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Re:Beipanjiang Bridge, suspended 565m above China’s south-we... by blahedo on Sunday July 09, 2017 @05:11PM (#14731680)
Can someone explain the statement about the length of the cables (in the section starting about 2:48) that they'd stretch from Beijing to New York if laid end to end? It seems so obviously false (there's, what, a few dozen of them, maybe a hundred?) that I assume I'm missing something.
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Re:Beipanjiang Bridge, suspended 565m above China’s south-we... by grue2 on Sunday July 09, 2017 @05:16PM (#14731700)
Suspension bridge cables are made of smaller cables. And those smaller cables are made of yet smaller cables. For example: http://regex.info/i/JEF_042406.jpg

That's my guess.

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Re:Beipanjiang Bridge, suspended 565m above China’s south-we... by blahedo on Sunday July 09, 2017 @09:06PM (#14732699)
Ohhh that totally makes sense. That image really illustrates the point well, too! Thanks!
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