NaN/100 votes#1 - Super Rigs
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2011
As the World's insatiable need for oil and gas grows, companies are going deeper, into more hostile environments than ever before. Watch as we rip apart the largest oil rigs on the planet to reveal the secrets of these amazing technological achievements… and discover if they can survive Mother Nature's most violent forces.
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- NaN/100 votes
#2 - Super Copters
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/2011
Incredible technology is making these 'super copters' much more impervious to attack, with Kevlar and other advanced composite materials strengthening the body - while keeping it lightweight. Using live action, re-creations, amazing archival footage and advanced CGI, we marvel at the creation of today's 'super copters' - extraordinary multi-purpose helicopters for the twenty-first century.
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- NaN/100 votes
#3 - The Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 1/28/2011
The Capital Gate building will create an iconic and avant-garde entrance to the city of Abu Dhabi. Leaning at a whopping 18 degrees westward, the tower will claim the Guinness Book of World Records title of Most Inclined Building on Earth. Discover how the engineers and architects overcome the force of gravity, and transform this vision into reality.
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- 7.8/108 votes
#4 - Korean Superlink (Deep Sea Highway)
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 2/17/2011
South Korea never constructed a submerged tunnel, but now tackles the challenge of building one of the deepest immersed highways on Earth. Designed for the fickle conditions of the Pacific, the giant tunnel must be both earthquake and typhoon proof.
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- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Korean Superlink (Deep Sea Highway)
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/2011
"I love what I do. I get to tear stuff up." Every day around the world, thousands of planes, trains, and automobiles get cut down to size for recycling. A jumbo jet costing a hundred million dollars becomes parts the size of beer cans in a matter of hours. An 18-ton steel rail car is attacked by some of the world's most expensive knives. And a fleet of automobiles dies a torturous death -the equivalent of an agonizing tooth extraction and an elaborate embalming ... all to process them for shredding and recycling. Finally, shredded metal is reborn as shiny new Land Rovers.
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- NaN/100 votes
#6 - Spaceport America
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 8/29/2011
The renovated California Academy of Sciences - the world's largest green public building - emerges from the landscape of Golden Gate Park. Viewed from the air, the undulating living roof resembles a piece of the park flying as if by magic.
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- NaN/100 votes
#7 - Heavy Metal Shredding
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 3/24/2011
Locomotives don't last forever. Eventually they go to a scrap yard to die. Their parts are cut up, melted down and ultimately reformed into new products. In this business, nothing goes to waste
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- NaN/100 votes
#8 - Ecoark
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 3/27/2011
Plans to erect a spaceport in the middle of a desert.
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- NaN/100 votes
#9 - Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 10/10/2011
To save one of the most iconic engineering wonders of all time requires the creation of another masterpiece: the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - Sinking a Destroyer
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/2011
How much military power does it take to sink a top naval warship? Experience the mission at the hands of the US and Canadian Navy and Air Forces as they mount a sink exercise on a massive 4,250 foot long destroyer, to test their firepower and skill.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Mega Breakdown: Train Overhaul
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 4/13/2011
Locomotives don't last forever. Eventually they go to a scrap yard to die. Their parts are cut up, melted down and ultimately reformed into new products. In this business, nothing goes to waste
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Super Rigs
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 1/8/2011
As the World's insatiable need for oil and gas grows, companies are going deeper, into more hostile environments than ever before. Watch as we rip apart the largest oil rigs on the planet to reveal the secrets of these amazing technological achievements… and discover if they can survive Mother Nature's most violent forces.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - Super Copters
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 1/19/2011
Incredible technology is making these 'super copters' much more impervious to attack, with Kevlar and other advanced composite materials strengthening the body - while keeping it lightweight. Using live action, re-creations, amazing archival footage and advanced CGI, we marvel at the creation of today's 'super copters' - extraordinary multi-purpose helicopters for the twenty-first century.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - The Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 1/28/2011
The Capital Gate building will create an iconic and avant-garde entrance to the city of Abu Dhabi. Leaning at a whopping 18 degrees westward, the tower will claim the Guinness Book of World Records title of Most Inclined Building on Earth. Discover how the engineers and architects overcome the force of gravity, and transform this vision into reality.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge
Season 8 Episode 32 - Aired 10/10/2011
To save one of the most iconic engineering wonders of all time requires the creation of another masterpiece: the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - Sinking a Destroyer
Season 8 Episode 35 - Aired 11/25/2011
How much military power does it take to sink a top naval warship? Experience the mission at the hands of the US and Canadian Navy and Air Forces as they mount a sink exercise on a massive 4,250 foot long destroyer, to test their firepower and skill.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of MegaStructures Season 8
Every episode of MegaStructures Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of MegaStructures Season 8!
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Season 8 Ratings Summary
"Super Rigs" is the best rated episode of "MegaStructures" season 8. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/8/2011. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Super Copters".