[Eupalinos of Megara appears out of a time portal from ancient Ionia] Wow, you guys must be really good at digging tunnels by now, right?
[Eupalinos of Megara appears out of a time portal from ancient Ionia] Wow, you guys must be really good at digging tunnels by now, right?
He is. Did you see the crap he posted on Twitter about the Baltimore bridge? Fucking dumbass.
Edit: found the screen cap:
This is major RTS gamer brain. In those games, the scarce resources are the raw materials, because it’s more dramatic to send your harvesters into the unknown to be attacked by enemies, while the actual knowhow on how to build stuff is passively “researched”. So if you need to build a bridge, you magically have the planners and the engineeers and the building crew ready and waiting, but they need steel and stone to start, which you never have, because you just panic-built a bunker to defend your base.
In the real world, getting enough steel to build a bridge is easy enough - I imagine the lead time to be a couple months. Actually finding a team able to plan and construct one is another matter.
Yeah, let’s reuse steel that has been weakened by unknown amounts and rebuild the bridge with the exact same flaws that caused it to be vulnerable to this type of collision.
Fast, safe, cheap: pick two.
But aren’t all of these public works projects already put out for bid and include penalties for not meeting deadlines?