"Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure-grain alcohol?"
Posted on 04/16/2016 8:19:44 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
Yes. It is.
However, you are wrong about the 19 trillion. It is at least 21 trillion and climbing fast even at insanely low interest rates. It is unsustainable and the only reason it is not absolutely disastrous to the US is that the condition it entails is shared across the globe and is relative. Relatively speaking we are still the strongest and most stable economy with critical mass.
President Trump would deal with foolishness like this.
It's not the pipe, it's all those $3500 pickaxes and shovels used to lay it.
A couple mil per mile is probably not too far out of line if it is a fairly large diameter pipeline (say 24 inch or larger). It will no doubt have to be buried fairly deep too.
Hey, you said it must be some ‘gooood pipe’...thought you were being sarcastic...followed up on that.
Most likely not a competitive bid.
"Other than the roads, the bridges and the aquaducts, what have the Romans EVER done for us?"
"Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure-grain alcohol?"
Thought the same thing. They also do a bang-up job with pumping stations.
On the other hand, that whole base could probably be well supplied with only about an 8 to 12” line. Plastic would do for most of it. A couple of surge tanks along the way could reduce the pressure needs on the pipe.
If the mission were just to get clean water to the base I’d take the contract for $25mil and pocket a lot of profit. A lot of people will feed off of this contract for years though and bleed it white.
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