architectural videos: Megastructures season 3 and 4, National Geographic

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video title: Megastructures season 3 and 4: Golden Gate , Alcatraz, Pentagon, Busiest Port, City of Gold, Las Vegas, Black Gold, Diamond Diggers, Sea Launch, NorthSea Wall, Extreme Island, Motor Speedway, Super Port, Mega Plane, Hi-Tech Prison, Airbus, USS Virginia, Ultimate Casino, Roller coaster, NORAD, Berlin Train Terminal, Big Dig, Ultimate Rigs, Cosmodrome, Millau Bridge, Mega Ship
architect featured: mixed
series host: National Geographic, Five, France 5
video series: Megastructures
Presenter: Jonathan Hart, Tom Goodman-Hill, Greg Stebner, Marlon Singleton
Producer: Hoff Productions(National Geographic)

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Megastructures

for series profile click [here]
for season 1 click [here]
for season 2 click [here]
for other seasons click [here]

Season 3:

#	Title	description	Airdate
36	Berlin Wall	Wall dividing Germany during the Cold War	2006-03-14
37	Impossible Bridges: Greece	Rio-Antirio Bridge, Gulf of Corinth, Greece	2006-05-02
38	Impossible Bridges: Denmark to Sweden	Oresund Bridge, Copenhagen to Malmo	2006-04-18
39	Hoover Dam Reinvented	Colorado River, border between Nevada and Arizona	2006-05-16
40	Inside “NCIS”	Naval Criminal Investigative Service	2006-05-30
41	Garbage Mountain	Puente Hills Landfill, Whittier, California	2006-08-01
42	"Machines of War": Tanks	History and Evolution of Tanks	2006-03-08
43	Supertanker Seri Amanah	a LNG carrier	2006-08-31
44	"Machines of War": Cruise Missile	The History and Development of the Cruise Missile	2006-03-10
45	Science of Steel	The World’s metal construction material of choice	2006-03-11
46	"Megafactories": Apache Helicopter	Boeing IDS plant in Mesa, Arizona	2006-09-28
47	"Machines of War": Guns	The History and Evolution of the Gun	2006-03-13
48	Panama Canal Unlocked	Panama Canal Expansion Project, Central America	2006-10-19
49	Science of Brick	The World’s oldest man-made building material	2006-03-15
50	Science of Concrete	The World’s most used building material	2006-03-16
51	"Megafactories": Ferrari	Ferrari S.p.A. factory in Maranello, Italy	2006-12-07

Season 4:

#	Title	description	Airdate
52	Sinking an Aircraft Carrier	Creating the world's largest artificial reef ?
53	South Pole Station	A science facility at the South Pole	2007-11-6
54	The World's Biggest Cruise Liner	The building of cruise liner Freedom of the Seas ?
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56	Icelandic Super Dam	The building of Europe's biggest dam ?

Season 3:

Berlin Wall
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This show depicts the struggles that many in post war East Germany, given to a communist regime who can only force its citizenship to accept its oppressive government. This by building a super wall with all the bells and whistles to keep its inhabitants from not only going over the wall, but under the wall as well in order to find a better life. The show depicts the increasing determination by the East German government to stop a hemmoraging of thier citizenship to a progressive and changed West Germany. A True testament to the ineffectiveness of a mechanical government who has no regard for its own citizens.

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Impossible Bridges: Greece
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The Rio-Antirio bridge is a cable-stayed bridge near Patra on the Peloponnese, linking the towns of Rio and Antirrio on the western mainland Greece, thus connecting with the rest of Europe.

The bridge dramatically improves access to and from the Peloponnese, which could previously be reached only by ferry or via the isthmus of Corinth at its extreme east end. It has a length of 2252 m (2882 m including the access bridges); as it consists entirely of five cable-stayed spans and four pylons, and it is one of the world's longest cable-stayed suspended decks. Its width is 28 meters -- it has two vehicle lanes per direction, an emergency lane and a pedestrian walkway.

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Impossible Bridges: Denmark to Sweden
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The Oresund, spanning 10 miles in length, is the longest bridge in the world. The bridge links countries Denmark and Sweden, and Megastructures chronicles the history in it's design and construction.

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Hoover Dam Reinvented (aka Manmade Hoover Dam Reinvented)
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Hoover Dam is regarded as an engineering masterpiece and an America icon. But what if it did not exist today? How would engineers build it today? In this one hour program, we ask a team of engineers what they would do the same and what they would do differently...as we re-invent Hoover Dam.

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Inside “NCIS”
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The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is the United States Department of the Navy's primary law enforcement agency. Let Megastructures give you a first hand tour!

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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/381833073/Megastructures_-_3x41_-_Garbage_Mountain_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/381840681/Megastructures_-_3x41_-_Garbage_Mountain_.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/381847175/Megastructures_-_3x41_-_Garbage_Mountain_.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/381854942/Megastructures_-_3x41_-_Garbage_Mountain_.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/381862694/Megastructures_-_3x41_-_Garbage_Mountain_.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/381869777/Megastructures_-_3x41_-_Garbage_Mountain_.part6.rar

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http://rapidshare.com/files/259895927/Garbage_Mountain.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/259899538/Garbage_Mountain.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/259900307/Garbage_Mountain.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/259902347/Garbage_Mountain.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/259895589/Garbage_Mountain.part6.rar

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http://www.fileserve.com/file/vR5Aa9B/NatGe.Megastructures.Garbage.Mountain.part5.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/b27EEhR/NatGe.Megastructures.Garbage.Mountain.part6.rar

"Machines of War": Tanks
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The Machines of War documentary series takes viewers on a dynamic and informative tour of the machines and rapidly developing technological equipment that play important roles in modern warfare -- on the ground, in water, and in the air. Interviews, live-action scenes, and footage of real battles are included. This program is the final part of the five-volume Ground series, which also includes U.S. Elite Forces, Armour Attack, Armored Vehicles, and Armored Might.

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Supertanker Seri Amanah
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This Megastructures episode is all about how to build a giant Supertanker that carries LNG Liquid Natural Gas, a cleaner fossil fuel becoming more and more important as the world searches for alternative energy sources. At Samsung Heavy Industries giant shipyard we see how new boat being built transforms from single plates of raw steel to a 76,000 ton Supertanker in just two short years. Well focus on the extraordinary safety measures required to build her, and see how this giant of the sea protects its volatile cargo from explosions or even terrorist attacks. Watch as the finished ship sets sail taking its place as one of the worlds most advanced Supertankers, a Megastructure of the sea.

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http://rapidshare.com/files/381911444/Megastructures_-_3x43_-_Supertanker.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/381918788/Megastructures_-_3x43_-_Supertanker.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/381926096/Megastructures_-_3x43_-_Supertanker.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/381933661/Megastructures_-_3x43_-_Supertanker.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/381942505/Megastructures_-_3x43_-_Supertanker.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/381949729/Megastructures_-_3x43_-_Supertanker.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/381950849/Megastructures_-_3x43_-_Supertanker.part7.rar

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Part 02
Part 03
Part 04
Part 05
Part 06
Part 07
Part 08
Part 09
Part 10
Part 11
Part 12
Part 13
Part 14
Part 15
Part 16

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"Machines of War": Cruise Missile
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Track the flight of a Tomahawk cruise missile and examine every key stage of its journey - launch, flight and target.

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Science of Steel
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Steel is one of the strongest materials on earth. It has altered civilisations and changed the course of history. From the soaring skylines in a vast metropolis to dinner tables across the world and razor sharp tools responsible for medical miracles: steel has helped sculpt life as we know it. Come face to face with this alloy's marvellous simplicity and the grand and innovative structures it has given birth to, such as the Brooklyn Bridge and Empire State Building.

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"Megafactories": Apache Helicopter
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please click [here] to go to Megafactory/ultimate factory section

"Machines of War": Guns

Machine Gun unravels the history of the deadly rapid-fire weaponry favoured by both military and gangsters. We examine how 150 years of machine gun evolution has placed the firepower of a 19th Century Army in the hands of a company of US Marines. Specially staged live-fire machine gun events explain the key moments in the weapon's history: from the World War One machine gun that can chop down a tree, to the first gangster "hit" with a Tommy Gun, to the modern GAU-8 Avenger - one of the deadliest machine guns in the world.

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http://rapidshare.com/files/382204778/Megastructures_-_3x46_-_Machines_of_War_Guns.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/382210183/Megastructures_-_3x46_-_Machines_of_War_Guns.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/382216572/Megastructures_-_3x46_-_Machines_of_War_Guns.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/382221139/Megastructures_-_3x46_-_Machines_of_War_Guns.part4.rar

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Part 01
Part 02
Part 03
Part 04
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Panama Canal Unlocked
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Meet the mother of all megamovers: the Panama Canal. Lifting 14,000 ships a year over a nine-story mountain range, this trickiest of waterways relies on some of the mightiest machines: gargantuan locks, a colossal crane, and the world's largest dipper dredge.

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Science of Brick
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One of civilisation's first building materials today continues to create structures that amaze. From driveways to fireplaces and chimneys, bricks are a part of daily life. But when thousands or millions of these simple blocks are stacked together, people have changed the course of history. See how a modern brick factory is able to churn out tens of thousands of bricks an hour while a traditional brick-maker uses centuries-old techniques to fire lumps of clay into rock-hard building materials. Then visit some of the greatest brick structures on the planet, from the awe-inspiring Great Wall of China to the legendary Markets of Trajan in Rome.

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"Megafactories": Ferrari
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please click [here] to go to Megafactory/ultimate factory section

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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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South Pole Station
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The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is the southernmost continually inhabited place on the planet. Its name honors Roald Amundsen who reached the South Pole in December 1911, and Robert F. Scott who reached the South Pole the following month.It was constructed in November 1956 to support the International Geophysical Year in 1957, and has been continuously occupied since then. It currently lies within 100 meters (330 ft) of the Geographic South Pole. Because it is located on a glacier, the station drifts towards the pole at the rate of about 10 meters per year. Although the US has continuously maintained an installation at the South Pole since 1957, the central berthing, galley, and communications units have been constructed and relocated several times. Each of the installations containing these central units has been named the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

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The World's Biggest Cruise Liner
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Oasis of the Seas is not only the world’s biggest ship, it is also the most innovative. In a world premiere, tomorrow night’s episode of Nat Geo Channel’s Megastructures goes behind the scenes to show what it took to create this maritime landmark and why she truly is an engineering marvel.
In this episode, see how designers and engineers are put to the ultimate test in ship building as they construct an entire city at sea, with safety and environmental concerns a high priority. Using models, mockups and prototypes, they perform detailed and spectacular tests such as the arduous sea trials where the ship is put through the wringer. Megastructures is a series that looks at the greatest structures and machines ever created.

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http://rapidshare.com/files/259900792/World_Biggest_Cruise_Ship.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/259902501/World_Biggest_Cruise_Ship.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/259908633/World_Biggest_Cruise_Ship.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/259897674/World_Biggest_Cruise_Ship.part4.rar

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Icelandic Super Dam
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Documentary series that lifts the lid on some of the most incredible structures and machines in the world. This instalment looks at the Karahnjukar Hydroelectric Project in Iceland - an audacious engineering feat that includes the building of Europe's highest dam, the drilling of 30- mile-long tunnels and the construction of a gigantic underground power plant.

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