To celebrate 45 years of Range Rover, Land Rover this week drove the latest version of its flagship SUV across a bridge constructed of nothing but paper.
No bolts, no glue, no cheeky brickwork hiding beneath the sheafs. Just paper and more paper, happily supporting the 2.2-tonne 4x4.
The stunt was intended, we think, to highlight the Rangey’s lightweight aluminium construction. Ten Things is more taken by the extraordinary power of paper, a material it had previously only thought suitable for the construction of tiny planes. And blotting.
Steve Messam, the artist behind the stunt, said: “Paper structures capable of supporting people have been built before but nothing on this scale has ever been attempted. It’s pushing engineering boundaries.”
Ten Things wants answers. Why have engineers spent centuries, and countless billions, constructing bridges of metal and wood and brick… when they could have saved a whole lot of time and effort by wedging a few old copies of the Daily Star in the gap?
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