Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/12/30/worlds-highest-bridge-opens.html
…
6 Likes
Where is Dean Potter when you need him?
2 Likes
What could possibly go wrong?
7 Likes
There is no friggen way I could drive that thing. I get queasy just looking at it.
8 Likes
In before bridge failure!
/s
9 Likes
Why did we build it all the way up here?
Shut up! That’s why!
12 Likes
I saw the Hoover Dam bypass when it was being built and that was high enough for me.
8 Likes
NOOOOOOOOOOOPE.
16 Likes
The Millau Viaduct still has the tallest towers (ETA OP called this out… oops at least it stopped me from adding a missive on the difference between the tallest and highest bridges). I didn’t realize until checking Wikipedia that many of the world’s highest bridges are in China.
3 Likes
Can someone lend me a hand? I stopped to take a photo on the bridge, an dropped my keys.
Don’t worry, they have a “clapper” attachment. It won’t take us long to find them.
8 Likes
Probably still falling.
14 Likes
I remember seeing about one bridge that had a drivers service where a driver would give you a blindfold and drive you over.
1 Like
So the drop is about .35 miles? Not bad.
Should suit one Nigel Pargetter,
1 Like
Oh yeah! Base jumpers will flock…
1 Like
I dunno looks less scary than this bridge that I have driven across more than once. It has since been demolished.
Narrow old, and potholes that you might be able to see through.
7 Likes
That is some awesome engineering. (As near as I, an admitted non-bridge engineer, can determine after skimming through a palm-sized video on my phone while waiting for food.)
I hope I never have the opportunity to cross it. Especially after experiencing first hand how they drive over there.
6 Likes
China is kind of like Texas these days. They always gotta have the biggest one of everything.
7 Likes
I’m pretty sure that any accident that sends you careening off the side of that thing won’t kill you any deader than a similar accident on, say, the Brooklyn Bridge or the Golden Gate.
8 Likes
Yeah, but you’ll have a lot more time to think about it on the way down. Why, I could mull over almost all my regrets!
13 Likes
