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Default Re: [RS.com] National Geographic - MegaStructures *52* Episodes

Ice Hotel



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The Ice Hotel Sweden is built from blocks of ice gathered from the Torne River, as well as bulldozers, chainsaws jackhammers.
The building process starts in mid-November when the snow guns start humming and large clouds of snow start to drift along the Torne River.The snow is sprayed on huge steel forms and allowed to freeze. After a couple of days, the forms are removed, leaving a maze of free-standing corridors of snow.In the corridors, dividing walls are built in order to create rooms and suites. Ice blocks, harvested at springtime from Torne River, are now being transported into the hotel where selected artists from all over the world start creating the art and design of the perishable material.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/134435089/MS_IceHotel_Inspired.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/134436830/MS_IceHotel_Inspired.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/134438612/MS_IceHotel_Inspired.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/134439338/MS_IceHotel_Inspired.part4.rar

Ultimate Oil Rigs



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The world is desperate for oil and gas. But dwindling energy supplies are forcing oil rigs to drill in some of the harshest environments on the globe. It takes a megastructure oil rig, like the Noble Piet, to withstand the fury of nature and keep on drilling. Follow a skilled team of roughnecks as they battle the elements of the North Sea in pursuit of an untapped reservoir of natural gas worth 350 million dollars. But there's a shortage of oil rigs like the Noble Piet. So the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore is designing and building an impressive cluster of 23 rigs at once. Can this shipyard build rigs fast enough to keep up with exploding demand and which will be tough enough to endure the punishment of drilling in the open sea?
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http://rapidshare.com/files/134449878/MS_OilRigs_Inspired.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/134451432/MS_OilRigs_Inspired.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/134452857/MS_OilRigs_Inspired.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/134454224/MS_OilRigs_Inspired.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/134455614/MS_OilRigs_Inspired.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/134456216/MS_OilRigs_Inspired.part6.rar
Sinking An Aircraft Carrier



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This programme follows a specialist demolition team as it attempts to sink the USS Oriskany aircraft carrier in a bid to create the largest artificial reef in the world. Battling through thick steel plating and hazardous waste, the divers, marine architect experts, demolition teams, engineering units and local authorities discover the secret of sinking such a huge vessel and, in the process, write a new chapter in marine demolition.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/135136708/MS_SinkingAircarftCarrier_Inspired.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/135139116/MS_SinkingAircarftCarrier_Inspired.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/135141435/MS_SinkingAircarftCarrier_Inspired.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/135142495/MS_SinkingAircarftCarrier_Inspired.part4.rar
Hawaii Super Ferry



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Designed to forge new routes between the Hawaiian islands, the massive Hawaii Super Ferry combines innovation with stability and speed. Can this ambitious design be turned into a functional ferry?
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http://rapidshare.com/files/135144766/MS_HawaiiSuperFerry_Inspired.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/135147079/MS_HawaiiSuperFerry_Inspired.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/135149435/MS_HawaiiSuperFerry_Inspired.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/135150440/MS_HawaiiSuperFerry_Inspired.part4.rar

Shanghai Super Tower



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What do you get if you take sixty thousand tons of steel, 260,000 cubic meters of concrete, 500 dedicated Chinese workers and the best design brains in the business? The Shanghai World Financial Centre. At 101 floors high it will not only be the tallest building on the Chinese mainland but one that can withstand the toughest challenges Planet Earth can throw at a skyscraper... and even deadlier human threats.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/135936321/MS_ShanghaiTower_Inspired.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/13593825/MS_ShanghaiTower_Inspired.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/135940304/MS_ShanghaiTower_Inspired.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/135942226/MS_ShanghaiTower_Inspired.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/136070569/MS_ShanghaiTower_Inspired.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/136072408/MS_ShanghaiTower_Inspired.part6.rar

Super Pipeline



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Megastructures: Super Pipeline looks at one of the gas industry’s riskiest projects ever undertaken. By 508, Britain will be connected to Norway via a 1,50 km super pipeline. It’s composed of over one million tonnes of steel and equating to a 1/3 of the world’s combined pipeline production company. Yet all of the work must be completed by robots working 3 km under the North Sea against harsh underwater currents, sub-zero temperatures and abysmal wind and wave conditions.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/136116350/MS_SuperPipeline_Inspired.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/136119016/MS_SuperPipeline_Inspired.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/136121937/MS_SuperPipeline_Inspired.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/136124937/MS_SuperPipeline_Inspired.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/136127678/MS_SuperPipeline_Inspired.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/136128274/MS_SuperPipeline_Inspired.part6.rar

Garbage Mountain



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It's big, it's nasty but it's more than just a hole in the ground. Puente Hills is Los Angeles' dirtiest suburb. Mammoth machines trundle around a pile of trash twenty stories high. Man and technology are pitted in battle against a tidal wave of waste. Some landfills take in 2,000 tons of trash a day but America's largest active dump takes in that amount each hour. Take a spin in the 15,000 lb Bomag Compactor with its 55-inch garbage crushing steel wheels. Puente Hills powers over 100,000 homes and a fleet of vehicles with the landfill's methane gas. Sift through the gargantuan world of garbage and find out what happens to your trash when you're not looking.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/136637869/MS_Garbage_Inspired.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/136640613/MS_Garbage_Inspired.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/136643042/MS_Garbage_Inspired.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/136835807/MS_Garbage_Inspired.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/136838522/MS_Garbage_Inspired.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/136840249/MS_Garbage_Inspired.part6.rar
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