The Extreme Engineering Thread

[TomAz]

Millau Viaduct

[Deviate_420]

I would be scared as fuck to drive over that....

[disgustipated]

Did you go see this Tom?


That is amazing...


edit:extreme, that is extreme.

[bug on your lip]

why the hell is it so high ?

are they scared of driving uphill ?

[J~$$$]

[Deviate_420]

That has my vote....

[kreutz2112]

That really is cool Tom...have you seen the discovery channel show?

[mob roulette]

The Millau Viaduct. Oh my God. I am in love. Not like Dubai love, but pretty fucking close. OMG. It's AWESOME.

[Hannahrain]

It's gorgeous, especially the one where it's above the clouds. I want to bungee jump off the top. Not that I ever would. But damn.

[mob roulette]

why the hell is it so high ?

are they scared of driving uphill ?

Cause the valley's so DEEP yo. Maybe they can't go around or something or it's not cost efficient. Or it's like a huge bypass or something for the whole area. I am going to go try to look it up now.

[disgustipated]

I would love to drive above the clouds.
I would also love to bungee through the clouds...














naked.

[Hannahrain]

You're not invited when I bungee it.








Clothed.

[bug on your lip]

Cause the valley's so DEEP yo. Maybe they can't go around or something or it's not cost efficient. Or it's like a huge bypass or something for the whole area. I am going to go try to look it up now.

it looks cool & everything but it looks like they wasted alot of money

[disgustipated]

you take all the fun out of things. you and your clothes.

[TomAz]

it looks cool & everything but it looks like they wasted alot of money

it's French, what do you expect.

[mob roulette]

Here. Good stuff. It looks like they had to do it this way. I mean, they researched it and all, they didn't just plunk something like that down. They're French, not stupid.

Not neccessarily anyway.

[bug on your lip]

Numerous organizations opposed the project, including the WWF, France Nature Environnement, the national federation of motorway users, and Environmental Action. Opponents put forward several arguments:

The westernmost route would be better, longer by three kilometers but a third of the cost with its three more conventional structures.

[mountmccabe]

When I first saw that I was convinced it was shopped.

[mob roulette]

Numerous organizations opposed the project, including the WWF, France Nature Environnement, the national federation of motorway users, and Environmental Action. Opponents put forward several arguments:

The westernmost route would be better, longer by three kilometers but a third of the cost with its three more conventional structures.

But it's soooooo beautiful. You got something against beauty there, buggo? I mean bucko.

[bug on your lip]

it is

but it isn't going over some massive bay or canal or anything

i don't get it

[disgustipated]

that really is a big bridge for such a tiny river.

[J~$$$]

The french dont want to be bothered by a 5 hour drives through crappy farm communities where the only road side attraction is smelly little french kids hawking cigarette's......boom....Millau Viaduct......poor kids get real jobs.

[full on idle]

That bridge ain't got shit on the bonnaroo ferris wheel.

[marooko]

engineers are overrated and fast-track and design-build are some of the worst methods ever used for construction.

[mob roulette]

You take the skyway, high above the busy little one-way
In my stupid hat and gloves, at night I lie awake
Wonderin' if I'll sleep
Wonderin' if we'll meet out in the street

But you take the skyway
It don't move at all like a subway
It's got bums when it's cold like any other place
It's warm up inside
Sittin' down and waitin' for a ride
Beneath the skyway

Oh, but then one day, I saw you walkin' down that little one-way
Where, the place I'd catch my ride most everyday
There wasn't a damn thing I could do or say
Up in the skyway

Come On Bug. You gots to feel it in yr heart. Yr heart.

[bug on your lip]

Engineering is really about poor kids getting real jobs when you break it down

[J~$$$]

damn you mob......why make it irrelevant.

[crazzz2007]

it's better to build a highway in the sky than to rape the land and divide an ecosystem.

[M Sparks]

Numerous organizations opposed the project, including the WWF

"The WWF would like to endorse the western route in the interest of minimizing the environmental impact. And that's the bottom line, because Stone Cold said so!"

[J~$$$]

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