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waiseristy
2025 days ago
Probably best to compare Arecibo to a suspension bridge instead
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est31
2025 days ago
Golden Gate bridge is 887 000 tons:
https://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/01/us/golden-gate-bridge-fas...
So around 1000 times as heavy.
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azdle
2025 days ago
That sounds like the weight of the whole thing, not just the suspended part.
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radicaldreamer
2025 days ago
I think the Golden Gate Bridge is massively overengineered (although nobody really knows) because materials engineering wasn’t super advanced back then.
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So around 1000 times as heavy.