[Enterprise]

"Three Gorges is a great laboratory for studying how well local climate changes caused by very local land-use changes can be detected and distinguished from larger-scale global climate change."

And since it was constructed by peasant labor, its ultimate collapse will also be a great laboratory.

[randog]

...its ultimate collapse will also be a great laboratory.

BTW--How are those cracks in the dam doing?

[Alter Kaker]

And since it was constructed by peasant labor, its ultimate collapse will also be a great laboratory.

As opposed to Hoover Dam, which was constructed in the middle of the Great Depression entirely by Harvard-educated itinerant bond traders?

I'm not sure I get your point.