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Chinese Glass-bottom Bridge (Probably) Won’t Collapse

China isn’t exactly known for its safety guidelines and building standards. It’s more known for cutting corners and having few protections in place for people and the environment. I’d be a bit nervous about walking on a bridge that was 590 feet in the air and had a glass bottom no matter where it was.

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Autonomous Quadcopters Build Rope Bridge: Temple of Drones

Someday explorers and rescuers could carry quadcopters not just to survey but to build bridges literally on the fly. Researchers at ETH Zurich were able to successfully demonstrate a system of autonomous quadcopters that can create a usable rope bridge with minimal human intervention.

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Indiana Jones Cat Bridge is the Cat’s Meow

One of my favorite scenes in the Indiana Jones movies is where Dr. Jones and his gal are caught on the bridge and have to fight. That bridge scene always gave me the creeps growing up.

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China Is Building This Twisty New Pedestrian Bridge… It Looks Exhausting

Check out this pedestrian bridge that China wants to build over the Dragon King Harbor River in Changsha, China. It’s all wavy and crazy and I don’t know about you, but this lazy American is getting winded just looking at it.

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‘Bridge of Life’ Reminds People Life Gets Better to Prevent Suicides

When something particularly bad or painful happens, some people just withdraw and never come out of their cocoons. They can recover slowly or they can get worse and one day decide that they want nothing more than to end it all.

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Vietnam Has a Fire-Breathing Dragon

The next time you travel to Vietnam, make sure you check out their 85 milion dollar fire-breathing dragon. An 85 million dollar glowing neon fire-breathing dragon, that is. It can breathe both fire and water.

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Trampoline Bridge in Paris Would Make Crossing the River Fun Again

I’ve always had a fascination with bridges ever since I was a kid, all thanks to the rhyme that went ‘London bridge is falling down…’ Now that I think of it, it’s a sad rhyme and what does it have to do with the fair lady?

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Trekkies to Restore Next Generation Bridge

Since there aren’t any Star Trek The Next Generation episodes or movies being made, Paramount wanted to trash the set. A group of Trekkies is not going to let that happen. They took the old tattered pieces they were chucking out and have decided going to restore the whole bridge.

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The Empire Strikes Bay Area

When I first saw this image yesterday, I had trouble figuring out what it exactly was. Luckily, I recognized San Francisco and traced it rapidly to artist Mike Horn. He made this series of still images after people asked for hi-res wallpapers from his videos Death Star Over San Francisco and Death Star Destroys Enterprise.

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S-Shaped Bridge is Actually a Pretty Good Idea

When you want to connect two pieces of land via a bridge, the most efficient, practical and cost-effective bridge would obviously be a straight one. But the architects McDowell+Benedetti opted to create a longer, winding S-shaped pedestrian bridge for the residents of Castleford, a mining town in West Yorkshire, England.

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Chinese Glass-bottom Bridge (Probably) Won’t Collapse

Autonomous Quadcopters Build Rope Bridge: Temple of Drones

Indiana Jones Cat Bridge is the Cat’s Meow

China Is Building This Twisty New Pedestrian Bridge… It Looks Exhausting

‘Bridge of Life’ Reminds People Life Gets Better to Prevent Suicides

Vietnam Has a Fire-Breathing Dragon

Trampoline Bridge in Paris Would Make Crossing the River Fun Again

Trekkies to Restore Next Generation Bridge

The Empire Strikes Bay Area

S-Shaped Bridge is Actually a Pretty Good Idea

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