I can fly higher than an eagle, for you are the wind beneath

[samhexum]

China opens the world's highest bridge — 2,050 feet above a gorge

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The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge soars about 2,050 feet above a river in Guizhou province, more than twice as high as its highest...

 

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"A bridge too far."

Actually, it's quite impressive.  I'm wondering if it has flexibility features that might render some compensation during violent storms or earth shiftings.

[CuriousByNature]

From that height you can't see the waters below to know if they are troubled or not.

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4 hours ago, CuriousByNature said:

From that height you can't see the waters below to know if they are troubled or not.

Paul and Art would know!!

 

[samhexum]

1 hour ago, Gar1eth said:

Paul and Art would know!!

Linda would know better!

 

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12 hours ago, samhexum said:

Linda would know better!

 

It's ok but  I prefer Art-and while difficult to know-I don't think it's my natural gay inclination toward males at work-was never really attracted to Art or Paul. 

[Luv2play]

20 hours ago, Gar1eth said:

Paul and Art would know!!

 

That was actually Art singing. I always preferred his voice to Paul’s  I have a few of his records in vinyl from that period and still play them. 

[Luv2play]

6 hours ago, Gar1eth said:

It's ok but  I prefer Art-and while difficult to know-I don't think it's my natural gay inclination toward males at work-was never really attracted to Art or Paul. 

Linda has some nice guys dancing in her troupe. One guy in particular on the right in light coloured pants and dancing with a girl in a white dress. His ass is divine. 

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2 hours ago, Luv2play said:

That was actually Art singing. I always preferred his voice to Paul’s  I have a few of his records in vinyl from that period and still play them. 

I knew that.  🤗🤗🤗

[samhexum]

World's Tallest Bridge Opens Glass Cafe at a Staggering 2,600 Feet in the Air

• Visitors can reach the cafe via a glass elevator that will reach the top in one minute

If you’ve ever dreamed of drinking a cup of coffee half a mile into the air, there’s a new way to get your morning cup in the sky.

China’s Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, which opened to traffic on Sept. 28, is opening a glass cafe 800 meters (2,624 feet) in the air called Interstellar Coffee.

According the Guizhou Daily Tianyan News, the cafe, which is perched atop one of the towers, will have two floors and a 360-degree unobstructed view thanks to its glass walls. It will feature Captain George Coffee with plans to expand its selection in coming months. 

Visitors will reach the dizzying height via a glass elevator, which can hit the top in under one minute. There’s also a 1,900-foot high glass walkway for visitors, and tourists will also get the chance to bungee jump off the massive bridge.

[dutchal]

The bridge has a high-speed glass elevator that can send visitors to a coffee spot 2,600 feet above the river. Visitors can also try bungee jumping or a 1,900-foot-high glass walkway.

 

Tourists snapping photos on a glass platform looking down from the bridge Sunday.CFOTO / via Getty Images

 

 

The province of Guizhou, which is home to about 40 million people, has undergone an infrastructure campaign in recent decades as part of the Chinese government’s war on poverty. It now has more than 32,000 bridges that are either completed or under construction, compared with about 2,900 in the 1980s.

[Bill4BigJosh]

Nobody sang about that Bridge Over Troubled Water quite like the Farkel Twins.

[samhexum]

About the safety of taking a road trip in China...

 

A newly built bridge partially collapsed in southwest China on Tuesday, sending large pieces of concrete plunging far below in a cloud of dust.

Authorities said the 2,487-foot-long Hongqi Bridge, which connects Sichuan province with Tibet as part of a national highway, was closed on Monday after cracks began to appear on nearby slopes and roads in the mountainous region.

On Tuesday, a landslide caused the bridge to fracture and collapse, according to officials in the Sichuan city of Ma’erkang, also known in Tibetan as Barkam.

There were no reported casualties from the incident. The cause is still being investigated by authorities in Sichuan, a seismically active region where a 7.9-magnitude earthquake killed more than 69,000 people in 2008.

 

Construction of the bridge was only completed earlier this year, local media reported.

China has in recent years made massive investments in infrastructure, including roads, railways and bridges.

In September, the world’s highest bridge opened in the southern province of Guizhou, taking the crown from another bridge in the same province.

In July 2024, Chinese authorities said at least 11 people died in a partial collapse of a highway bridge in the northwest province of Shaanxi.

 

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2 hours ago, samhexum said:

About the safety of taking a road trip in China...

 

A newly built bridge partially collapsed in southwest China on Tuesday, sending large pieces of concrete plunging far below in a cloud of dust.

Authorities said the 2,487-foot-long Hongqi Bridge, which connects Sichuan province with Tibet as part of a national highway, was closed on Monday after cracks began to appear on nearby slopes and roads in the mountainous region.

On Tuesday, a landslide caused the bridge to fracture and collapse, according to officials in the Sichuan city of Ma’erkang, also known in Tibetan as Barkam.

There were no reported casualties from the incident. The cause is still being investigated by authorities in Sichuan, a seismically active region where a 7.9-magnitude earthquake killed more than 69,000 people in 2008.

 

Construction of the bridge was only completed earlier this year, local media reported.

China has in recent years made massive investments in infrastructure, including roads, railways and bridges.

In September, the world’s highest bridge opened in the southern province of Guizhou, taking the crown from another bridge in the same province.

In July 2024, Chinese authorities said at least 11 people died in a partial collapse of a highway bridge in the northwest province of Shaanxi.

 

Enough said!  I'm keeping my bridges out of China.  Chew on that.  😆

[Luv2play]

To be fair the bridge construction does not appear to be at fault. It was built in a seismically unstable region and the engineers noticed cracks 24 hours earlier and closed the bridge. No one was injured or killed.

The landslide appears to have taken out one end of the bridge. I went to engineering school for two years back in the 1960’s and the Chinese students were the smartest.