Impossible Engineering: Mega Bridge (S1, E1) | Full Episode

S1 E1: "Mega Bridge" (Premiered 04/13/2015)
At almost two miles, the Rion-Antirion Bridge is an engineering colossus.

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[dhanushivan]

Rewatching this series after almost a decade. I came across this show when I was in Year 8/9. One of my faves.

[BrianandSnoopy]

I am so glad that the Science Channel has put IE on you tube. I love their Engineering shows and i don't get SC on my TV right now so this is the next best thing. i hope they put up more. :)

[al]

I once diverted water from my a/c into a bird bath....these engineers ain't they only badasses;)

[Hypercube]

Why doesn't The Mackinac Bridge ever get any love? Five miles long, capable of withstanding winds up to 150 mph, the road's 200 feet above water, and the pilings are 210 feet below water. Plus, water freezes when it gets cold! So you have giant floating icebergs ramming into the pilings every time the wind shifts direction in winter! One guy flew a plane below the bridge another flew a small plane INTO the guide wires during some fog. Beautiful bridge, 63 years old and the only thing wrong with it has been the lead paint they painted it with.

[winterkeptuswarm]

So good. Thank you for uploading. (A YouTube subscription is worth it, no ads ever, and small creators get more of a kickback than if you had sat through every ad. Jsyk!)

[phillipkalaveras]

Compare this 9, 449 ft suspension bridge that cost $800 million and 4 years to build to the New East Bay Bridge in San Francisco with a suspension of 1, 263 ft at a cost of $6.5 billion and 12 tears to build and another 4 billion quietly spent since opening attempting to keep it from falling down. That's how we do it in California, you should see the High-Speed Rail we spent $50 billion on, and if you do please tell me where you saw it.

[nursenbourgeois]

Thank you very much for informations. 💕

[wesleywright]

Ok this might sound stupid ! But in the beginning of this program! It was stated the land masses on either side of the proposed bridge were separate tectonic plates both moving in opposite direction! Even if the movement was small! Eventually the bridge won't be able to be used. How was this taken into account???

[beverlynocluze]

Watching this on a smaller screen doesn't do it justice.

[Littleanimalsarecute]

I want to build a bridge for the squirrels now!!

[davinmcmurry]

Yo if you watch closely I think there's a video somewhere in the ad

[gangisspawn]

Don't you love how these documentaries only contain 15min of the actual structure. The rest is dumb filler

[retribution]

If you dig fist into sand it shifts around ur fist. Will this not happen over time to those pillars and the gravel? I know it's supper sized versions but still.. I can't help but to have that question

[pauldziejman]

Really excellent video. But why does e=mc² (and other equations) appear with the diagrams when they have nothing to do with one another? Is it just to look "sciency" or something?

[vheilshorn]

Why do ppl think it's cute to change long standing pronunciations? It's been ROE-bling for the last 200 years. Stop saying RU-bling!

[roberthurley]

Ernstine's equations have nothing to do with a bridge!!!

[bailey]

anyone else watching cause of school 😐☝️

[samsngdevice]

These engineering marvels are always with problems.

[jimmywallace]

So far out of 8 minutes of video I've seen 330 sec of commercials

[al]

Engineering (kinda, not really)...want no commercials? Slide red dot to end of video, let video finish, hit replay. No commercials!

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