(September 29, 2015 at 10:33 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Are bridge questions OK ??
In the same vein (but the other way) of post #5, why isn't the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge considered to be 946 (m/l) feet tall instead of 746 ??
(the water is 200+ feet deep where they built the south tower, height is height, no?)
I would guess that it is for a reason similar to the fact that basements and foundations below ground do not normally count in height.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
