Photo of the year would be Trump attempting to scale the walls himself.....
Bump!
I’m not interested in prototypes and repeated stories of prototypes.
Build the mother ****er already.
I’d like to see photos of each prototype individually. Curious about what would make one better than another.
And for the people who say it can’t be done.
The border is 2,000 miles long. So 30 feet high.
Interstate Highway System is 46,876 miles long. And At least 40 feet across.
If we were able to do this in the 50’s and 60’s. We certainly can build this wall in 3-8 years if we really wanted to.
How far below ground does it go?
2000 miles divided by 8 prototypes. I suspect they would ALL do fine compared to what’s in place now, so that’s only 250 miles per wall. I say award every one of them 250 miles and just see how they all work - testing while on the job.
There will be so much money saved by not paying for the illegals stopped, no need to worry about replacing a section or two down the road.
How hard would it be to bore through steel-reinforced concrete, or for the designs with steel at ground level, torch cut, plasma cut, or even battery-powered cutting wheel your way through?
Be certain and absolutely sure that the entire wall is fully paid for and under way before there is any daca deal. We will not settle for chain migration prohibition ( that is a secondary requirement). We want the WALL for Daca , not some nebulous lie of “increased security” We don’t fall for that crap again. we want the wall and ALL OF THE WALL or “no bueno”. The promise over and over was the “wall not “ increased security” To hell with that!!
Please dont tell lil Annie Coulter about this she loves her “Trump’s never going to build the wall” fantasies so dearly.
Pick one and get to building.
The border wall does not need to go 2000 continuous miles. Probably 500 miles of wall in the places that are easiest to cross would deter most of the people just walking in. Some would come in through the gaps, but it should cut the numbers way down. Or maybe we need 750 miles of walls well placed in the most accessible areas. But it probably doesn’t need to be 2000 miles.
Anyway, build 500 miles in the areas with the heaviest illegal entry and then you can monitor where the leaks spring up, and go later and build more wall there, until the leaks are minimal.
I think tunneling will be more likely than people going a hundred miles out of their way to circumvent the wall. Some will, but not masses.
Scaling isn’t the issue.
How does it stand up to a ‘59 Buick with a brick on the accelerator, doing 90 MPH? That’s the question.
They forgot the graffiti that will adorn these slabs the 1st day they are up.
Any design that doesn’t include the option to use deadly force is incomplete.
I don’t think height would matter so much as much as electronic detection, maybe put sensors on the top or underneath with cameras positioned every so often where any border guard could take a look if one of those sensors are triggered. If there’s going to be no sensors then to me a wall it going to be pretty much useless. They’ll get through anything they put up, look at the tunnels the drug gangs dig.
Quote from written portion of article: “The wall was one of Mr Trump’s dominant campaign promises but few believe building it along 2,000 miles of border is realistic or feasible.”
I guess that Greg Milam, SkyNews’ US Correspondent, has never heard of the Alaska Highway. It was also not considered ‘feasible’. Construction started in March 1942 and was completed at the end of October 1942, stretching 1,422 miles from Dawson Creek, BC to Delta Junction, AK.
I guess that Mr. Milam also never heard of Apollo 11. When Kennedy announced on May 25, 1961, that the US would land a man on the moon before the end of the decade, that was also not considered ‘feasible’.
I hope that Mr. Milam enjoys crow for a main course!
There is only one effective wall design and that’s men with guns authorized to shoot you dead.