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Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking. Started conversation Sep 2, 2019
It's really easy if you think about it...
A collapsing bridge is the fault of the builder/engineer.
A breaking plank is the fault of the material supplier.
The Romans put the engineer under his bridge during first use, leading to some sort of selective breeding of competent engineers.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 2, 2019
The late John Silber called this the "tremble factor." Not all his ideas were good, but this one was. 
That photo makes me think of the bridges over the Cape Cod Canal in Bourne and Sagamore. By the way, I think that "Sagamore" is bad name for a bridge. I don't think most motorists want to think about it sagging more 
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SashaQ - happysad Posted Sep 2, 2019
Great photo - really shows the difference between the bridge made from lots of planks, and the plank all by itself over there...
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 3, 2019
The engineer who built the plank bridge was a pirate. They made him walk the plank.
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Bluebottle Posted Sep 3, 2019
I like to think of the good old, simple and reliable method of crossing the stream as being Planck's Constant.
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Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking. Posted Sep 4, 2019
But that only works at 6.62607004 × 10-34 m2kg/s...
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 4, 2019
If it's working, maybe it could consider retirement. 
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