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[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 26 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Right, each time I see this picture pop up, it's like the words barge and dredging don't exist. Like this thing is seen as some damn cast away raft or some shit. This is fine. It's just different.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

If you showed a picture of a standard tower crane to someone with a decent understanding of physics but had never seen one before, they would similarly recoil and go "WTF why are you suspending a bunch of concrete blocks high in the sky on what looks like a pencil thin beam!" and it would take some explaining, OR it would take seeing it regularly for that person to become okay with it.

People don't see this every day, so they don't take it for granted, and therefore it looks insane. Just like tower cranes look insane.

[–] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 1 points 29 minutes ago

Looks like it's going to pick up Seattle's Space Needle. Quite insane. /c/confusingperspective

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 hour ago

This sketchy looking thing is safe, therefore all sketchy looking things are safe.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm familiar with both of those words. Ok also familiar with the idea of a lever-arm, and this one is too long for my sense of safety.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Most of the weight is at the bottom and you have to have the center of mass go outside of the base to tip over.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

The ez dock base is more flexible than say, concrete.

The centre of mass of the lift only needs to go outside the base of the lift, not the dock.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 hours ago

WDYM?

what does dredging have to do with this?

Barges also typically don't carry tall tipping over things with people on top, and are less flexible than this plastic thing.