{"id":4227,"date":"2007-05-08T03:01:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/05\/waterbridge-germany\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T03:01:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T03:01:09","slug":"waterbridge-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/05\/waterbridge-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterbridge in Germany&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Another email from Richa.. and another interesting post!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"294\" width=\"487\" style=\"margin: 5px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i43.photobucket.com\/albums\/e375\/deshkapoor\/waterbridge.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: Black;font-family: Trebuchet MS;font-size: 10pt\">WaterBridge in Germany . What a feat!<br><\/span><span style=\"color:Black\"> <br><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;font-size: 10pt\">Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long\u2026\u2026.now this is engineering!<br> This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany ,<br> as part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg, near Berlin.<br> The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.<br><\/span> <br><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;font-size: 10pt\">To those who appreciate engineering projects, here\u2019s a puzzle for you armchair engineers and physicists.<br> Did that bridge have to be designed to withstand the additional weight of ship and barge traffic, or just the weight of the water?  <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<span style=\"color:Black\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;font-size: 10pt\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<div><span style=\"color:Black\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;font-size: 10pt\"><br>It only needs to be designed to withstand the weight of the water!<br> Why? A ship always displaces an amount of water that weighs the same as the ship,<br> regardless of how heavily a ship may be loaded.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color:#008;text-align:right\"><em>Powered by<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qumana.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Qumana<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another email from Richa.. and another interesting post!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"294\" width=\"487\" style=\"margin: 5px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i43.photobucket.com\/albums\/e375\/deshkapoor\/waterbridge.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: Black;font-family: Trebuchet MS;font-size: 10pt\">WaterBridge in Germany . What a feat!<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color:Black\"> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;font-size: 10pt\">Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long&#8230;&#8230;.now this is engineering!<br \/> This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany ,<br \/> as part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg, near Berlin.<br \/> The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.<br \/><\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;font-size: 10pt\">To those who appreciate engineering projects, here&#8217;s a puzzle for you armchair engineers and physicists.<br \/> Did that bridge have to be designed to withstand the additional weight of ship and barge traffic, or just the weight of the water?  <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-achievement_and_leadership"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Waterbridge in Germany...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Another email from Richa.. and another interesting post! 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