…because they have this annoying habit of making stuff that works; unlike, say, English majors who can never quite turn the ingenious ideas in our their heads into some sort of objective reality (I’m saying this to her as I’m pulling our firstborn around on the sled that my wife improvised out of an Amazon.com
So she looks at me and says “Three words. Tacoma. Narrows. Bridge.”
I wittily go “Huh?”
She says “Get thee hence to Google.”
Concrete shouldn’t do that.
Moe Lane
*As you probably have gathered, my wife is an engineer.
I went to a school where roughly half of the undergraduate population was going into engineering.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge got talked about a lot. Of course it didn’t hurt that it was a bit of school lore, as one of the guys who figured it out had been a bigshot at our school, heh.
Love that video.
I was all ready to rant on Engineers until I read the last line.
Better you married an Engineer than an Architect.
How come the footage is in color?
You married well.
Never mind . . .
Tacoma Narrows is an infamous example in engineering circles. I studied software and it still came up.
Heh. I saw this video when I was in elementary school. The lesson stayed with me through all of my physics and engineering classes. You’d think that calculating the harmonic frequencies for a structure being built in an area known for sustained high winds would be obvious. You’d have been dead wrong.
Affectionately known by locals as “Galloping Gertie”