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

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

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. :)

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

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.

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

Thanks

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.

I love the science channel.

Amazing!

Thank you very much for informations. 💕

Yeah ! Nice work gentlemen, 👏💖🐕

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???

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

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

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

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?

Papa Nicholas 😂

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

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

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

Technology is amazing. Unfortunately my phone is starting to heat up. Nèed to get rid of a few things in order to finish it.

What is Y=mx+C ? I don't know what that is.

The name of the show should be called we done the impossible but great show

@ 13:16 look at the pirate ship in they sky

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!

16:38

No way

anyone else watching cause of school 😐☝️

These engineering marvels are always with problems.

Why do they keep flashing the theory of relativity on all the blueprint looking drawings?? Pretty sure that doesn't have anything to do with the construction of this bridge.

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

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

Enjoyable but the subtitles were superfluous. He speaks perfectly articulate English.

Oh and jesus it's ROEbling , NOT ROObling .

It's not impossible if they do it just saying 🤓🧐🤓🤭🤭🤭🤯🤯🤯😶😶😶

Getting really tired of mainstream tv editing. We're talking about a bridge, can you relax with the constant jump cuts and random engineering equations thrown in to the scenes when the don't make sense. I feel like I'm watching a deep fried meme version of those COD dank 420/69 montages, but they're targeting engineering nerds. Heroic music, and a "dun, dun, dun" voice over. This is cringe. Just teach us about the fucking bridge man, you don't have to make it a marvel movie.

WAYYYYY too many ads - had to click away after 10 min. What a shame.

Is humanity doing this so that Mega Yachts owned by billionaires can pass?

Ohh LORDT. Fascinating subject !! So why why WHHYYYY mess it up with cheesy hyperdramatic music that pulls focus from the extremely interesting content , come on ppl ; this isn't a Red Bull commercial ; and a narrator that is working SUPER hard to trot out at least HALF the corny narrator cliches ?? BOOOOO .