r/BeAmazed • u/chinese_spongebob1 • 6h ago

Skill / Talent How was this all calculated?

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u/Below-Average-528 4h ago

I used to know a guy who worked for a transportation company that specialized on large transports. Such a transport takes years of planning, coordinating with police, field trips to check the current state because a lot of maps are wrong and so on. Bridges may not be as strong as offically declared. You have to balance the cost of dismantling obstacles against the cost of taking another route or not doing the transport at all.

It's a crazy detailed process with almost no tolerance for mistakes. You really don't want to get stuck with some industrial vessel weighing hundreds of tons.

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u/TerponadeTea 4h ago

Yeah I would imagine the actual Space Shuttle being kind of a pain to have to detour around on the way to work if it got left there for a while

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u/Below-Average-528 4h ago

You could put it on some jacks and let people drive under it while you are figuring out what to do next. Or maybe build a museum around it.

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u/chef_in_va 2h ago

Everyone gets a free hardhat!