historic drystone sheep dykeThe falkirk wheel has to be one of the top pieces of irl infrastructure that look like i messed something up in simcity
holly hoppet 
@hannah this rules
Rora Borealis@hannah It took me a minute to work it all out. That's a strange design.
Geoff 🏴@rora_borealis @hannah And a brilliant one. Stick two 10 ton narrowboats on either lift, two 0.1 ton kayaks, or 10 tons on one side and 0.1 tons on the others, and it remains balanced (cos displacement)...and still only uses the power consumption of the average toaster.
@_thegeoff @hannah The more I read, the more impressed I am with this engineering. Definitely some out-of-the-box thinking!
@rora_borealis @hannah Yup! Nothing that revolutionises physics or engineering, but it's definitely a "we've always done it THIS way...can we change that?" moment.
Metnix@_thegeoff
My physics teacher sense is tingling, there will likely be an exam question based on this in the coming school year.
@rora_borealis @hannah
My physics teacher sense is tingling, there will likely be an exam question based on this in the coming school year.
@rora_borealis @hannah
@metnix @rora_borealis @hannah Bonus points: what aerodynamic advantage does the spiky-cam design offer, given how fast it rotates? (A: Basically none, but spin it up real fast.....?!)
Not a Spring Onion@hannah
Cool people just go full speed instead of waiting for the elevator to go down.
Cool people just go full speed instead of waiting for the elevator to go down.
paul
Charlie Stross@hannah Now do that for Panamax container ships and aircraft carriers going in and out of Lake Gatun instead of the existing locks …
@cstross an enormous log flume could be fun
WillTootMaybe
EaterOfSnacks@cstross @hannah Back when I did visuals for marine civils firms, a Giant Grabby Crane System (for picking up container and bulk ships and shaking their cargo into big sorting hoppers) may have snuck into a presentation or two. Rejected by short-sighted fools, as were my Floating Irish Sea Train Link and the London Transport Pneumatic Trampoline Network. No wonder the world's in the state that it is.
JDPON3 🇵🇸🇿🇦@hannah yesss ive been obsessed with its design since i first heard about it
Incredible things happening in Scotland
🇨🇦 TRH 🇨🇦@hannah That's awesome!
Michal Migurski 🍉@hannah Or like something out of Fred’s book on NASA space station concepts from the 1970s https://cup.columbia.edu/book/space-settlements/9781941332498
Ben Place@hannah My thought process on seeing that picture:
1. looks like some “Logan's Run”-type thing
2. wait is that water?
3. is that a lock?
4. holy crap! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel
ChrisAdamsEcon 
Ferles 
@hannah Wow! That is neat!
Hunter King@hannah if somebody posted this without context I'd probably tell them it was AI generated
eclectech@hannah Hah! I really like the Falkirk Wheel, but you are so right about that.
Mary Alicia Ziff
FallsMom 🌻@hannah And nearby are Kelpies!
Spottyfox斑狐狸@hannah Just had to look up that this is an actual thing that exists
Colin the Mathmo@hannah It's fabulous ... so incredibly clever.
Finally got to traverse it last year ... amazing engineering, beautiful conception.
Tony@hannah I can't remember how close they are to the Falkirk lock now, but don't forget the Kelpies!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kelpies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kelpies
Elderberry@orlovsky 5 min drive
दुःख блядь@hannah honestly wild that this is a real thing that exists out there
TheCityDweller 
@hannah I have been there and it is a marvel!
They only need a 3 kW electric motor to run this.
Why?
Because of the Archimedes principle, each boat entering a pod pushes away the same amount of water as the ship weighs - as each pod is always filled with water up to the top - that means the whole setup is ALWAYS balanced - so you only need to overcome the friction of the huge gears of that many tons weighing device!
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@hannah Watched it in operation (in the rain) a couple of weeks ago.
OK, so I get the engineering, it's not all that far beyond what any couple of drunk spanners could have fantasized about on a beer mat, but the really impressive thing was to have got it funded!
Mhanch@hannah when we were in Scotland I demanded we bit it it and took the whole family. They thought I was nuts but were still impressed.
Seán Fenian@hannah The Falkirk Wheel is AWESOME. Not to mention cool AF. Victorian steampunk meets 21st (well, OK, 20th) century engineering.
Petra, softness element cutie@hannah Running out of money while making a log flume
orbit da dragon
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geographile@hannah looks like a great redstone challenge, though.
LearningToFly@hannah It holds the top position on my bucket list. (Kelpies included)
Jim McClure@hannah
Thank you for sharing that!
Thank you for sharing that!
Kevin RussellThat, is a folly. And therefore the UK.
Governed by boys with nannies.
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀@hannah so…we are living in the Thunderbirds are Go timeline
sortius@hannah it's really cool, and 100% active. Cruising the Cut (and many other narrowboat channels) have done videos going down/up it
europlus 
Airis Damon@hannah Looks like it was designed by Escher, and I dig it.
Andy@hannah Seen it and it’s fabulous!
hybrid havoc@hannah Does... that do what I think it does?
Edit: It does! Cool!
Tattie (old account)
🐻 John@hannah Imagine the boats just shooting out of the top tube like the salmon cannon
Lip Tao
GulfofMexico@hannah Thank-you! I just added the Falkirk Wheel to my bucket list!
「ʀᴏʙᴇʀᴛ」
Cher Tailor@hannah 1) Why is it brown? 2) Why are there boats? 3) Why is it BROWN??
Christian von Schack 🇳🇴@hannah Looks like something Iain M Banks would dream up for the Culture
Dragon@hannah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHO9gARac-w and of course Tom Scott did a video on it. (I wanted to see how it worked)
Archimedes and a Boat Lift: the Falkirk Wheel
Dr. Guillermo Power 
@hannah it’s an incredibly over the top solution, and I approve of that approach.
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sven_aus_kiel@cryptoparty
Das Falkirk Wheel ist echt cool - 2013 bin ich mal da gewesen.
Das Falkirk Wheel ist echt cool - 2013 bin ich mal da gewesen.
Cryptoparty Köln-Bonn@sven_aus_kiel Interessant, dass diese abgefahrene Konstruktion allem Anschein nach gleichzeitig auch die sinnvollste zu sein scheint.
@cryptoparty
Sinnvoll ist alles mit zwei Wannen, weil die einander gegenseitig als Gegengewichte dienen.
In Strépy-Thieu in Belgien sind die Wannen als „Aufzugkabinen“ angeordnet.
Sinnvoll ist alles mit zwei Wannen, weil die einander gegenseitig als Gegengewichte dienen.
In Strépy-Thieu in Belgien sind die Wannen als „Aufzugkabinen“ angeordnet.