Posted on 07/15/2020 5:54:16 AM PDT by C19fan
Their current inventory consists of a mix of Russian, US and French aircraft. The most common is the F-16.
Can F-16s take out a massive concrete dam?
Herodotus discusses the Nile flood, giving the three tales he heard of it, including the correct one -- which he thinks is the least likely -- then proposes a howler of his own to explain it. He's shown that the real reason was known in his time, and preserves it, despite the fact that he doesn't believe it himself. He really is the Father of History.
I was particularly anxious to learn from them why the Nile, at the commencement of the summer solstice, begins to rise, and continues to increase for a hundred days -- and why, as soon as that number is past, it forthwith retires and contracts its stream, continuing low during the whole of the winter until the summer solstice comes round again... Some of the Greeks, however, wishing to get a reputation for cleverness, have offered explanations of the phenomena of the river, for which they have accounted in three different ways... One pretends that the Etesian winds cause the rise of the river by preventing the Nile-water from running off into the sea... The second opinion is even more unscientific... that the Nile acts so strangely, because it flows from the ocean, and that the ocean flows all round the earth. The third explanation, which is very much more plausible than either of the others, is positively the furthest from the truth... that the inundation of the Nile is caused by the melting of snows. Now, as the Nile flows out of Libya, through Ethiopia, into Egypt, how is it possible that it can be formed of melted snow, running, as it does, from the hottest regions of the world into cooler countries? ...I will therefore proceed to explain what I think to be the reason of the Nile's swelling in the summer time. During the winter, the sun is driven out of his usual course by the storms, and removes to the upper parts of Libya. This is the whole secret in the fewest possible words; for it stands to reason that the country to which the Sun-god approaches the nearest, and which he passes most directly over, will be scantest of water, and that there the streams which feed the rivers will shrink the most.The Histories: Book II Euterpe[may be a dead link]
Herodotus
tr by George Rawlinson
One interesting thing is it would probably be better if the lake being created by the dam was filled that way the pressure of the water would aid in destroying the dam.
Certainly more of it than the Ethiopians have to defend it... If the Chicoms intervened the U.S. or Israel would probably respond in kind...IMHO...
One aspect to consider, there are millions of Christians who would be in the path of devastation should the dam burst. [1][2][3]
Why did they wait for it to be completed? I imagine it might have been easier to disrupt the construction in the earlier stages.
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