ROCKING BRIDGE
DINESH VORA
It's made with "inflatable modules, like giant life-preservers,
30 meters in diameter" and filled with
"3700 cubic meters of air."
Each of them have a trampoline mesh. In the central part
of each ring, a trampoline mesh is stretched.
Oh, and they got stairs and slides on both sides.
This bridge really rocks. A trampoline bridge! It may result in some broken necks and legs, that's the price you pay
for having a way to cross the river Seine jumping like
the Spider-Man. It is crossing the bridge
on a newer and more playful path across
the same river water.
It's a design by Atelier Zündel Cristea for a Paris bridge competition, which would be built near the existing
Bir-Hakeim Bridge
Once upon a time, there lived six blind men in a village. One day the villagers told them, "Hey, there is an elephant in the village today."
"Hey, the elephant is a pillar," said the 1st man who touched its leg.
"Oh, no! it is like a rope," said the 2nd man who touched the tail.
"Oh, no! it is like a thick branch of a tree," said the 3rd man who touched the trunk.
"It is like a big hand fan" said the 4th man who touched the ear of the elephant.
"It is like a huge wall," said the 5th man who touched the belly of the elephant.
"It is like a solid pipe," Said the 6th man who touched the tusk of the elephant.
They began to argue about the elephant and everyone of them insisted that he was right. It looked like they were getting agitated. A wise man was passing by and he saw this. He stopped and asked them, "What is the matter?" They said, "We cannot agree to what the elephant is like." Each one of them told what he thought the elephant was like. The wise man calmly explained to them, "All of you are right. The reason every one of you is telling it differently because each one of you touched the different part of the elephant. So, actually the elephant has all those features what you all said."
"Oh!" everyone said. There was no more fight. They felt happy that they were all right.
The moral of the story is that there may be some truth to what someone says. Sometimes we can see that truth and sometimes not because they may have a different perspective with which we may not agree. So, rather than arguing like the blind men, we should say, "Maybe you have your reasons." This way we don't get in arguments. Truth can be stated in different ways. This story teaches us to be tolerant towards others for their viewpoints. This allows us to live in harmony with the people of different thinking.
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