https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK2jFqkh-nE
I love the simulated cracking, nice touch!
An article with more pictures--
http://themindcircle.com/glass-bridge-tianmen-mountain-zhangjiajie-national-forest-park-hunan-china/
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I love the simulated cracking, nice touch!
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http://themindcircle.com/glass-bridge-tianmen-mountain-zhangjiajie-national-forest-park-hunan-china/
We are a great nation of innovation and engineering....the fucking greatest the world has ever known. ac_dance :yahoo:
While China has made progress in respecting human rights, they have a long way to go.
Report urges China to ban forcible gay conversion therapy
The report, released by New York-based Human Rights Watch, comes as awareness has grown in China regarding the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. It was based on interviews with 17 people subjected to the widely criticized techniques since 2009.
Homosexuality was removed from China's official list of mental illnesses more than 15 years ago, but stories of families enrolling their relatives in treatments seeking to change their sexual orientation remain common.
The report says many victims of conversion therapy were forcibly brought to hospitals by their families, which became the subject of a groundbreaking lawsuit this year.
Chinese society continues to strongly favor children who can pass on their family name. And since same-sex marriage is not legal and same-sex couples cannot adopt jointly, gay people feel compelled to enter heterosexual marriages and have children.
China also has no laws protecting people from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, which deters victims of conversion therapy from seeking justice.
Under guidelines issued by the National Health Committee, the government is required to investigate activities by hospitals that could violate the Mental Health Law, which prohibits forced confinement of people unless they pose a danger to others. But the government has yet to issue clear guidelines prohibiting conversion therapy and holding abusers accountable.
While the authorities no longer round up and prosecute homosexuals, the scope of public activism by LGBT rights groups is restricted and the depiction of gay people on television and popular web streaming services is banned.
Despite that, activists say there has been progress on LGBT rights.
"In recent years, China has become increasingly liberal and open to LGBT people," said Wang Long, an LGBT activist from Zhejiang province.
Shanghai has hosted an annual gay pride parade since 2009, and internet censors have tolerated increasingly open debate about LGBT issues.
In July, a gay man successfully sued a mental hospital over forced conversion therapy, in what activists hailed as the first such victory for the LGBT community. The court in Zhumadian in Henan province ordered a city psychiatric hospital to publish an apology in local newspapers and pay the 38-year-old man 5,000 yuan ($750) in compensation.
The man, surnamed Yu, had been forcibly confined to the institution in 2015 by his wife and relatives and was diagnosed with "sexual preference disorder." He was forced to take medicine and receive injections until he was released 19 days later.
In 2014, according to Human Rights Watch, a young gay man in Beijing sued a private clinic where he had voluntarily undertaken conversion therapy. The court sided with him and ordered the clinic to pay him an amount equivalent to his costs incurred. However, although it said homosexuality is not a mental disease, the court framed the case as a consumer rights issue of false advertising and ineffective treatment.
Human Rights Watch and activists say a single lawsuit is not enough to deter the practice of conversion therapy.
The practice of conversion therapy persists because "many doctors are ignorant about homosexuality and just follow the mainstream opinion, which is that being gay is abnormal, a sickness that must be treated," Wang said.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/15/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/rights-report-urges-china-ban-forcible-gay-conversion-therapy/#.WhDx9FWnHrc
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I love the simulated cracking, nice touch!
An article with more pictures--
http://themindcircle.com/glass-bridge-tianmen-mountain-zhangjiajie-national-forest-park-hunan-china/
You can expect the same extensive high quality controls used in Chinese milk and pet food production for this glass walkway.
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I love the simulated cracking, nice touch!
An article with more pictures--
http://themindcircle.com/glass-bridge-tianmen-mountain-zhangjiajie-national-forest-park-hunan-china/
You can expect the same extensive high quality controls used in Chinese milk and pet food production for this glass walkway.
Sarcasm from you. :thumbup:
lol
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I love the simulated cracking, nice touch!
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http://themindcircle.com/glass-bridge-tianmen-mountain-zhangjiajie-national-forest-park-hunan-china/
Fright and excite.
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I love the simulated cracking, nice touch!
An article with more pictures--
http://themindcircle.com/glass-bridge-tianmen-mountain-zhangjiajie-national-forest-park-hunan-china/
We are a great nation of innovation and engineering....the fucking greatest the world has ever known. ac_dance :yahoo:
Oh yes... We all know top notch "made in China" products.
I dont even trust chinese made buildings..
I wouldnt be able to sleep comfortably in a chinese hotel.
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I wouldnt be able to sleep comfortably in a chinese hotel.
I've slept in a thousand Chinese hotels with lots of Chinese gals beside me. But, anyone that trusts the workmanship of that walkway trusts the Easter bunny is real.
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I love the simulated cracking, nice touch!
An article with more pictures--
http://themindcircle.com/glass-bridge-tianmen-mountain-zhangjiajie-national-forest-park-hunan-china/
No thank you.
I wouldn't walk on one a walkway that high anywhere.
The sad fact is China is capable of making quality and advance stuff, the problem lies in the level of moral and corruption that always cause a lot of things to fail.
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I love the simulated cracking, nice touch!
An article with more pictures--
http://themindcircle.com/glass-bridge-tianmen-mountain-zhangjiajie-national-forest-park-hunan-china/
We are a great nation of innovation and engineering....the fucking greatest the world has ever known. ac_dance :yahoo:
Innovation?
To the best of my knowledge, China has two major technical achievements to its name; noodles and firecrackers. Everything else is copied from the West.
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I love the simulated cracking, nice touch!
An article with more pictures--
http://themindcircle.com/glass-bridge-tianmen-mountain-zhangjiajie-national-forest-park-hunan-china/
We are a great nation of innovation and engineering....the fucking greatest the world has ever known. ac_dance :yahoo:
Innovation?
To the best of my knowledge, China has two major technical achievements to its name; noodles and firecrackers. Everything else is copied from the West.
Today they're known as the land of knock offs, but in ancient times China had amazing engineering technology, from making hand held cross bows triggers that can hold 400lbs to over 1000lb of stored kinetic energy, natural gas mining, invented the gun, paper, compass, printing press, paper currency, chemical weapons like mustard gas, tear gas, mercury vapor gas, etc, biggest known underground tomb in ancient times, and have hot weapons too like bombs, rocket, flame throwers, and building boats(not sure the exact term) with multi-chamber compartments on the side and bottom of the hull in case of a leakage and using rudders while the Roman still never thought of it. The invention of the stirrup in China that revolutionize knights and cavalry warfare in Europe. But too bad all those culture is now gone and but been well preserved in Japan and Korea.
I know....I was tweaking Shen's nose.
China was the technology centre of the world in ancient times. But, as usual, politics and feudalism destroyed everything.
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China was the technology centre of the world in ancient times. But, as usual, politics and feudalism destroyed everything.
And she takes the bait every time.
Like a hungry cod.
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I love the simulated cracking, nice touch!
An article with more pictures--
http://themindcircle.com/glass-bridge-tianmen-mountain-zhangjiajie-national-forest-park-hunan-china/
We are a great nation of innovation and engineering....the fucking greatest the world has ever known. ac_dance :yahoo:
Innovation?
To the best of my knowledge, China has two major technical achievements to its name; noodles and firecrackers. Everything else is copied from the West.
Today they're known as the land of knock offs, but in ancient times China had amazing engineering technology, from making hand held cross bows triggers that can hold 400lbs to over 1000lb of stored kinetic energy, natural gas mining, invented the gun, paper, compass, printing press, paper currency, chemical weapons like mustard gas, tear gas, mercury vapor gas, etc, biggest known underground tomb in ancient times, and have hot weapons too like bombs, rocket, flame throwers, and building boats(not sure the exact term) with multi-chamber compartments on the side and bottom of the hull in case of a leakage and using rudders while the Roman still never thought of it. The invention of the stirrup in China that revolutionize knights and cavalry warfare in Europe. But too bad all those culture is now gone and but been well preserved in Japan and Korea.
I remember seeing something on netflix about the terracotta army and how over 2000 years ago Chinese were using crossbows with bronze triggers., It was impressive.
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I love the simulated cracking, nice touch!
An article with more pictures--
http://themindcircle.com/glass-bridge-tianmen-mountain-zhangjiajie-national-forest-park-hunan-china/
We are a great nation of innovation and engineering....the fucking greatest the world has ever known. ac_dance :yahoo:
Innovation?
To the best of my knowledge, China has two major technical achievements to its name; noodles and firecrackers. Everything else is copied from the West.
Today they're known as the land of knock offs, but in ancient times China had amazing engineering technology, from making hand held cross bows triggers that can hold 400lbs to over 1000lb of stored kinetic energy, natural gas mining, invented the gun, paper, compass, printing press, paper currency, chemical weapons like mustard gas, tear gas, mercury vapor gas, etc, biggest known underground tomb in ancient times, and have hot weapons too like bombs, rocket, flame throwers, and building boats(not sure the exact term) with multi-chamber compartments on the side and bottom of the hull in case of a leakage and using rudders while the Roman still never thought of it. The invention of the stirrup in China that revolutionize knights and cavalry warfare in Europe. But too bad all those culture is now gone and but been well preserved in Japan and Korea.
I remember seeing something on netflix about the terracotta army and how over 2000 years ago Chinese were using crossbows with bronze triggers., It was impressive.
During the Ming dynasty, China lost it's innovative zeal..
The West picked up the slack.
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I remember seeing something on netflix about the terracotta army and how over 2000 years ago Chinese were using crossbows with bronze triggers., It was impressive.
It was pretty cool while it lasted, during her time China was kinda like the ancient version of the US but unfortunately like as Fash mentioned during the Ming Dynasty around 1400AD they built the biggest non-modern fleet and travel to most of the continents except for Europe and Antarctica and found no civilization that posed a technological rivalry or threat to theirs and decided to cut all R&D and close all doors to the world. Then a few centuries later came the European powers that conquered more than half of the world and came the opium wars. :001_tongue:
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I remember seeing something on netflix about the terracotta army and how over 2000 years ago Chinese were using crossbows with bronze triggers., It was impressive.
It was pretty cool while it lasted, during her time China was kinda like the ancient version of the US but unfortunately like as Fash mentioned during the Ming Dynasty around 1400AD they built the biggest non-modern fleet and travel to most of the continents except for Europe and Antarctica and found no civilization that posed a technological rivalry or threat to theirs and
A fatal mistake.
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I remember seeing something on netflix about the terracotta army and how over 2000 years ago Chinese were using crossbows with bronze triggers., It was impressive.
It was pretty cool while it lasted, during her time China was kinda like the ancient version of the US but unfortunately like as Fash mentioned during the Ming Dynasty around 1400AD they built the biggest non-modern fleet and travel to most of the continents except for Europe and Antarctica and found no civilization that posed a technological rivalry or threat to theirs and
A fatal mistake.
Sadly so, but tbh I think China would still lose to England and most of Europe anyways, the technology that took China over a millennia to develop, it took the West less than 1/5 of the time to catch up. The only way for a country to advance their technology is through war and more wars, once China was united it was pretty much the end.
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I remember seeing something on netflix about the terracotta army and how over 2000 years ago Chinese were using crossbows with bronze triggers., It was impressive.
It was pretty cool while it lasted, during her time China was kinda like the ancient version of the US but unfortunately like as Fash mentioned during the Ming Dynasty around 1400AD they built the biggest non-modern fleet and travel to most of the continents except for Europe and Antarctica and found no civilization that posed a technological rivalry or threat to theirs and
A fatal mistake.
Sadly so, but tbh I think China would still lose to England and most of Europe anyways, the technology that took China over a millennia to develop, it took the West less than 1/5 of the time to catch up. The only way for a country to advance their technology is through war and more wars, once China was united it was pretty much the end.
China still invented stuff during the Qing dynasty. The machine gun being the most obvious. Expert Dai Zi managed to develop a continuously shooting gun. He lived during the Qing Dynasty and his invention was able to hold up to 28 bullets.
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I remember seeing something on netflix about the terracotta army and how over 2000 years ago Chinese were using crossbows with bronze triggers., It was impressive.
It was pretty cool while it lasted, during her time China was kinda like the ancient version of the US but unfortunately like as Fash mentioned during the Ming Dynasty around 1400AD they built the biggest non-modern fleet and travel to most of the continents except for Europe and Antarctica and found no civilization that posed a technological rivalry or threat to theirs and
A fatal mistake.
Sadly so, but tbh I think China would still lose to England and most of Europe anyways, the technology that took China over a millennia to develop, it took the West less than 1/5 of the time to catch up. The only way for a country to advance their technology is through war and more wars, once China was united it was pretty much the end.
China still invented stuff during the Qing dynasty. The machine gun being the most obvious. Expert Dai Zi managed to develop a continuously shooting gun. He lived during the Qing Dynasty and his invention was able to hold up to 28 bullets.
I think I know which one you're talking about, if it's the one were you just dump in a bunch of metal balls and a pour in some gun power into another compartment chamber, I forgot what it's called but I heard it'll eventually cause a fatality to it's user once it jams or malfunctions, lol.
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I remember seeing something on netflix about the terracotta army and how over 2000 years ago Chinese were using crossbows with bronze triggers., It was impressive.
It was pretty cool while it lasted, during her time China was kinda like the ancient version of the US but unfortunately like as Fash mentioned during the Ming Dynasty around 1400AD they built the biggest non-modern fleet and travel to most of the continents except for Europe and Antarctica and found no civilization that posed a technological rivalry or threat to theirs and
A fatal mistake.
Sadly so, but tbh I think China would still lose to England and most of Europe anyways, the technology that took China over a millennia to develop, it took the West less than 1/5 of the time to catch up. The only way for a country to advance their technology is through war and more wars, once China was united it was pretty much the end.
China still invented stuff during the Qing dynasty. The machine gun being the most obvious. Expert Dai Zi managed to develop a continuously shooting gun. He lived during the Qing Dynasty and his invention was able to hold up to 28 bullets.
I think I know which one you're talking about, if it's the one were you just dump in a bunch of metal balls and a pour in some gun power into another compartment chamber, I forgot what it's called but I heard it'll eventually cause a fatality to it's user once it jams or malfunctions, lol.
Apparently, it was like an early Gatlin. I don't know much about firearms.
He was kicked out of the army, framed by snaky court officials for stepping on the wrong toes and banished him to Shenyang.
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I remember seeing something on netflix about the terracotta army and how over 2000 years ago Chinese were using crossbows with bronze triggers., It was impressive.
It was pretty cool while it lasted, during her time China was kinda like the ancient version of the US but unfortunately like as Fash mentioned during the Ming Dynasty around 1400AD they built the biggest non-modern fleet and travel to most of the continents except for Europe and Antarctica and found no civilization that posed a technological rivalry or threat to theirs and
A fatal mistake.
Sadly so, but tbh I think China would still lose to England and most of Europe anyways, the technology that took China over a millennia to develop, it took the West less than 1/5 of the time to catch up. The only way for a country to advance their technology is through war and more wars, once China was united it was pretty much the end.
China still invented stuff during the Qing dynasty. The machine gun being the most obvious. Expert Dai Zi managed to develop a continuously shooting gun. He lived during the Qing Dynasty and his invention was able to hold up to 28 bullets.
I think I know which one you're talking about, if it's the one were you just dump in a bunch of metal balls and a pour in some gun power into another compartment chamber, I forgot what it's called but I heard it'll eventually cause a fatality to it's user once it jams or malfunctions, lol.
Apparently, it was like an early Gatlin. I don't know much about firearms.
He was kicked out of the army, framed by snaky court officials for stepping on the wrong toes and banished him to Shenyang.
I never knew much about the fate of it's inventor, but sounds like another a dime a dozen sad tragic hero ending in China again, I mean so many people that worked hard and contributed only to be punished or executed.
^Jealousy had a lot to do with his exile.
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China still invented stuff during the Qing dynasty. The machine gun being the most obvious. Expert Dai Zi managed to develop a continuously shooting gun. He lived during the Qing Dynasty and his invention was able to hold up to 28 bullets.
Oh, and China also invented the dishwasher, the jet engine, polyester, and the common lawnmower.
:laugh3:
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China still invented stuff during the Qing dynasty. The machine gun being the most obvious. Expert Dai Zi managed to develop a continuously shooting gun. He lived during the Qing Dynasty and his invention was able to hold up to 28 bullets.
Oh, and China also invented the dishwasher, the jet engine, polyester, and the common lawnmower.
:laugh3:
:roll:
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I wouldnt be able to sleep comfortably in a chinese hotel.
I've slept in a thousand Chinese hotels with lots of Chinese gals beside me. But, anyone that trusts the workmanship of that walkway trusts the Easter bunny is real.
I would trust it if its german/finnish/swedish made...
If that walkway does cause a fatality, heads will roll..
I don't like China, but Peking is sparing no regulatory stops for few projects like this to show the world they take safety seriously.