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Wobbly Bridge

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Monday, 4th August 2008

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No, not that one - this cutting-edge bridge is in Japan, and it really is seriously wobbly! It’s virtually serrated by virtue of its cutting-edge wibbly-wobblyness.

It’s so wobbly in fact, that it’s only accessible to specially-built, hand-customised “wobbly vehicles”, which “snake” along the bridge in an effort to prevent traffic-jams.

As is the way with brilliant Japanese inventions, eventually someone will realise just how brilliant this design is, rename it something pedestrian like “Bridge Heaven”, and bring it to the western world in about 3 years’ time.

Thanks to gamma.

7 Responses to 'Wobbly Bridge'

  1. 1. nova72 says:

    ha ha weird…could it be wrinkles in the film used during aerial photography…of course i would imagine most aerial photography cameras now days are digital. although i really have no idea.

    check this out it is Godzilla’s mother’s hair curlers.
    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  2. 2. Andrew says:

    Utterly amazing! More so the fact that the vehicles aren’t Wobbly before, or indeed after, the Wobbly Bridge.

    It seems they go through some sort of transmogrification process prior to crossing into WobblySpace. Thankfully, there also appears to be some form of detransmogrification field just after the Wobbly section of the bridge - a relief, i’m sure, to the temporarily Wobbly People.

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    3. James says:

    It’s not so wobbly in Placemark: Street View / Google Earth!

  4. 4. DS Morse says:

    When you take a flat paper and you lay it over a round ball… What happens to the edges? Does it end up looking a little bumpy? YES!… If columbus had only left us with a flat world we would not have had these problems.

    Dang you columbus!

  5. 5. jonathon says:

    how come is it that just the one bridge seems to be wobbly and nearly everything else seems fine. wierd

  6. 6. Fred says:

    seriously… who finds this stuff!?

  7. 7. dr.R. says:

    Earthquake? Space-time distortion?

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