I will cut you some slack, I understand a language barrier, It's okay if you are not speaking in perfect English, and web translators these days are crap.

I did read your post however, it appears to be a dangerous road, I would not like to work supply on that road in the Chinese army! Driving through that would take a pair! Those guys have determination and courage!


And it is tragic to hear of the lives lost, sometimes you just can't build a paved highway at high altitudes, it's rough in some places in on this planet, some of them in China.

I've done some dumb things in my day, but no way in hell I am riding my bike down that trail, let alone driving a two and a half ton truck.

Ah, just like the good old saying "no matter how bad the road, you can't stop the Chinese from creating some sort of occupational health and safety nightmare - with trucks".






Disclaimer:
I may have just made that up.

I guess they're trying to show how powerful their logistics is by driving a convoy of trucks down an extremely dangerous highway.

Personally, I think the US would just use helicopters. Or find a way around those mountains.

Originally Posted by chronoserpent

I guess they're trying to show how powerful their logistics is by driving a convoy of trucks down an extremely dangerous highway.

Personally, I think the US would just use helicopters. Or find a way around those mountains.

Lol reminds me of the saying: NASA spent $40,000 developing a pen that could write in space; the Russian Space Agency had their cosmonauts use pencils.

LOL I was thinking the exact same thing.

When I heard the joke it was a $4,000,000 pen. R&D isn't cheap, especially not at the inflated prices government pays for it.

AFAIK, the NASA pen thing is a myth. There was a special pen developed but they where needed because pencils where dangerous to use in space. They were privately developed and I believe NASA paid $3 per pen.

At $3 per pen NASA definitely paid for the development costs in the end. Just as companies don't pay taxes, they pass them on to the consumer.

I realise that we have got way of topic here, but I find it hard to believe that the pens used in space only cost $3. I seem to remember an investigation into pricing of things used in the USAAF back in the 1960s and they quoted about a some very mundane part like a small wrench which was available in any hardware store for about $5 that when provided to the USAAF as a part for a maintenance kit cost many hundreds of dollars. I do not recall the exact prices, but there maybe other members here who remember it.