Donald Trump tests eight 30ft high walls for border with Mexico

Sky News ^ | Wednesday 27 December 2017 | By Greg Milam, US Correspondent

[jdsteel]

They stand like surreal monuments in the California scrubland: prototypes of Donald Trump's proposed "big, beautiful" border wall between the US and Mexico.

The eight 30ft high slabs are the first tangible part of the controversial project that the US President says will help solve America's immigration problems.

[sergeantdave]

Come on....Ramblers stopped production in 1961.

:)

[Elsie]

Grappling hooks slide off and no way to grab the top

No need to.

Sling 60' foot long parachute cords with 5# weights on them.

You'd only need 40 to counter balance a 200# person.

Let gravity work for you!

[Cedar]

“Mexico has not yet provided the money...”

We don’t care. Let our U.S. government pay for the wall instead of Mexico... We don’t care, just build the wall!

[Elsie]

So far, not a Mexican dime has been offered nor collected.

Folks don't get it.

The money that is now SENT TO Mexico from Illegals here; will not longer be sent.

It stays here.

THAT is what pays for the wall.

[Elsie]

By going down the creeks and rivers as usual.

[Elsie]

Well sure, all those millions crossing the deserts can just plug into the outlets on wall

[going hot]

The proper technique is to place the whole unbroken bottles into the wet cement. Then after the cement dries, take a metal rod and break the bottles midway.

Makes a superb and practical way to keep honest people out.

[Elsie]

How long ya think they'd last packing all that stuff across boiling deserts?

Ya got him THIS time!!

[Elsie]

Drone guns; silly! If we can fly drones to bomb ISIS from 1/2 way around the world...

[dragnet2]

I've already heard Elsie, all these illegals crossing the barren desert will come with heavy power equipment, gas cans, honda generators and 31' ladders... Right Elsie.

[dragnet2]

I see, like the American pioneers, the illegals will be coming in wagon trains packed with acetylene tanks, honda generators, 31’ ladders and power equipment...You’re a hoot Elsie!

[Elsie]

No; they have one rope to slide down.

[Elsie]

A small cloth bag (Sock) can hold 5# of sand...

[Elsie]

I want the moving blanket consession!

[Elsie]

Every obstacle you've conjured up; I've countered.

NOTHING on the Mexican side will slow them down; so all of the stuff WILL work from their side!

After they are over they won't NEED acetylene tanks, honda generators, 31’ ladders or power equipment.

[dragnet2]

Slide down a rope? So they tie a rope around each other, and one guy starts down the rope hoping he don’t pull the rest over to their deaths?

Lets hope they get video of this Elsie.

[dragnet2]

NOTHING on the Mexican side will slow them down

What are you talking about? It's already happened. Their numbers are way down and the wall hasn't even been put up.

Btw, you sound angry about the wall. Cheer up Elsie.

[BeauBo]

“I read somewhere that most direct falls from 30 ft. or more onto a hard surface are fatal”

Essentially true.

There is a very detailed paper from NASA (https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930020462.pdf), from which figure 5 (p. 36) is most useful.

The summary is:

It does depends on where and which way up you land - feet-first onto a soft surface is best (pretty obvious).

For a hard surface, assuming you don’t land on your head, up to about 12m/s impact velocity, you are almost certain to survive (corresponding to a fall from a height of about 23 feet). Though “survive” is likely to involve life-changing injuries at the top of this range.

Between 12 and 17m/s, you may or may not survive (corresponding to a fall from between 23 and 39 feet).

Over 17m/s, you are almost certain not to survive (corresponding to a fall from over 39 feet).

Anecdotally, pole workmen and tree arborists seem to cite 9 meters (~30 ft) as the “cutoff” for fatality in a fall — that is, most who fall from thirty feet or higher die.

[going hot]

That is what the dishonest ones use, the prepared ones.

The opportunists, not so much.

[chris37]

Yes, that method of application prevents the installer from being injured during the process.

This technique is seen in the French Quarter and surrounding areas in New Orleans to prevent fence climbers from going from yard to yard.

Very effective.