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People’s Republic of China recently carried away the construction of transparent bridges from special glass – coatings, withstanding heavy loads and comparable to excellent plastic.
At the same time, such a glass bridge creates the illusion of freezing man over the precipice, which is very attractive for tourists who are keen on all unusual and extreme. More recently, September 20, in China in the mountains of Yuntaishan (Henan Province) opened a new U-shaped transparent bridge. Its height is more than a kilometer, and its length is almost seventy meters.
The day before yesterday, this miracle of engineering cracked, causing a real panic among tourists who had to urgently be evacuated from transparent platform. The blame for the incident was the usual metal a thermos with a drink that one of the extremals who decided to walk over the abyss.
There is a lot of discussion in Chinese social networks these days of this case. When the bridge cracked, one of the participants says events, I was just there, first I heard the sound of a fall heavy object and strong vibrations, then I saw like glass cracks went right under my feet. It was pretty creepy. People screamed and ran away, panic began …
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Fortunately, none of the tourists were injured that day. how engineers said the bridge did not even pose a threat to people after the thermos hit the glass, because cracks formed only on the top layer of a covering, and it is three-layer. This bridge cover, according to their assurances, can withstand eight hundred kilograms per square meter, although, of course, any glass does not like heavy and sharp punches. It is no accident that tourists are given special slippers for walks on the bridge.
People were evacuated urgently, official officials said. persons, only because there is a much greater danger at that moment represented a growing panic among tourists.
According to CCTV, the glass bridge is currently closed for repairs, it will open just a few days later, after its coating is fully restored.
In the video below you can see how tourists behave on another, the longest glass bridge in the Middle Kingdom (province Hunan), however, its height is only 180 meters, while cracked “road of fear” hung over the earth at an altitude of 1050 meters.
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