Posted on 06/30/2011 10:02:56 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
China has opened the world's longest cross-sea bridge - which stretches five miles further than the distance between Dover and Calais.
The Jiaozhou Bay bridge is 26.4 miles long and links China's eastern port city of Qingdao to the offshore island Huangdao.
The road bridge, which is 110ft wide and is the longest of its kind, cost nearly £1billion to build.
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Hate to get out on that and have car trouble.
I don’t think I’d enjoy driving on that damn thing.
China has a huge case of penis envy which is why they are building the biggest everything in the world.
Completed in 4 years. Can’t imagine that happening in the U.S. of A. I’ve watched interstate revamps take longer.
The Chinese build the Great Wall hundreds of year ago with little technology; the US cannot build a simple fence.
And I thought the seven mile bridge in the Keys was something!
Good point.
I rode my m/c across a tall bridge over the Appalichicola River that had been bumped by a crane. It was tilted several degrees out of true. Shortly after I crossed, it got closed while they pushed it back upright and checked it for damage. For the next three months my weekly round trip required a 30 mile detour. The problem in Florida is that there is no bedrock and limestone is not terribly much better than mud so bridges and big buildings more or less float on the sand and limestone.
#0 extra miles was the detour to get to another crossing.
I don't believe so. However, when China does build the biggest of something, it creates penis envy elsewhere, including state side :)
Ya know what's ironic. Back before the fall of the USSR, there were constant comparisons between the free market system and the communist system. Example after example across all industries showed how the free market system works and the communist system doesn't. And the immense gap in productivity.
Fast forward a few decades and China, increasingly is becoming free market. Her efficienies are the result of greater and greater free market forces. Yet, in the end, many critics point to the fact that totalitarian states can get things done quicker. How ironic that that is what is attributed to China's speed to get things built.
Ironic, that historically, we know that communistic systems, totaltarian states are less efficient than free market, democratic states. Yet somehow, China gets credit for her construction efficiencies because of her totaltarian practices rather than the fact there is greater free market force in China today than in the past.
If something didn't work before in terms of efficiency, how can China make it work now unless she is practing a form of free market, free enterprise, etc.?
ROFL...call Obi Wan Kenobee.
This structure has been nominated for an academy award for Best Supporting Bridge.
Yes I DO think so. No one in the world is more image conscious and suffering from penis envy then the Chinese. And “biggest in the world” tag always has to do with drawing world attention then actual utility. Chicom agents like you will never admit but that is definitely the case. It is a typical communist tendency to claim superiority over others one way or another. And I don’t think anyone outside of China envies living in a repressed society behind the heavy iron curtains no matter how long their bridges or tall their buildings are.
Yet when China does it, negative comments like yours sprout up like weeds. Using terms like 'penis envy', 'China's claims of superiority', etc. You wouldn't use those terms if America was still building the biggest everything. You'd beam with pride instead. Even beat your chest once in awhile. The animosity towards China for simply building something gradiose makes me wonder who is the one with penis envy.
Throughout the 20th century, Americans boast of the Empire State Building, Hoover Dam, the rail road system, etc. as proud achievements of American ingenuity. But when China builds largest projects.... they're what? Building all to satisfy some deep seated insecurity? It perplexes me what motivates such perspective. Yet, in many ways, I already know the answer.
I didn’t know they drove on the right side of the road. I checked they changed to the right side in 1946.
Re: Actually, if you look into US history concerning infrastructure, you’ll see many examples where structures collapsed. And without an earthquake :)
Prior to ‘04, wrath of Gods such as these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-jlyfzGP-o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSSssHxm4Y&feature=fvwrel is but figments of our imagination based on animated depictions aired in science channels and on PBS just as T-Rex and other Godly out of this world creatures are so what’s human tricks and ingenuity when compared to God all mighty when he gets p*ssed? .
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