the bridge was possibly build sometime between 1954 and 1970, the fuel stations on both sides of the "Braunschweiger Straße" had been build in 1954, the quarters of Detmerode and Westhagen, which the bridge connects, are from 1960.

EDIT: In a collection of old photographs of Wolfsburg is a similar bridge over that road, the photograph was from the middle of the 1960s. On a photograph from 1957 though, the bridge did not yet exist (And in 1937, the city did not even exist)

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Just take out the bridge, put a warning on both sides to pedestrians and bicyclists saying "Beware, bridge out, proceed at your own risk", and paint two white lines across the Autobahn and put up a pedestrian crossing and a traffic signal there.

 

[Urwumpe]

Just take out the bridge, put a warning on both sides to pedestrians and bicyclists saying "Beware, bridge out, proceed at your own risk", and paint two white lines across the Autobahn and put up a pedestrian crossing and a traffic signal there.

There is already a better suggestion:

http://www.der-postillon.com/2014/11/lander-ersetzen-marode-brucken-durch.html

 

[ex-orbinaut]

There is already a better suggestion:

http://www.der-postillon.com/2014/11/lander-ersetzen-marode-brucken-durch.html

Wrong cars! Should be Chargers. 1968 Chargers.

EDIT:
...or even a Challenger would pass...

 

[Urwumpe]

The bridge was build in 1965 - and not only that: Older Wolfsburg citizens have remembered that the bridge already collapsed once during construction (27th August 1965). One even took a photo of the event:

http://www.waz-online.de/Wolfsburg/Stadt-Wolfsburg/Detmerode-Als-die-neue-Bruecke-einstuerzte

Bad omen.

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As expected by the damage description, the city has decided to demolish the bridge, which will start in about one hour, after preparing the road below. It simply can't be repaired. Removing the bridge should take the whole night, it is expected that the road can be reopened again tomorrow morning for traffic into the city and will be open in both directions tomorrow afternoon.

No information yet about a replacement for the bridge, the next one is a few kilometers away in each direction.

 

[Artlav]

See? I told they have to just blow it up!

If it's a pedestrian bridge, then why not dig a tunnel?

 

[Notebook]

See? I told they have to just blow it up!

If it's a pedestrian bridge, then why not dig a tunnel?

Depends, how close is it to the border?

N.

 

[Urwumpe]

If it's a pedestrian bridge, then why not dig a tunnel?

Complex geology. We are sitting on solid rock here, Jura chalk on one end of the road, sandstone on the other.

http://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/geol/fachrichtungen/pal/eigenproduktion/Band_10/22_Seibertz_Zobel.pdf

 

[RisingFury]

Just take out the bridge, put a warning on both sides to pedestrians and bicyclists saying "Beware, bridge out, proceed at your own risk", and paint two white lines across the Autobahn and put up a pedestrian crossing and a traffic signal there.

Typical American approach to crumbling infrastructure...