China Opens World's Highest Bridge, Breaking Its Own Record (nbcnews.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/29/1459255/china-opens-worlds-highest-bridge-breaking-its-own-record
- Source link: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/china-opens-worlds-highest-bridge-guizhou-rcna234361
> The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge soars about 2,050 feet above a river and gorge in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. It is more than twice as high as the Royal Gorge Bridge, which is suspended 956 feet above the Arkansas River in Colorado and is the highest in the United States.
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> According to Chinese state media, the new Guizhou bridge also sets a record as the world's longest bridge in a mountainous region, spanning 4,600 feet across. Hailed as China's latest "infrastructure miracle," the bridge is designed to spur tourism and economic growth in one of the country's least developed regions.
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/china-opens-worlds-highest-bridge-guizhou-rcna234361
'There should be a bridge here' (Score:4, Insightful)
China:
let's build it.
Capitalism:
I want to help, where's my money.
I also want to help where's my money?
That needs a permit, here's the fee.
That can be seen from my backyard - pay me to go away.
We need to do a study, it'll be ready next decade. My fee is monthly.
My buddy needs business, let's include him in the contract - he makes toilet seats.
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There was a time when even capitalism could get it done. We're near end stage capitalism, my main point was not that China is all that but that our current form of capitalism is severely broken.
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Bureaucracy isn't capitalism, what is wrong with you. You literally inverted the definition.
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Huh? What you described was literally not capitalism. Capitalism isn't about putting bureaucratic barriers, that's literally the opposite of capitalism. WTF are they teaching nowadays? China is enabling capitalism, while we've gotten into a fascistic bureaucracy.
Big deal (Score:2)
Washinton State is home to some of the [1]lowest [wikimedia.org] bridges. Where's our gold star?
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/I-90_floating_bridges_looking_east.JPG
Video seriously lacking perspective (Score:2)
Video brought to you by the ministry of pointless recordings. At no point is there a shot that gives you a descent perspective to how high the bridge actually is. I'm curious, but not curious enough to bother googling it (there should be a word for this), if the record height is above a very narrow gorge and it is a more standard height bridge for 95% of the span, or just a crap shot selection by the drone pilot.
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It says so right in the second paragraph: 'The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge soars about 2,050 feet above a river and gorge in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. It is more than twice as high as the Royal Gorge Bridge, which is suspended 956 feet above the Arkansas River in Colorado and is the highest in the United States.'
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> I'm curious, but not curious enough to bother googling it (there should be a word for this)
There should be a word for it. Germans would just invent one on the spot. Something like Nachguckfauligkeit.
Maybe... Googulazy ?