On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]
> wrote:

> While I generally agree with your agreement, this is not true, ships can
> be built out of concrete (think aircraft carriers for instance), and German
> universities even hold a regular competition who builds the best canoe out
> of (fibre)cement: http://www.betonkanu-regatta.de/
> ;-)
>

It was the part of "if I made pontoons out of concrete" that would sink. I
watched, and even took a video, of the pontoons being floated to the new
bridge. They are massive. Then again, they have to hold something like six
lanes of traffic plus possible light rail traffic.


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