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Re: Great Man-Made River

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Post by lsmurray »

Viker wrote: post #6

I grew up in Libya during the building of the GMMR. I still remember the size of the pipes and the amount of trucks hauling them. One truck one pipe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_Sys... The Korean companies (Daewoo mainly I think) building the project were massive. They would build a double lane road. One side would be used exclusively for one direction pipe supplies and machines. Eventual…

Is there any worry about what would happen if the water supply runs out? The article noted that the GMMR might run out in 60-100 years and supplies millions of people with water.

Re: Great Man-Made River

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Post by einpoklum »

cookiengineer wrote: post #7

I am always amazed by human engineering. I grew up near the Rhine in Germany, and literally they changed the position of the whole river into a different shape, depth, and form so that ships can flow on it. The planning of the event was called "Rheinbegradigung" [1] and they made the river straight, with lots and lots of watergates in between from the Ocean right up to Basel in Switzerland. Eversince I grew up, hundr…

Does this project link up to the Rhein-Amstel canal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam%E2%80%93Rhine_Canal

Re: Great Man-Made River

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Post by cheph »

f6v wrote: post #2

That feels like a post-apocalyptic story now, remnants of great, more developed civilization.

Remind me again why the fuck Obama rallied NATO to fuck that country up again and how Obama is still seen as the messiah to socialist and progressives after doing that?

Re: Great Man-Made River

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Post by cheph »

thendrill wrote: post #5

I grew up in Libya during the building of the GMMR. I still remember the size of the pipes and the amount of trucks hauling them. One truck one pipe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_Sys... The Korean companies building the project were massive. They would build a double lane road. One side would be used exclusively for one direction pipe supplies and machines. Eventually when the section comp…

I guess you are being downvoted because you are saying that Libya was better off before Obama "saved" it.

Seriously fuck him for his warmongering, he should be rotting in jail for what he did.

Re: Great Man-Made River

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Post by hulitu »

cheph wrote: post #14
f6v wrote: post #2

That feels like a post-apocalyptic story now, remnants of great, more developed civilization.

Remind me again why the fuck Obama rallied NATO to fuck that country up again and how Obama is still seen as the messiah to socialist and progressives after doing that?

Why ? They have oil. Cheap oil. They were competing with the British-American Oil companies.

Re: Great Man-Made River

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Post by smusamashah »

cheph wrote: post #15
thendrill wrote: post #5

I grew up in Libya during the building of the GMMR. I still remember the size of the pipes and the amount of trucks hauling them. One truck one pipe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_Sys... The Korean companies building the project were massive. They would build a double lane road. One side would be used exclusively for one direction pipe supplies and machines. Eventually when the section comp…

I guess you are being downvoted because you are saying that Libya was better off before Obama "saved" it. Seriously fuck him for his warmongering, he should be rotting in jail for what he did.

Downvotes are because @thendrill made a copy paste comment from @Viker. Or may be that one is. Two profiles probably.

Re: Great Man-Made River

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Post by agurk »

smusamashah wrote: post #17
cheph wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess you are being downvoted because you are saying that Libya was better off before Obama "saved" it. Seriously fuck him for his warmongering, he should be rotting in jail for what he did.

Downvotes are because @thendrill made a copy paste comment from @Viker. Or may be that one is. Two profiles probably.

I've seen this a few times recently here - a comment being copy/pasted exactly for the same article. Is this something that's common but I've only just noticed, a coincidence or something else that's going on? Perhaps something Dang knows about.

Re: Great Man-Made River

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Post by f6v »

cheph wrote: post #14
f6v wrote: post #2

That feels like a post-apocalyptic story now, remnants of great, more developed civilization.

Remind me again why the fuck Obama rallied NATO to fuck that country up again and how Obama is still seen as the messiah to socialist and progressives after doing that?

It wasn’t just Obama. France, Italy, and Turkey perpetuate the conflict.
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