Thursday, February 1, 2007 |
09:03 - I've got a bridge in France to sell you
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Egad:
That's the Millau Viaduct, very recently completed in order to carry a freeway over a river valley in southwestern France.
It's horrible and yet strangely beautiful. And it's also apparently quite near one of the old Roman flying aquaducts, which both would make for a fascinating Star Trek-esque image of the ancient world and the Utopian Future mingled together, and would mean that they're just continuing a millennia-old tradition.
Via this page in the Google Earth message boards showing all the "extreme" points on the Earth, which includes a lot of really cool stuff I'd never heard of before, and many great photos. Mount Thor looks awesome. And now I want to go to Baffin Island.
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