Yeah I saw that too, you beat me to it. Pretty freaky.
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Yeah I saw that too, you beat me to it. Pretty freaky.
Thanks for posting - maybe we need to send jodie foster to check it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry
Or the UCB prof/exo-planet expert that so good with the ladies ......
More of the engineering genre, but cool non conventional bridge work going on tomm night on TZ bridge. On westchester side they will be pushing paired girder spans from pier to pier over the countries arguably busiest commuter RR. They will have approx 6 hrs of outage to complete the move, and rail service cannot be restored w/o unworkable restrictions if they do not land the span. I am sure the chances of success are very high, but I have done enough of these to know that they have a super long "point of no return" to deal with where dozens of things can keep this from happening. Web cam overlooking the area - don't be surprised if it goes blank tomm night @ about midnight.
http://newnybridgegallery.com/webcam.php
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/tran...ight/74282134/
Any enginerds want to compare worst case scenarios for this or troubleshoot my list?
I live near it and gotta friend that's working on it. I don't know how much congestion it will actually alleviate in the end but it has been pretty cool watching this thing take shape as it's going up.
I don't usually use the TZ but I've gone that way a few times over the last yearjust to watch what's going on with the construction. Cool stuff...
Maybe I'm way off on this but it doesn't look like it should be that hard to do*. They have to slide that blue truss across until they get to the next pier. Then later they'll do it two more times when they have the additional trusses ready and the three pieces together make the bridge deck across the tracks.
*for people who do this shit and are smart and have the right equipment etc. etc. etc.
http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/7ada...-aerial-37.jpg
^^^that's a nice shot that makes sense of things. The move itself wouldn't be at all concerning anywhere else on the bridge, but being on the clock with a four track outage is no easy thing. A regular one or two crane pick is only fouling tracks for 30 minutes - this will be for many hours, and you cannot restore rail service without landing it on pier 2. I think it is fascinating from the sidelines, but last year this time I would have had a lot of sleepless nights as the person giving the red or green light. It is no fun making 30 phone calls at 6am to explain why trains won't be operating. Will try and link the video that shows process for tonight.
Viddy of the work tonight
https://youtu.be/G-45FaNWDHc
Their thought on easing congestion was taking out the roller-coaster ride on West approach. That should be a lot straighter shot. Main determining factor was that maintenence of existing structure was getting close or over 100 million a year depending on what they were replacing. In theory this new bridge will reduce that hudgely with only routine maintenance and inspections needed for 30+ yrs.Quote:
Originally Posted by TomCrac
The straight up retarded part was designing the sub structure to be ready to accept rail (capacity wise), but not building the piers in a way to easily accept that. Re - staging this whole operation at any point to add rail would be virtually unpossible b/c they didn't add pier support for additional superstructure. Dumb.
I've been on that thing in bumper to bumper because we had to navigate around a hole in the road almost the size of a manhole. When I inched past, you could see straight down to the river.
They did a $20+ million study to determine that a new bridge should be built. Then they replaced the entire deck with a new concrete deck to the tune of $10's of millions. Once that was done, work on the new bridge was fast tracked by Obama and Cuomo. Of course we can't afford to put a light rail on it so they sold us the (bs) idea that it will be light rail ready for a future date when we can afford to add it.
The estimated toll to cross was @ $14.00 but some are saying that it will be higher. They should have just raised it to $14, most people would find an alternative, thus relieving the strain on the bridge and save $6-7 billion on the new bridge.
The east and west sides are pretty maxed out lane wise, I don't see how this will actually relieve the congestion clusterfuk that this bridge is known for.
This is the only bridge they replaced around here--duplicated the old one. Occasionally we get traffic jams when bikes and cars are trying to cross at the same time. I've had to wait as long as 30 seconds. Glad I don't live in NYC.
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Since they are cheating, success is imminent b4 5am
http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/10...963aefd832.jpg
Got it across
http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/10...42802332cd.jpg
Video from the girder push
https://youtu.be/t-WrhBZJOaQ
Cool stuff dump:
http://i.imgur.com/JU29XNA.png
Space-time near Earth
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...11/04may_epic/
Tattoo removal cream
http://globalnews.ca/news/1832096/ha...removal-cream/
New antibiotic
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/scie...akthrough.html
First artificial heart transplant
http://www.medicaldaily.com/woman-re...l-heart-341182
Wasp venom destroys cancer cells
http://phys.org/news/2015-09-brazili...cer-cells.html
Stem cells helps MS
http://www.healthline.com/health-new...ability-012215
Blood testing for every virus ever contracted
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-.../#.VjIZAberTDc
Foam that slows bleeding
http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pr...ave-lives.html
Computer that runs on water
http://www.sciencealert.com/engineer...water-droplets
Crashing a probe into asteroid
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...er-course.html
MircoRNA helps slow/reverse cancer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/scie...cientists.html
New treatment for brain cancer
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0921153501.htm
oh for fucks sake? the embedding is even more fucked than before...
Here you go:Quote:
Originally Posted by Meathelmet
This is very interesting stuff
NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks
http://nyti.ms/1Ocn9KR
https://38.media.tumblr.com/ca63616d...vn29o1_400.gif
a protein taking its fishing bobber out for a walk
Hey .... is that a spinach lasagna treadmill?
I think it is one of Dave's kids
3rd solid phase of Carbon (graphite, diamond) found that is ferromagnetic.
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-phase-c...mperature.html
practical science: why have I not heard about this thing? http://antigravitybatteries.com/microstartxp3/
Sounds awesome. Just read a long thread about it on another forum, it is as advertised apparently. And the price has recently come down substantially. I'm buying one.
edit: try this link instead: http://shop.antigravitybatteries.com/micro-start-xp-3/
Flash Bainite
http://www.gizmag.com/flash-bainite-...default-widget
Cool shit^^^ And they're from Detroit! 'Merica fuck yeah.
Sounds like its still just rumors but...
http://gizmodo.com/rumors-are-flying...vit-1752259868
Excited rumors began circulating on Twitter this morning that a major experiment designed to hunt for gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein—has observed them directly for the very first time
winds: http://earth.nullschool.net
Big development in AI research
http://mashable.com/2016/01/27/googl.../#Qy3STYv2iqqT
It's just crunching numbers though ^^^ right? Yeah a lot of them and very fast but as far as I can tell it's just hammering the game with horsepower, not anything more "intelligent" than that.
Not according to the people working on the project:
According to the Go Wiki page, in chess there are 10^120 possible games. In Go there are 10^761, which is an incomprehensibly large number. It sounds like they utilized some pretty high level machine learning that is potentially applicable to a vast array of uses that go far beyond a board game. Totally different approach than IBM used with Deep Blue. It's also noteworthy that two years ago it was predicted that it would take ten more years to accomplish this.Quote:
"There are more configurations on the board than there are atoms in the universe," explained Google DeepMind researcher David Silver..."The game of Go is intractable to brute force search."
Yeah the go thing is way cool. Of course I still get ruined playing my phone on moderate but such is life.
bummer to be that dude kild by metorite
Scottyb needs one of these for his home brewing!
Saw it in one of the nasa magazines. Mars tech -> brewing tech
http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2016/cg_3.html
Dood that's awesome
Presser scheduled for Thursday http://www.cbsnews.com/news/have-ein...ly-been-found/Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
And it's confirmed!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
http://gizmodo.com/holy-shit-scienti...f-g-1755465297
It looks kewl but how does this affect my bacon?
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/...iqqdncxwgp.gif
So rad.
That's just insane.Quote:
The source? A supermassive black hole collision that took place 1.3 billion years ago. When it occurred, about three times the mass of the sun was converted to energy in a fraction of a second.