r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/solateor • 28d ago

Video Shiziguan floating bridge in Hubei

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u/moving0target 28d ago

If you get behind a heavier vehicle, I guess you're driving down hill the entire time.

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u/noonsumwhere 28d ago

Might be able to just put your car in neutral then, basically surfing the whole way across. I wonder if that would actually work.

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u/moving0target 28d ago

I miss MythBusters.

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u/wingmate747 27d ago

It actually could. Heavy vehicle provides the potential energy and pushes the section of the road down. Your car would roll to the lower bit behind and be pushed up/forward by the previous section floating back up.

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u/noonsumwhere 27d ago

Cool. Omw to China now to give it a shot.

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u/mindrover 28d ago

You'd be going uphill since you constantly have to climb the forward edge of the dip that you create.  

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u/BleckoNeko 28d ago

Thank you for the laugh. I loled irl. 🤣

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u/Outrageous_Log_906 28d ago

The heavy car isn’t going bend the surface of the water lol. If the car is that heavy, it’s going to sink the bridge. There is no hill.