Julie Thurston, who lives near the Jessen Bridge, threads the red ribbon that was cut during the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the bridge into the safety rail as a decoration.
Spiders that build the familiar orb-shaped web usually start with a single superstrength strand called a bridge thread or bridge line.
A single bridge thread may be left in place overnight to mark a spider's territory and a desirable starting spot for building a web the next day.
The centre, or hub, of the web is established when the spider returns to the bridge with a thread and carries it partway across the bridge before securing it; this thread is the first radius, or spoke.
The spider then descends from the centre of the bridge, securing a thread on the ground or on a twig.
During the wild ride out -- All the people on the morning trip got sick!" Tom Eckstein, the captain, yells down gleefully from the bridge -- Ross threads outriggers starboard and port for surface fishing, then places a steel ball on the stern downrigger to make the bait -- a three-inch fish called ballyhoo -- stay close to the bottom when we fish in the 300-foot depth about 10 miles out.
This year, "The Bridge" has several story threads to establish in the early going, but there's a sureness and purpose to the proceedings that was missing at times in Season 1.
The Bridge pulled together dangling plot threads from a clutch of preceding episodes: bringing back Mike (and his son Ace) from the pilot, reintroducing fashion-forward test subject recruiter Raina (Ruth Negga) from The Girl in the Flower Dress and suggesting that the head-wrecking cybernetic implants from Eye-Spy were all part of the same overarching conspiracy.
It is also shown that both the shape of the bridge and that of the liquid thread are profoundly affected by shear-thinning behavior.
Furthermore, in the case of low-viscosity bridges, the axial location along the thread at which the bridge breaks switches from the vicinity of the bottom of the bridge to its top and then back to its bottom again as U is increased.
