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Yahoo! News - Span of French Millau bridge, world highest, is completed
by k at 1:53 am EDT, May 29, 2004 |
] Engineers brought the two central ends of the Millau road
] viaduct in southwest France together, completing the span
] of the highest bridge in the world.
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] The road surface is 270 metres above ground, a world
] record, and the total structure, with suspension cables
] added will be 343 metres (1,132 feet) above ground at its
] highest point or 23 metres higher than the Eiffel Tower. [ Holy crap bridges are cool. Awesome. -k] |
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RE: Yahoo! News - Span of French Millau bridge, world highest, is completed
by Hijexx at 12:02 pm EDT, May 29, 2004 |
k wrote:
] ] Engineers brought the two central ends of the Millau road
] ] viaduct in southwest France together, completing the span
] ] of the highest bridge in the world.
] ]
] ] The road surface is 270 metres above ground, a world
] ] record, and the total structure, with suspension cables
] ] added will be 343 metres (1,132 feet) above ground at its
] ] highest point or 23 metres higher than the Eiffel Tower.
]
] [ Holy crap bridges are cool. Awesome. -k] Very cool. I wonder if the Gibraltar bridge will ever be built: http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/eti/projects/bridgemain.html Such an ambitious project. |
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RE: Yahoo! News - Span of French Millau bridge, world highest, is completed
by k at 2:34 pm EDT, May 29, 2004 |
Hijexx wrote:
] Very cool. I wonder if the Gibraltar bridge will ever be
] built:
]
] http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/eti/projects/bridgemain.h
] tml
]
] Such an ambitious project. [ Yeah, i've been following the Gibraltar bridge sort of off-handedly for a while now. The inner engineer can't help but be excited by massive engineering projects like these. The millenium tower is another one... slightly out of date Disc. Channel page here : http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/eti/projects/towermain.html -k] |
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RE: Yahoo! News - Span of French Millau bridge, world highest, is completed
by noteworthy at 8:42 am EDT, Jun 2, 2004 |
Hijexx wrote:
] Very cool. I wonder if the Gibraltar bridge will ever be built.
] Such an ambitious project. k wrote:
] [ Yeah, i've been following the Gibraltar bridge sort of
] off-handedly for a while now. The inner engineer can't help
] but be excited by massive engineering projects like these. -k] If you're excited by ambititous, massive engineeering projects, you might be interested in the Red-Dead Conveyance Project. Read more at http://www.memestreams.net/thread/bid13064/ |
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