 DJL
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
 135 Posts
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Monday, June 07, 2010 5:10:52 PM
For all of you comparing this to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. Look up aeroelastic fluttering. |
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 cahalla
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
963 Posts
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Sunday, June 06, 2010 5:52:09 PM
definitely not fake ive seen news clips of things like this... annnd also if i was anywhere near that bridge id be peeing myself in my car... just so ya know |
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 marissameows
Female, 18-29, Western US
172 Posts
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Friday, June 04, 2010 6:44:57 PM
resonance. |
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 taelmx
Female, 18-29, Western US
244 Posts
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Friday, June 04, 2010 4:32:44 PM
it's not big waves, it's resonance, like pushing a swing at the right time. |
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 CVizzle
Male, 18-29, Western US
75 Posts
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Friday, June 04, 2010 12:52:14 PM
The Tacoma Narrows did that before it was cool! Quit posing Russia! |
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Kalkin
Male, 18-29, Western US
44 Posts
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Friday, June 04, 2010 11:31:34 AM
I was going to call bs on this, because it looks very faked, but there are several other videos of it on youtube. |
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 Dragonlord
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
742 Posts
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Friday, June 04, 2010 10:31:20 AM
The shaking road is not unreasonable (somebody forgot to check resonances!), but at :15, the extreme degree to which the concrete is expanding and contracting... I dunno, I'm feeling kinda skeptical about this one. I won't deny it outright, but something seems off. |
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 Kingreggie
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
155 Posts
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Friday, June 04, 2010 12:12:09 AM
the bridge is very angry |
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cdubb4201
Male, 18-29, Southern US
139 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 9:42:59 PM
Mythbusters did a whole episode on this sort of thing. It is definitly real. |
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 Loveabye
Female, 18-29, Western US
164 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 9:11:07 PM
Yeah, this has destroyed a bridge or two before and always has terrified me. I'm afraid to go over bridges >< |
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 SamVimes
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
619 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 8:57:39 PM
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DrHorrible
Male, 18-29, Western US
110 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 8:28:07 PM
Thank you Lionhart! I live about 5 miles from the new narrows, and Gertie (the old bridge) was FAR worse than this one. :D |
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 Lionhart2
Male, 40-49, Australia
8285 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 7:08:59 PM
In USA, Galloping Gertie crosses you! |
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 necrobitch
Female, 18-29, Europe
468 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 7:06:24 PM
this happens with the heat aswell |
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 Cajun247
Male, 18-29, Southern US
9438 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 6:45:35 PM
"In Soviet Russia the TV watches you!" |
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Cajun247
Male, 18-29, Southern US
9438 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 6:43:47 PM
@kitteh9lives and lionhart2
They're also supposed to have Orwellian undertones. |
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 jendrian
Male, 18-29, Canada
2353 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 6:24:54 PM
normal vibration modes FTW! |
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TadnJess
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
133 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 6:15:04 PM
Wind creates a harmonic resonance over and under the bridge causing that to happen. If it gets too bad, the bridge goes down. I think over here in America, on long span bridges they put angled sheets of metal on the sides of the bridge that act like an airfoil to prevent that resonance from happening. |
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 kitteh9lives
Female, 40-49, Eastern US
977 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 6:12:10 PM
lionhart2 here is how the joke works....in case you haven't heard of it. yakov smirnov is credited with using it in his act'
uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Russian_reversal_(joke) |
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Cajun247
Male, 18-29, Southern US
9438 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 6:09:06 PM
This is small compared to the Tacoma Narrows disaster. |
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 billy66bare
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
290 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 6:07:39 PM
I can't wait to compare the "ripping itself apart" video of this to Galloping Gertie. |
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kitteh9lives
Female, 40-49, Eastern US
977 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 6:05:23 PM
Lionhart2 i was just joking....its a saying is all |
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 D3rAnG3d
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
1603 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 5:44:07 PM
That is a pretty badly designed bridge, but I have seen worse. |
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Lionhart2
Male, 40-49, Australia
8285 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 5:35:42 PM
There IS NO Soviet Russia. The Soviet Union disbanded years ago. Wake up and smell the real world, people. |
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 mikeacello
Male, 18-29, Western US
112 Posts
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 5:26:23 PM
Fake. Real bridges don't make a creaky-creak sound. When a real bridge warps and flexes, it's more of a krrkidirkreeeerdk sound. |
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