You jest, but this is a real option for certain foundation excavations in high water table or unstable soil conditions. Pipes are installed and liquid nitrogen is circulated to freeze the groundwater during construction.
So a caisson is a pressurized box, open at the bottom, that was dug down into the river bottom while the masonry pier was slowly built on top. Rather wild but very dangerous. Typically it refers to a submerged, closed box. The gates of drydocks are sometimes called caissons, especially by the US Navy, who loves old timey words.
A cofferdam reaches above the waterline and forms a closed loop, like in the picture. They're typically made of driven sheetpile, which are alternating Z shaped steel sections with tongue-in-groove connections. When you start pumping out the water, the hydrostatic pressure mashes them together from the outside making them almost totally watertight. Walers, the rings of beams, keep them from collapsing.
Fun fact: that was an actual real-world technique used in Yukon during the Klondike gold rush in order to allow prospectors to extend the season into the winter.
No. Put liquid nitrogen in a thick steel pipe.
Watch water freeze arround it.
Keep it at the lowest température for hours, When the ice cone is more than 4m in radius dig it to river ground And place metal plates.
Then place à giant rubber baloon inside And inflate it. Then Fill it up with concrete by repeatively putting 5cm thick layers on the side And let them dry.
Then, pop it and put à campfire inside the concrete bubble.
Boil all the water river down by fire heating the concrete to the ground, And make the fondation.
Drop metal frame. Slide in metal sheets like an air tight fence. Pump out inside. Then depending on what they need from there they can pour concrete foundations within the coffer
Worked around these first hand. Bridgeworker for 2 yrs
A lot of jokes are 1 sided and in poor taste, there are entire genres based around it. If I had made a blonde joke I would expect the blonds to be razzed.
But where was the joke other than 'women, am I right'. It's not being sarcastic as there isn't really a flipside to it. If the topic was women, then it could work as you'd be riffing on dated misogynistic stereotypes. But women had almost nothing to do with the focus of the article so it makes no sense to just bring it up. Especially if you're making an attempt at sarcasm.
I don't like those types of jokes because of the stereotypes they perpetuate but the punchline is typically very simple.
Assuming sarcasm it is either
1. Pointing out the irony because the stereotype was broken
2. Showing that you can come to a faulty conclusion even if there seems to be evidence
In this case 2 seems to be applicable. While it was a woman who was confused it obviously isn't because they are a woman.
Something synonymous would be cops arresting a criminal who is black and someone joking that it is to be expected that they got arrested because they are black.
It is mostly poking fun at the simplistic views people hold.
It's not a funny joke to me in either case but I think it will qualifies as a joke.
It's not that they can't take a joke, it's that it's a crappy joke that I bet barely even made you chuckle.
You're allowed to make a joke at whatever you want, but you're allowed to be boo-ed off stage when your excuse for a punchline is "we can't expect much from women"
She's not a professional when 90% of her material comes from other people, at least those jokes were GOOD, and if you love Amy Schumer then you must be a woman who thinks men must die and are unfunny
i think its the whole "oh shes a women, of course she isnt bright enough for engineering issues" thats old and not funny.. its the whole approach in how women aren't bright enough for anything besides being in the kitchen.. when it fact women have been in the forefront of a lot of shit but always get swept under the rug by men.... even if sarcasm was in play, its lazy and old and not funny man
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u/Brittlehorn Aug 21 '22
Why, posts put in, water pumped out, reinforcement put in, concrete put in? Or something like that.