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Structural Engineer On the Fallacies of Movie Bridge Destruction (hackaday.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the falling-down dept.

szczys writes: Suspension bridges like the Golden Gate Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge are favorite victims for movie makers but are almost always shown to perform in violation of the laws of physics. Structural Engineer Alex Weinberg couldn't stay silent any longer. He covers how bridge collapses in several major films should have looked. The biggest offender? Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.

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  1. The Cartoon Laws Of Physics by sconeu · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~ka...

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    General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
  2. Re:Parade of the Pedants! by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fiction is about suspending disbelief, ...

    Or, in this case, "suspensioning" disbelief.

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    It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
  3. Re:Suspend your disbelief by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    > Umm, what HASN'T Neil DeGrasse Tyson whinged about?

    systemd ?

  4. Re:Well written and funny article by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 5, Funny

    I stopped reading when he described a catenary as a parabola

    Yeah, what a dumbass.

    Everyone knows a catenary is a little yellow bird.

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