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

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;50924235]If it's using new high tech glass, I don't see why not.[/QUOTE] The question is not why not, the question is why. And by why, I mean [B][I]OH GOD WHY NO NO NO HOOOOOOOOO NONONONONONONONONO[/I][/B]

[QUOTE=ThatSprite;50924274]I doubt it was easy with the massive titanium balls everyone in that car had.[/QUOTE] See? That's the spirit!

Damn, that's a gorgeous view.

I wonder how many people died building it.

[QUOTE=milktree;50924309]Do you have anything to back that up? This isn't some north korean fake construction project.[/QUOTE] Last time they made one of these glass bridges the glass cracked after a few months and they had to close it down.

The cold white and glass design really sticks out in than nice green landscape. I wonder how much was it really necessary and how much is it was made just to brag.

again? they seem to be in a rush to put up these things like glass bridges are the new monorails

[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] Prince Ruperts Drop, made by dropping molten glass into water. You can hammer the bulb all day and it wont break, but the instant you break the taill.... [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZXPiTEg6bE[/media]

we really do live in the glass age

[QUOTE=Squad1993;50924341]This is coming from a country where their escalators eat people. No thanks.[/QUOTE] multimillion dollar government tourism projects are generally built a bit better than unregulated private projects from the 90s

[QUOTE=Reagy;50924316]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.[/QUOTE] You're on the right track, but it's even simpler then that. It's just normal glass, usually about 10 to 20 layers of glass for something like this. All separated/hold together by PVB foils. Same way bullet-proof glass is made. Sometimes the top/bottom layer is hardend but that's it. It's just a matter of finding the right strength/weight/size ratio.

So they just ruined the glass with sledgehammers or what?

[QUOTE=Talvy;50924900]So they just ruined the glass with sledgehammers or what?[/QUOTE] I'm sure they replaced the panel

[QUOTE=Squad1993;50924341]This is coming from a country where their escalators eat people. No thanks.[/QUOTE] You live in a country where their water slides decapitate kids. Not every bad thing you hear exemplifies the entire country it came from. Of course you just see all the bad shit that happens because mostly nothing else is newsworthy to foreigners. You're never going to see a news article like [I]"Amazing Chinese escalator works just the way it's supposed to!"[/I], just like you're probably never going to ever hear about this bridge again unless something bad actually happens. Also, great avatar in context.

[QUOTE=Sherow_Xx;50925012]You live in a country where their water slides decapitate kids.[/QUOTE] There were multiple incidents?

[QUOTE=Tetsmega;50925241]There were multiple incidents?[/QUOTE] Not that I know of, no. I get your implication, and I googled it. Turns out there's been [I]numerous[/I] escalator accidents across China. I didn't know that. Well, that certainly hurts my argument, doesn't it?

I wanna go there, I love heights

i drink water out of glasses. i've dropped said glasses and they've smashed. no way could they make a bridge out of the same stuff. utterlly impossible. Stupid and dangerous.

[QUOTE=spectator1;50924247]Yeah that won't last very long.[/QUOTE] Why didn't you tell them that BEFORE they built the bridge? I'll let you break the bad news to them. I'm sure all the engineers who designed it will be losing their jobs.

[QUOTE=a dumb bear;50925661]i drink water out of glasses. i've dropped said glasses and they've smashed. no way could they make a bridge out of the same stuff. utterlly impossible. Stupid and dangerous.[/QUOTE] the shock resistance of a drinking glass seems like a poor metric to judge the sturdiness of glass panes that aren't manufactured with the same materials and standards [editline]21st August 2016[/editline] so yeah you're right, they didn't make the bridge "out of the same stuff" [editline]21st August 2016[/editline] Plus there's the thing where the thickness and size of the material used comes into play like, you can crumple aluminum sheets, try to do the same with a 5cm thick plate

Those on glass bridges should not throw stones.

I think the bridge is beautiful but it is extremely out of place. I'm not a fan of how it clashes with the surrounding landscape

[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;50925818]the shock resistance of a drinking glass seems like a poor metric to judge the sturdiness of glass panes that aren't manufactured with the same materials and standards [editline]21st August 2016[/editline] so yeah you're right, they didn't make the bridge "out of the same stuff" [editline]21st August 2016[/editline] Plus there's the thing where the thickness and size of the material used comes into play like, you can crumple aluminum sheets, try to do the same with a 5cm thick plate[/QUOTE] It's pretty obvious he's being facetious.

[QUOTE=plunger435;50927380]It's pretty obvious he's being facetious.[/QUOTE] i don't know i took a look at his past posts to get a more definitive impression and its kind of still 50/50 to me. [editline]22nd August 2016[/editline] plus i mean he kind of brought up an anecdote that nobody was even discussing

[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;50927911]i don't know i took a look at his past posts to get a more definitive impression and its kind of still 50/50 to me. [editline]22nd August 2016[/editline] plus i mean he kind of brought up an anecdote that nobody was even discussing[/QUOTE] He's right to be honest, I'm 100% being facetious

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;50924288][video=youtube;VLqLxbpm4cQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLqLxbpm4cQ[/video][/QUOTE] The car was a Volvo. Everyone inside were completely safe.

[QUOTE=Sherow_Xx;50925012]You live in a country where their water slides decapitate kids. Not every bad thing you hear exemplifies the entire country it came from. Of course you just see all the bad shit that happens because mostly nothing else is newsworthy to foreigners. You're never going to see a news article like [I]"Amazing Chinese escalator works just the way it's supposed to!"[/I], just like you're probably never going to ever hear about this bridge again unless something bad actually happens. Also, great avatar in context.[/QUOTE] China has mastered the art of cutting corners on materials and quality control for the sake of saving a buck. From consumer goods to automobiles to certain constriction projects. Examples being a bridge where they used garbage as filler in the concrete. Reusing waste cooking oil that's been thrown away already. New apartment complexes that fell over becuase they didn't give them proper footings. Punching bags stuffed with trash. Cracks showing in the massive 3 gorges damn only months after completion. Health, safety and quality assurance isn't like it is in the rest of the developed world. That's why all the manufacturering has been pushed there. The more standards you take away the cheaper you can produce something.

As truely amazing as this looks, if 1 glass ever breaks with a person falling through then it's reputation will be perma-ruined.

[QUOTE=Tools;50928143]As truely amazing as this looks, if 1 glass ever breaks with a person falling through then it's reputation will be perma-ruined.[/QUOTE] Quite impossible to fall through really. All of the separate layers can break on their own without the construction failing. If however for some impossible reason every single layer was broken, then the entire construction would still be held together because of the foils. Think of it like the way your windshield breaks, but then with foil 10 times as thick, and about 20 layers of them. Source : I produce these kind of things

[QUOTE=Strontboer;50928148]Quite impossible to fall through really. All of the separate layers can break on their own without the construction failing. If however for some impossible reason every single layer was broken, then the entire construction would still be held together because of the foils. Think of it like the way your windshield breaks, but then with foil 10 times as thick, and about 20 layers of them. Source : I produce these kind of things[/QUOTE] That's amazing if it's build like a car's windshield, would mean it'd stick together 'till you're basically laying in a bowl. Hell even tho I'm afraid of heights, I'd probably give it a go now.