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Italy To Build World's Longest Suspension Bridge
Rei writes "According to the BBC, Italy has just granted contracts to begin work on the world's longest suspension bridge, connecting the island of Sicily to the mainland. The nearly four kilometer-long bridge across the Messina Straits is to carry a double six-lane highway and four high-speed railway tracks. Its main span will be 3.3 kilometers long; this would over 1.5x the current record-holder, the 1991-meter Akashi-Kaikyo bridge."
If your name is Sonny, don't stop at the tollbooth.
the nearly 4 km bridge is over 1.5x the 1.991 km japanese bridge?
well, that's a logically accurate statement, but so is the statement that gw bush is 1.5x smarter than your average chimpanzee
the truth is he is more like 2x as smart, and same with the bridges
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
This is to request slashdotters in Italy to track and tell us the role of Linux/OSS if any, in this project. If one knows how Linux can be of use, I'd welcome the information too. I wonder whether Linux/OSS can play a role.
If only they made it a little longer, say, 42,000 km. And also up instead of sideways.
I had heard Rumours that the project may be suspended
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
For a short period of time, Storebaeltsbroen held the record, until Akashi was built.
:)
I actually crossed them both at the same day a few years ago. I wonder if that entitles me to a place in the Guiness book of records
Ludwig Wittgenstein
And just consider having to resurface that beast. But the probable issues aside, it will make for some beautiful photo opportunities.
In these days, bleeps and bloops mean something more
Four kilometres long.
That's a lot of places to throw bodies off...
You want to update this. Since end of August, it's 23 miles all below water...
Beer kills more people than terrorists.
George Bush kills more people than terroists (of course some people think he is a terrorist.)
Terrorists kill people in particularly nasty ways, and get heaps of "the oxygen of publicity".
However, the Mafia (Based in Sicily) almost certaily kill more people than the terrorists, and if the terrorists mess with this bridge, then I am sure the Mafia will "make them an offer they can't refuse"
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In the US, our government has allocated $223 million for a 6300 foot long, 200 foot high (~2 km, 60 meter) bridge Not too far out of line when you scale down the Italian bridge.
They are going to put it between Ketchican, Alaska (population 14500) and Gravina Island (population 50).
Sicilians may have invented organized crime, but the US Congress has perfected it.