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Members of a terrorist cell were arrested last night, police confiscated makeshift communication devices and a bag of darts

This gave me a visceral sense of dread and an irrational fear some where some how a psychotic government official would push such a project through regardless of how stupid it is.

Please don't show this to the actual Minister of Infrastructures in Italy. He may actually consider it a good solution for the bridge on Messina's Strait.

Drive over it on a windy day for a Special Bonus Challenge Mode!

Replace the two towers with more balloons. Much cheaper.

So many problems in life could be solved if there were sufficient balloons at the ready to attach to your person, your luggage, your furniture, your packages at the appropriate moment. (Think: hanging Xmas ornaments from your roof while balancing on a rickety ladder.)

Everybody's here assuming that's a balloon, when in reality Randall has just discovered a way to ensnare The Orb.

Like the fish cannon?

Not in hazard

We're gonna need a bigger balloon.

You wouldn't need a balloon if you used, like l, an inverted space elevator / orbital suspension wire.

This is some Polybridge ass engineering

Now if only we could get another sequel

So long as we don’t have to figure out hydraulics with this one, I’m fine with that.

That's how Seattle did it. Just don't poke holes in the floaties... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0Y...

Two words: space elevator

I'm getting World Of Goo flashbacks

Solve for d.

Add a second balloon and after a little diy with a saw you can turn it into a very long drawbridge.

diabolical

Or rocket engines?

Well now it's not causing untold damages anymore, since you just told them!

The Francis Scott Key Bridge would like a word ...

Have you MET our bridges? Or our buildings?

I wish I could argue the point but you are correct. More Americans would be viscerally upset at the traffic caused by the Hindenberg Memorial Bridge being shut down than are over the slaughter of children every week at the altar of the second amendment.

Just anchor your space elevator there. You'll probably need some new materials, more bridges, or maybe both, but that's for the engineers to work out.

Before reality-brain kicked in, my first impression was that artistically that’s kind of a cool bridge.

Fill the balloon with hydrogen, call it the Bridgenburg. Oh, the humanity!

As an excuse, an engineer saying that feels even worse than this one: xkcd.com/1244/

Pfff what is this , amateur hour? Clearly you can suspend it from a counterweight near geostationary orbit.

checks out. 3 fixed points is the most stable configuration

call it a floating bridge

Polybridge

Civil engineers hate this one weird trick. (And so do chemists)

Wee! Let's go!

Yeah, just gotta solve that issue. Perhaps you could tether it to the ground somehow, like on the floor of the body of water. Maybe you could even make it rigid so it would keep it in place better. Wait a minute...

Wind stress? If wind is stressed, we give it wind tea.