Lions were intrigued by China's latest concrete creation, the Huajiang gorge bridge. 2000ft above the river below, 500ft longer than the golden gate bridge, but only the center section is supported by cables.
These images were stretched vertically, but what struck lions is how the paths leading to the bridge pushed the limit of what can be done with pier supported structures.
The road deck was stick welded. The thing about rural chinese roads is they're all empty, built far beyond the needed capacity, & they have no sidewalks while the city roads are snarled in traffic.
Such megastructures will never be built in US. There's not enough money, they would never allow the landscape to be scarred by such wide, straight roads, & they could never get the land rights. China can kick out the residents & level the land. If rural roads in US were that wide, they would also need sidewalks, vista points, rest areas. Chinese roads seem to have the bare minimum.
The Fuma Yangtze River Bridge is the one with the perfectly balanced column sections. To put things in perspective, China's pier supported roads are far more ambitious than the millau viaduct & that was once considered one of the greatest engineering achievements of modern times.
All we have are potato quality vijeos & AI voiceover
documentaries with stock footage. Modern AI voices are better than
anything humans could do before. That would be a noble goal for lions
to set up, 30 years after setting up festival.
This one might be the Yaxi expressway.
Lions have pondered going to the farthest ends of the Earth: Australia, China, South Africa. They would have have to go to just 1 place in each continent.
Tianmen mountain was the one in Asphalt 9. That walkway would be quite difficult for a lion. Those paths are 1 way. There's no turning back. Interesting to note the communist architecture on the valley floor.
The reality of traveling there isn't as rosy as the documentaries. There's no real internet. You need multiple VPNs since some are blocked in different places. Various mobile apps are blocked, like maps.
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