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16th October 2015, 01:52 PM
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Amazing bridge building machine in action
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16th October 2015, 08:37 PM
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Neat!
I wanna see the machine that builds the bridge building machine 
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17th October 2015, 01:57 AM
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wow !
i was brought up in the engineering game
many years ago i flew over the Humber Bridge with my my boss in his cessna watching them built it every 2 weeks now that was an amazing sight but this video and many more bridge building in the far east on youtube makes the Humber Bridge look like meccano (well not quite it still is an amazing bridge) thanks for sharing that
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17th October 2015, 06:02 AM
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What happens to the guys left underneath the new section on the left after the machine has finished?
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17th October 2015, 07:12 AM
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Mark ------------------------------------------------------ 2002 FE S8 Ebony Black Pearl ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ Cars Owned: The Tesla Era: 2020 Model S Performance Ludicrous+ (present) (Black, with all black premium interior and carbon fibre décor, 21" sonic carbon twin turbine wheels and FSD capability) The Audi Era: '97 A8 4.2 (Ming Blue) --> '96 A8 4.2 QS (Dark Green) --> '02 FE S8 (present) The Citroen Era: '84 BX 1.6 RS --> '89 BX 1.9 DTR Turbo --> '94 XM 2.0L Turbo --> '96 XM 2.0L Turbo Exclusive --> '00 Xantia Activa 2.0L Turbo The Banger Era: '76 1.2L Lada VAZ-2101 (Ruski Fiat 124) --> '80 1.7L Morris Ital HL, finished in Ermine White and Rust
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17th October 2015, 01:08 PM
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China is developing at such a rate that it is economic for them to build machines to build the stuff that for most other countries would be a one off construction project. An elegant engineered solution.
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17th October 2015, 01:36 PM
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This statistic regarding China puts their rapid development in perspective
 Taken from Bill Gates http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill...crete-in-China
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17th October 2015, 04:51 PM
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If we take only top 5% of Chinese population (i.e. people with highest IQ level, like graduates of best universities with highest grades) that will be significantly more than whole population of the UK.
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17th October 2015, 09:57 PM
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I work at a big automotive training complex (which sadly no longer includes Volkswagen School) and we send people out to train the Chinese automotive workers at Chinese automakers and dealerships...
We find that Chinese people can't improvise when things go off the script. They would find memorising the whole of EKTA quite normal, but if they were to snap off a seized glow-plug they would know that there was nothing in EKTA about that and just panic and give up. It is interesting to see their different approach and they admire us equally for being able to solve problems for which we have no knowledge or experience.
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