2 days ago hmmmmmmmmm

Why would they be sensitive about it? I can't imagine there is any information (regarding how their tests work and what their findings are) that they shouldn't be open about.

Ok I'm sure you have a DeLorean

But But....

Tom Scott has this video been private or unlisted or whatever for two days? That’s my theory haha

Hi Practical Engineering!

269 flat earthers dislike this video 00:30

You are the reason I’m aiming for civil engineering when I go to college. Thank you for all your videos

Ur jealous of a bridge?

@@fbi7817 who wouldn’t be? Big, strong, hundreds depend on it for something it can easily provide, gets a full team of carers to make sure it doesn’t get too out-of-shape.

Bit like me lyk

Really? Then by god I’ll be trustworthy in 6 years time. I’m studying to become a mechanical engineer

Some would say just behind a Scots accent. Not me. I'm a Tyke!

Surveys have actually proven that Yorkshire and Scottish accents are some of the ones people trust the most when they're told to instinctively rate accents. They don't want us flying planes (I think the best accents for pilots were decided to be some variety of Southern, Edinburgh, and possibly also a Welsh accent?) but they definitely want us in charge of their engineering projects. (Yorkshire lass here - grew up a handful of miles away from the Humber Bridge(

@@aim-to-misbehave5674 Presumably the Liverpudlian accent is someways back.

Did I just learn something from a KZfaq comment?!

Are you pulling my cable or wot mate? 10/10 comment, thanks for sharing

That is what was used on the Golden Gate bridge too. This bridge design is rubbish, hence why we don't see new bridge built like that.

I've never met a smart mountain biker

@@Narayan_Patki you now have

The bridge isn't technically in Hull ;) from Barton to Hessle, but you probably know that

@@Roblilley999 You're the center of the party, aren't you?

I've been to that bridge and Hull. The bridge is better.

Don't forget Peniston

Don't forget Scunthorpe (in b4 "please forget Scunthorpe")

It's actually a good reason to climate-control a workshop or garage, especially in particularly humid climates. And as a side-benefit it cools off the space so it's more pleasant to work in.

It’s more useful than the polynomials stuck in my brain and the way my algebra 2 teacher tried to relate it to real life by asking one of the girls in my class “what if you are tending to your horses and there are 2 solutions?”

Chaitanya Singh you’ve got that a bit muddled, water-based corrosion CANNOT occur below 40% relative humidity :)

@@SamM-od3id oh shoot, my bad

@@alexls1923 what the hell does that mean?

bUt ThE eArTh Is FlAt

Take this flat earth society!

@@lizardlegend42 The earth is Fiat? Ah, that explains the corrosion! ;-)

@@CheshireTomcat68 the earth being a fiat certainly explains why we're trying to get to mars

Flat earthers: *Angry mumbling*

The ideal solution would be vacuum but alas hehe. I also enjoyed when someone said you cannot skid over water while driving below 60km/h. That also stuck.

@@JuraIbis Vacuum might cause other problems such as off-gassing. Things like leather, wood and paper would be extra brittle.

@@JuraIbis For some reason I think leather would not do well in a vacuum. Probably has some needed moisture and being in a vacuum will bring that out. I do suppose if you aren't continually removing moisture from the initial vacuum sealing then it'd be fine.

@@JuraIbis I don't think that comment about not skidding below 60km/h is correct.

The more you know! Thank you!

kerbls*

@@justintempert2882 Yes, it took me a while to figure that one out.

If it's good enough for my copy of Double Dragon, it's good enough for 17,000 tons of road.

A good blow will fix a lot of things

B T we don’t really have a distinctive accent and only a small minority of us use them sentences.

@@lukechapman8550 we have a ridiculously strong accent

@@lukechapman8550 You don't have BT either.

Terry Dickinson unfollowed no

@@tangjtl499 read the comment again

Motor bikers go free! Surely they should charge every other bike?

Tolls are theft!

Arent you giving away most of you money to the gov in the form of taxes anyway? In the UK

@@Virolaxion Two lines. One for evens and one for odds.

@@civishamburgum1234 Well in this case the tolls go towards the upkeep of the bridge, so no, no it isn't. You want to use the bridge, you should contribute to its maintenance.

🎶We flew a kite in a public place🎶

so this is why KZfaq insisted that I watch this. because I watched 10 illegal things about 4 times.

@@Tomensnaben 🎶 we flew a kite in a public place 🎶

Two drums a cymbal and a cliff

​@spookq we flew a kite in a Publiccc place

Al Bert The bridge got privatised 20yr ago so maintenance became low on the list.

Concrete in tension is always a white knuckle subject. Totally dependent on the rebar, the pre-stressing, and of course the right stuff on the re-bar to prevent it slowly corroding away in the concrete.

Something similar happened to the aricebo telescope recently

@Tin Watchman it had gotten an update when the bigger floating part was put on top

Can't wait for them to go into space.

Kerbals are a mix between gerbals and cables.....I wonder how they managed to get them to mate ha ha

Gerbils

I was but worried about them cutting up about 5 meters of Kerbal... At least we now know why Kerbals are so short.

Nooo, not Jebediah!

ikr, 2020 is 6 months away Our perception of time is weird af

That must be incorrect. Everybody knows 1990 is roughly 10 years ago... always was, always will be...

@@antivanti Imma be 31 soon, time to add _'most painless way to commit suicide'_ to my bucket list

LENTE HORA, CELERITER ANNII (an hour passes slowly, the years pass quickly) is an inscription sometimes found on sundials. It gets bleaker with every passing year.

The older you get time does indeed travel more quickly, yet they say time travel is impossible, the people that say this must be young!

*Think of the I-10 bridge in Lake Charles, Louisiana where they've had to reduce it to 1 lane each way at 55 mph to reduce stress on the bridge because the main structural members are splitting, and the bridge has been pending a rebuild for 20 years due to lack of funding. Legitimately, that bridge could collapse catastrophically tomorrow.

@@brentsnocomgaming7813 I know, right? I mean, I don't really wanna get too political, but some people *_still_* act like the Infrastructure Bill - meant to upkeep and renovate the US freeways, railways, city infrastructure etc. - is just "reckless spending" and the "government being wasteful". It's like, come on, after the Florida condo collapse it became glaringly obvious how dire the situation is. Some of our structures hadn't been assessed or checked on since at least a dozen years

Mackinaw Bridge in Michigan...

To sum up a documentary I watched recently in my own words most of the dams in the US are going to fail soon due to old age and lack of upkeep.

It's far more important to give tax breaks to billionaires who already have more than they can spend in 100 lifetimes.

The good old Hull('ull) accent.

Maybe I've lived in Hull too long but it just sounds normal to me

Sounds normal to me but I've never lived anywhere but Hull lmao

The good old Manley accent :D

A humble Tom on a Humber top..

That's what I call a humble bundle.

Nice

It's almost as if game mechanics are based off real life...

@@idot3331 Ah, I always forget about the fact that I can irl summon lightning with my enchanted trident to strike a pig in order to turn it into a zombie pig.

After 2 years. I am prepared to use this... /gamemode creative didn't work..

@@Deneberus You have an enchanted trident in real life??

Dubbed over?

@@KrikitKaos certainly not, with the right equipment, cutting out wind noise entirely is relatively easy.

@@jsalexjs22, like fluffy mics?

I agree.

Also seems slightly off because the video is slightly out of sync with the audio. Only slightly though

I wonder if it was difficult to get the permission to fly the drone there (considering there's car traffic in the bridge).

@@zmast333 I don't think so

The bridge isn't real, this was all done on a movie set. 😉

@@thehiddenninja3428 Hahaha.

@AlexGRFan97 except it only proved to the people that already know the answer. It's like any ideology (for example religion) it will be resisted almost always, no matter how much data is presented.

@@jries77 Woosh!

Maybe the towers aren't exactly straight and THAT is why they are a few centimeters different.

The deck between towers weighs 17000 tons, the entire Humber Bridge weighs over 500000 tons.

They didn't use metal though, did they,stone and concrete doesn't corrode, it simply weathers slowly away

Except actually the Humber bridge is a complete waste of money since there is little of interest on the south side. Traffic volumes are still way below what was predicted. The entire bridge was a bribe by politicians looking to win a general election. They even created a new county called Humberside to cover both sides, but gave up on that after a few years. At the risk of insulting people on the south side, it is a bridge to nowhere. They should have stayed with the ferry. When this bridge reaches the end of its life it likely will not be replaced, unless the situation has changed dramatically. It's a fine bridge, shame they built it here.

@@owensmith7530 as someone raised in the middle of nowhere NY, most of us know its the middle of nowhere and its not really an insult. (Personally i prefer the middle of nowhere to urban and suburban but to each their own) Edit: looking at the area on Google earth you are 100% correct, the area south of the bridge is mostly farm country. And about 17km / 10mi upstream the river forks (merges?) And those 2 rivers would definitely be much easier to bridge over. Personally i would say a 10mi drive is almost nothing, it would add about 20 min to your trip to detour to, so a ferry would just have to beat that in frequency to be more convenient, realistically the drive would be a bit longer since i just followed the center of the river and not the road network. It also looks to be the only bridge from their to the ocean, which is about 40km down stream, its hard to tell when UK rivers tend to get super wide and not have a distinction between river and bay. (I was shocked to learn the massive bay between whales and Cornwall is considered a river for its entirety)

@@jasonreed7522 The Humber estuary is too wide to bridge anywhere further downstream than this bridge. Also the water is fast flowing and the river bed constantly shifting, so more modern bridge designs like cable stay with multiple piers are not possible on this river.

A solution to your crumbling infrastructure terrifies you? What?

@@IkeOkerekeNews no, the thing that terrifies me is that we don't spend money on infrastructure, and thus don't employ solutions like this.

Actually you do. Dehumidification systems have recently been fitted to the Cheapeke Bay Bridge, the Delaware Memorial Bridges, 10th Street Bridge in Pittsburgh and the Angus L MacDonald Bridge in Halifax, NS.

Nick Lamb 9% of bridges in the U.S. (over 50,000) are classified as 'structurally deficient' and our infrastructure is graded at a D+ (but 4 bridges got fixed, only 49,996 left to fund)

@@nicklamb1454 let's not pretend Americans know what Nova Scotia is

Ah Italy, birthplace of the largest empire in Antiquity, great food, great art, and cant build bridges or win wars.

Came looking through the comments for ponte Morandi, was not disappointed.

I haven't heard of it, someone want to brief me? I have a feeling Google won't be brief

@@andrerenault A highway bridge colapsed due to corrosion in Genova, a major city in Italy, currently that segment of the highway is unaccessible limiting the traffic from the southern part of france.

turbodeeznuts The bridge in Genova, Italy collapsed exactly because this sort of care was not taken and there was apparently corrosion found in the cables and support structure.

The name of the game is "Kerbal Spares Progrum".

You actually get used to the height fairly quickly if you are doing it all day.

Italy strikes again!

Matthew Marsden it’s not often we get something about the positives of Hull

@@ro5alia surprised there hasn't been a documentary on the spice heada of Queens Gardens yet to be honest!

next thing you'll say that this was just pre-sale maintenance, won't you?

Except that it's queued up for publication a week or more in advance 😉

Gryph Lane woosh

@@GryphLane this time it was a couple of days, not a week Ha!

same! :D

Nathaniel Little i’d so watch a Tom video about how they keep that ice wall frozen

*Harvard wants to know your location*

Won’t hold up the bridge either

@@oxybrightdark8765 Let's think inside the box here--build a shoebox around the bridge, build a bed on top, and voilà, a bridge that won't corrode.

specially if its the world cup

Well it will corrode, you just won't notice or care

That bridge was in Genoa, not Geneva.

You thought about rescuing him too?

Lad

They should bring it back with Tom as the host!

1Slamalama1 yep. They tried doing Dirty Jobs while obviously avoiding being Dirty Jobs (Discovery owning the IP, brand, etc) and it didn’t work as well. Hard to know how much CNN dumbed the show down, but it always felt as if it was missing the - spirit? of Dirty Jobs.

Its not exactly exciting. Did this job on the forth road bridge last year. A lot of swinging sledge hammers for hours on end and not much else

@@DarthTella Tom and Matt - Dirty Jobs International. It would be awesome!

they jinxed it

@M M I’m just imagining a GTA 5 mod that goes horribly wrong, where a bus goes a couple hundred meters off the path. Vertically. And the driver inside is perfectly calm