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China Builds $6 Million Bridge To Nowhere
As Beijing gets set to expand its global footprint via the launch of multinational institutions like the AIIB which are aimed squarely at disrupting the post-World War II economic order and shaking up a system that’s been underpinned by the notion of dollar hegemony for decades, it’s important that China keep up the momentum when it comes to besting the US wherever and whenever it can. Presumably that’s why the country sunk nearly $6 million and 12 months of work into building the world’s longest glass bridge that leads absolutely nowhere. The key point, apparently, is that the structure is a whopping 5 meters longer than its US competitor.
Via China.org
Workers are finishing the construction of a glass cantilever bridge in Longgang scenic area in Yunyang, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality. The transparent structure, 718 meters above the ground, has a cantilever extending 26.68 meters from the edge, five meters longer than the Grand Canyon Skywalk. The project, with a total investment of 35 million yuan($5.6 million), started in March 2014. The bridge has a carrying capacity of 1000 tons. [Photo/China News Service]
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6 million, really?
This is a teleportation device utilizing Tesla's notes on Dynamic Theory of Gravity. Disguised as a tourist attraction.
It looks like a giant toilet bowl. Imagine settling your giant ass on that thing and letting loose with #2 straight down the side of the mountain.
(I should have stopped at the first sentence, I'm guessing.)
<*juvenile giggles*>
$6 million meant something to Steve Austin.
That's like fucking peanuts to any self respecting, thieving Goldman Sachs' owned government today.
This isn't a bridge it's an observeration platform; is that guy from The Economic Collapse blog writing for Zerohedge now?
Do we call the Grand Canyon Skywalk a bridge to nowhere?
Didn't know there was a Grand Canyon Skywalk - was last there in 2000. Apparently it cost $30M to build. Gotta applaud the Chinese for doing it in $6M considering the significant inflation since '07?
All my time in the US and I never went to the G C. Perhaps one last trip to take that in also.
But to anyone sniggering at China, their works tell a story, as does what is happening int he US, with collapsing bridges and all...
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/mt-whitney-to-tanggula-pass-...
At least they are building everywhere even to nowhere. We on the other hand dont build anything anymore, neither here, there nor nowhere.
The Chinese bridge is nothing…..
We already got one at the Grand Canyon
http://www.grandcanyonwest.com/the-grand-canyon-skywalk/
That Chinese view walk is butt ugly. It ruined the natural scenery.
Butt Ugly Chinese Bungeeeeee!
gotta keep those slave hands busy lest they overthrow your ass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhpO_WcR_jE
Time to break out the ol’ wing-suit.
At least they built something. The USA uses over $6 million dollars worth of weapons every day.
Slow news day...
You won't catch me on that thing - they switch from making dollar store candies to worlds largest cantilever?!...
Of course Big China will be silent about all the nets that will have to be put under the hole when dozens of Foxconn workers try to end their miserable lives because they are working 18 hrs a day making the next Iphone 7..
that's for sure lol
wow a whole $6m dollar bridge that is actually a major tourism investment
in Chongqing, a major tourism hub as Chinese domestic tourism rapidly begins to move into central China...
and this is somehow even remotely analagous to a $200m infrastructure bridge that likely gets less than 1/100th of the traffic volume
and i mean, fuck, China is LOADED absolutely FULL with great accurate 'bridge to nowhere' wasteful infrastructure examples...
WTF would you even need to use such a shitty example
Well said. What the fuck is with the reporting at zerohedge these days? I remember when this site used to be technical and educational. Now is all doom and gloom, conspiracy, race-baiting and just epic bullshit (not saying the doom and gloom isn't true, just saying that there is no need to overstate the case - you lose credibility when you inflate tiny issues into big monstrous issues).
Reminds me of the story on the Shanghai Index margin debt. "Oh look how bad China is doing". Ok, sure there are issues in China right now, major issues, but why fucking blow something irrelevant out of proportion.
Any criticism of that observation platform should be purely on the aesthetics, which aren't all that...
ZH says "bridge to nowhere", I say "observation deck"....
I say "new rival to Golden Gate Bridge as top self-offing destination"...
Technically, it is a bridge to nowhere. When you complate the span, you dont end up anywhere except where you began.
If you end up where you started and that point is "nowhere" = you started from nowhere
Why would you care where you end up if you started from nowhere? :P
Suiciders leap, Fox Con sponsored bus trips for free.
Only total Bad-Asses like Marshall Guan Yu, the invincible “God of War” get to to use the "celestial commode" and chuck a deuce down the side of that majestic mountain.
Woe to the person who dares to defecate in the "divine dunny", for he will face the wrath of the God of War.
In the immortal words of Marshall Guan Yu- "I pity the fool."
I was about to post the same thing. Call it Mao's Potty, the world's largest toilet seat.
I hear they like to shit on the roadside.....this is no stretch.
Miss you AnAnonymous..
Somehow the comment section has blobbed down, in a mattering way, without his presence. That's the crustiest bit.
Isn't life funny as funny in this US citizen world order?
Little kids will squat in the elevator and the parents or grandparents don't say a word. That's why we take our shoes off at the door and wear slippers in the house.
"It looks like a giant toilet bowl."
For WHITE* ELEPHANTS only.
Trivia: Downtown in the West German town of Giessen (~40 km north of Frankfurt), there is a traffic overpass for pedestrians, which the locals have dubbed the "Elefantenklo" (Elephant Toilet). Who says the Germans have no sense for humor?
* Is that rayciss?
Don't give the Chinese any ideas, they're already squatting everywhere when duty calls.
On the other hand it would be fun to see how long it takes for the doodoo to hit the ground, just sayin
That was kind of an agonizing decision. But I had to up-vote you, NoDebt, because yes, you are right, it looks exactly like a toilet bowl.
Nope, it looks like a giant vulvae.
I think it looks like a diving platform for bankers.
Can't it teleport me to a better planet?
Yes! It's a stargate on its side.
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Mr. Bernank, is that you?
Quite apropos that it looks like a shitter.
6 million or not, you won't find me on a glass bridge built by the lowest bidder for a Chinese government contract.
keep in mind that if anything is wrong with the project,
the "lowest bidder" will immediately become the "6 feet lower bidder"
That's nothing. In western Ukraine about ten years ago a replacement bridge was built over the River Prud. Everything was do according to proceedure and by the book. Everything was fine until a bussload of people went over and the bridge collapsed. It was then determined that absolutely nothing was done - the money was simply stolen. Dont think anyone was punished as this crime involved everyone in gvnt.
The Indians lost oly five transport planes to Kiev? The theives must be getting sloppy.
Skywalk cost $30mil
I know! So cheap! On top of a mountain too.
It would cost $6million just to get all the approvals in place to build that in Australia. The actual build cost would be multiples more.
in american they spent 100 million for the grand canyon one. and it gets used by 50 times less tourists than the chinese one.
i see that is an impressive feat. not a boondoggle
the boondoggles are empty skysdcrapers.
there will be tourists to this bridge and it will generate revenue and attract people to the area.! and it's beautiful if you liek that sort of thing.
6 million isn't even a rounding error these days.
In other news, the US spends 6 million to give ISIS new military equipment then spends another 20 million to blow it up!
So when the Spooks double the ISIS budget, the Pentagon will only get 40? Somebody call BCCI, those fuckers knew how to maximize a racket.
Its a Chinese air dam to store clean air for use in the cities.
Ok ok ok how bout this: it was funded under the pretext that if they built it the water would come.
Yeah, buildings are just stairs to nowhere too.
Bankers' diving platform?
Let's see... 781 meters equals 2,562 feet in elevation, or just under a half-mile drop straight down into what looks like a rocky bottom.
Yep, that would do it.
Quite frankly it's so much better than digging holes and filling them back up.
That makes me sick just looking at it.
Seriously, I'm that scared of heights.
Sympathies...
I would walk out on that without a problem, but show me a ladder up to a second story window and I'm frozen in stupid fear.
Phobias suck.
Doesn't look transparent or glass to me. More a concrete loop.
Caveat emptor: Made in China
Next thing you know, they'll be digging that gorge out to be bigger than the Grand Canyon too.
It might be more practical for China to just build the world's tallest skyscraper.
It can come in handy some years down the road.
If they ever need a casus belli, they can just ram a couple of airplanes into it.
The DOD already spends $6MM on a toilet seat so what are we all bitching about anyway?
But ours isn't transparent...
It is in the middle. Not so much around the edges.
I'm okay with spending money on a tourist attraction that will generate some cash flow.
I seem to recall that the Indian tribe that built ours has an absolute ban on taking your own pictures there. You have to buy a postcard. Maybe that's changed.
Things you do when you have a lot, a lot of money to spend.
Nice bridge and great view -far better use of money than the US squandering trillions on useless, immoral and destructive wars, or lining the pockets of the 1% to the detriment of the rest of us.
US idea of stimulus involves digging holes in the Middle East and filling them back up with dead bodies.
When you are sitting on $4 trillion dollars of soon to be worthless paper, you're gonna have to find creative ways to spend it.
De-dollarization, full speed ahead!
Would not set foot on that thing. Ever see some of the craftsmanship of their buildings. Yours
1000 years ago in China they tested new bridges by having the architect and building contractor lead a herd of water buffalos or oxen over the bridge. If it didn't cave in, everyone else followed.
Gotta admit a tinge of jealousy here. If only my representative government had $6 million to spend (not deficit funded) on such a project.
Not such a big deal for the Chinese though. A stumble on the march to progress.
A comparable project in the US would probably run 26 million, rather than 6.
Try 300 million and 5 years after all is said and done.
300 Mil and 5 years to get the environmental impact study completed and approved...
It does lead to somewhere if you lean over the railing far enough.
I wonder what the Chinese will do if we rename the Grand Canyon Overlook Banksters Leap?
You do not want to have an erection while standing on the edge.
It doesn't lead to Sarah's house...?
Fuck it....why not?
I hope they didn't make that with the same steel they make brake rotors with. A hot day could make it warp.
1,000 tons load capacity? For reference, a fully loaded semi-truck weighs 43 tons gross weight.
so...10 normal Americans?
so, 2,000,000 lbs, or approximately 9 fully loaded train cars of bitumen.
I doubt it.
>pfft!<
America was building $6 Million MEN. In the '70s!!
It's a test facility, for Zionists
Who cares? they build the longest bridges and the fastest trains. Quit whining.
the over under is set at 30 days for the first person to jump. any takers? male or female? specific day? am or pm? anything you want.
Oh no, the Chinese will take over the world. Look at this gaint shithole sky walk. Remeber when Japan and the Saudis were going to take the world with oil and industry? China has a major demographic problem with the one child policy. The Rockerfellers sit it up that way with Kissinger, just like they sent Kissinger to set up the petrodollar with the Saudis.
I thought I was turning Japanese for a while there in the 80s.
I thought I was turning Japanese.
I really thought so.
Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
1984, when senseless wars, and useless capital projects are used to absorb the productive capacity of the people.
the grand canyon skywalk may be sorter but it costs way more, so its better. just like our healthcare.
lol
1000 chinese ton = 70kg?
Just think what the US could do with all that money: (maybe a mil spec toilet seat for an F-35?)
The F-35 Lightning II was designed to be an affordable 5th Generation fighter, taking advantage of economies of scale Since we built the first F-35, production costs have dropped 55 percent.
The most recent unit costs for Low Rate Initial Production lot 7 (not including the engine) are:
Since the F-35 program Technical Baseline Review in 2011, the team has studied and successfully implemented numerous affordability measures to drive costs out of the program.
Amerika would be better off paying tribute.
Far better a bridge to nowhere than a life without humanity.
Very Cool, they definitely got their money's worth. That would have cost about $55 million here in Amerika and would have taken 3 years to engineer, perform all the appropriate studies, have the requisit meetings, and then work it out so its a closed one bidder contract.
nope it wouldn't have gotten a permit because the $10 million spent on environmental impact studies said no. . .
wat abot da owls?
or conders or sumthin.
Aren't governments WONDERFUL at misallocating capital...!
Brilliant Chesler! Cut to Steve Austin dressed in a felt red track suit running about 80 mph.
Good Bond prop. James Bond makes an appointment with his adversary and then throws him down this toilet off the mountain.
Hah, that thing would be $20 mil in the states thanks to Davis Bacon labor rates.
......And it would take a decade to build.
Yunyang or Grand Kanyon Yang! This is news? Gawd help US!
A 6M lookout. Yes. I could think of MUCH MUCH more money the US spent for worse things.
USG builds $18T bridge to nowhere ... fixed it for ya
Bridge? Highway to hell!
Nice place to jump, when the Shang. Comp. starts heading south?
Perfect place for self suicide and assisted suicide...
Banksters recycle bin ?
Most definately. It looks a bit like a bin, then again maybe a toilet bowel.
just a little dearer.
Sometimes I think people post negativity just because it gives them some sort of self amusement.
There's a lot of crap to call China out on.......6 million for a scenic view and potential tourist draw doesn't sound all that bad to me when stacked next to the trillions of other things going shitty in the world.
Actually, the bridge was originally designed to go to Nowhere. However, following the economic downturn, the budget ran out. As the bridge is too narrow for traffic to turn around they had not choice but to turn the bridge back to where it started.
I think calling it a bridge to nowhere is a stretch. It looks like a pretty cool observation platform.
Would you stand on that platform knowing it was built by the Chinese?
Not me!!!
I think the Chinese are plenty capable of building a safe bridge, building, etc. I think their problem is quality of material that goes into building that bridge.
The Chinese high speed rail network is amazing in how fast its been built out. Now it will be interesting to see if it holds up long term.
6ml is piddle. Who cares.
Chines bridge of sighs for bankers?
All I see is giant toilet seat, in order to take a massive dump in the valley...
Why is Ozzy playing in my head now..
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3epoh_ozzy-osbourne-road-to-nowhere_music
Looks to me like someone had a job lot of magnolia paint to get rid of!
Question: When is a nice, modern viewing platform overlooking some pleasant scene of nature actually a bridge to nowhere? When ZeroHedge is involved, and apparently needs content filler.
For once I can unironically say "move along, nothing to see here."