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.
Saturday, January 31, 2026
Back when building big projects didn't take decades and billions (bullet train, anyone?)
Years ago, read that they had to go 130+ feet deep for the supports' foundation. The state geologist descended to each bottom and said the bedrock was California Serpentine and would last for hundreds of years as a foundation.
One of the problems with doing anything like this bridge today is that there's a generation (or three) raised to believe that moving so much as one pebble is a mortal sin that's going to doom the entire ecosystem. So many layers of approval required that just filling out papers takes more time than building the entire Golden Gate.
I had to take a required biology class in my junior college days and we did a month of ecology. I learned it as being all about changes. Today it's focused on fear of change and never changing a thing.
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ReplyDeleteYears ago, read that they had to go 130+ feet deep for the supports' foundation. The state geologist descended to each bottom and said the bedrock was California Serpentine and would last for hundreds of years as a foundation.
ReplyDeleteMore guts than me.
One of the problems with doing anything like this bridge today is that there's a generation (or three) raised to believe that moving so much as one pebble is a mortal sin that's going to doom the entire ecosystem. So many layers of approval required that just filling out papers takes more time than building the entire Golden Gate.
ReplyDeleteI had to take a required biology class in my junior college days and we did a month of ecology. I learned it as being all about changes. Today it's focused on fear of change and never changing a thing.
" So many layers of approval required that just filling out papers takes more time than building the entire Golden Gate."
ReplyDeleteTell that to the homeowners in Palisades that are trying to rebuild.