NOPE: Glass bridge: China opens world's highest and longest - Polidicks

[IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/08/20/15/376C90B800000578-3750442-image-a-85_1471703496740.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/08/20/15/376C93AC00000578-3750442-image-a-89_1471704375293.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]Completed in December, the 430m-long bridge cost $3.4m (£2.6m) to build and stands 300m above ground, state news agency Xinhua reported.It has been paved with 99 panes of three-layered transparent glass. And according to officials, the 6m-wide bridge - designed by Israeli architect Haim Dotan - has already set world records for its architecture and construction. Glass bridges in China have been a popular craze for the daring photo opportunities they provide. Events like mass yoga displays and even [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-37038814"]weddings[/URL]have been staged on several such bridges. One couple celebrated their special day by dangling in mid-air from a bridge in Pingjiang, also located in Hunan province. This was the question on everyone's minds as the city geared up for the bridge's official opening. But officials have staged high-profile events to try and reassure the public of the bridge's safety. Officials sent in sledgehammers and even drove a car, filled with passengers, across the bridge earlier this year.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37127725[/url]

How about no. While it may be very safe, I would never cross it. Normal bridges already freak me a bit out

i know something very bad will happen already

[QUOTE]Officials sent in sledgehammers and even drove a car, filled with passengers, across the bridge earlier this year.[/QUOTE] :sick:

If it's using new high tech glass, I don't see why not.

[QUOTE=Grandzeit;50924230]:sick:[/QUOTE] Yet it held up

Yeah that won't last very long.

[QUOTE=NitronikALT;50924236]Yet it held up[/QUOTE] I doubt it was easy with the massive titanium balls everyone in that car had.

Germanie's Koln Airport has glass floors. It's really cool.

[QUOTE=NitronikALT;50924236]Yet it held up[/QUOTE] Still, it'd hate to be the guy being instructed to go out on the bit dangling glass bridge and whack it with a sledgehammer a couple of times.

[QUOTE=Grandzeit;50924230]:sick:[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;VLqLxbpm4cQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLqLxbpm4cQ[/video]

[QUOTE=spectator1;50924247]Yeah that won't last very long.[/QUOTE] Do you have anything to back that up? This isn't some north korean fake construction project.

Glass can be made extremely strong if you make it a certain way. I think it has to do with creating a pocket of pressure inside the glass that prevents it from breaking unless you cut into the glass and release the pressure.

Depending on how it's made, glass can be a lot stronger than say steel, the only problem this has is due to it being a suspension bridge and the panels having to compensate for heat expansion and contraction, the metal frames around the panels will expand and contract more than the glass will. Its why in the video above it was mentioned a panel cracked right through, likely due to that very problem.

Oh my lord. I don't think I could get on that without feeling light headed. I already have a problem with falling in video games, because I somehow get the falling sensation throughout my body. but THIS? Christ

[QUOTE=codemaster85;50924310]Glass can be made extremely strong if you make it a certain way. I think it has to do with creating a pocket of pressure inside the glass that prevents it from breaking unless you cut into the glass and release the pressure.[/QUOTE] Its more to do with the laminating processes now, layering thousands of layers of glass on top of each other creates something amazingly strong, even more when its done in a similar process to how we make fibreglass where it all joins together in a random mosaic crystalline structure.

My worry isn't the glass breaking, it's the class plane coming loose. After seeing that video though it does look pretty safe.

They drove 2 ton trucks over and hit it with sledgehammers, that's pretty incredible tbh

This is coming from a country where their escalators eat people. No thanks.

I'd do it, even more so after seeing the video

[QUOTE=spectator1;50924247]Yeah that won't last very long.[/QUOTE] As long as it was mostly designed by foreign engineers it should be fine. [editline]21st August 2016[/editline] I mean the architect for it was Israeli for Christ's sake.

[QUOTE=Squad1993;50924341]This is coming from a country where their escalators eat people. No thanks.[/QUOTE] it's not like the entire country is built by the same construction team there are high quality and low quality constructions in the west, too

[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;50924433]As long as it was mostly designed by foreign engineers it should be fine. [editline]21st August 2016[/editline] I mean the architect for it was Israeli for Christ's sake.[/QUOTE] Who physically built it and what they built it out of is pretty important. At least we know it isn't built out of Styrofoam.

[QUOTE=Squad1993;50924341]This is coming from a country where their escalators eat people. No thanks.[/QUOTE] And the country where they build road bridges and overpasses and the like out of literal garbage.

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;50924288][video=youtube;VLqLxbpm4cQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLqLxbpm4cQ[/video][/QUOTE] My left ear enjoyed that video.

[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;50924455]And the country where they build road bridges and overpasses and the like out of literal garbage.[/QUOTE] Has anyone actually watched the video or looked at the pictures. They spent a lot of money on this to make t a tourist attraction. It's more likely the windows pop out of their frames than shatter, which from the design wouldn't do anything still.

I think it would be a lot more attractive to tourists if they had another layer right below it, in case the glass breaks.

They can't even manufacture and send the correct furniture to our business in the UK. I wouldn't trust them for shit.

Is this considered one of their odd buildings. [QUOTE=xianlee;50924568]They can't even manufacture and send the correct furniture to our business in the UK. I wouldn't trust them for shit.[/QUOTE] Can these "China can't make anything right" comments stop?

[QUOTE=xianlee;50924568]They can't even manufacture and send the correct furniture to our business in the UK. I wouldn't trust them for shit.[/QUOTE] are you aware that nearly everything you come into contact to was made in china there are good and bad manufacturers it's not like Apple and every other corporation would have everything manufactured over there if they were incapable of doing it