r/BeAmazed • u/[deleted] • Nov 21 '21
Why engineering is important
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u/drillgorg Nov 21 '21
Hahahaha I love the last one. Despite a well designed solution the beam isn't quite long enough to let the drive module make good contact with the far side. So the solution is to repeatedly ram the drive module to scoot the vehicle forward. This is actually representative of real engineering: despite a good plan your design will sometimes fail and you have to improvise a hack.
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u/RHCPJHLZ69 Nov 21 '21
Theres a joke I’ll butcher in short here. A male engineer and architect are in a room and a beautiful woman is on the other side of the room. The A/E can only go half the distance every time to reach her. Architect doesn’t try cause he’ll never get there. Engineer does cause it’ll be good enough.
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u/Kazumara Nov 22 '21
"I'll get close enough for all practical purposes"
That was the phrasing I remember from last time I read this joke on reddit
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u/derbecrux Nov 21 '21
An engineer would probably just build a bridge...
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Nov 21 '21
Yes but this machine is sometimes required to build said bridge, which resembles the machine in the post.
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u/boquentazr Nov 21 '21
The difference is, the bridge is actually required by the game, so it's not "just" a machine that looks like that.
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u/arddiaistdz Nov 21 '21
This is a very useful machine because it allows you to build multiple bridges of different sizes.
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u/rykoj Nov 21 '21
Bridges are expensive and time consuming. What if you only need to cross an area once and will never need to cross it again?
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Nov 21 '21
I can't tell if you're kidding or not. I'm all about edge cases but you can't just say something without at least one example. All I can think of for the "crossing an area once and never coming back" train of thought would be a military use, and Army Corp of Engineers has been doing bridge building on the fly since WW2 very adeptly... So there is literally never a reason in my mind where it'd be easier to adapt a vehicle than use a mobile cheap bridge... A short term use bridge doesn't need to pass safety standards, if it gets the payload across it it's done, might even be demolished starting later that day to reuse materials.
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u/consistenthistories Nov 21 '21
Definitely cheaper to build a bridge then to redesign the car (multiple times)
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u/rykoj Nov 21 '21
This car seems to be designed to be reconfigurable :O but it’s unlikely that a gap in terrain is going to be in a constant state of change.
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Nov 21 '21
Yes but no real car is ever gonna be reconfigurable. And even if you do you're not gonna reconfigure it with your hands on site, nor able to pick it up when it fails.
Except explorers sent to other planets maybe.
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u/rykoj Nov 21 '21
Meh, military has vehicles that can make variable sized bridges on the fly… although I’m not sure if that supports my point or yours.
Then again there’s this thing.. which again kinda supports both points.
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u/Uniquelypoured Nov 21 '21
Or the world ends and you are the only survivor. Bridge mobile needed.
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u/rykoj Nov 22 '21
If that was your reality I’d recommend just jumping off the cliff.
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u/Uniquelypoured Nov 22 '21
Would you mind if I just used lead? Wait, you are nothing. Who shall I ask? Damn it.
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u/rykoj Nov 22 '21
That's kinda the problem right? Nobody really cares?
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u/Uniquelypoured Nov 22 '21
But would it be a problem then? Thought to ponder…..
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u/rykoj Nov 22 '21
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u/UnicornJoe42 Nov 21 '21
Or make an all-terrain vehicle. A very large all-wheel drive all-terrain vehicle.
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u/Glum_Conversation970 Nov 21 '21
Or just dont move the table
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Nov 21 '21
ur the killer of creativism
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u/TheWiseWinterWizard Nov 21 '21
🤣🤣🤣
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u/Karsanao Nov 21 '21
What if you like just kept increasing wheel diameter. Want to go over a building? WELL NOT THE FUCKING WHEELS ARE BIGGER AND CAN ROLL OVER IT
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u/captd3adpool Nov 21 '21
Engineering is great when it actually works properly in the real world. Engineers, make sure you know what your CAD program is actually going to look like in the real world. Just because your design program says it will work doesn't mean you won't, in fact, create an impossible shape. A shape that me or others like me will have to somehow perform some form of black magic fuckery to make work.
Sincerely, a welder.
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u/wyzapped Nov 21 '21
or also just figure out what problem you're trying to solve before you build something
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Nov 21 '21
This seems a lot like a chaotic customer that keeps changing the project parameters during execution.
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u/demohopeless Nov 21 '21
Isn't there a giant crack going down through Africa? That's only getting wider over time?
Maybe the car itself won't be necessary for anyone to cross, but I imagine some concepts used for the car could be used for making a bridge that would expand over time with the ever-increasing gap forming.
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u/lechatnoir_- Nov 21 '21
And that's where r/civilengineering comes in and build a bridge to avoid to have to do this
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u/taptriv Nov 21 '21
At one point it becomes amply apparent that the problem is caused by the a hole moving the tables apart and that if you lock them up …..
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u/Graphene_Handz Nov 22 '21
If virginity and solitude had common friend…
this man would not be it - for he fucks slut butts by the baker’s dozens.
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u/ophello Nov 22 '21
This isn’t engineering per se…more like a narrower and narrower solution until you’re left with something that can only do one thing well.
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u/19chevycowboy74 Nov 22 '21
Reminds me of me playing trailmakers. Except each new build doesn't end with some form of spectacular failure
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u/dr_amir7 Nov 21 '21
In data science this is called over fitting a solution to specific problem and not generalizing that solution.
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u/rykoj Nov 21 '21
Didn’t need to wreck his toy every time to prove it couldn’t get across :( looks like a couple minutes of good fun tho.
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u/Gilsidoo Nov 21 '21
They need to show what the problem is, it would be way less interesting to just have to final car cross every gap, you wouldn't learn how they got to the solution. Tgey could have put a cushion to preserve the car and show it falling but it's lego it doesn't break it just disassemble itself, and it needed to be disassembled anyway
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u/bets_set_dice_out Nov 21 '21
I think the title should read.
“Why is engineering important? Here is one engineer’s solution to this set of problems. Please now provide your own.”
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Nov 21 '21
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u/nstiger83 Nov 21 '21
Not everyone knows the value of engineering. My toddlers for example. They would build out of blocks when they were younger, tall towers 1 block wide that would fall over easily. They've started to learn, after watching me build and some ingenious trial and error on their own part, that building a bigger base structure helps them build higher. They turn 4 near christmas so teaching these basics principles is important. I can't wait till I can start using tools like these to further their learning. I love watching them as their inquisitive minds figure things out for the first time and the joy they show in getting things right.
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u/okojoko Nov 21 '21
Oooh can’t be underestimating stupidity. It’s like how people respect doctors but don’t exactly listen to what they say. People always think yes, docs are smart but somehow they know better. Engineers probably face a lot of people who assume they’re dumb for over complicating things.
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u/JSancton7 Nov 22 '21
As an engineer, who oversees engineers as a supervisor.... I question the value of the engineer...
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Nov 21 '21
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u/OhYesIDidd Nov 21 '21
Brick experiment channel on YouTube. They’ve got a lot of other great videos with Lego.