And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
13.6 million cubic yds, 1.11 sm length, 9.5 yrs to complete. All for $5million USD.
If it were built in the U.S. day, that is if all the bureaucratic BS even allowed, it would be built well but likely cost 1,000 times as much and take twenty years.
Ethiopia. Millennial Dam Completed in 2021 under heavy criticism from engineers and surrounding nations. Notably Egypt because of fierce intent of controlling interest of the Nile River.
13.6 million cubic yds, 1.11 sm length, 9.5 yrs to complete. All for $5million USD.
ReplyDeleteIf it were built in the U.S. day, that is if all the bureaucratic BS even allowed, it would be built well but likely cost 1,000 times as much and take twenty years.
I mean $5 Billion.
DeleteWhat, where, please?
ReplyDeleteEthiopia. Millennial Dam
DeleteCompleted in 2021 under heavy criticism from engineers and surrounding nations. Notably Egypt because of fierce intent of controlling interest of the Nile River.
At first glance, I thought it was a quarry.
ReplyDeleteBeen wars over less than hogging all the water for 6 nations.
ReplyDeleteIt’s just a big dam project, and it has spawned a big dam controversy making a lot of people very dam mad. (H/T Vegas Vacation Hoover Dam tour guide.)
ReplyDeleteLooks like a space age ziggurat.
ReplyDeleteDam near me name was changed, town it covers was called Gawd, not kidding, now its the Summersville, (WbyGodV), damn.
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