DiamondzAndGunz
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of course it's vague... im trying to keep from giving away the answer....
ahh! what happened to your avatar!
@ crackedcrystal: right, i knew that... of course...
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of course it's vague... im trying to keep from giving away the answer....
ahh! what happened to your avatar!
@ crackedcrystal: right, i knew that... of course...
Re: Avatar. . . decided to make my own. I don't think I've seen anything like that here before, so it appealed to my sense of uniqueness. 
Edit: Besides, ever try to make a drawing at 65x65? Edit edit: It took me over 100 posts to decide to change my avatar. When I hit 300, I coudn't wait to change it. . . . never found something I like, i guess.
Something better than someone else. . . .I keep coming back to swimming.
It occurs to me that you could load the cable onto a log way upstream, and hopefully guide it over to the other side, where they're waiting with the appropriate machines to catch it. . .
It's something stupid and obvious, isn't it?
Edit: Besides, ever try to make a drawing at 65x65? Edit edit: It took me over 100 posts to decide to change my avatar. When I hit 300, I coudn't wait to change it. . . . never found something I like, i guess.Something better than someone else. . . .I keep coming back to swimming.
It occurs to me that you could load the cable onto a log way upstream, and hopefully guide it over to the other side, where they're waiting with the appropriate machines to catch it. . .
It's something stupid and obvious, isn't it?
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well, it's not as obvious as some of the other ones ( like the train one ). It requires a bit of thinking. The water is too rough for swimming; too risky for logging.
). It requires a bit of thinking. The water is too rough for swimming; too risky for logging.Dig a tunnel under the river? But how would you get the cable up, unless you designed it to cut through the river bed. Nah. . . wouldn't work.
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Sorry, funny.Build the bridge someplace else? Where it isn't as violent?
You know, it occurs to me that getting the cable across the river using an airplane (assumed, you never said what it was, it could very well be a helicopter, which would work fine) would require a lot of cable, more than a small airplace could easily carry. . . .
Can't go over it, can't throw it over, can't go under it, can't go through it. . . This is starting to piss me off. . . I'm going to hate the answer, aren't I?
You know, it occurs to me that getting the cable across the river using an airplane (assumed, you never said what it was, it could very well be a helicopter, which would work fine) would require a lot of cable, more than a small airplace could easily carry. . . .
Can't go over it, can't throw it over, can't go under it, can't go through it. . . This is starting to piss me off. . . I'm going to hate the answer, aren't I?
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Yes, you will definately hate the answer. Unfortunately, the way this thread works, you don't get the answer until someone else figures it out. So you're gonna probably hate it even more by then... 
I'm temped to disquailfy myself from this answer and have you PM it to me. . . but I haven't given up yet. . .
Dam the river. . . .
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I figured you did, I just saw the oppertunity to crack a joke
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Must resist the pilot in me saying otherwise.... do not go into physics of ground effect... willpower failing... return to riddle topics....
whew, close one
It depends on the cable.
DOH! it slipped out.
Yeah, the cable thickness occured to me too. If you had a smaller cable, you could go with a smaller plane. But I'm thinking that you would have to take off right at the one side, and either deploy the cable or have it attached to the other side. . . Deploying the cable has all kinds of problems with it. Tying the cable to the ground on one side isn't exactly brilliant, either.
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crackedcrystal: has to be a pretty thick cable; its a large, raging river, and the cable has to be one of just a couple to hold up a suspension bridge. Yeah, I doubt it would be pretty easy for a light aircraft to do. But then again, I'm no pilot... 
@turner: no, theyre not gonna dam the river just to put up a suspension bridge...
@turner: no, theyre not gonna dam the river just to put up a suspension bridge...
D&G: not necessarily. . . a 'pilot cable' could be sent over first, to pull a thicker one over.
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Ahh, and with that you are getting closer to the true answer.
See how im leading you guys along?
How about flying a kite over?
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Bingo. Now just put it all together in the form of a riddle answer.
What is a kite, Alex? Seriously, they used a kite to ferry the cable over. (Actually, i was talking to my wife about this, she suggested it. So instead of thinking like a child, I should have been thinking like a woman. . . )
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Originally posted by DiamondzAndGunz
But then again, I'm no pilot...
uh oh, you realesed the beast, because I am
A plane flying in ground effect (within half its wingspan from the ground) can carry a great deal more payload then it could flying at altitude. You could probably could load about 1000 pounds minus the weight of the pilot, into a 4 seat airplane and fly at an altitude of 10 feet (you would crash if you tried to go higher than 20 or so). This could be increased by the fact you do not have to hold the entire rope on board the aircraft. It could be spooled on one side of the river. The problem would be avoiding the cable from tangling in flight.
ahhhh... that felt good to say
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@turner: what I WANTED you to say, was that the contest held was a kite flying contest, and the boy flew a string across the river, with which they later set up the cables n all.
@crackedcrystal: yes, I was hoping to get that out of you. always curious about things that I have no idea whatsoever about. but, you must then also take this into consideration with this riddle: this would be one of the first aircraft ever build. would it be able to carry heavy suspension cable across a river, ground effect or not?
@crackedcrystal: yes, I was hoping to get that out of you. always curious about things that I have no idea whatsoever about. but, you must then also take this into consideration with this riddle: this would be one of the first aircraft ever build. would it be able to carry heavy suspension cable across a river, ground effect or not?
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