The Magdeburg Water Bridge

WeAreTheEnd · 10 months

The Falkirk wheel A really cool boat lift..

what_ok · 10 months

hipsters built that. They didn't want to have to cross in the mainstream, so they went over.

Tayto2000 · 10 months

Good god those Germans know how to build shit.

TheAtomicPlayboy · 10 months

Gephyrophobia: Fear of bridges.

Aquaphobia: Fear of water.

Aquagephyrophobia: Fear of the Magdeburg Water Bridge.

Verb: It's what you do.

vivinp · 10 months

Here's another picture

didyoufuck · 10 months

Broad Street Bridge, Rochester, New York, originally built as a canal...the canal was drained and covered and it was turned into a subway, which was abandoned in the 50's...now it's just a mild mannered automobile bridge with an empty tunnel underneath.

Charlie_Marrow · 10 months

I see your Magdeburg Water Bridge and raise you this

crookedsoul09 · 10 months

Talk about water under the brid...wait...

BatterseaPS · 10 months

The only way this could get better is if that ship was carrying a swimming pool.

dudeman209 · 10 months

My mind can't get around how that works.

dan_t_mann · 10 months

what is this wizardry?

avfc41 · 10 months

What, no on-ramps?

Smimes · 10 months

I see your Magdeburg Bridge and raise you a Falkirk Wheel.

Mteles · 10 months

Yo dawg I heard you like rivers?

edwardkmett · 10 months

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epiphy · 10 months

What happens if the bridge collapses, does it flood the lower one?

Drewsufer · 10 months

Thats pretty dam crazy.

OriginalPhee · 10 months

I had to build a replica of this bridge for one of my classes once. It didn't go so well.

doenietzomoeilijk · 10 months

Esher would approve.

fecalfury · 10 months

Somebody has been playing Minecraft...

IcarusOnFire · 10 months

That bridge must be amazingly strong.

felfelfel · 10 months

While considerably smaller, I've always found the Dalslands kanal aqueduct in Sweden nice. Another picture.

Also in Sweden; Göta kanal.

das_hansl · 10 months

And what do you think of this.

Silkdad · 10 months

umm, why?

p4lm3r · 10 months

Where is your god now?

pacocat · 10 months

These works are only possible in countries where everybody pays their fair share in taxes.

Vaccy · 10 months

It's an aquaduct. We've tons of these in yorkshire, although none that wide.

sirdond · 10 months

transport tycoon irl

syberphunk · 10 months

I think you mean aqueduct.

Plexicraft · 10 months

For some reason, this reminds me of minecraft.

the_letter_5 · 10 months

Brb making this in minecraft.

ScaryMonsters · 10 months

Damn engineering, you scary!

[deleted] · 10 months

If it rains a lot does the water bridge flood?

BetterDaysAhead · 10 months

OMG! Thank you for this. I saw this bridge in the movie Hanna but had no idea where to google to find out more about this as the movie didn't reveal much clues about location.

LeBroJames · 10 months

Wait, no "Bridgeception!" yet?

ghosted_ · 10 months

What's your Minecraft texture pack?

HaikuAnswer · 10 months

Oh, you silly bridge.
Were you designed by Escher?
Silly, silly, bridge.

turtlepaste · 10 months

well, if the bridge breaks it will still be smooth sailing. eyyyyy?

GammaHuman · 10 months

Wouldn't that be an overpass? You know sense it go's over water

Albaek · 10 months

I must have seen this bridge several times already.. I guess the design is finally taking off.

rtaylor35 · 10 months

HANNA

Snotaap · 10 months

Skitterend

robothead · 10 months

Then they make a car bridge over the water bridge.

headzoo · 10 months

I'm not sure how I've lived on this planet for 35 years, and I never knew water bridges existed.

KrazyEyezKilla · 10 months

That's one of the greatest pieces of engineering I have ever seen.

GGGRrRinder · 10 months

relevant

Really_Likes_Nutella · 10 months

I'm suprised it wasn't more efficient to just build a couple of locks.

AJfromLA · 10 months

Like a bridge......

CTS777 · 10 months

I read magikarp bridge and was thoroughly confused

feenicks · 10 months

Just so long as Admiral Simpson can get his Ironclads to the Baltic I don't care what they build!

Reddickk · 10 months

Must... resist... inception joke.

BullNiro · 10 months

We generally like the term canal.

moshercise · 10 months

Wheres Xzibit?

dave28 · 10 months

Amateurs! Near where I live is a road, over a canal, over a railway - Three Bridges they call it, though I like to point out it's actually only two.

tmeowbs · 10 months

dude

Douche-a-tron · 10 months

Seems a bit redundant.

ClearShadow · 10 months

This bridge was a setting in the movie Hana.

Shinden9 · 10 months

Worst enemy: Col. Hogan.

Pavilion75 · 10 months

:U! Looks like a Splashdown course! Used to love that game.

Tebasaki · 10 months

No really, how old is this picture?

marishtar · 10 months

Why?

Gnax · 10 months

Unless one of those has salt water and the other doesn't. What the hell is the purpose of that? seems like a stupid waste of money.

moomooland · 10 months

WAIT WHAT?

apeacock · 10 months

isn't that called an aqueduct?

rangoeltango · 10 months

I was about to say, psssh, ain't no Falkirk Wheel....then I looked two posts down on the main page :/

dexxtaa · 10 months

Because fuck you logic.

bracketdash · 10 months

What happens if a boat is travelling on one river, and wants to get on the other river?

Baege · 10 months

Mind = Blown.

jaeman2011 · 10 months

Insert Yo Dawg meme reference ( here )

MotoFly · 10 months

Science Question:
So, if the boat is floating ontop of the water, which is ontop of the bridge, does that put any additional strain on the bridge's supports?

killermicrobe · 10 months

Yo dawg...

SaturdaysKids · 10 months

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/hrx5z/water_get_down_from_there_you_are_not_bridge/

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/fyvyt/magdeburg_water_bridge_is_pretty_mindblowing/

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/g4rf0/water_bridge/

I'm sure there's way more posts about this. I feel like I see this once a month

zern · 10 months

wow its so nice to see a pic posted of this every week!

satanscrotum · 10 months

This is amazing, but my first reaction was it should have been submitted to r/wtf. haha

DoZeYLoVe · 10 months

So cool.

crackshot91 · 10 months

It's shit like this, humanity. :)

smallnorth · 10 months

On an aqueduct tip, there's an interesting lift - that lifts boats from the water below onto an aqueduct - called the Falkirk wheel.

http://www.innerwheeldistrict2.org.uk/images/falkirk/falkirk_wheel_02_570.jpg

revolved · 10 months

The new minecraft is pretty awesome.

lestratege · 10 months

In France, we do those in style

stanfan114 · 10 months

Come on. That's not real.

Cyn13ic · 10 months

Amazing! Love it.

nickerrides · 10 months

How many people first read "Manbearpig Water Bridge"?

bitches_love_bitches · 10 months

Why?

nakonako · 10 months

There are a couple of those a few kilometers down the canal here where I live. I've always liked cycling down the "boardwalks", it's a pretty cool feeling.

dodidodidodidodi · 10 months

they should transport stuff via canals more

AgaveNeomexicana · 10 months

It is more of a canal bridge. There are lots of them. Canals are by far the cheapest way to move heavy bulk cargo.

[deleted] · 10 months

mind = blown

wartsarus · 10 months

Its just a canal that happens to go over a river. I don't see the big deal, I live right by the Welland canal and it Crosses over and under a lot of things. even better it happens to connect a lake that's 200 feet above another one

tgeliot · 10 months

The ultimate upboat.

rab777hp · 10 months

Just out of curiosity, what would happen would the bridge collapse? You'd have a canal flowing into a canal...

BUNGL3 · 10 months

I also recently downloaded the Hannah blu ray. Great movie.

WildWe5 · 10 months

...Why?

drunkenmugsy · 10 months

The real question is did they have to build the bridge bigger and stronger to support that big of a boat?

Krasso · 10 months

I don't fucking get how this is possible..

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