[ExI] wastefulness, was: RE: shelf life of drugs

[David Lubkin]

Eugen wrote:

>The wear scales exponentially with mass. This is why ultra-heavy trucks
>shouldn't exist.

When I lived in Israel, the main road from Tel Aviv to Haifa was at
the end of our driveway. Asphalt on top of a route that has been
used for at least five thousand years. In the first days of the Yom
Kippur War, trucks were used to transport hundreds of tanks up to
the Golan Heights (probably from the Central Command, since
Jordan wisely stayed out of the war).

It was cool watching them go by, but the trucks left ~5" ruts behind
on the northward side of the road. Getting them to the front ASAP
was worth the damage; they took a slower, less destructive way
back when the war was over.


-- David.