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9/11 - The Anatomy of a Great Deception |
The Anatomy of a Great Deception
9/11Disaster | Crime
Full Documentary (2014) ~ The Anatomy of a Great Deception is a quasi-political, spiritual docu-thriller following businessman-turned-filmmaker, David Hooper as he deals with the emotions of his own investigation into the events of 9/11. The fast pace and the filmmakers commentary on coping with the emotions involved in finding truth, sets the film apart.
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of in this episode 9/11 - The Anatomy of a Great Deception .
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| Zero Hour Terror in Tokyo |
On March 20, 1995, the Tokyo Metro was infected with dangerous sarin nerve gas, which was planted by 5 members of a terrorist group called Aum Shinrikyo. A total of 13 people were killed.
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Zero Hour in this episode Terror in Tokyo.
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| Extreme Engineering Cooper River Bridge |
Country: United States
Project: Cooper River Bridge in Charleston, South Carolina
These men are are building the longest bridges in it's type ever attempted in North America. What they're doing is in the worst possible place. Charteton South Carolina, hurricanes, earthquakes and the world's biggest tanker ships posed deadly triple threat to the bridge and to the workmen building. If they succeed, trust will manage to remain one of the nation's most violent cost. If they fail, this flower of the South stay there in history once and for all.
The Cooper River Bridge Run is an annual 10-kilometer (6.2 mi) one-way road running event across the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge held in the cities of Mount Pleasant and Charleston in South Carolina, on the Saturday before Easter weekend. The Bridge Run is the only competition in South Carolina sanctioned by USA Track and Field as an elite event. Based on number of race finishers, the event is the third largest 10K and the fifth largest road race in the United States.
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Cooper River Bridge.
- wikipedia.org
Project: Cooper River Bridge in Charleston, South Carolina
These men are are building the longest bridges in it's type ever attempted in North America. What they're doing is in the worst possible place. Charteton South Carolina, hurricanes, earthquakes and the world's biggest tanker ships posed deadly triple threat to the bridge and to the workmen building. If they succeed, trust will manage to remain one of the nation's most violent cost. If they fail, this flower of the South stay there in history once and for all.
The Cooper River Bridge Run is an annual 10-kilometer (6.2 mi) one-way road running event across the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge held in the cities of Mount Pleasant and Charleston in South Carolina, on the Saturday before Easter weekend. The Bridge Run is the only competition in South Carolina sanctioned by USA Track and Field as an elite event. Based on number of race finishers, the event is the third largest 10K and the fifth largest road race in the United States.
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Cooper River Bridge.
- wikipedia.org
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| Venice Flood Gates |
Venice Flood Gates
Extreme EngineeringDiscovery Channel | Science | Technology
July 14, 2004
Country: Italy
Project: Venice Tide Barrier Project (MOSE Project)
Venice Italy city of canals, one of the world's most popular tourist attractions. Home to spectacular churches, art and architecture. And Europe's most celebrated party, carnival. Throughout it's 1200 years history, Venice and its people have had a stormy relationship with the sea. The city has always been flooded, some parts more than 200 times a year. But in the last century the floods have gotten worse. The average water high has gone up nearly a foot. Doorway has been barricaded, sidewalk's raised, but it is not enough.
How to save Venice, the world's most beautiful city, from drowning? The problem the Adriatic Sea is rising, literally swallowing Venice inch by inch. But the city is fighting back. They use the front-line solders to do seemingly impossible task by building huge barriers which will keep out the rising tide. This will take eight years and cost taxpayers 4 billion dollars.
Will it work? find out now in Extreme Engineering here with Watch Documentaries 360 in this episode Venice Flood Gates.
Project: Venice Tide Barrier Project (MOSE Project)
Venice Italy city of canals, one of the world's most popular tourist attractions. Home to spectacular churches, art and architecture. And Europe's most celebrated party, carnival. Throughout it's 1200 years history, Venice and its people have had a stormy relationship with the sea. The city has always been flooded, some parts more than 200 times a year. But in the last century the floods have gotten worse. The average water high has gone up nearly a foot. Doorway has been barricaded, sidewalk's raised, but it is not enough.
How to save Venice, the world's most beautiful city, from drowning? The problem the Adriatic Sea is rising, literally swallowing Venice inch by inch. But the city is fighting back. They use the front-line solders to do seemingly impossible task by building huge barriers which will keep out the rising tide. This will take eight years and cost taxpayers 4 billion dollars.
Will it work? find out now in Extreme Engineering here with Watch Documentaries 360 in this episode Venice Flood Gates.
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read more..
http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2014/08/venice-master-of-water.cfm
http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2014/08/venice-master-of-water.cfm
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| Turning Torso |
Turning Torso
Extreme EngineeringDiscovery Channel | Science | Technology
July 7, 2004
Country: Sweden
Project: Turning Torso skyscraper
How do you build the tallest, narrowest, strangest looking skyscraper in Swedish history? The men of shift one face the incredible challenge, build one entire floor of the radical turning Torso in a single seven day shift. They'll have to battle the danger, the boss and the equipments crushing hangover and practical joke to stay on schedule and keep the pay check coming.
7 crazy days on the 36th floor right now on Extreme Engineering. February 2004, the buyer are scheduled to move into Sweden's coolest new apartment building in less than a year. 54 stories tall, the brochure says the turning Torso will twist like a liquor stick on the way out. On a clear day, a condo owners will be able to see miles from every directions, that is if they can be build. Nothing has ever been attempted on this scale.
Watch the video about this story here at Watch Documentaries 360 the Extreme Engineering series in this episode Turning Torso.
Project: Turning Torso skyscraper
How do you build the tallest, narrowest, strangest looking skyscraper in Swedish history? The men of shift one face the incredible challenge, build one entire floor of the radical turning Torso in a single seven day shift. They'll have to battle the danger, the boss and the equipments crushing hangover and practical joke to stay on schedule and keep the pay check coming.
7 crazy days on the 36th floor right now on Extreme Engineering. February 2004, the buyer are scheduled to move into Sweden's coolest new apartment building in less than a year. 54 stories tall, the brochure says the turning Torso will twist like a liquor stick on the way out. On a clear day, a condo owners will be able to see miles from every directions, that is if they can be build. Nothing has ever been attempted on this scale.
Watch the video about this story here at Watch Documentaries 360 the Extreme Engineering series in this episode Turning Torso.
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| Widening the Panama Canal |
Widening the Panama Canal
Extreme EngineeringDiscovery Channel | Science | Technology
June 4, 2003
Country: Panama
Project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_expansion_project
The Panama canal, considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world. It cuts through 50 miles of dense tropical jungle and solid rock and provides a ten-hour shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Versus treacherous two week passage around the tip of South America.
Each year thousands of ships go through the canal and are literally lifted across Panama mountain by a remarkable series of water elevators and man-made lakes. When the canal was finished in 1914, it was a marvel of engineering able to handle the mightiest ships of its day. But, that time has passed.
Today new super cargo ships are double even triple the size putting Panama at a crossroads to the gamble billions on redesigning the canal for the 21st century. Or lose billion in revenue from all the ships that the canal can tangle. The very future events country could be riding on that decision.
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Widening the Panama Canal.
Project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_expansion_project
The Panama canal, considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world. It cuts through 50 miles of dense tropical jungle and solid rock and provides a ten-hour shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Versus treacherous two week passage around the tip of South America.
Each year thousands of ships go through the canal and are literally lifted across Panama mountain by a remarkable series of water elevators and man-made lakes. When the canal was finished in 1914, it was a marvel of engineering able to handle the mightiest ships of its day. But, that time has passed.
Today new super cargo ships are double even triple the size putting Panama at a crossroads to the gamble billions on redesigning the canal for the 21st century. Or lose billion in revenue from all the ships that the canal can tangle. The very future events country could be riding on that decision.
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Widening the Panama Canal.
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| Boston's Big Dig Extreme Engineering |
Boston's Big Dig
Extreme EngineeringDiscovery Channel | Science | Technology
May 28, 2003
Country: United States
Project: Boston's Big Dig underground highway and bridge project
Boston Massachusetts, a city strangled by highway and choked by traffic. Through it's heart cut two major artery played by congestion in gridlock. But what if it would possible to replace this urban expressway with parks and send the cars underground.
To build the system which superhighways larger in scale than Panama Canal or Hoover Dam beneath the city without massively disrupting it or shutting it down. Impossible? or is it in fact this engineering feat is transforming America's oldest city but not without confronting unprecedented challenges. How do you hold up streets in skyscrapers while excavating best tunnels miles beneath them? How do you design these tunnels to be smart to handle traffics deadly fumes or fires. Can city solve their traffic nightmares by rebuilding their highways underground?
The most complex highway system ever built is about to open to the public. Knowing Boston and its big dig is the largest urban construction project in modern history and its engineering achievements promise to end the city's infamous traffic jams. Eight miles of superhighways, half of them underground will carry traffic around or below the city. But as engineers gear up to troubleshoot the opening, there is one wild card that cannot be engineer. How tens of thousands of Harry drivers will react to the may of changes
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Boston's Big Dig.
Project: Boston's Big Dig underground highway and bridge project
Boston Massachusetts, a city strangled by highway and choked by traffic. Through it's heart cut two major artery played by congestion in gridlock. But what if it would possible to replace this urban expressway with parks and send the cars underground.
To build the system which superhighways larger in scale than Panama Canal or Hoover Dam beneath the city without massively disrupting it or shutting it down. Impossible? or is it in fact this engineering feat is transforming America's oldest city but not without confronting unprecedented challenges. How do you hold up streets in skyscrapers while excavating best tunnels miles beneath them? How do you design these tunnels to be smart to handle traffics deadly fumes or fires. Can city solve their traffic nightmares by rebuilding their highways underground?
The most complex highway system ever built is about to open to the public. Knowing Boston and its big dig is the largest urban construction project in modern history and its engineering achievements promise to end the city's infamous traffic jams. Eight miles of superhighways, half of them underground will carry traffic around or below the city. But as engineers gear up to troubleshoot the opening, there is one wild card that cannot be engineer. How tens of thousands of Harry drivers will react to the may of changes
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Boston's Big Dig.
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The boston big dig and the problem with complex projects
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig
The boston big dig and the problem with complex projects
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig
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| Holland's Barriers to the Sea |
Holland's Barriers to the Sea
Extreme EngineeringDiscovery Channel | Science | Technology
May 21, 2003
Country: Netherlands
Project: The Transatlantic Tunnel
Haft of Holland's land has literally been stolen from the icy waters of the North Sea. Dutch engineers who led that effort became the world 's best at building massive barriers and huge moving structures to reclaim the land. But now Holland faces a new ending, climate changes is driving the North Sea to record level and pushing rivers over their banks. Can the Dutch, masters of the water, engineer their way out of this one? or is this the end of 2,000 years of history. The day when the seas primely take back what it hurls.
More with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Holland's Barriers to the Sea .
Project: The Transatlantic Tunnel
Haft of Holland's land has literally been stolen from the icy waters of the North Sea. Dutch engineers who led that effort became the world 's best at building massive barriers and huge moving structures to reclaim the land. But now Holland faces a new ending, climate changes is driving the North Sea to record level and pushing rivers over their banks. Can the Dutch, masters of the water, engineer their way out of this one? or is this the end of 2,000 years of history. The day when the seas primely take back what it hurls.
More with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Holland's Barriers to the Sea .
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| Building Hong Kong's Airport |
Building Hong Kong's Airport
Extreme EngineeringDiscovery Channel | Science | Technology
May 14, 2003
Country: Hong Kong
Project: Hong Kong International Airport
Hong Kong, one of the most wealthiest cities in the world. But, by nineteen this central global commerce found itself under siege from the air. The city has grown up around its tiny airport but has long since outgrown it. Now, the constant onslaught of huge commercial jetliners was endangering the lives of the resident and the airports tiny size was threatened to choke off to life flood of the city. Hong Kong desperately needed a new world-class airport, but where to put it.
There was only one option that is to build it sixteen miles out at sea. But that would require the largest engineering project in history. It would mean building the longest bridges in the world and massive new longer water tunnels, 22 miles of new superhighway and hight-speed rail. Builder estimated the project would take decades but they were given only seven years. Could engineers and builder working on an absurdly tight deadline pull of a project this extreme? And would building such colossal structures only invite disaster in the future?
Find out all the answer here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Building Hong Kong's Airport.
Project: Hong Kong International Airport
Hong Kong, one of the most wealthiest cities in the world. But, by nineteen this central global commerce found itself under siege from the air. The city has grown up around its tiny airport but has long since outgrown it. Now, the constant onslaught of huge commercial jetliners was endangering the lives of the resident and the airports tiny size was threatened to choke off to life flood of the city. Hong Kong desperately needed a new world-class airport, but where to put it.
There was only one option that is to build it sixteen miles out at sea. But that would require the largest engineering project in history. It would mean building the longest bridges in the world and massive new longer water tunnels, 22 miles of new superhighway and hight-speed rail. Builder estimated the project would take decades but they were given only seven years. Could engineers and builder working on an absurdly tight deadline pull of a project this extreme? And would building such colossal structures only invite disaster in the future?
Find out all the answer here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Building Hong Kong's Airport.
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| Bridging The Bering Strait |
Bridging The Bering Strait
Extreme EngineeringDiscovery Channel | Science | Technology
April 30, 2003
Country: United States/Russia
Project: The Bering Strait crossing
Hundreds of millions of years ago, nature crafted the earth into continent and pushing Asia almost to the edge of north America leaving only 55 miles of frigid ocean between them. Gulf of Bering Straight, this is one of the most desolated places on earth. In winter windchill dropped to 100 below. It's an environment utterly hostile to human life.
But as one visionary engineer head this way some day, a crew of a lonely oil tanker industry will look up as they pass under the most massive structures ever built. A bridge joining continent, a bridge so long, it would be equally like the Great Wall of China. Visible to the astronauts in space. But could engineer actually build it? Could it survive the worst of nature theory. Can man finish what the nature began connect 2 vast continents across the Bering Straight. Not long ago the idea would have been left there.
A bridge across the Bering Straight would rank among the most daring project ever attempted. Right from the start, the project would face 2 enormous obstacles. First, no bridge even close to it's magnitude has ever been designed let alone attempted. And second, even if the bridge can be built, the severe conditions here just below the arctic circle would almost certainly destroy it. The Bering Strait is a deadly bodies of water. Eight months a year, it is choked with monster ice block some as high as a house. And that's not all...
More here in this video documentary with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Bridging The Bering Strait.
Project: The Bering Strait crossing
Hundreds of millions of years ago, nature crafted the earth into continent and pushing Asia almost to the edge of north America leaving only 55 miles of frigid ocean between them. Gulf of Bering Straight, this is one of the most desolated places on earth. In winter windchill dropped to 100 below. It's an environment utterly hostile to human life.
But as one visionary engineer head this way some day, a crew of a lonely oil tanker industry will look up as they pass under the most massive structures ever built. A bridge joining continent, a bridge so long, it would be equally like the Great Wall of China. Visible to the astronauts in space. But could engineer actually build it? Could it survive the worst of nature theory. Can man finish what the nature began connect 2 vast continents across the Bering Straight. Not long ago the idea would have been left there.
A bridge across the Bering Straight would rank among the most daring project ever attempted. Right from the start, the project would face 2 enormous obstacles. First, no bridge even close to it's magnitude has ever been designed let alone attempted. And second, even if the bridge can be built, the severe conditions here just below the arctic circle would almost certainly destroy it. The Bering Strait is a deadly bodies of water. Eight months a year, it is choked with monster ice block some as high as a house. And that's not all...
More here in this video documentary with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Bridging The Bering Strait.
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| City in a Pyramid |
City in a Pyramid
Extreme EngineeringDiscovery Channel | Science | Technology
April 23, 2003
Country: United States/United Kingdom
Project: The Shimizu Mega City pyramid over Tokyo Bay
Tokyo one of the world most ancient city. It could become home to the greatest the engineering marvel of modern man. The megacity pyramid. Over 3,000 feet high, it's a radical new approach to urban life. A 3 dimensional city with skyscraper suspended form like fruit on the tree and people speeding between them through a vase matrix of holo-supports one of the greatest engineering challenges in history.
It would utterly transform Tokyo bay, the first offshore city ever been. But, should it be built perilously perched on the Pacific Ring? It would be exposed to nature's wrath at it's most devastating the terrifying tidal wave called Tsunami.
What would it take? Are there material strong enough? Technology advanced enough? energy abundant enough? or would it jeopardize the lives of 750,000 people in a single gigantic structured the Shimizu megacity pyramid, the future of urban living for the next Atlantis?....
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode City in a Pyramid.
Project: The Shimizu Mega City pyramid over Tokyo Bay
Tokyo one of the world most ancient city. It could become home to the greatest the engineering marvel of modern man. The megacity pyramid. Over 3,000 feet high, it's a radical new approach to urban life. A 3 dimensional city with skyscraper suspended form like fruit on the tree and people speeding between them through a vase matrix of holo-supports one of the greatest engineering challenges in history.
It would utterly transform Tokyo bay, the first offshore city ever been. But, should it be built perilously perched on the Pacific Ring? It would be exposed to nature's wrath at it's most devastating the terrifying tidal wave called Tsunami.
What would it take? Are there material strong enough? Technology advanced enough? energy abundant enough? or would it jeopardize the lives of 750,000 people in a single gigantic structured the Shimizu megacity pyramid, the future of urban living for the next Atlantis?....
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode City in a Pyramid.
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| Transatlantic Tunnel |
Transatlantic Tunnel
Extreme EngineeringDiscovery Channel | Science | Technology
April 16, 2003
Country: United States/United Kingdom
Project: The Transatlantic Tunnel
The year is 2099 a train hurdle though its tunnel at a blinding speed, 5,000 miles an hour on a journey through the Atlantic Ocean. It's passengers just had dinner in New York and less than an hour will be having dessert in Paris.
Science fiction? perhaps not. A transatlantic tunnel may be closer to reality than we think. But just how would such a staggering project ever be built? Eve if it could be complete, could it withstand the horrific danger that would surely confronted. And if it is successful, could it provide the model for other tunnels that would one day like the people of the world across the seven seas?
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Transatlantic Tunnel.
Project: The Transatlantic Tunnel
The year is 2099 a train hurdle though its tunnel at a blinding speed, 5,000 miles an hour on a journey through the Atlantic Ocean. It's passengers just had dinner in New York and less than an hour will be having dessert in Paris.
Science fiction? perhaps not. A transatlantic tunnel may be closer to reality than we think. But just how would such a staggering project ever be built? Eve if it could be complete, could it withstand the horrific danger that would surely confronted. And if it is successful, could it provide the model for other tunnels that would one day like the people of the world across the seven seas?
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Transatlantic Tunnel.
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| Engineering The Impossible |
Subways in America
Extreme EngineeringDiscovery Channel | Science | Technology
April 15, 2003
Country: Italy
Project: Venice Tide Barrier Project (MOSE Project)
At the heart of every city in the world, London, Paris, Moscow, Tokyo, life is troubling paradox. Attracting more and more people is the key to sustaining their rich culture and thriving economy. But, it is very pressure people that make sit harder and harder to get around. To solve this riddle engineers have looked away from crowded streets in Grand Boulevard and gone underground instead. Everyday somewhere in the world, forty million people ride the subway. In London, it's the tube, Paris, the metro, Tokyo has a subway and so as in Hong Kong and then there is New York City. 3,484 skyscrapers grounded 220 square miles and some of the most expensive real estate on the planet.
While underground lies the subway that keeps New York moving at such a frenetic pace. 842 miles long transporting 4.5 million passengers a day. Early on the New York subway was the greatest and most advanced mass transit system in the world. But after years of neglect New York's prize system would literally start falling apart. Today, the subway is coming back with plans for a new super system that will take it deeper further and faster than ever before.
Can it be built? Will it work? Would it bankrupt the city? Will New Yorks's ambitious plan leave all other great cities into the future of mass transit or becoming engineering boondoggle of all time?
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Subways in America.
Project: Venice Tide Barrier Project (MOSE Project)
At the heart of every city in the world, London, Paris, Moscow, Tokyo, life is troubling paradox. Attracting more and more people is the key to sustaining their rich culture and thriving economy. But, it is very pressure people that make sit harder and harder to get around. To solve this riddle engineers have looked away from crowded streets in Grand Boulevard and gone underground instead. Everyday somewhere in the world, forty million people ride the subway. In London, it's the tube, Paris, the metro, Tokyo has a subway and so as in Hong Kong and then there is New York City. 3,484 skyscrapers grounded 220 square miles and some of the most expensive real estate on the planet.
While underground lies the subway that keeps New York moving at such a frenetic pace. 842 miles long transporting 4.5 million passengers a day. Early on the New York subway was the greatest and most advanced mass transit system in the world. But after years of neglect New York's prize system would literally start falling apart. Today, the subway is coming back with plans for a new super system that will take it deeper further and faster than ever before.
Can it be built? Will it work? Would it bankrupt the city? Will New Yorks's ambitious plan leave all other great cities into the future of mass transit or becoming engineering boondoggle of all time?
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Subways in America.
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| Extreme Engineering Tokyo's Sky City |
Tokyo's Sky City
Extreme EngineeringDiscovery Channel | Science | Technology
April 13, 2003
Country: Japan
Project: Tokyo's Sky City
Like a species on the blink of extinction, most big cities just don't work anymore. Now at the dawn of the new millennium architect's, city planners and futurists are all asking what's next.
In Tokyo plans already exist that will change the way people live in 15, 100, even five hundreds year form now. Sky city. 2/3 of a mile high, twice the height of the tallest skyscraper today with home and jobs for hundreds of thousands upon news; The world's first homesteaders in the sky. But can it be built? and would it be safe? Would sky city be the metropolis of the future or a dead drag in the sky?
Find out about this here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the Extreme Engineering series documentary - Tokyo's Sky City.
Project: Tokyo's Sky City
Like a species on the blink of extinction, most big cities just don't work anymore. Now at the dawn of the new millennium architect's, city planners and futurists are all asking what's next.
In Tokyo plans already exist that will change the way people live in 15, 100, even five hundreds year form now. Sky city. 2/3 of a mile high, twice the height of the tallest skyscraper today with home and jobs for hundreds of thousands upon news; The world's first homesteaders in the sky. But can it be built? and would it be safe? Would sky city be the metropolis of the future or a dead drag in the sky?
Find out about this here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the Extreme Engineering series documentary - Tokyo's Sky City.
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| Engineering The Impossible |
Engineering The Impossible
Extreme EngineeringDiscovery Channel | Science | Technology
Country: Europe/Africa/United States/China
Project: Gibraltar Bridge | Freedom Ship | Millennium Tower (Hong Kong)
Todays' tallest skyscrapers are just over fourteen hundreds feet high. Would it be impossible to build one twice as high? The largest bridges in the world today around a mile long. Is it impossible to construct one nine miles long connecting Europe and Africa? A larger ships in the world today are super tankers and aircraft carriers with a ship five times their size.
Impossible or is it in fact all of these projects are already on the drawing boards? If built they would be engineering achievements of historic proportions. But they would also present unprecedented challenges. Could they really be built? Would they be safe? And could they withstand the worst nature could throw at them? Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering - Engineering The Impossible.
Project: Gibraltar Bridge | Freedom Ship | Millennium Tower (Hong Kong)
Todays' tallest skyscrapers are just over fourteen hundreds feet high. Would it be impossible to build one twice as high? The largest bridges in the world today around a mile long. Is it impossible to construct one nine miles long connecting Europe and Africa? A larger ships in the world today are super tankers and aircraft carriers with a ship five times their size.
Impossible or is it in fact all of these projects are already on the drawing boards? If built they would be engineering achievements of historic proportions. But they would also present unprecedented challenges. Could they really be built? Would they be safe? And could they withstand the worst nature could throw at them? Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering - Engineering The Impossible.
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| Future Transportation Technology |
Future Transportation Technology
Mind Blowing TechnologyDiscovery Channel | Technology
Next world FutureTrains
Will train fly? We will rocket across the continent as the speed of a jet. Float above track made from pure air and journey to the center of the earth. Technology is pushing from every direction and getting faster with each passing second. Prepare yourself, the future is closer than you think.
Most people think of a train as a 19 century rail, the work cord of industrial age. But for visionary around the world the potential of the train is unlimited and maybe the key to solve our most stubborn problem. Could train replace airplane as a long distance ride of choice? Maybe if they were fast enough. When it comes to getting form point A to point B, the ultimate sailing point is speed. So what's been keeping train from meeting our need for speed? The answer is friction, friction is the force that slow down movement between any 2 surfaces, like wheel and rail or tyre and road.
A hockey puck float on a thin layer of melted ice. But how would it be possible to make a train float by using supper powerful magnet? Magnetic levitation is the technology that's been experimented with for years. But new advantage means that the error of floating high speed train could be coming soon. This is the system in the future with 300 miles an hour, it is emission free no oil and it is green. It is also fast and comfortable.
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| Woolly Mammoths Secrets Form the Ice Age |
Secret Towers Of The Himalayas
Secrets Form the Ice AgeDiscovery Channel | Travel | Nature | Himalayas
The Himalayan Towers are a series of stone towers located mostly in Tibet. Carbon dating shows they were built approximately 500 to 1,100 years ago. Since they are generally located in prosperous villages, it is believed that their primary function was as a demonstration of a family's prestige within the community. For strength, many of the towers use a star pattern of walls as opposed to a strictly rectangular method. Heights can exceed 60m.
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