Interesting bridge

Rolling bridge is a unique design by Thomas Heatherwick. When activated, this simple footbridge transforms itself, snake like, into a perfect octagon -- rather resembling a hamster wheel.

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+6 1. G7Pro commented 15 years ago

Well pretty cool, but why? are there toy ships that need to navigate through that channel of water?
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+3 2. nubidu commented 15 years ago

Goosh it's slow.
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+12 3. avionn commented 15 years ago

#2 i agree way to slow 8-) i have the attention span of a squirrl >:) :(|)
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-11 4. MakeTnotWar commented 15 years ago

Yeah it's totally boring.
Just Stonehenge is more boring. What are those stupid stones good for? They don't even move.
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+10 5. eddie2042 commented 15 years ago

ok guys it may not have a purpose and it may be slow, but it's one fine piece of engineering :)
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-6 6. patriotaus commented 15 years ago

engineering stand point i suppose, but looks useless to me but i may just be utilitarian
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+4 7. chance commented 15 years ago

*rolls it into the water*
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+1 8. alexnader commented 15 years ago

Guys, i think that what we're missing here is what women call an "artistic perspective".
Basically it's just meant to be pretty; which we don't really get, but hey, who cares.
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+1 9. loki95531 commented 15 years ago

My first thought was I wonder how hard it would be to roll it to another spot on the channel as a joke but I figure it is well anchored to the ground. It is very slow but cool also.
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+5 10. wyvern1978 commented 15 years ago

"quick the barbarians are coming raise the draw bridge!!"

"oh shit never mind they made it!!"
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0 11. aziwa commented 15 years ago

any ideas how its actuated?
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+4 12. dvh commented 15 years ago

omg, it's Dharma initiative
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+2 13. vgsr commented 15 years ago

if it would be going faster it might smack the people off the edge on the other side like a whip when its becoming a bridge.
Beside its just art. i dont think art needs another purpose than beeing interesting.
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0 14. rubi commented 15 years ago

"In 2005, the bridge won the British Structural Steel Design Award." wow oO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Bridge
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0 15. Woll commented 15 years ago

Please tell me that I'm not the only one that thinks the first half of the clip looks like a bridge getting a hard-on.
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+4 16. Chucky commented 15 years ago

@#15 Nah, just you Woll (ya bridge-perv!) ;)

It only curls up at 12:00 on a friday, so it's clearly to stop the staff getting an early finish for the weekend.
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0 17. NoNameMcGee commented 15 years ago

#16 great explanation. :D

By the time the bridge curls up the boat TRYING to get through can sail around the world and back.... 2 times, to still make it on the other side of the bridge.
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0 18. sselfless commented 15 years ago

sOoOoOoO SlOoOoOoOw ! This is the land of the internets, speed it up!
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-1 19. sselfless commented 15 years ago

i like robots. :)
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0 20. LightAng3l commented 15 years ago

I have seen this bridge before ... in that video a woman bent over and the bridge had an erection >:)
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+1 21. Sizzlik (admin) commented 15 years ago

for me it looks like a mechanical way do describe how it looks when a man gets a boner^^
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0 22. 95731 commented 15 years ago

i think its closed on the other side of the bridge during dose days
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-1 23. matisse808 commented 15 years ago

This clip reveals the dangers existant when a simple mind comes up with a simple image of a simple wheel uncoiling to become simply flat . . .wait . . . here it comes . . . WOW a bridge, then reverse-engineered to become something called "art," which required who knows how many thousands of pounds of money belonging to . . . I hope not the public, because this is neither art nor engineering. >:)
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0 24. CrazyEddie commented 12 years ago

I have no idea why I watched this.