[driftdiver]

I wonder how long those wonders they are building will stand. The big damn is already having problems. You know the one that displaced a few million people.

[Dick Bachert]

Yeah, wait until Three Gorges goes boom.

[GonzoGOP]

Egypt's 1st great pyramids fell down. The next four are still around 4000 years later. Titanic sank on it's first trip, but the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth reined as the largest liners in the world for 50 years. Chicago burned, San Francisco shaked and baked. But both cities were rebuilt in steel taller, bigger, and better than before. That is the mark of a society of builders. They push the edge, and occasionally fall over it. But they always learn and keep going.

China has been a society of builders from before the Communists, and will still be builders long after they are gone. The Grand Canal, Great Wall, in the same way that militant civilizations celebrate their generals builder civilizations celebrate their engineers. America was once a builder civilization. We celebrated the skyscrapers of New York and Chicago, the Hoover dam, and the Saturn V moon rocket. Today we celebrate Tiger Woods and Lady GaGa. Something happened in the 1960's we changed from builders to consumers. We lived for 50 years on the legacy built up by 184 years of frantic building. But that legacy is exhausted and we much now either rediscover our builder heritage, or become another Rome, that once built great things, and now survives by selling tours of the ruins.

[ridesthemiles]

The big damn is already having problems. You know the one that displaced a few million people”””

That dam is at the confluence of 3 large rivers.

IF it lets go, then NObama can talk about “Man-Made Disasters”.

Wonder how far the water will go?