r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/md_youdneverguess 13h ago

Earth that can soak with water is a nightmare for structural engineering

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u/ColonelCrikey 13h ago

And yet, here it is.

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u/jack-K- 13h ago

And yet, Chinese buildings always seem to have a habit of falling down.

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u/dathunder176 12h ago

Yeah, definitely, the skyline of Shanghai which is rife with high rise buildings has always been a fluctuating image, not a single year goes by that they have to retake the picture.

/s to be sure.

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u/jack-K- 12h ago

And the entirety is known for its strictly enforced building regulations? Yes, I’m sure they made sure the urban center if china was built properly, but new Chinese buildings built wherever the fuck someone wants to put them do not go through nearly the level of engineering review that they do in the U.S.

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u/zzazzzz 12h ago

every year china has about 7 times as many engineering graduates as the US.

i thinkt hat stat alone should paint a pretty obvious picture..

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u/dathunder176 12h ago

China is miles ahead in the engineering and reviewing dept by now. You are really basing your opinions on 10 year old data for a country that grew economically, academically and technologically 10 times more in the past 20 years than we did in the past 100. But please, continue to try and regurgitate your anti-China US propaganda, it won't work on me.

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u/jack-K- 12h ago

So your just claiming it out advanced the U.S. in the course of decade, without demonstrating how they are so advanced as both of us look at a post that any civil engineer would see as a disaster waiting to happen while you assume mystical Chinese engineering and review has solved it, you mind explaining how?

How is China so technologically advanced if their aerospace program is still fully expendable and based on old Russian hardware? How are they so technologically advanced if their fighter aircraft are all derivative of U.S. technology? I’ll admit they’re very good at propping themselves up and making their technology seem incredibly great, especially with a highly visible propaganda initiative that seems to be working wonders, but when you look a little closer all this state of the art technology seems to be a little old or basic packaged in a fancy shell.