[HN Gopher] Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above g...
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Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground
Author : Pete-Codes
Score : 14 points
Date : 2025-09-29 16:12 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.independent.co.uk)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.independent.co.uk)
| toss1 wrote:
| Impressive engineering and build.
|
| Looks like a great spot for BASE jumping!
| quink wrote:
| Note: highest, not tallest. Highest should technically be the
| building here:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole which is
| more than 12km above ground, that is to say 12km high. Or,
| rather, was, having been destroyed since. There's other boreholes
| too though.
| quickthrowman wrote:
| The Kola boreholes are 22 centimeters (9 inches) in diameter,
| that building is not a bridge in any way, shape, or form.
| quink wrote:
| One of these days I'll get a model railroad bridge and put it
| over a borehole. But that day shan't be today because arguing
| technicalities on HN seems easier :)
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_bridges vs
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_bridges
| quickthrowman wrote:
| If you set up a model train bridge over the Kola borehole,
| I'll concede and admit it's a bridge ;)
|
| I learned something by writing my response, I didn't know
| how large the Kola boreholes were and now I do!
|
| Also, thanks for clarifying the distinction between highest
| and tallest, the span on the Chinese bridge is 2000' above
| the ground at certain points but the towers themselves are
| only 860 feet tall, other bridges have taller
| towers/pillars but the deck height isn't as high as this
| Chinese one.
| SequoiaHope wrote:
| I think I'm going to visit China soon, to the Pearl River Delta.
| I want to meet manufacturers and advance a product I am working
| on, and having lived in the US my entire life, I desperately need
| to see what it's like when a country is really trying to build a
| future.
| jmyeet wrote:
| I knew it was going to be China.
|
| China's infrastructure building is beyond impressive. I always
| come back to this map of China's high speed rail built in 16
| years (2008-2024) [1].
|
| China is actually run by a meritocratic bureaucracy rather than
| the dumbest of people who do nothing more than sell pardons, run
| crypto scams, transfer government funds to the wealthiest of
| people, pander to religious hallucinations and sell out their
| constituents for board seats and jobs after their political
| career from the very billionaires that were buying them in
| office. And no, it's not just one party that does this although
| the current administration is particularly egregious.
|
| [1]:
| https://www.reddit.com/r/highspeedrail/comments/1drmc2v/grow...
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