Ferris wheels as status symbols

Feb 11, 2008 23:04

Um, wow. Check out the to-scale diagram at the bottom of this article. It makes me want to vacation in Singapore just to ride this behemoth.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/4248340.html?series=23


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mechagojira February 12 2008, 13:53:27 UTC

Holy crap that thing is huge!

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cryptor_00 February 12 2008, 18:02:15 UTC
View from the top: The wall of effing china!

thats hawt

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minion82 February 12 2008, 20:08:26 UTC
Bet the structural engineer got paid a small fortune for those projects... "You want me to design a what now?"

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erikpet35 February 13 2008, 04:24:55 UTC
I will start to worry when they require air masks to ride :)

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