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Being unable to fix something you’re able to build isn’t unusual to anyone who has built a large and complicated structure. They had two different engineering f
by kaikai 6y ago
Being unable to fix something you’re able to build isn’t unusual to anyone who has built a large and complicated structure. They had two different engineering firms look at it, and neither of them saw a safe path forward. It’s possible that repairing it was physically possible, but would have put people in harms way while they were, for example, detaching cables on an already unstable structure.
- dheera 6y agoAre there not unmanned solutions to the problem? Drones with flying abrasive chopsaws? Literally strap a Dewalt circular saw onto a big enough drone with the power button taped down? Use a drone to attach a dynamite to the cable? It seems weird to me that the government can figure out how to remotely bomb a town but can't figure out how to remotely do a little snippy snip snip on a cable.
- bigbubba 6y agoFlying buzzsaws seems unlikely to work, but I don't think snipping the old cables would even be the hard[est] part. Installing new cables would almost certainly require workers to be present on the center platform, and it obviously wasn't safe for anybody to be there.
- Twisell 6y agoAlso this video can help realize the amazing scale of this thing: https://youtube.com/watch?feature=emb_title&v=QZAWqk-wrzc https://youtube.com/watch?feature=emb_title&v=QZAWqk-wrzc This was basically a whole building suspended into the air. Science or magic? Amazing engineering to be sure (but maybe not built with maintenance and security in mind)