Comments on: Pan-Korea Grand Waterway?

By: sewing

sewing — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:23:11 +0000

That’s what they did in Panama….

By: wjk

wjk — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:42:34 +0000

i think Lee Myung Bak knows what he’s talking about and I support him with the woon-ha.

There is no way that he’ll be pushing this, this being his biggest weakness in the whole campaign, if he didn’t absolutely have good reason for it, given that he’s leading in all the polls and is pretty much a lock-in to win the Presidency.

Maybe he has the engineers in Hyundai. Maybe there is no plan to raze mountains.

I thought the plan involved submerging the mountains by building dams.

By: sewing

sewing — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:10:26 +0000

Sorry…dike…

By: sewing

sewing — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:10:10 +0000

I’m not trying to be smug, though…the Fraser River is possibly about to hit its 2nd-highest water level in the last 100 years, and I work behind a dyke at sea level.

By: sewing

sewing — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:05:42 +0000

Aren’t half of your polders flooding from the table water underneath, though?

By: sewing

sewing — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:04:23 +0000

Havik: a man with a vision!

By: Havik

Havik — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:02:11 +0000

Living in a land full of canals and having studied civil engineering, I must say that canals have definitely proven their effectivity. The tonnage transported via waterways is still growing in the Netherlands and studies point out that transportation over water is less damaging for the environment, quite efficient and economically viable.

There are some prerequisites though:
1. there must be no mountains
2. there must be an existing myriad of natural waterways
3. there must be a pool of experienced engineers
4. there must be some neighbouring countries to transport the goods to

So it is absolutely possible provided that Korea:
1. razes all mountains to the ground
2. is overflooded by massive monsoons
3. hire me and other Dutch bloakes from the TU Delft
4. builds polders between Korea and Japan (we Dutch can support that too)

By: Wedge

Wedge — Wed, 23 May 2007 08:37:24 +0000

Thanks, Chief. This is classic:

“It’s hardly an exaggeration to say that every administration since has had to deal with the chaotic legacy of Carter’s mind-boggling cowardice and incompetence.”

By: michael

michael — Wed, 23 May 2007 08:06:31 +0000

Snow, Wedge, Peninsular, this one’s for you:
http://www.slate.com/id/2166661/nav/tap2/

By: michael

michael — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:56:52 +0000

That canal would be hell of stanky in no time at all, with dead bodies and an armada of plastic trash bags floating down it. They could call it Lee’s Folly, or Dong Pari Ditch.