RSSThis will never happen because it will cause the collapse of graduate programs in engineering. When I was in graduate school in engineering I was one of two whites in a program of about 50 students, and that was in the 1980s. Many graduate departments now have no white students and are filled with 100% foreign students, large numbers of whom are from China.
The US desperately needs an industrial education policy that encourages students to study the hard sciences and engineering. Universities give free ride scholarships to hundreds of thousands of student athletes who participate in sports that nobody watches, funded by the revenue from football and men’s basketball. As a matter of national industrial policy, students who test into engineering programs should be offered free rides in undergraduate school and offered a healthy stipend to attend graduate school.
Credit to Cotton and Trump for raising the issue.
I never tire of watching that video, but actually the winds aren’t really gusting that hard. You can see at about 1:08 that the men walking are wearing hats, and they don’t even need to hold them to keep them on their heads.
This is a classic example of a cyclic force applied at a resonance frequency. It wasn’t high wind speeds that brought down the bridge; it was that the wind gusts just happened to be blowing at a frequency that corresponded to the natural resonance frequency of that bridge span. The best analogy to make is that of pushing someone on a swing. We intuitively know when to apply force to the swing to match the resonance frequency of the swing, so that every push sends the swing higher.
That bridge was a suspension bridge, so the bridge span is effectively a swing, and the wind gusts were blowing at a frequency that perfectly matched the resonance frequency of the bridge span. Every wind gust added to the energy in the system, resulting in undulation and collapse.
This doesn’t diminish your point. There’s no fixing America at this point in time.