This Was Built To Protect New Orleans From The Next Katrina

Posted by $ AJAshinoff 8 years, 7 months ago to Technology
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Impressive ingenuity. It sounds impressive, but I wonder if it will be enough to stop nature though.
SOURCE URL: http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/strip-the-city/videos/this-was-built-to-protect-new-orleans-from-the-next-katrina/


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  • Posted by SaltyDog 8 years, 7 months ago
    The engineering, if nothing else in scale, is magnificent.

    However, one must wonder if it's well advised. Think of the trouble that it took to get THAT many moochers to move into a bowl that's as much as 40 feet below sea level! Are we at all certain that after accomplishing that much we want to keep Mother Nature from her natural course? I can't think a a better illustration of natural selection...can you? (Keep in mind that cemeteries there are all above ground as the water table comes so close to the surface that buried coffins would float right out of the ground.)
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