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3D Printed Steel Pedestrian Bridge Will Soon Span an Amsterdam Canal
ErnieKey writes: Amsterdam is famed as the "Venice of the North," with close to 1,300 bridges in use. The next bridge to be built over one of the city's canals will be easily its highest-tech, as it will be constructed via 3D printing technology from MX3D. The steel pedestrian bridge, brought about by a collaboration between MX3D, Heijmans, Joris Laarman Lab, and several sponsors and supporters, will be built using 6-axis industrial robots that will begin construction on either bank and build in toward one another.
I'm Dutch. Gracht is just a type of canal ('kanaal'). There is no a linguistic or translation problem, it's perfectly valid to call it canal.
And live to tell?
Yes, it's not exactly clean water, but now that all houses and house boats are supposed to be connected to the sewer system for a few decades, it's definitely less filthy than it used to be.
How many window-sitter prostitutes wind up in those a month?
Zero-point-something. Not nearly as many as drunk tourists.
Can you smoke cannabis on the streets of Amsterdam? Hashish?
Sure, it's not necessarily a healthy idea, but it's allowed (and done a lot).
Is there an age limit to smoke dope?
Drink spirits? Wine? Beer?
Sure, 18 years for alcohol/sigarettes, I assume for dope too, not sure.
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A gracht IS a canal. A city-canal to be more precise.
Nope. There are seven distinct things that in English are all "canal". In Dutch, they are distinct, different things. No Dutch person would call a gracht a canal. Nor a singel, vliet, wetering, sloot, vaart. It's as if English wouldn't have separate words for truck, car, bike, motorcycle, van, bus but rather would call each of them "vehicle".
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Less cost-effective?
Honey, in 10 years places like Netherlands will have politicians screaming for a special tax on it to compensate for all the workers thrown out.
The savings isn't in the manufacturing, where rolling beams out will always be cheaper. It's in the assembly and transport.
Here, there was a phrase coined in the 1970s when assembly line robots picked up speed: "This is progress?!?!?"
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I'm Dutch. I live in Amsterdam. It's not perfectly valid to call a gracht a kanaal. The issue here is not what the Dutch call our canals and grachten and sloten, the issue is that the fact that English has one word for a collection of things that the Dutch have individual words for affects more than just language. It affects the way people think about them.
Again, read Babel 17 and you'll see.
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