[HN Gopher] There's a new longest suspension bridge
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       There's a new longest suspension bridge
        
       Author : perihelions
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2022-03-19 20:24 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | johnnyApplePRNG wrote:
       | Surprised to see Turkey unveiling this.
       | 
       | Everything I read about Turkey in the west is that it's a failing
       | country run by a despot.
        
         | kortilla wrote:
         | Both of those things can be true by building a large bridge.
        
         | bayindirh wrote:
         | We might not be doing great on some fronts, but we can do
         | engineering. It's not always at forefront, but we can create
         | high quality or groundbreaking stuff too.
         | 
         | However our location on this pale blue dot makes a lot of
         | things complicated. The land is big, and connected to very
         | different cultures and it makes everything much more harder to
         | balance when you add the historical events into it.
        
       | jeffbee wrote:
       | Is there anything particularly challenging about scaling the
       | length of a suspension span, or do they just run the numbers?
        
       | Svip wrote:
       | Which also means the Great Belt Bridge is no longer the longest
       | suspension bridge outside of Asia either.[1]
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       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Belt_Fixed_Link
        
         | perihelions wrote:
         | Technically the OP bridge is also in Asia (or at least one end
         | of it is).
        
       | warent wrote:
       | Very exciting news for the Turkish people! This is certainly
       | going to have a huge positive impact on their economy
        
       | zhengiszen wrote:
       | the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on
        
       | lom wrote:
       | Only 5 years is insane. It took 4 to build the Golden Gate
       | Bridge, and this one is almost 3 times longer.
        
       | pintxo wrote:
       | A fine bridge, but can someone explain how they will be able to
       | remove the building cranes from the top of the pillars?
        
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