Trusting or believing in one sentence with science.
It still always raises an eyebrow here.
First of all, it's not some kind of "religion", so there is not common sense of just believing.
If tomorrow a whole new paper came out with solid prove that certain ideas are totally wrong, everyone is more than happy to except and swap.
Second, what other method would one expect in something like a bridge?
Just randomly put stuff together and hope it works?
I guess in this case what is meant, is the construction part even before the engineering part.
Especially when there is money and politics involved, that is not always very transparent and objective.
Which unfortunately gives engineers a (very) bad name.
I have been in certain occasions that I wasn't feeling particularity safe either
@Doodski
In the opening post, I find it a rather small cute little bridge (we wouldn't call it a bridge actually lol)
The whole structure is already kinda supporting on its own, which we can't say of a few of these magnificent hanging bridges.
The scariest part here lays within the details, often just micro cracks in the materials.
Which is really a challenge when bridges are close to the ocean with heavy traffic going over it.
Most of these things are also being checked, supervised and maintained on a very regular basis.