Strip The City

August 3, 2014 9:48 PM

Peeling a City Apart to Show How Structures Survive Disasters

Science Channel: Strip The City
Dubai
The Secret of Manhattan's Skyline
The Mystery of Earthquake-Resistant Buildings at Machu Picchu
The Golden Gate Bridge
This Underground Danger Could Bring Paris to Collapse
Mapping The San Andreas Fault
Engineering Across the River Thames

posted by the man of twists and turns (5 comments total)

Wow. That was a very demanding bit of advertizing, not allowing a viewing without watching a video.
posted by uraniumwilly at 9:57 PM on August 3, 2014

First ep has some encoding issues from 13:00 to about 14:15, FYI.
posted by dhartung at 11:08 PM on August 3, 2014

Wow. Dubai is like a space colony.
posted by univac at 1:28 AM on August 4, 2014 [1 favorite]

Are episodes 2 - 7 supposed to be just teasers, or is there full video somewhere?
posted by univac at 1:34 AM on August 4, 2014

The cable car being built in the Thames one is a hilarious waste of time and money.

It can move a very small number of people from one side of the river to the other slower than the nearby Jubilee line / DLR and at more expense. So obviously no one uses it.

It's a tourist attraction funded by the transport budget and should never have been built.

(The actual show is pretty great though)
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 1:58 AM on August 4, 2014