The Beipanjiang Bridge

Mother Nature Network, email description ^

[Doogle]

...let’s see what happens with an earthquake

[Daniel Ramsey]

Its only as strong as its fasteners and for some weird reason China reguses to use quality steel in its fastener exports, or maybe they do but send us the cheap crap. Advertised Grade 8 but barely gets a grade 5 in tests.

[PGalt]

Impressive looking. Thanks for posting.

[pgkdan]

My late wife would nearly have a panic attack crossing the Delaware Memorial Bridge...I’m sure she’d have gone into cardiac arrest going over that thing!

[who knows what evil?]

The height doesn’t bother me as much as ‘Chinese engineering technology’.

[RedStateRocker]

I’d like to bungee or BASE jump off of that!

Cool!

[Uncle Sam 911]

No thanks.

[left that other site]

Check out today’s WFT Thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3510248/posts

Puts a different spin on Chinese Engineering! :-(

[RayChuang88]

The Chinese had no choice but to do a lot of advanced engineering when they built out their China Rail High-speed (CRH) high-speed rail system. This is especially true in the mountainous western half of China.

[yarddog]

Until I was around 7 I was terrified of crossing bridges. I guess I just grew out of it.

[US_MilitaryRules]

https://youtu.be/RAv9IIi6e2Y

[Fresh Wind]

Galloping Chingling?

[lurk]

A windy gorge combined with the vibration of traffic and high quality Chinese steel. What could go wrong?

[Rebelbase]

How long before someone base jumps it?

[who knows what evil?]

The line starts at post #7.

[wbarmy]

I think the high level of terrace farming is what is really interesting. What must the pressures be for food in that country to risk terraces that high on mountains?

[Wallace T.]

Give the Chinese some credit; at least they are building public engineering works. Our public works are old, and we are not building new projects. For example, the longest vehicular underwater tunnel in this country is over 60 years old (Brooklyn Battery Tunnel in NYC.) At one point it was the longest in the world. China, Japan, and Europe have long surpassed this record.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I don’t see an arch in the deck.
Some flex is needed in a span like this one.

[T-Bone Texan]

I noticed the extreme terracing also.

This, in a country where 60 million were starved to death by their own government.

I’d be growing stuff on the side of a mountain too!