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Even after you see it, it is still hard to believe !
WaterBridge in Germany .... What a feat!
Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long.......
now this is engineering!
This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and
joins the former East and West Germany ,
as part of the unification project.
It is located in the city of Magdeburg , near Berlin .
The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.
To those who appreciate engineering projects,
here's a puzzle for you armchair engineers and physicists.
Did that bridge have to be
designed to withstand the additional weight
of ship and barge traffic, or just the weight of the water?
Answer:
It only needs to be designed to withstand the weight
of the water!
Why? A ship always displaces an amount of water that
weighs the same as the ship,
regardless of how heavily a ship may be loaded.
image:
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Posted: 2007-03-08 21:51:24
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a water bridge is known as a aquaduct Jn..
fatreg
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Posted: 2007-03-08 21:55:12
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hehe yup its just a big aqueduct with a walk way
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Posted: 2007-03-08 22:02:46
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Aqueduct, aquaduct, ugly duck or Donald Duck . . . it still LOOKS like a BRIDGE to me mates
. . .
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Posted: 2007-03-08 22:15:34
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its german, their will be a mistake in the design, no doubt about it
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Posted: 2007-03-08 22:17:28
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haha it is a bridge, just a special bridge called an 'aqueduct'
yup will probably fall down within the next week
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Posted: 2007-03-08 22:28:35
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ooooh..
i can't spell.. its an aqueduct..
intresting.
fatreg
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Posted: 2007-03-08 22:37:06
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I hope that a German PEEP (Esatonian) can confirm this one if it's really a BRIDGE or a DUCK
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Posted: 2007-03-08 22:46:40
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i wrote aquaduct but iv got a spell check on my computer which now is present on most programs, god knows where it came from. Anyway it told me it was wrong
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Posted: 2007-03-08 22:50:32
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I can't say that it's terribly beautiful, but none the less it is a clever bit of architecture.
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Posted: 2007-03-09 00:21:49
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