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General Category => Everything Else => Topic started by: monmarfori on June 29, 2009, 02:39:24 PM

Title: Future Bridges
Post by: monmarfori on June 29, 2009, 02:39:24 PM: Some bridges would reach its length longer than Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge.
Title: Re: Future Bridges
Post by: Naru523 on July 03, 2009, 05:11:57 PM: It would be weird if they built a bridge across the Alantic Ocean/ Africa to Madagascar/ Asia to island coutnries to Australia to Antartica/ Across the Pacific Ocean/ etc.
Title: Re: Future Bridges
Post by: Chaotic Cow on July 03, 2009, 07:56:23 PM: Monamarfori. Try to post things with similar topics in the same thread. It's easier for everyone.
Title: Re: Future Bridges
Post by: atomic7732 on July 03, 2009, 09:16:50 PM: I told that to Monmarfori already. Are you trying to be moderator?
Title: Re: Future Bridges
Post by: Bla on July 04, 2009, 05:39:57 AM: I think it would be hard to maintain an intercontinental bridge. Think about the movement of the continents relative to each other. Then the bridge would need to be able to move asweel. We can't just plop down a billion concrete pillars into the ocean to hold the bridge.
The bridge will have to be built in a very smart way.
Title: Re: Future Bridges
Post by: Chaotic Cow on July 04, 2009, 09:07:27 AM: Quote from: NeutronStar on July 03, 2009, 09:16:50 PM
I told that to Monmarfori already. Are you trying to be moderator?
Nope. As I did not see your post. I just wanted to give him a tip is all.
Title: Re: Future Bridges
Post by: FGFG on July 04, 2009, 11:07:17 AM: Quote from: Bla on July 04, 2009, 05:39:57 AM
I think it would be hard to maintain an intercontinental bridge. Think about the movement of the continents relative to each other. Then the bridge would need to be able to move asweel. We can't just plop down a billion concrete pillars into the ocean to hold the bridge.
The bridge will have to be built in a very smart way.

I have to disagree with you:
It's true that continents move, but they do it by a few centimeters per years. Our bridges can already "move" as they can expand and contract because of the heat with special joints (For example when you go in the highway on a bridge, you can hear some little regular "bumps" when the car passes over one of this joints). Moreover I higly doubt that any building of our time can survive more than a few centuries intact and usable. At last, even if a bridge is build in a very strong way that it can survive so long that the continents moved a considerable way (sorry for the long phrase :P), we can always make the bridge shorter or longer adding or removing a little section of a few meters every, let's say, 100 years.
Title: Re: Future Bridges
Post by: atomic7732 on July 04, 2009, 11:34:56 AM: Quote from: Chaotic Cow on July 04, 2009, 09:07:27 AM
Quote from: NeutronStar on July 03, 2009, 09:16:50 PM
I told that to Monmarfori already. Are you trying to be moderator?
Nope. As I did not see your post. I just wanted to give him a tip is all.
I told him in another one.
Title: Re: Future Bridges
Post by: Naru523 on July 04, 2009, 12:02:46 PM: Quote from: NeutronStar on July 04, 2009, 11:34:56 AM
Quote from: Chaotic Cow on July 04, 2009, 09:07:27 AM
Quote from: NeutronStar on July 03, 2009, 09:16:50 PM
I told that to Monmarfori already. Are you trying to be moderator?
Nope. As I did not see your post. I just wanted to give him a tip is all.
I told him in another one.
It's in Future Continents.
Title: Re: Future Bridges
Post by: Chaotic Cow on July 05, 2009, 06:29:22 PM: As I said. I did not see.
Title: Re: Future Bridges
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Title: Re: Future Bridges
Post by: TheMooCows on August 02, 2014, 10:21:06 AM: President of Bovine Relations. Seems legit