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Manifestor_of_Light

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Fri Sep-21-07 03:30 AM
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155. Eero Saarinen was a genius.

I've been to the arch and up into the observation deck. I'm no engineer but I've read some about how it was designed and seen a TV show about how it was built. Just amazing, and a lot more interesting than your standard boring phallic obelisk dedicated to some dead white guys who slaughtered lots of natives, after invading and stealing their land.

Hey! Gateway to the West, huh??

But still it is the coolest engineering marvel I've ever seen.

It's not a parabola, it's a catenary arch. That means it's modeled after how a chain would hang.

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