Japan: We have the longest airport terminal at sea. The Netherlands: Brother, we have been living below sea level for centuries, 26%of our land is below sea level. We practically make our own land.
I won’t lie, but the B1M is what keeps me sane as a cyber sec person Edit: this video really shows why the best thing/items are made in JAPAN RESPECT To all the engineers ❤
Interestingly, Kobe Airport which is also built on reclaimed land and not too far north of Kansai in Osaka Bay doesn’t appear to be having the same issues. I think eventually (we’re talking decades), Kobe could be built out more to take over from Kansai. Kobe is currently domestic and has just the one shorter runway at 8,000ft vs 11,000ft at Kansai. Kobe did have a lot of local opposition though when it was proposed and didn’t open until 2006.
This airport has been sinking for 30 years. Why is this news today? The airport is built with "jacks" to raise the airport from the sinking floor. The only question remains, how much more can they jack up before they run out of room?
If they ever decide that's it, we won't raise it no more, what will happen? They just gonna watch abandoned airport sink? or will they demolish everything and remove the island?
Would it have been better to float the whole airport? Whether it is byoyant in the water alone or also the clay, I don't care. There's going to be trade-off for a water depth, clay composition, pressure per square meter, etc. You don't want to float a skyscraper, but an airport might be doable. I used to work at a military facility that had a bunker that was fully floating underground.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="467">7:47</a> There'd be no need to rewrite the fundamental principles of soil dynamics because it's all been done before. Quite some time ago, a certain book cautioned against building your house on sand. If you knew someone called Peter. Flippancy aside, this is yet another example of just how fiendishly difficult construction becomes the moment you put your shovel into the ground.
RU-vidrs adding their faces to supposedly informative videos typically have narcissistic inclinations and provide less of a value per average minute of the video (as far as useful information goes). In the case of this video, the ratio of useful information to filler/water (no pun) in borderline.
I think that may just be on your end and the reason it improved at the 51 second mark was because you were likely streaming the video at a lower resolution and bit-rate until your device and connection caught up. It could also be some latent post processing that just finished on the video, with it just having been uploaded 15 minutes ago at the time of writing this comment.
I have been watching B1M for years but I wish they would give both metric and Imperial measurements for us American users as we have to pause to google 18 meters in feet which is 59ft!
