A bit of a tangent, but this reminded me of this fantastic "Filk" song called "Hymn to Breaking Strain": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5bc_Peb6s0 https://www

A bit of a tangent, but this reminded me of this fantastic "Filk" song called "Hymn to Breaking Strain": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5bc_Peb6s0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5bc_Peb6s0 Which I only just realised is based on a Rudyard Kipling poem: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_strain.htm https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_strain.htm The prudent text-books give it In tables at the end 'The stress that shears a rivet Or makes a tie-bar bend— 'What traffic wrecks macadam— What concrete should endure— but we, poor Sons of Adam Have no such literature, To warn us or make sure!