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When I started here, all there was was swamp. All the kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It san
by bityard 2y ago
When I started here, all there was was swamp. All the kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in these islands.
- Animats 2y agoThe real world version of that: The causeway for the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake.[1] The Southern Pacific dumped in fill rock starting in 1902, and the rock sank into the sediment. But they didn't give up. They kept dumping in more rock. They still couldn't get above the water line. So they built wooden trestles on the foundation thus created. That worked, but the trestle was too weak and limited to slow trains. So eventually, the Union Pacific dumped in far more rock and built a solid rock causeway all the way across the lake. The causeway had to be raised in 1986 and strengthened. Today, it carries long UP freight trains, part of the transcontinental main line. [1] https://utahrails.net/pdf/UP_Great-Salt-Lake-Causeway_2007.pdf https://utahrails.net/pdf/UP_Great-Salt-Lake-Causeway_2007.p...
- slowmovintarget 2y agoThat's why there were five Babylon stations... JMS lifted the joke. Nice!