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Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 21:51:26 JST Wonder of Science

Timelapse of the Falkirk Wheel in action; the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world.
Video Credit: David Iliff / CC BY-SA 3.0
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel
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1. Timelapse video of the Falkirk Wheel, with its curved arms cradling water-filled gondolas rotating around a central axis, seamlessly raising and lowering vessels between the joining canals, all under an overcast sky that casts a soft glow on the wheel and the green landscape.
2. Falkirk Wheel
  
  The Falkirk Wheel (Scottish Gaelic: Cuibhle na h-Eaglaise Brice) is a rotating boat lift in Tamfourhill, Falkirk, in central Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. It reconnects the two canals for the first time since the 1930s. It opened in 2002 as part of the Millennium Link project. The plan to regenerate central Scotland's canals and reconnect Glasgow with Edinburgh was led by British Waterways with support and funding from seven local authorities, the Scottish Enterprise Network, the European Regional Development Fund, and the Millennium Commission. Planners decided early on to create a dramatic 21st-century landmark structure to reconnect the canals, instead of simply recreating the historic lock flight. The wheel raises boats by 24 metres (79 ft), but the Union Canal is still 11 metres (36 ft) higher than the aqueduct which meets the wheel. Boats must also pass through a pair of locks between the top of the wheel and the Union Canal. The Falkirk Wheel is the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world, and one of two working boat lifts in the United Kingdom, the other being the...
- Simon Forman (carapace@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 22:47:45 JST Simon Forman
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  @wonderofscience Humans are ridiculous and wornderful
  
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- Roderick (rvkennedy@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 22:47:52 JST Roderick
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  @wonderofscience it's "made in Scotland... from girders!"
  
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- Christopher Phin (chrisphin@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 23:09:28 JST Christopher Phin
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  - Kris :v_bi:
  @endali I live quite near the Falkirk Wheel and I’ve STILL never been. Do you know about the statue to the Kelpies? I think you’d like them and it!
  
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- nobody you care about (snepperstepper@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 00:33:36 JST nobody you care about
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  @wonderofscience i've always thought this is such a cool solution to that area's specific needs and requirements.
  
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- MadeInDex.org (madeindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 01:11:49 JST MadeInDex.org
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  @wonderofscience very cool engineering 😍
  
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- Rock'n'Roll_φapy 🔻 (rocknroll_papy@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 02:05:01 JST Rock'n'Roll_φapy 🔻
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  - Le_M_Poireau ⏚
  @Le_M_Poireau
  Pour encourager la #Teaminsomniaque ..
  
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- CB Wright (ubersoft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 03:07:15 JST CB Wright
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  @wonderofscience it very cool but it also hurts my brain when I try to comprehend it. It seems as if there's enough room in the path leading up to the wheel for a single boat going in a single direction, and the picture shows a boat departing on both top in bottom, going in opposite directions.
  So... how do they accommodate boats exiting the top wheel _and_ entering the top wheel? It doesn't look like there's enough room.
  
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- 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦 (methylcobalamin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 03:33:09 JST 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦
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  @wonderofscience
  Looks like a machine from a sci-fi movie.
  Travel time? Open a doorway in a multiverse?
  
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- Xema Blasco (xblasco@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 06:45:39 JST Xema Blasco
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  @wonderofscience Y yo he tenido la suerte de disfrutarlo.
  
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- Joan Mastodon (meta_physik@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 07:12:31 JST Joan Mastodon
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  @wonderofscience I saw this in action
  https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiffshebewerk_Saint-Louis/Arzviller
  But it's not so cool 😎
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