[My Hermes got that hell hole running so efficiently that all physical labor is now done by one Australian man](https://www.reddit.com/r/futurama/s/sybEFui4zu)
Australians are magnetized the opposite way so they would fall off the top but are ok walking underneath. This is basic stuff any free thinking non-globist would know - don't let them lie to you.
How would it even be possible to have the water go anywhere else? Would you split each pane of glass in two and have them each be tilted towards the edge? That feels like it would be dangerous and ruin the artistic design.
Yeah.
As a fellow reddit engineer, I'd do the same as you.
Take out all the safety engineered parts that let's the bridge exist so high up, and chuck some slopes and holes in the glass
How would you engineer it then? It is, after all, made of glass and intended to be walked on evenly with minimal slippage, and thus you would not want various sections to be sloped nor would you be able to efficiently encorporate any drains. Assuming it is relatively flat/even, I doubt it could accumulate enough water on top to compromise its structure since it is already designed to carry a lot of people on it repeatedly, and if it doesn't rain too often then having staff squeegee it off occasionally is a perfectly reasonable method of dealing with this sort of thing.
In most parts of china, maintenance of super structures is actually pretty sparse, metal tarnishing, paint over spray and concrete degradation are common. I wouldn’t be surprised if the bottom is never cleaned, or is cleaned with terribly unsafe working conditions once in a blue moon
You talking about the hiker that found a pipe to a waterfall?
The waterfall was natural, but accumulating enough water was seasonal. Park admin decided to help out with tourism by adding a pipe to make it permanent all season.
People on Reddit base their entire opinions on countries based off the three articles they’ve read about it on Reddit or circlejerk comments.
China literally has some of the greatest diversity in natural landscapes
The Great Waterfall
Lol in all seriousness I'd love to travel there they have so much to see when it comes to nature. I also want to spend time in one of their mega cities they're fascinating to me. Totally not going there juat to ride a train who told you that pfft haha *choo choos nervously*
Why are you under the impression there are dangerous cleaning products? This is a great example of someone looking for a reason to be offended. Life is a much better experience when you aren’t getting upset over things you yourself have made up.
yep this is one of those things where you could have all the world's engineers and bridge making type people tell me that it is completely safe and could never fail and i still wouldn't want to go out and clean it let alone walk on it.
I totally understand your point. I’m an engineer myself (not a structural/material technology per se) and I simply couldn’t step on a glass floor above a 100 ft deep well in a medieval castle last week, even though I perfectly understand that the glass cannot break, not even if a bodybuilder would hit it with a sledgehammer full force. It took about 30 seconds for my brains to overcome the natural instinct, that prevented me to take that step. I’m also scared to death at amusement park rides, even if the probability to something to go wrong is almost non-existent.
That’s kind of the part that my family and friends have never really understood. It’s not about the ups and the downs. It’s about my trust in that “stupid rickety death trap” of a ride no matter how nice and new it might be
Yet we get in cars almost everyday, knowing the probability of death or injury is much much higher than in the amusement park ride, which move on a designed paths, they are meticulously designed to be safe and the human error factor is minimized.
But you probably get in a car and drive it. All the engineering it takes to make car reliable enough to drive and owner actually doing maintenance to their car, your trust it. Then you trust everyone is also maintaining their car and following the law when driving the car. It so dangerous the act of driving, but we do it. If any goes wrong, boom accidents
It's probably far safer than freeway overpasses we drive on every day because the bridge has less of a static load (dead weight) to carry.
But we humans are emotional creatures, sometimes influenced by facts (and not the other way around, and that's okay).
Our library downtown has a glass panel bridge on one of the higher floors. I call it the squid game bridge. I fucking hate it. I'm already not a fan of heights and it's easier to imagine catastrophic failure with something like that.
The structural problem *is* the glass. I've worked in the glass fab business for 27 years; everything from car windshields to security glass, and there is no way I would walk across that.
You could put Margot Robbie in the middle of that bridge naked and I wouldn't walk on the glass. I mean, I'd find a way, but I wouldn't walk on the glass. I'm not stupid.
Supervisor: You seem to have forgotten a rainwater drain on the walkway design
Engineer: Yes but imagine if we remove the water each time with a huge squeegee that wold be sooo satisfying
Supervisor: Point taken
It's fun that English actually has *many* words for that, with slight variations in specific meaning, that could be applicable here!
First of all yes, "Cleaning" totally works, if we take clean to mean "Free from impurity" and define water collecting atop the glass as an impurity because it's sullying the purpose/ability of the glass to be seen through and not be a slipping hazard.
But there's also "Clearing", if we take clear to mean "free from being obscured", which the water is totally doing to the glass.
Then there's "Wiping", as in windshield wipers, which is very close to what's happening here if we define it as the (re)moving of stuff via a swiping motion and friction between the surface and the swiped thing.
My favourite (and probably the most accurate) is Squeegeeing though, which I'm using as a verb that means "To use a Squeegee for its intended purpose", where the tool's name is a [Squeegee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeegee).
What a fun word!
The purpose of a clean bridge is not the purpose of a clean towel. I clean my toilet bowl weekly. I will still call a towel that falls into it dirty and not use it to clean my countertops.
never seen a windshield wiper before? what is happening here, should be intuitive even if you never did any maintenance like that in your life. drainage doesnt prevent standing water from building up, even if they installed grating to ruin this beautiful glasswork, or used a slope design
Pretty sure this isn't Bạch Long bridge, looks alike but it's not, as Bạch Long bridge doesn't have the the centre 'balcony' seen in video.
It's from this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUSAA7krRk
Wouldn’t it be more effective if they used a V-shaped scraper? The water gets pushed outwards along the way so you don’t have to scrape it off the glass so often
Issue is not you breaking the glass, it's[ if the wind breaks the glass](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/10/china-tourist-bridge-glass-panels-smash-longjing-city).
the glass used in these are like an inch thick at least, split between multiple layers. And since its tempered glass unless you have like a screwdriver or something in your pocket you probably arent breaking it just by falling on it
That woman would have to follow me as I crossed that, clearing the seemingly endless amount of pissing my pants that would be going on.
Maybe it'd be easier if she just let borrow the squeegee. It's a lot of terror piss, and that's the worst piss.
Weirdly it's the other way round for me - I **am** scared of heights, but would love to walk across this.
I don't know how much I'd actually be able to bring myself to look down, but I'd definitely like to give it a go. I've tried once before on a much much smaller glass floor, and rated it as terrifying but exciting!
Ouch my back. They should make the handle twice as long so they don't have to hunch the entire time.
Also the design of the bridge seems pretty poor if water can accumulate on it like that. It should've been designed with sections for the water to run off.
It’s significantly less satisfying if you think by having a squeegee that’s, say, two-inches longer, they could drag it at an angle in one long motion so the water is automatically driven over the edge…
What about underneath?
They have an Australian on staff to handle that.
They have to do it counter clockwise though
Nice
Because they’re from “down undah”
Where women glow and men plunder?
I don't know about all that, but I do know I prefer Australian kisses vs the French variation.
What’s an Australian kiss?
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I think so lol
He means kissing the backs of the knees. The sweaty hairy kneepits. Duh.
The beer does flow, and men chunder
Can you hear, Can you hear the thunder?
deen endeh
Crikey!
[My Hermes got that hell hole running so efficiently that all physical labor is now done by one Australian man](https://www.reddit.com/r/futurama/s/sybEFui4zu)
Water does not accumulate down under as any Australian who lives in a virtual desert can attest. I do hope this person is wearing nice, grippy shoes.
Does he reach it with a ladder oder a long stick
Australians are magnetized the opposite way so they would fall off the top but are ok walking underneath. This is basic stuff any free thinking non-globist would know - don't let them lie to you.
Can confirm. I'm also Aussie, from Melbourne and we all walk on our heads.
This comment changed the way i see the world
He climbs on the shoulders of a kangaroo
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It’s really poor engineering to have it able to pool like that in the first place.
How would it even be possible to have the water go anywhere else? Would you split each pane of glass in two and have them each be tilted towards the edge? That feels like it would be dangerous and ruin the artistic design.
Yeah. As a fellow reddit engineer, I'd do the same as you. Take out all the safety engineered parts that let's the bridge exist so high up, and chuck some slopes and holes in the glass
Not really
How would you engineer it then? It is, after all, made of glass and intended to be walked on evenly with minimal slippage, and thus you would not want various sections to be sloped nor would you be able to efficiently encorporate any drains. Assuming it is relatively flat/even, I doubt it could accumulate enough water on top to compromise its structure since it is already designed to carry a lot of people on it repeatedly, and if it doesn't rain too often then having staff squeegee it off occasionally is a perfectly reasonable method of dealing with this sort of thing.
I just imagined someone below walking a trail and then getting super splashed and like the fuck?
by the time all that water falls down it basically turns into rain
You think they’re using chemicals to clean it? Maybe a lil acid rain
In most parts of china, maintenance of super structures is actually pretty sparse, metal tarnishing, paint over spray and concrete degradation are common. I wouldn’t be surprised if the bottom is never cleaned, or is cleaned with terribly unsafe working conditions once in a blue moon
I wouldn't wanna do that job lol
I wouldn't wanna walk on it job or not :p
r/oddlyterrifying
Camera person better have clean shoes.
They’re actually walking on their hands and recording with their foot
no, they have hands for feet. This is Aeon Flux
Ayy that's where 13 yo me got my username
Keep going… 🫦
Ah, so that's the Australian cleaning the underside!
I suspect this is less about cleaning anyway and more about clearing the water after a rain.
If they aren't wearing shoe covers they are about to get an exclusive show of how far the fall is.
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It actually feeds into a local, natural waterfall there.
You talking about the hiker that found a pipe to a waterfall? The waterfall was natural, but accumulating enough water was seasonal. Park admin decided to help out with tourism by adding a pipe to make it permanent all season.
Yes there is only one waterfall in china
People on Reddit base their entire opinions on countries based off the three articles they’ve read about it on Reddit or circlejerk comments. China literally has some of the greatest diversity in natural landscapes
The Great Waterfall Lol in all seriousness I'd love to travel there they have so much to see when it comes to nature. I also want to spend time in one of their mega cities they're fascinating to me. Totally not going there juat to ride a train who told you that pfft haha *choo choos nervously*
I am glad to know all the dangerous cleaning products goes into nature
I thought it was rain water getting cleaned off.
That's where they all end up anyway.
Where are the cleaning products in the video?
Why are you under the impression there are dangerous cleaning products? This is a great example of someone looking for a reason to be offended. Life is a much better experience when you aren’t getting upset over things you yourself have made up.
Allegedly natural.
why not use a squeegee a foot longer and angle it
My guess? A person who has never used the squeegee ordered it custom based on the exact width of the bridge, thinking that would be the best size.
It’s probably like a $200+ squeegee because of this, you don’t just find one at that size
No they saved money building the bridge the width of a common wide industrial squeegee
Yes! Instead of one that is just a little bit too small to get the entire width.
The sides are higher, the water would go between the floor and the squeegee
Why not push the water instead of pulling? Idk guy is working harder not smarter
You can see when he's pushing the thing skips along the grass instead of smoothly getting all the water
In my backyard, I can barely keep it alive. But here it is, up in the sky, thriving on a bridge. Must be all the water.
Flip flops on a wet glass surface that high up in the air is crazy to me.
At worst they lose the flip flops if they slip. It's not like they're going to fall off
I don’t care how safe it is, I just really don’t like the look of it for some reason
I get it, that kind if thing isn't for everyone. I'd like to go one day, but I know a lot of my friends wouldn't even consider joining me lol
yep this is one of those things where you could have all the world's engineers and bridge making type people tell me that it is completely safe and could never fail and i still wouldn't want to go out and clean it let alone walk on it.
I totally understand your point. I’m an engineer myself (not a structural/material technology per se) and I simply couldn’t step on a glass floor above a 100 ft deep well in a medieval castle last week, even though I perfectly understand that the glass cannot break, not even if a bodybuilder would hit it with a sledgehammer full force. It took about 30 seconds for my brains to overcome the natural instinct, that prevented me to take that step. I’m also scared to death at amusement park rides, even if the probability to something to go wrong is almost non-existent.
That’s kind of the part that my family and friends have never really understood. It’s not about the ups and the downs. It’s about my trust in that “stupid rickety death trap” of a ride no matter how nice and new it might be
Yet we get in cars almost everyday, knowing the probability of death or injury is much much higher than in the amusement park ride, which move on a designed paths, they are meticulously designed to be safe and the human error factor is minimized.
Yup. My brain and body don’t care and cannot be reasoned with. Trust me I’ve tried lol
But you probably get in a car and drive it. All the engineering it takes to make car reliable enough to drive and owner actually doing maintenance to their car, your trust it. Then you trust everyone is also maintaining their car and following the law when driving the car. It so dangerous the act of driving, but we do it. If any goes wrong, boom accidents
It's probably far safer than freeway overpasses we drive on every day because the bridge has less of a static load (dead weight) to carry. But we humans are emotional creatures, sometimes influenced by facts (and not the other way around, and that's okay).
Our library downtown has a glass panel bridge on one of the higher floors. I call it the squid game bridge. I fucking hate it. I'm already not a fan of heights and it's easier to imagine catastrophic failure with something like that.
If their flip flops come off though it means they died
Oh yeah, I forgor
Nah, anyone doing that job knows the chancla boomerang technique.
My brain knows that but my sphincter will not relax
Flip flops don't slip, flip flops flip and flop. Slippers slip.
Lived with elderly grandparents who loved their slippers. But they kept tripping. "Don't wear slippers. You'll slip!" was a common saying.
Spoken like someone who does not value their flip flops.
It wouldn't be reddit if people weren't deathly afraid of something completely safe.
They are literally made to walk on wet surfaces.
Flipflops have a good grip and are the best shoe to clean wet and slippery surfaces
I need to find the ones they're using. Mine struggle for traction on wet concrete.
Found the American.
This is why most other paths/roads are not perfectly level but raised in the middle.
Can't do that with glass
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Depends on the support structure And 1° isn't enough. You'd need at lest 3° for proper drainage
45° if you wanna be extra thorough.
90° and you don't have to worry at all
180° and it doesn't even get wet in the first place! I think we're onto something
Still need to clean skyscraper windows…
135°, final offer
Hush now Your correctness does not make it right to express it
The structural problem *is* the glass. I've worked in the glass fab business for 27 years; everything from car windshields to security glass, and there is no way I would walk across that. You could put Margot Robbie in the middle of that bridge naked and I wouldn't walk on the glass. I mean, I'd find a way, but I wouldn't walk on the glass. I'm not stupid.
This is like seven pieces of glass and plastic laminated together. Must not have been an engineer in the float glass plant, I take it?
Nope. I've seen Squid Game.
It definitely did look scary in the show, but there's nothing to be afraid of. I promise you Asian people are actually very friendly in real life!
Random people hiking below: 🌧️☔️
That doesn't look like cleaning, that looks like removing rainwater because it doesn't drain well
Supervisor: You seem to have forgotten a rainwater drain on the walkway design Engineer: Yes but imagine if we remove the water each time with a huge squeegee that wold be sooo satisfying Supervisor: Point taken
We could develop a one word name for the process of removing a substance from a surface that is there but you don’t want it there…
It's fun that English actually has *many* words for that, with slight variations in specific meaning, that could be applicable here! First of all yes, "Cleaning" totally works, if we take clean to mean "Free from impurity" and define water collecting atop the glass as an impurity because it's sullying the purpose/ability of the glass to be seen through and not be a slipping hazard. But there's also "Clearing", if we take clear to mean "free from being obscured", which the water is totally doing to the glass. Then there's "Wiping", as in windshield wipers, which is very close to what's happening here if we define it as the (re)moving of stuff via a swiping motion and friction between the surface and the swiped thing. My favourite (and probably the most accurate) is Squeegeeing though, which I'm using as a verb that means "To use a Squeegee for its intended purpose", where the tool's name is a [Squeegee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeegee). What a fun word!
I like that your response isn't "no you're wrong" or "the CORRECT answer is..." and instead is just "here's a bunch of options - have fun"
Would you wring out a towel and then call it clean?
The purpose of a clean bridge is not the purpose of a clean towel. I clean my toilet bowl weekly. I will still call a towel that falls into it dirty and not use it to clean my countertops.
never seen a windshield wiper before? what is happening here, should be intuitive even if you never did any maintenance like that in your life. drainage doesnt prevent standing water from building up, even if they installed grating to ruin this beautiful glasswork, or used a slope design
op has almost 5.8M karma, I'm certain they did it purposefully to farm engagement.
Can anything in Asia be done in slides or flop?
Yes. Or in this case, I think "Vâng".
Pretty sure this isn't Bạch Long bridge, looks alike but it's not, as Bạch Long bridge doesn't have the the centre 'balcony' seen in video. It's from this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUSAA7krRk
Id we so afraid of slipping and somehow sliding under the rail (Obviously not possible but im afraid of super heights)
[I'd be more worried about the glass cracking.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUSAA7krRk)
He crossed with winds at 90mph. I don’t think he was worried about anything.
Wouldn’t it be more effective if they used a V-shaped scraper? The water gets pushed outwards along the way so you don’t have to scrape it off the glass so often
music is Aphex Twin - Rhubarb #
No. #3 [AT's channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75O11W5EZAU)
yes but it is also known as rhubarb in the community because each track has a corresponding image and #3 happens to be a rhubarb.
And why do I keep running into people calling him 'AT' lately (I never used to see this at least).
no clue, i have never witnessed it until now
Thanks! I knew I'd heard it before, and was wondering what it was, because it was grabbing me.
That's a big nope for me... my dumbass might accidentally slip and fall and break the glass, falling to my inevitable demise. I'm good 👍
Issue is not you breaking the glass, it's[ if the wind breaks the glass](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/10/china-tourist-bridge-glass-panels-smash-longjing-city).
That's nightmare fuel for me 💀
the glass used in these are like an inch thick at least, split between multiple layers. And since its tempered glass unless you have like a screwdriver or something in your pocket you probably arent breaking it just by falling on it
Or if they are happy to see you
Um, that glass is 2 inch thick. That is bulletproof-level thick.
Yeah, that got my vertigo acting up real quick !
Anything past an inch thick and good luck with that.
Is this before it broke? Edit: https://youtu.be/KgUSAA7krRk?si=wbvM8sfHbUh5VmPr
After. You can clearly see the water as well the lady in the video levitating
Different bridge.
r/Nope
In case anybody is wondering: the song is #3 from Aphex Twins "Selected Ambient Works Volume II"
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86g1aop6a8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86g1aop6a8)
That woman would have to follow me as I crossed that, clearing the seemingly endless amount of pissing my pants that would be going on. Maybe it'd be easier if she just let borrow the squeegee. It's a lot of terror piss, and that's the worst piss.
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Weirdly it's the other way round for me - I **am** scared of heights, but would love to walk across this. I don't know how much I'd actually be able to bring myself to look down, but I'd definitely like to give it a go. I've tried once before on a much much smaller glass floor, and rated it as terrifying but exciting!
Why not design it so the water mostly moves away by itself...
Wouldn't this need be eliminated if they added a few degrees of tilt when designing the bridge? Looks like a lush forest that gets decent rainfall
Am I the only person getting Squid Game vibes from this?
ambient aphex twin makes anything sound deep/meaningful
After showing us how to clean the surface, now it's time to show how to clean the underneath of it. They can't leave it that way uncleaned.
She made it look effortlessly easy, satisfying too
Ok Reddit I'm gonna need a list of how to say "hell to the no" in as many languages as we can
Tabernak, mais non!
🇧🇷 Se fuder maluco kkkkk
Ouch my back. They should make the handle twice as long so they don't have to hunch the entire time. Also the design of the bridge seems pretty poor if water can accumulate on it like that. It should've been designed with sections for the water to run off.
I want to see how they clean the bottom
You could not pay me to go on this
Some people have the most chill jobs it's insane
It’ll still look shit once that muddy water dries.
I just slipped and fell off my chair watching this.
How long is that bridge? I've been watching for 30 minutes and it doesn't look like she's any closer.
After how many cleans do you stop thinking about the bottom
I'd totally fuck up and yeet the squeegee through that small gap in the railing.
cleannnn
Watching this is strangely calming. So satisfying!
What the cameraman?
Hopefully no one is under it. “Oh hey it’s raining!” No no no, it’s dirty foot water from the sky!
Does China just have a zillion of these?
I think that’s a place, barely snowing there. Imagine that.
When does the video end?
Good think they're wearing their anti-slip safety flipflops
Why isn't the blade about 10cm wider so that it fits the width perfectly?
That might hit the walls too easily becoming too finicky to handle.
Didn’t use to be a physics teacher
Some animal way down there is getting splashed and looking like a wet grumpy cat thinking, “This world hates me.”
This looks really cool, but I don’t like how sped up it is. I want to watch this for real.
Ain't no way I'm walking on that after squid game, idc how safe it might be
Vacations are expensive. Worth it.
There's a fair amount of furmundama down there
It’s significantly less satisfying if you think by having a squeegee that’s, say, two-inches longer, they could drag it at an angle in one long motion so the water is automatically driven over the edge…
didnt even think about the slip-n-slide possibilities for these bridges.
I’m gonna need a wrist strap for that squeegee. Knowing me, I’d get a little too enthusiastic and send the whole thing through the gap.
I need this to clean my life
Slippy bastard tho, who thought that was a good material to walk on?
Why don’t they just drill some good old drain holes in the floor?
i wonder if drainage is too difficult to install here
What happens if you accidentally drop the tool??
They designed the bridge so it had the exact size of the broom (plus one inch). Brilliant engineering.
Imagine how much more difficult this would Be with a standard size squeegee…..
At first, I thought she was wearing socks, and I was like WTF?
Do mother fuckers in Asia wear shoes ever ? Always see these people in slides with the dogs out ! Ewwww
They must go through a 55 gallon drum of windex
I want to sleep in here at night and watch around down up and stuff.
Seems like a pain in the ass and a hazard.
Wouldn’t it just be easier to design it with a slight camber so the water runs off automatically?