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My Reflection: Rachael Tingey MYP4 While watching the video, Modern Marvels: The Longest Bridge In The World, I found it interesting that 9% of the bridge actually supports itself. There must have been a lot of planning needed to engineer a bridge of such a weight and in somewhat unstable conditions at certain times. The bridge was actually built over a fault line which must have made the engineering even more difficult. There are 6 lanes and links the island of Awaji and the mainland city of Kobe. I think the fact that the people building the bridge always seemed to have an alternative method if something did not work was impressive along with the fact that they had chosen to attempt such a thing in the first place. Also, the bridge had to be able to avoid as much erosion as possible and a special paint was made to aid in that.