Keywords:
bridge,engineering,spain,morocco,africa,europe,mrl
Secret Squirrel applies his brilliant engineering genius to a futuristic Africa Europe bridge project.
Secret Squirrel Critiques A Formerly Secret Project,
The Spain Morocco Bridge...........
Note the comments of Secret Squirrel, there noted as being between brackets,braces or whatever you prefer to call those () things.......as in this fashion......(etc xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx etc)......
Strait of Gibraltar Bridge Project
United States architect, Eugene Tsui,.... (seem he's really a Chinese)... has designed the longest bridge in the world spanning the Strait of Gibraltar and connecting the continents of Europe and Africa.At present,though, this is just imaginary, cloud talk as it were,however we shall look at it severely and critique the project from engineering and financial aspects. Now this revolutionary design does not resemble any existing bridge and features an original floating and submerging tunnel type concept...
(Ha! Not a bridge at all then,I can detect a fake project, a money laundering scheme of immense proportions,money laundered in the waters of the Mediterranean,a dream,so much water under the bridge)...
while creating a three mile wide floating island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea....
(floating island indeed, does England float,does the Isle Of Mann float, does the Isle of Wight float?Nay! Islands don't float,proven fact,floating islands,he'll be trying to float loans to build this).....
From this newly created island a person could view both the European and African continents for the first time in human history....
(who really wants to gaze at Afrique from Spain, and whom in Spain wants to gaze at Afrique?)......
When construction begins it would be the biggest architectural project in the world—and the most ecological—dwarfing Three Gorges Dam in China and Ground Zero in New York City-- and would instantly become the greatest tourist destination on Earth....
(Now what form of village idiot would want to see a bridge,not even Frenchman take holidays to see a bridge)....
Spanning about 9 miles the 14.5 kilometer floating bridge contains 150 windmills and 80 underwater tidal turbines generating 12 billion kilowatt hours of electricity. Windmills and turbines can be easily added to the design as needed...
(Well, to do what may I ask,was supposed to be a bridge,now they're trying to claim it's some form of electrical generation power project,getting in to the realms of grandiose fantasy here)...
The bridge can generate enough electricity to power the southern Spanish province of Cadiz and the entire nation of Morocco making it the largest wind and water power farm in the world...
(one immediately notices that they don't want to do this, power the Spanish province of Cadiz, and the entire nation of Morocco,seems this plan may just be a guise to tell'em to go suck oranges)......
This feature allows the bridge to pay for itself many times over in electrical generation not to mention tourist dollars....
(This doesn't do England not a spot of good,Britain will get none of it, Britain will have none of it)....
This is the first truly viable design in a long history of attempting to connect both continents.....
(Nay, a child can do it, simply draw a line or two across, and color it in, job's done, seen it done hundreds of times, they do it everyday, nothing new there, and doesn't cost a pence,viable design, designs work for children too, but just wait till they try build it).....
The design utilizes the natural current flow of the Strait and its constant winds and does not disturb the existing ecology and marine life of the site...
(Current flow?Current flow? The Mediterranean's been filled in for centuries, it's like a bowl,it can't hold any more, and none flows out as it's all at sea level, level mind! And, staying in reality and strictly on the level, current flow? The bridge,any bridge, is unlikely to be able to reverse current flow in any river,lake,stream,gorge or as we have it,the Mediterranean Sea,utilizes natural current flow, can hardly effect it one way or the other,imbecility at best,he's reduced to smoke screen effects to impress people, not impressed, utterly irrelevant......)......
Cost to build the bridge is ten billion U.S. dollars and would be a joint governmental partnership between Morocco, France and Spain....
(Ha! U.S. dollars! Spain has Pesos or some such, France has Francs-hot dogs-and Morocco has Moroccans.......dollars indeed, U.S. dollars no less,whenever THEY steal, it's in U.S. dollars, one can see a financial plot in the making,fraud,embezzlement...no doubt for the floating island, I bet there's a plan to install bilk pumps).
The bridge is designed to float gracefully on and under the water........
(Under the water..... yes, it'll sink,they're planning ahead, for when it sinks.built in to the design they say,built to do that,that's most definitely a slip there)......
like a giant, elegant serpent....
(serpent---child like idiotic dream state fantasy emerging,serpents swim off you know,there are none in my bathtub anymore, they swam off when I hit 6 years old)...
anchored to the cities of Tarifa on the southern coast of Spain to Point Cires on the northern tip of Morocco....
(anchored,anchored,indeed,to keep it floating off?T'is a bridge...it won't float, the idea won't float, and all that will float, is they off with the investment money,that'll float off, reminds me I must by a life preserver vest before the board meeting)......
The first mile of the bridge extends out from the coast line and then gradually slopes under the Mediterranean for two miles at a maximum depth of 200 meters or 658 feet...
(Yes, they're introducing that sinking feeling, won't hold water, just like the U.S. Big Dig Boston tunnel which leaks,the chunnel which also leaks, in fact they've yet to build a tunnel under water which doesn't leak)....
The bridge then slopes upward to a center floating island of three miles in length and continues down underwater again to slope up and come out onto the neighboring continent. The design allows very large ships to pass unimpeded within a four mile width where the bridge is submerged and leaves marine currents undisturbed...
(It'll never work, we've got Frenchman and Germans all at sea, look at the sunken wreck in the English Channel, in broad daylight, with 15 miles of Channel to the side of it and they hit the wreck, they'll hit this thing for sure)....
Eugene Tsui’s Strait of Gibraltar Floating Bridge, as a tourist attraction, would potentially double Spain’s 50 million annual tourists...
(seasonal cockroaches and summer locusts don't count as tourists in Britain)....
and significantly increase Morocco’s current 2.3 million annual tourists to a whopping 60 million....
(that'd be vermin and lice brought in by French diplomats,and Whoppings indeed,how will they afford the trip in the first place?)...,
a potential increase of 2600% or 26 times the current annual influx.......
(probably means nobody's coming presently and anything would help Spanish tourism.....).....
This amounts to over 8 billion U.S. dollars to each country annually...
(the Americans decided not to give the money to the drowned New Orleans natives,nor spend it on proper levees.......errr.........dykes.......may prefer spending on Washington dykes,local talent and some such,be money much better spent there)....
not to mention the significant increase in tourism to both continents......
(Interesting, people moving about constitutes tourism, we simply must get'em off the benches in Hyde Park,American tourism figures must shoot up with each New Orleans hurricane,yes I can see the travel posters now, Visit Spain!Visit Morocco!See a Bridge!).........oh grand that will be ,yes.........).....
In other words, Tsui’s bridge design has the potential to jump start the entire economy of north Africa and possibly the entire African continent in one project. No doubt it would be the Eighth Wonder Of The World....
(Spain and Morocco having an economy would do that?It's true, we've never seen'em work at it,or anything else for that matter)........
What about traffic congestion for the 60 or more million travelers who will cross the bridge?...
(Can't possibly fit that many,can't fit 60 Million in the colony of Canada,and who'd want to live there, notice there just aren't that many, how'd they fit on a bridge,just no room for'em to thrash about.).....
There are 24 lanes total for motor vehicle traffic.....
(yes! And my rocket design had room for 6 million pounds of food);
8 lanes for automobile traffic in each direction and 4 lanes for trucks and buses
(Busing, this I understand, but trucking, surely we aren't yet allowed to do that in public)....
4 standard train tracks and 2 high speed trains complete the motor vehicle accommodations
(Idiocy here, motor vehicle , wouldn't need any having roadways,more evidence of fake design plans)...
In addition, 5 elevated 30 meter wide pedestrian lanes accommodate people who wish to walk, bicycle, ride camels and horses
(14.5kilometers,to walk,nobody would walk that,clearly a fake plan).......
Lush gardens, trees, flowers, waterfalls, rest areas and drinking fountains surround all pedestrian areas....
(The Hanging Gardens of Babylon,yes, and an army of Greeks and Trojans putting on fighting displays, whilst in the waters Roman Galleys will fight mock battles with Carthagenians to amuse those traversing the bridge,utter TRIPE).......
which are raised one meter above motor vehicle lanes for safety. The bridge is designed to be an experience and destination in itself with an estimated 150,000 to 300,000 traveling daily and 500,000 persons at peak seasons and special days of the year......................
(well those might be real figures,the Africans'd all go on the march to move to Spain and France)
At the three mile wide center of the bridge is a floating island which contains 150 windmills
(All that sucking and blowing they must intend to install the U.S. government there,complete with the American Senate pages and White House interns),
the world’s largest enclosed convention and exhibition area 2 kilometers long, 140 meters high, 250 meters wide with 23 floors at 20 meter ceiling height with 500,000 meters squared on each floor and 1 million square meters of total parking space...
(always add a convention center, that's what attracts U.S. financing,provided you have local strip clubs,yes, sure build it and they will come, just look at Dubai,can't get tourists there,why ever should they come to see a bridge..?)....
The island is a veritable city flanked by 120 meter high light houses, outdoor performance plazas, theaters, giant outdoor bazaars
(bazaars..........the whole plan is bizarre)
and food markets, rolling hills of grass, flowers, trees, parks, water lagoons, bays, 50 meter high waterfalls and fountains, drinking and feeding troughs for animals, bathrooms, giant tented markets and kiosks, two large marinas for boats and tourist ships, photovoltiac solar electricity farms, constructed wetlands for raw sewage and grey water and ecological desalination plants
(Well, now they've gone to building a city,t'was supposed to be a bridge).
Similar accommodations are located at the bridge ends as it joins Tarifa and Point Cires...
(Yes, and don't forget the signs-Accommodation,Food,Fuel,Next Exit).....
The structure of the bridge is a series of fish-shaped sections.......
(oh but they're showing no mercy here are they,fish entire project is fishy)......,
like the vertebrae of a spinal column, which are attached and locked, in overlapping fashion,...
(Overlapping.....Clinker built, just like the entire plan,chuck bung full of clinker)...
to one another by giant water-proof criscrossing cables in four directions. The sections are prefabricated on land and floated out in sections to their position. Certain sections have a water ballast area that fills with water and sinks to a calculated depth....
(Won't have to ,the whole project won't float)....
When the bridge is set in place the cables are tightened and the entire bridge is locked in place to form an arch in plan....
(arch, yes, notice not an architect in the plan anywhere to be seen)......
and an undulating tube in section...
(Nay! Not undulating like some giant dildo?Well, we're getting screwed here.Well, he is Chinese, and all those things come from China)......
The Island portion of the bridge floats on a series of hexagonally braced floating pontoons 60 meters wide...
(War surplus I suppose)......
The specially design lattice system allows the island to absorb wave and wind action. It is flexible to diffuse stresses pushing upon it. A triple cable system is employed in case a single cable breaks which would be highly improbable...
(Yes, improbable, but not the probable seems mentioned)....
So far, no cable bridges have ever broken...
(That's because there haven't been any built of cable, rope,sisal, and vines yes, and they have broken, but none of cable since they haven't done it yet, no, they've used other designs)......
There will be a period of tightening and adjusting and then the bridge will be in place forever....
(only in the minds of idiots in mental wards and houses).......
The bridge is made of waterproof concrete, electrolytic concrete, stainless steel and anodized aluminum.......
(Is made of?Is made of?Ha! Not been made yet, nor will it be,just look at that,IS made of).......
Air passes rapidly through the underwater sections through a phenomenon called the Venturi effect where higher air is attracted to closed spaces and accelerates through these spaces to create a natural airflow and constant exchange of air with no mechanical power needed.....
(Yes, just like farts through the minds of the plan's designers)....
All along the bridge are many areas for rest, music and dance performances....
(oh God! Not Morris Dancers too!).......,
kiosks and open market bazaars.....
(They're sucking up to the Arabs here, employ a few in a fake Casbah, but notice no chippies or curry take-outs........bad planning there.................and like the French built Versailles of the Thousand rooms.....no toilets mentioned in the entire plan,anywhere).......
Flowers, trees, pools and waterfalls separate pedestrians from motor vehicles......
(Never work, pedestrians would get mowed down like people at an Arab bombing,no barrier at all really)....
It is a true extension of both African and European cultures come together on a road 14.5 kilometers long (9 miles) in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea...
(They're right there, no Spaniard or Arab driver will ever yield way).....
A spectacular setting with the smells, sights and sounds of European and African cultures stir the imagination....
(Beans,Mushrooms and Fallafel will do it every time)...
However there was and is yet another plan,much less idiocy,much less grandiose,much less costly.....................let's have a look at that one, it is much more sane however,so we're now moving from the ridiculous to the sublime
The last attempt at a bridge designed to span the Strait of Gibraltar was a design by U.S. engineer T.Y.Lin......
(Another Chinese)...
in 1986 which would require three support pylons one mile high and footings that plunge to the sea bottom one half mile down underwater and then sink an additional quarter of a mile destroying the existing ecology of the sea bottom surrounding it significantly disturbing the marine environment of the area.....
(On the other hand they didn't think that creating a kilometers long and wide island would crush and destroy anywhere near the amount of marine life that a few dozens of feet thick and broad pylons would do)....
Lin’s design was based on previous traditional bridge concepts and was similar to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco enlarged to five times its original size. Currently, the longest existing bridge is the Seto Ohashi Kojima bridge 13.22 kilometers long and built in 1988 for $8.3 billion dollars. It does not float..
(I have that sinking feeling ,but pity this is the only design that could float, and so,they've ignored it without a doubt)...
Tsui’s design is revolutionary in that it floats....
(Only in his mind)..,
completely eliminating the need for and cost of, giant support pylons and the tremendous and dangerous labor cost of constructing giant footings in place....
(He seem to prefer thousands of Chinese coolies).....
His bridge design is also held together....
(mentally,no doubt).......
in tension....
(definitely under Mental tension)......
instead of compression making it much more able to absorb and dissipate stresses pushing and pulling on it...
(Note the use of psychiatric terminology)....
When asked about how he developed the concept he states, “I asked myself how nature would create a bridge to span the Strait of Gibraltar and this is the result. I have formed a partnership with nature and discovered nature’s power to design and problem solve far surpasses all the computers on earth.”.....
(Now this really explains why his plan could and would never possibly work).
But now let's get serious here...............
Myself, Secret Squirrel,being constructive,and of sound mind,firmly grounded in reality, I would modify Lin's plan, and combine a touch of Tsui's plan, in that it would be best to create three small islands,but not floating islands, actually islands, easily by constantly dumping rock etc landfill in the required areas until the island required emerges for us to use. It works, it worked for the construction of the Expo 67 islands in the midst of the st. Lawrence River, using landfill rock from the city of Montreal's then being constructed subway system, so the system of constructing artificial islands most definitely does proveably work.Obviously thence islands whose construction would not impact marine life in the slightest as in their construction all marine life would go round and those misfortunately trapped beneath the island constructions would be crushed and so not exist as such, much as Tsui's massive floating island would do, and they,the constructed islands, would be impervious to the sea's poundings and the sea rage crash happiness of French and German captains, and on those islands we could install the electric generator windmill pylons needed to generate electricity just as did Lin's plan. Of course, such pylons could be made much more sound then as well, thus adding to the bridge's stability and strength.In short,my plan is yet much more sound,cheaper, and actually workably viable....but then again, why don't they just simply go with a tunnel??
Secret Squirrel
M.R.L.
Minister Of Re-Deranged Re-Engineering
Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts
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Secret Squirrel Engineering Your Future
Keywords:
pneumatic,subway,transportation,cannon,congestion,dams,lottery,lotteries,flood,protection,bridges,engineering
Secret Squirrel's great engineering projects, projects that rival the engineering and genius of The Great Engineer,Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Brunel once said,"If there's an engineer greater than me, I shall do pinwheels in my grave." Well, down at the cemetary, he's known as Pinwheel Ishie. See,read, the genius of Secret Squirrel and his engineering projects, projects for a better world. See the world of engineering from Secret Squirrel's great vision.
MRL Things of Political Atmospherics
Well now, the MRL is hardly full of air, hot or otherwise, but engineeringwise, we know how to generate a cyclone of interest in our engineering projects. Indeed, as we proceed in modern times with our backsides to the future, it was to posterity that we looked and found a new method of transportation technology that has fallen by the wayside.Obviously we cannot allow this to go unnoticed but must move forwards by taking steps backwards and applying this technology to subway(tube), and above ground transportation as it was intended to do, by men of great vision and foresight, the engineering plans dashed by men of futuristic hindsight who saw to it's failure.After all, you know, engineered vehicular transport devices that worked in the past, will work in the future as well.....
The great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was converted to atmospheric or pneumatic railways, first mooted in 1810, after witnessing a demonstration in Ireland in September 1844. The system, which had been patented in 1838, entailed the use of a cast-iron tube laid between rails, to which carriages were attached by a valve. Pumping stations powered by steam engines at the side of the track forced air out of the tubes, thereby creating a vacuum to one side of the carriages and an "atmosphere" to the other, thus propelling them along.
The Alfred Ely Beach Pneumatic Railway was New York City’s earliest subway. It had a single station located in the basement of the house located at the corner of Warren Street and Broadway.
Passengers were carried in a car pushed forward by the pneumatic pressure generated by a huge fan. At the end of the tunnel, near Murray Street, the car stopped. The rotation of the fan was reversed and the car was "sucked" back to Warren Street station.
I too, have been converted to atmospheric plans so intend to revive the genius of these two great engineers and combine it with my own grand engineering techniques. A major problem with the systems was the generation and loss of air it seems. Of course modern technology can be applied to solve these lossy gas problems.
Also the method of generation of air was not up to standards even in those days. Nowadays we have all learned, politicians axed the plans of these great men and they were were full of hot air,full of the air of nothing. Knowing this, I shall apply these political failures to become great successes, in short, we need air, politicians generate air, and also, let me tell you, politicians really suck. By stationing each operating day, politicians suitably in stations at each end of the system, there they can read their long winded speeches with the air of nothing, at one end they will blow out their hot air, and at the other, we will have the lot who really suck. By having mixed sets at each end, one set of each, and suitably having one set blowing air at one end, and at the destination end we will the set who really suck working..............so we will move our passenger cars through the system.
We will never be at a loss for air. So to will modern politicians be made to work for the people,if they can be gathered in a group, ball and chained, and whipped frequently!
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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The MRL Is Cannon
Well now, the City of London has been smiled on greatly through the centuries,especially with respect to the barrier of the Thames. Well The Thames is no barrier,bridges have been built across, the great Brunel's father started, and Brunel finished, a tunnel beneath the Thames, one which is still used to this very day, at least until the Heritage people get their hands on it whence it will be closed to preserve it from posterity, and whomever else might want to use it thereafter, in the hereafter. Indeed now there is even yet a proposal to have a , get this, cable car system across it. Well and good, no doubt there will be a great charge for this. I propose also to smile on the city of London, and present it with a great charge, but not a charge to those using my system to cross the Thames, indeed what I propose to do is to revive the sound idea of pneumatic cannon. These cannon still exist today, having been born out of attempts to hurl dynamite charges safely without exploding them to land on decks of ships and wherever and whatever and there to explode. Only air cannon could supply the safe cushion charge of air to hurl the projectile without exploding the dynamite in the barrel transit. This idea was thereafter toyed with, and developed to the form of circus cannon. Well, the idea is sound, and it is safe from an engineering standpoint, and INDEED has been safely proven,tested,and recorded on film, by A Thousand Clowns. Well, send in the clowns,again. We shall install a Air Cannon system on each side of the Thames, and for a minimal charge, I couldn't resist, fire them happily across to safely land in a net and there to proceed with their day's doings. It will be surely less taxing (Labor will no doubt initiate this one day we all suspect), than walking across by bridge, less taxing than driving across(you know, congestion tax, road tax), and surely as well take far far less time than the Cable Car system. It also will be enormously faster than either method once the cannon is fired you know. All that remains is for the MRL to be able to gift the already gifted people of London with a sound (chuckle,snort,chortle) air tight(yet more) engineering idea.Ever forwards we proceed with our backsides to the future.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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MRL Solves Congestion Charge Technologically.
Thousands of drivers from outside the UK are not paying London's congestion charge,but Britons are.And isn't it so that Tony Blair and his Labor Party are meaning to have you purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it. The tracking device will cost about £200(400$U.S.) and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28($56U.S.) for a rural florist and £194($388) for a delivery driver,then additionally. Is there a way out for the driving Briton, the government of Tony Blair, says "You all can go fly!!"......................and so, we just may.........
Roadable Aircraft - Aerocar Aerocar
Moulton B. Taylor dreamed of producing a roadable aircraft, which could be used as a family car and, as the need or inclination arose, have wings, tail and propellor quickly attached. After World War 2, Taylor set to work to produce such a vehicle, and by late 1949 a prototype Aerocar had flown.
On 13th December, 1956, the improved production Aerocar 1 received FAA certification. Four further Model 1s were built, for demonstration and sale. The six Aerocars so far built accumulated over 200,000 road miles and 5,000 flight hours. The final version was a much improved Aerocar III, converted from a model 1.
The car itself was a fairly conventional front-wheel-drive automobile. The power plant was an Avco Lycoming O-320 aircraft engine in the rear of the vehicle. This drove either the road wheels or, via an extended drive shaft in the detachable tail boom, a propeller to the rear of the Y-form tail structure. Braced monoplane wings were fitted in high configuration to the rear of the car. Unless the wings and tail boom were all correctly engaged, it was not possible to start the engine for flight.
Conversion from air to road could be achieved by one person in five minutes. The detached aircraft components could be towed behind the car in folding wheels fitted to the wing roots.
The Aerocar project ended with the passing of new legislation relating to automobiles in the United States. To meet 1970s requirements, the Aerocar would have to become too heavy and expensive to be practical.
And so the Hafner Rotabuggy was consigned to the better ideas of history past, and forgotten, till........................today.
Engineering work continued, militarily.............
and there came the Flying Jeep.
The work of the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment at Ringway, Manchester, on the Rotachute from 1940 onwards led to the suggestion that the free-wheeling autogyro principles employed could also be applied to larger loads. The designer, Raoul Hafner, suggested the Rotabuggy, a Jeep (or "Blitz Buggy") with rotors, and the Rotatank, a similarly modified Valentine tank. A development contract was placed with the M.L. Aviation Company at White Waltham in 1942, covered by specification 10/42.
Preliminary tests involved loading a Jeep with concrete and dropping it from heights of up to 7 ft. 8 in. (2.35 m.), demonstrating that the standard vehicle could survive undamaged from impacts of up to 11g. A 46 ft. 8 in. (12.4 m.) dia. two-blade rotor was then fitted, as well as a streamlined tail fairing with twin rudderless fins. Other additions were perspex door panels, a 'hanging' rotor control next to the steering wheel and a rotor tachometer and glider navigational instruments.
The Rotabuggy, camouflaged, carrying RAF roundels and a prototype "P", was tow tested behind a 4½ litre supercharged Bentley, and achieved gliding speeds of up to 65 mph (105 km/h) IAS.
The first flight was made on November 16, 1943. Later, some flights were made behind a Whitley bomber from Sherbourne-in-Elmet.
One witness described how she watched a Whitley take off with a Jeep in tow, circle and land. The Jeep, still in tow, did not touch down at the same time, and the witness realised that its occupants "were unhappy". With the pilot holding the hanging control column and the driver clutching the steering wheel, the Jeep made a series of up and down movements, whilst the audience hoped it would stall on a 'down' rather than an 'up'.
This it fortunately did, the driver taking over and driving flat-out after the Whitley, to which it remained attached. When it stopped, nobody got out for a while; the pilot was then assisted out and lay down beside the runway to recover. Apparently he was exhausted from trying to control the joystick, which had whipped in circles for the whole flight.
Apparently this flight was one of the worst, and the handling and flying qualities of the Rotabuggy were officially recorded as "highly satisfactory", especially when large tail fins had been fitted and greater rotor blade articulation provided. However, development of Horsa II and Hamilcar vehicle carrying gliders made further development of the idea unnecessary.
Now the existing technology could be applied and upgraded..................the time is now...............by reviving sutch a concept we could vastly reduce road traffic congestion, and just imagine, not being on a ROAD, the Labor government could not use and apply a road tax, nor could any other existing government of England. And now after having gotten this far in my proposal, you realize that it's certainly not a taxing engineering idea.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister for Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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M.R.L. Dam Building Technology.
Just look at the massive Three Gorges Dam built in Red China, took years to build, massive amounts of equipment and workers, all that problem diverting river water etc so the dam could've been built. Had Red China included the M.R.L. in the negotiations for construction, and engineering, it could've been built much cheaper, much faster and much easier. Yes quite simply it is in our nature to do things the easy way, let somebody else build it as long as we don't have to, build only when necessary. Indeed, what should've been done, is simply to have released beavers in
to the river(American beavers would've been used as they have sense to move when they cut down trees, many Canadian beavers are found squashed beneath trees simply because they haven't the wits to move themselves at the right time).
The beavers would then have started to dam up the river. We would've supplied the beavers with more and more materials with which to build the dam further. Now, this would've created the necessary working coffer dam, and the beavers would have continued to build it up and maintain it. Behind this, work on the concrete dam could thence have proceeded as planned, all in perfect safety and in a totally dry environment. When the dam was completed, we would then simply have slowly and properly, mind, blasted away the beaver dam. We could then, being kind in our natures to nature, and to appease any Greens complaints about things, taken the beavers and housed then suitably till they were required for yet another such project.
Secret Squirrel,
M.R.L.
Minister for Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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Ah Lotteries........................the very mechanism of it...the mind boggles...interesting it all is...................especially the multitudinous variety of payout ones existent in many lands, Canada for example, where,zounds and zooks, the very air abounds with lotteries at utterly unbelievable payouts, large and small in their structure, 15 20 million grand down to 35$ lowest for same lottery payouts etc etc etc et all,.........and the massive payouts in all of them, prizes unbelievable,unheard of large figures,great and to the smaller,even yet El Gourdo is a pittance in the colony of Canada............................well, what is the advantage of having these lotteries...........and how do they work.......
M.R.L. Lottery Policy
Lottery!!! LOTTERIES!!! Ah yes! the grand lottery, the great gamble where a little can get a lot.
Lotteries!! Gambling indeed! There's much money to be made in gambling, in lotteries, a great lot
all round, great for the lottery company, great for a winner. Great for a government, great when it
runs the lottery. There's much profit to be made, in running the lottery, taking more in than paying out,
as the system is supposed to work. But,how now? Let us examine a rather interesting system, a system run
in a foreign nation, the very foreign nation, the third world nation,the colony of Canada, that vast great
hinter land of the world.How do they run their lottery,profitably,profitably, and yet then more...........
how now.............
Firstly let us consider, it's all a monopoly, wherever it is, a government monopoly, a federal government
monopoly as their federal government runs theirs, then there's the lottery monopolies run by each of
their provinces(similar to Shires such as in our England). Each province has a lottery board which controls
the lotteries they run, to each their own, and to each the entire control, and,of course, collection of
lottery profits. Of course, the lottery must take more in than it pays out, to make a profit and keep
running.Evidently the system run by Canada and it's provinces is an expansion of the system run in Las Vegas
so it would make sense to adapt similar lottery rules,structures and government controls so nobody would
complain about it, after all it would profit the government(s), the winners,the people of the land, and this
the point isn't it, or at least, partly.
Now,how does a lottery run? Well, Firstly, people select numbers and buy tickets, in denominations of $10,
5 or 1, herein let us imagine it is pounds as it would be for here,Britain,our cash strapped nation which would
make money off it all just as they do in Canada, and the people who would have vast amounts of currency made
equitably available to the people,or rather winners, and, of course, profit money is applied to the government
itself for it to spend. So far we're all with it here. Now each lottery has a first prize, the grand prize, then
several prizes beneath that of lessening value, based on the grand prize level. We won't bother with the many tiny
payouts of extra tickets(lost revenues there),$1,10$ and paltry $100 and 1000$ payouts(let's pretend pounds since our lottery
is a let's make believe lottery isn't it), there can be regular payouts of wins of say as much as 25million, 50million,
dollars or pounds, and the the lesser values, all totaled up at any given time, in yet just one lottery, and then there are
many many others in the same provinces and so the system is in all the provinces there.
Then, let's total all the payouts up...........................and, we then discover, that in that tiny nation of
30million, they seem to have the population of two China's buying tickets just to pay for the winners! Indeed then there's yet the government
profits as well to take in to account!!That's just not millions, nor billions, that's TRILLIONS!!! And each year too!!!
My my, such vast money floating around a tiny miniscule insignificant nation with no discernable
economy! Imagine, what could be done were this lottery system could be applied in England, with it's much
greater of population!! Imagine yet, even Britain with it's vastly greater number of employed who can afford to buy lottery
tickets! The mind boggles just as does the thought of the vast currency so available all round in that
foreign welfare unemployed no economy nation!!!!!!
How does it all work? Why does it all work??It's all a monopoly, a monopoly game, using monopoly money!
So the game's afoot, we will apply more printing of government monopoly money and spread it all around and
make everyone in Britain part of the game,that's the name of the game....MONOPOLY!!!!And everybody will have
vast amounts of monopoly money, and if not, they can win it in the governments controlled lotteries!
Why imagine,such vast amounts money in British hands, money of such by comparison, magnitude which would result,
money such that Britain's regular lottery winners could afford to buy General Motors, Ford,General Electric,
Westinghouse,Boeing,Lockhead,Consolidated Edison, Exxon Oil etc. Somebody stop me!! Or Us!! Let them try!!
Britain could once again establish itself in internal industry and industry about the world.
Imagine if I could win, I could buy Australia outright and apply it as a vacation resort!!!
And so Britain would once more be employed,would once more own industries, and then the Blair,and similar governments,
could afford to sell the all again to the French and the Germans, not being able to think of little else.
But not if there was a total M.R.L. government, and all it takes is your vote....the M.R.L. Wants You!!...
to point our finger at as it's all your fault..........you're being fingered.............remember....when
you vote..........vote for me.........vote for me as your M.R.L. write-in candidate, and vote for change,for improvement,
for the betterment of the British people...anything less is utter..................lunacy.
Are you....................game?
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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MRL Walled City Flood Protection Plan
Well now, there have been interesting MRL projects and solutions to deal with the massive flooding England has
experienced, projects such as adapting and living with and in flood conditions, adapting to a total flood living
environment and living with it much as does Venice, then there are our drainage projects to drain flooding away.But
there is still one more method of dealing with floods that we really must consider, a method the ancients, our wise
engineering ancestors have taught us, their legacy of protecting the people. How you say?
Well........................Castles, our homes were and are our castles, but they lack what castles
had.....walls.....now it's a bit complex to ring each home, but imagine now, entire walled cities, as they were in
ancient times, but walled such as to be able to shut themselves in and keep the flood waters out!! Indeed we could have
flood doors at entry roads to the cities, and rail lines as well!! Shut these during times of flooding, and the entire
city is protected!! Ha! Problem solved!!
I'll bet you didn't think it was that simple, but it is!! What protected our ancestors, can work to protect us!
Ever onwards, we move forwards,looking back,moving forwards,with our backsides to the future.
Secret Squirrel,
M.R.L.,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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Bridges,The New outlook? Look Out!MRL Improved Bridge Engineering.
Well what's up with bridge collapses in North America?Canada and the United States that's what, and their engineers and designs,their ideas of a good cheap bridge, slap dash rapidly constructed. Well, to put it quite properly, it's problem is this urge to unitized construction, utilize the cheapest material possible,build for the future...........build one again in a few years to replace it,the North American engineering outlook! That's the problem.! That and not being able to ascertain that it is the time to change the bridges once more! yes! Indeed, taht's their problem! So, what do we do to see to it that it not become ours? Well now...............
The Romans' legacy to bridge building was the heavy masonry arch bridge, hundreds of which were built throughout Europe. In this, large stone blocks were wedged against each other to form an arch. The central stone at the top of the arch was known as the keystone. The finest surviving example of such a bridge is the Pons Fabricius in Rome. Completed in 62 BC, the bridge (now called the Ponte Quattro Capi) has two fine semicircular arches each spanning 78 feet. A small "relief" arch in the central sponging of the two main arches releases excess water in times of flood.Still standing and carrying modern traffic today, 2007, as are and do many such Roman designed,engineered and constructed bridges.
So prolific and efficient was Roman building that it was hundreds of years before Europeans took to bridge building anew. Then, in the 12th century Catholic priests and professionals took over the building of bridges because the Church recognized the advantages of good road communications in a developing society. In France a group of interested priests formed a new order, the Freres du Pont, to design and build lasting bridges. Most famous of this order's works was the Pont d' Avignon, built in 1177 over the Rhone River. It had 21 arches in all, the longest spanned 115 feet. Similarly in England it was Peter de Colechurch who designed and built the first stone bridge over the Thames, the famous London Bridge. Another was done by the architect-priest Giovanni Giocondo (c. 1433-1515) who used the segmental arch in Paris' first masonry bridge, built in 1507.These still standing, in use today,2007.
In 1878 the City architect Horace Jones proposed a bascule bridge. 'Bascule' comes from the French for 'see-saw', and a bascule bridge at street-level has two 'leaves' that can be raised on a horizontal axis to let ships pass on the river.
And so Tower Bridge was constructed, still standing an din use today,2007.
Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, who designed a structure that was built by Sir William Arrol's company between 1883 and 1890,Firth Of Forth bridge, a railway bridge true, but could be fitted with a road deck, and is still in use today,2007.
Well, obviously the ancients knew how to design bridges, how to build bridges.So what's with these collapsed bridges in North America? Well now, to avoid such occurrences in future on our side of the puddle, so must we simply turn to the ancients, build from and with the very best of lasting materials,and build the bridges exactly as they built them.....as they engineered them,making them longer in exact fashion as needed, exactly as they were designed,and we won't have any problem at all.
Secret Squirrel,
M.R.L.,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
pneumatic,subway,transportation,cannon,congestion,dams,lottery,lotteries,flood,protection,bridges,engineering
Secret Squirrel's great engineering projects, projects that rival the engineering and genius of The Great Engineer,Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Brunel once said,"If there's an engineer greater than me, I shall do pinwheels in my grave." Well, down at the cemetary, he's known as Pinwheel Ishie. See,read, the genius of Secret Squirrel and his engineering projects, projects for a better world. See the world of engineering from Secret Squirrel's great vision.
MRL Things of Political Atmospherics
Well now, the MRL is hardly full of air, hot or otherwise, but engineeringwise, we know how to generate a cyclone of interest in our engineering projects. Indeed, as we proceed in modern times with our backsides to the future, it was to posterity that we looked and found a new method of transportation technology that has fallen by the wayside.Obviously we cannot allow this to go unnoticed but must move forwards by taking steps backwards and applying this technology to subway(tube), and above ground transportation as it was intended to do, by men of great vision and foresight, the engineering plans dashed by men of futuristic hindsight who saw to it's failure.After all, you know, engineered vehicular transport devices that worked in the past, will work in the future as well.....
The great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was converted to atmospheric or pneumatic railways, first mooted in 1810, after witnessing a demonstration in Ireland in September 1844. The system, which had been patented in 1838, entailed the use of a cast-iron tube laid between rails, to which carriages were attached by a valve. Pumping stations powered by steam engines at the side of the track forced air out of the tubes, thereby creating a vacuum to one side of the carriages and an "atmosphere" to the other, thus propelling them along.
The Alfred Ely Beach Pneumatic Railway was New York City’s earliest subway. It had a single station located in the basement of the house located at the corner of Warren Street and Broadway.
Passengers were carried in a car pushed forward by the pneumatic pressure generated by a huge fan. At the end of the tunnel, near Murray Street, the car stopped. The rotation of the fan was reversed and the car was "sucked" back to Warren Street station.
I too, have been converted to atmospheric plans so intend to revive the genius of these two great engineers and combine it with my own grand engineering techniques. A major problem with the systems was the generation and loss of air it seems. Of course modern technology can be applied to solve these lossy gas problems.
Also the method of generation of air was not up to standards even in those days. Nowadays we have all learned, politicians axed the plans of these great men and they were were full of hot air,full of the air of nothing. Knowing this, I shall apply these political failures to become great successes, in short, we need air, politicians generate air, and also, let me tell you, politicians really suck. By stationing each operating day, politicians suitably in stations at each end of the system, there they can read their long winded speeches with the air of nothing, at one end they will blow out their hot air, and at the other, we will have the lot who really suck. By having mixed sets at each end, one set of each, and suitably having one set blowing air at one end, and at the destination end we will the set who really suck working..............so we will move our passenger cars through the system.
We will never be at a loss for air. So to will modern politicians be made to work for the people,if they can be gathered in a group, ball and chained, and whipped frequently!
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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The MRL Is Cannon
Well now, the City of London has been smiled on greatly through the centuries,especially with respect to the barrier of the Thames. Well The Thames is no barrier,bridges have been built across, the great Brunel's father started, and Brunel finished, a tunnel beneath the Thames, one which is still used to this very day, at least until the Heritage people get their hands on it whence it will be closed to preserve it from posterity, and whomever else might want to use it thereafter, in the hereafter. Indeed now there is even yet a proposal to have a , get this, cable car system across it. Well and good, no doubt there will be a great charge for this. I propose also to smile on the city of London, and present it with a great charge, but not a charge to those using my system to cross the Thames, indeed what I propose to do is to revive the sound idea of pneumatic cannon. These cannon still exist today, having been born out of attempts to hurl dynamite charges safely without exploding them to land on decks of ships and wherever and whatever and there to explode. Only air cannon could supply the safe cushion charge of air to hurl the projectile without exploding the dynamite in the barrel transit. This idea was thereafter toyed with, and developed to the form of circus cannon. Well, the idea is sound, and it is safe from an engineering standpoint, and INDEED has been safely proven,tested,and recorded on film, by A Thousand Clowns. Well, send in the clowns,again. We shall install a Air Cannon system on each side of the Thames, and for a minimal charge, I couldn't resist, fire them happily across to safely land in a net and there to proceed with their day's doings. It will be surely less taxing (Labor will no doubt initiate this one day we all suspect), than walking across by bridge, less taxing than driving across(you know, congestion tax, road tax), and surely as well take far far less time than the Cable Car system. It also will be enormously faster than either method once the cannon is fired you know. All that remains is for the MRL to be able to gift the already gifted people of London with a sound (chuckle,snort,chortle) air tight(yet more) engineering idea.Ever forwards we proceed with our backsides to the future.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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MRL Solves Congestion Charge Technologically.
Thousands of drivers from outside the UK are not paying London's congestion charge,but Britons are.And isn't it so that Tony Blair and his Labor Party are meaning to have you purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it. The tracking device will cost about £200(400$U.S.) and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28($56U.S.) for a rural florist and £194($388) for a delivery driver,then additionally. Is there a way out for the driving Briton, the government of Tony Blair, says "You all can go fly!!"......................and so, we just may.........
Roadable Aircraft - Aerocar Aerocar
Moulton B. Taylor dreamed of producing a roadable aircraft, which could be used as a family car and, as the need or inclination arose, have wings, tail and propellor quickly attached. After World War 2, Taylor set to work to produce such a vehicle, and by late 1949 a prototype Aerocar had flown.
On 13th December, 1956, the improved production Aerocar 1 received FAA certification. Four further Model 1s were built, for demonstration and sale. The six Aerocars so far built accumulated over 200,000 road miles and 5,000 flight hours. The final version was a much improved Aerocar III, converted from a model 1.
The car itself was a fairly conventional front-wheel-drive automobile. The power plant was an Avco Lycoming O-320 aircraft engine in the rear of the vehicle. This drove either the road wheels or, via an extended drive shaft in the detachable tail boom, a propeller to the rear of the Y-form tail structure. Braced monoplane wings were fitted in high configuration to the rear of the car. Unless the wings and tail boom were all correctly engaged, it was not possible to start the engine for flight.
Conversion from air to road could be achieved by one person in five minutes. The detached aircraft components could be towed behind the car in folding wheels fitted to the wing roots.
The Aerocar project ended with the passing of new legislation relating to automobiles in the United States. To meet 1970s requirements, the Aerocar would have to become too heavy and expensive to be practical.
And so the Hafner Rotabuggy was consigned to the better ideas of history past, and forgotten, till........................today.
Engineering work continued, militarily.............
and there came the Flying Jeep.
The work of the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment at Ringway, Manchester, on the Rotachute from 1940 onwards led to the suggestion that the free-wheeling autogyro principles employed could also be applied to larger loads. The designer, Raoul Hafner, suggested the Rotabuggy, a Jeep (or "Blitz Buggy") with rotors, and the Rotatank, a similarly modified Valentine tank. A development contract was placed with the M.L. Aviation Company at White Waltham in 1942, covered by specification 10/42.
Preliminary tests involved loading a Jeep with concrete and dropping it from heights of up to 7 ft. 8 in. (2.35 m.), demonstrating that the standard vehicle could survive undamaged from impacts of up to 11g. A 46 ft. 8 in. (12.4 m.) dia. two-blade rotor was then fitted, as well as a streamlined tail fairing with twin rudderless fins. Other additions were perspex door panels, a 'hanging' rotor control next to the steering wheel and a rotor tachometer and glider navigational instruments.
The Rotabuggy, camouflaged, carrying RAF roundels and a prototype "P", was tow tested behind a 4½ litre supercharged Bentley, and achieved gliding speeds of up to 65 mph (105 km/h) IAS.
The first flight was made on November 16, 1943. Later, some flights were made behind a Whitley bomber from Sherbourne-in-Elmet.
One witness described how she watched a Whitley take off with a Jeep in tow, circle and land. The Jeep, still in tow, did not touch down at the same time, and the witness realised that its occupants "were unhappy". With the pilot holding the hanging control column and the driver clutching the steering wheel, the Jeep made a series of up and down movements, whilst the audience hoped it would stall on a 'down' rather than an 'up'.
This it fortunately did, the driver taking over and driving flat-out after the Whitley, to which it remained attached. When it stopped, nobody got out for a while; the pilot was then assisted out and lay down beside the runway to recover. Apparently he was exhausted from trying to control the joystick, which had whipped in circles for the whole flight.
Apparently this flight was one of the worst, and the handling and flying qualities of the Rotabuggy were officially recorded as "highly satisfactory", especially when large tail fins had been fitted and greater rotor blade articulation provided. However, development of Horsa II and Hamilcar vehicle carrying gliders made further development of the idea unnecessary.
Now the existing technology could be applied and upgraded..................the time is now...............by reviving sutch a concept we could vastly reduce road traffic congestion, and just imagine, not being on a ROAD, the Labor government could not use and apply a road tax, nor could any other existing government of England. And now after having gotten this far in my proposal, you realize that it's certainly not a taxing engineering idea.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister for Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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M.R.L. Dam Building Technology.
Just look at the massive Three Gorges Dam built in Red China, took years to build, massive amounts of equipment and workers, all that problem diverting river water etc so the dam could've been built. Had Red China included the M.R.L. in the negotiations for construction, and engineering, it could've been built much cheaper, much faster and much easier. Yes quite simply it is in our nature to do things the easy way, let somebody else build it as long as we don't have to, build only when necessary. Indeed, what should've been done, is simply to have released beavers in
to the river(American beavers would've been used as they have sense to move when they cut down trees, many Canadian beavers are found squashed beneath trees simply because they haven't the wits to move themselves at the right time).
The beavers would then have started to dam up the river. We would've supplied the beavers with more and more materials with which to build the dam further. Now, this would've created the necessary working coffer dam, and the beavers would have continued to build it up and maintain it. Behind this, work on the concrete dam could thence have proceeded as planned, all in perfect safety and in a totally dry environment. When the dam was completed, we would then simply have slowly and properly, mind, blasted away the beaver dam. We could then, being kind in our natures to nature, and to appease any Greens complaints about things, taken the beavers and housed then suitably till they were required for yet another such project.
Secret Squirrel,
M.R.L.
Minister for Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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Ah Lotteries........................the very mechanism of it...the mind boggles...interesting it all is...................especially the multitudinous variety of payout ones existent in many lands, Canada for example, where,zounds and zooks, the very air abounds with lotteries at utterly unbelievable payouts, large and small in their structure, 15 20 million grand down to 35$ lowest for same lottery payouts etc etc etc et all,.........and the massive payouts in all of them, prizes unbelievable,unheard of large figures,great and to the smaller,even yet El Gourdo is a pittance in the colony of Canada............................well, what is the advantage of having these lotteries...........and how do they work.......
M.R.L. Lottery Policy
Lottery!!! LOTTERIES!!! Ah yes! the grand lottery, the great gamble where a little can get a lot.
Lotteries!! Gambling indeed! There's much money to be made in gambling, in lotteries, a great lot
all round, great for the lottery company, great for a winner. Great for a government, great when it
runs the lottery. There's much profit to be made, in running the lottery, taking more in than paying out,
as the system is supposed to work. But,how now? Let us examine a rather interesting system, a system run
in a foreign nation, the very foreign nation, the third world nation,the colony of Canada, that vast great
hinter land of the world.How do they run their lottery,profitably,profitably, and yet then more...........
how now.............
Firstly let us consider, it's all a monopoly, wherever it is, a government monopoly, a federal government
monopoly as their federal government runs theirs, then there's the lottery monopolies run by each of
their provinces(similar to Shires such as in our England). Each province has a lottery board which controls
the lotteries they run, to each their own, and to each the entire control, and,of course, collection of
lottery profits. Of course, the lottery must take more in than it pays out, to make a profit and keep
running.Evidently the system run by Canada and it's provinces is an expansion of the system run in Las Vegas
so it would make sense to adapt similar lottery rules,structures and government controls so nobody would
complain about it, after all it would profit the government(s), the winners,the people of the land, and this
the point isn't it, or at least, partly.
Now,how does a lottery run? Well, Firstly, people select numbers and buy tickets, in denominations of $10,
5 or 1, herein let us imagine it is pounds as it would be for here,Britain,our cash strapped nation which would
make money off it all just as they do in Canada, and the people who would have vast amounts of currency made
equitably available to the people,or rather winners, and, of course, profit money is applied to the government
itself for it to spend. So far we're all with it here. Now each lottery has a first prize, the grand prize, then
several prizes beneath that of lessening value, based on the grand prize level. We won't bother with the many tiny
payouts of extra tickets(lost revenues there),$1,10$ and paltry $100 and 1000$ payouts(let's pretend pounds since our lottery
is a let's make believe lottery isn't it), there can be regular payouts of wins of say as much as 25million, 50million,
dollars or pounds, and the the lesser values, all totaled up at any given time, in yet just one lottery, and then there are
many many others in the same provinces and so the system is in all the provinces there.
Then, let's total all the payouts up...........................and, we then discover, that in that tiny nation of
30million, they seem to have the population of two China's buying tickets just to pay for the winners! Indeed then there's yet the government
profits as well to take in to account!!That's just not millions, nor billions, that's TRILLIONS!!! And each year too!!!
My my, such vast money floating around a tiny miniscule insignificant nation with no discernable
economy! Imagine, what could be done were this lottery system could be applied in England, with it's much
greater of population!! Imagine yet, even Britain with it's vastly greater number of employed who can afford to buy lottery
tickets! The mind boggles just as does the thought of the vast currency so available all round in that
foreign welfare unemployed no economy nation!!!!!!
How does it all work? Why does it all work??It's all a monopoly, a monopoly game, using monopoly money!
So the game's afoot, we will apply more printing of government monopoly money and spread it all around and
make everyone in Britain part of the game,that's the name of the game....MONOPOLY!!!!And everybody will have
vast amounts of monopoly money, and if not, they can win it in the governments controlled lotteries!
Why imagine,such vast amounts money in British hands, money of such by comparison, magnitude which would result,
money such that Britain's regular lottery winners could afford to buy General Motors, Ford,General Electric,
Westinghouse,Boeing,Lockhead,Consolidated Edison, Exxon Oil etc. Somebody stop me!! Or Us!! Let them try!!
Britain could once again establish itself in internal industry and industry about the world.
Imagine if I could win, I could buy Australia outright and apply it as a vacation resort!!!
And so Britain would once more be employed,would once more own industries, and then the Blair,and similar governments,
could afford to sell the all again to the French and the Germans, not being able to think of little else.
But not if there was a total M.R.L. government, and all it takes is your vote....the M.R.L. Wants You!!...
to point our finger at as it's all your fault..........you're being fingered.............remember....when
you vote..........vote for me.........vote for me as your M.R.L. write-in candidate, and vote for change,for improvement,
for the betterment of the British people...anything less is utter..................lunacy.
Are you....................game?
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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MRL Walled City Flood Protection Plan
Well now, there have been interesting MRL projects and solutions to deal with the massive flooding England has
experienced, projects such as adapting and living with and in flood conditions, adapting to a total flood living
environment and living with it much as does Venice, then there are our drainage projects to drain flooding away.But
there is still one more method of dealing with floods that we really must consider, a method the ancients, our wise
engineering ancestors have taught us, their legacy of protecting the people. How you say?
Well........................Castles, our homes were and are our castles, but they lack what castles
had.....walls.....now it's a bit complex to ring each home, but imagine now, entire walled cities, as they were in
ancient times, but walled such as to be able to shut themselves in and keep the flood waters out!! Indeed we could have
flood doors at entry roads to the cities, and rail lines as well!! Shut these during times of flooding, and the entire
city is protected!! Ha! Problem solved!!
I'll bet you didn't think it was that simple, but it is!! What protected our ancestors, can work to protect us!
Ever onwards, we move forwards,looking back,moving forwards,with our backsides to the future.
Secret Squirrel,
M.R.L.,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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Bridges,The New outlook? Look Out!MRL Improved Bridge Engineering.
Well what's up with bridge collapses in North America?Canada and the United States that's what, and their engineers and designs,their ideas of a good cheap bridge, slap dash rapidly constructed. Well, to put it quite properly, it's problem is this urge to unitized construction, utilize the cheapest material possible,build for the future...........build one again in a few years to replace it,the North American engineering outlook! That's the problem.! That and not being able to ascertain that it is the time to change the bridges once more! yes! Indeed, taht's their problem! So, what do we do to see to it that it not become ours? Well now...............
The Romans' legacy to bridge building was the heavy masonry arch bridge, hundreds of which were built throughout Europe. In this, large stone blocks were wedged against each other to form an arch. The central stone at the top of the arch was known as the keystone. The finest surviving example of such a bridge is the Pons Fabricius in Rome. Completed in 62 BC, the bridge (now called the Ponte Quattro Capi) has two fine semicircular arches each spanning 78 feet. A small "relief" arch in the central sponging of the two main arches releases excess water in times of flood.Still standing and carrying modern traffic today, 2007, as are and do many such Roman designed,engineered and constructed bridges.
So prolific and efficient was Roman building that it was hundreds of years before Europeans took to bridge building anew. Then, in the 12th century Catholic priests and professionals took over the building of bridges because the Church recognized the advantages of good road communications in a developing society. In France a group of interested priests formed a new order, the Freres du Pont, to design and build lasting bridges. Most famous of this order's works was the Pont d' Avignon, built in 1177 over the Rhone River. It had 21 arches in all, the longest spanned 115 feet. Similarly in England it was Peter de Colechurch who designed and built the first stone bridge over the Thames, the famous London Bridge. Another was done by the architect-priest Giovanni Giocondo (c. 1433-1515) who used the segmental arch in Paris' first masonry bridge, built in 1507.These still standing, in use today,2007.
In 1878 the City architect Horace Jones proposed a bascule bridge. 'Bascule' comes from the French for 'see-saw', and a bascule bridge at street-level has two 'leaves' that can be raised on a horizontal axis to let ships pass on the river.
And so Tower Bridge was constructed, still standing an din use today,2007.
Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, who designed a structure that was built by Sir William Arrol's company between 1883 and 1890,Firth Of Forth bridge, a railway bridge true, but could be fitted with a road deck, and is still in use today,2007.
Well, obviously the ancients knew how to design bridges, how to build bridges.So what's with these collapsed bridges in North America? Well now, to avoid such occurrences in future on our side of the puddle, so must we simply turn to the ancients, build from and with the very best of lasting materials,and build the bridges exactly as they built them.....as they engineered them,making them longer in exact fashion as needed, exactly as they were designed,and we won't have any problem at all.
Secret Squirrel,
M.R.L.,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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