China gorged itself?

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seems like china has bit off a bit more than it can chew. TGD is a serious project, but its put stress on surrounding area that was never strong enough to hold this much water. so, predictions? failures? what do you think will happen. my best guess is that its a matter of years before the area around the TGD starts to erode. Then it either becomes a massive maintenance project that will cost billions, or the dam will be scrapped.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Oh blah, the amount of power this thing will produce will alone keep its financial fisability for years to come. Not to mention the fact that this will control flooding and open up the river for upstream travel, which will create a path way to inland industrial centers cutting down large amounts of travel and transportation costs. Not to mention the fact that the Chinese government is bound to keep not caring about the peasents who farm around the river. I would expect their further removal to be inevitable, for they have no rights, only people in the cities of China have rights.

Plus, since when has china cared about human and enviornmental tolls? It cares abot those things less then the US, if that is at all possible.

Plus foresight is not what most industrial powerhouses poses.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
The united states cares about it's peoples health. So much, that when a kid scrapes his knee at a local skate park, it forces them (plus all the others nearby) to close down, than reopen a week later with you pretty much having to sign a contract to skate there.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
problem is that the US is more concerned with what its stupid constituants think rather than whats better, a few properly safeguarded nuclear power plants (NIMBY syndrome) are far safer and more effecient than a huge dam.
which will create a path way to inland industrial centers cutting down large amounts of travel and transportation costs

china does not have "inland industrial centers", it has big shiny cities, then it has the farms and slums. inland is ALL farms and slums.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
china does not have "inland industrial centers", it has big shiny cities, then it has the farms and slums. inland is ALL farms and slums.


Wow shows how much you know about China


Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
you're right, I forgot desert.

we are of course casting wide generalizations, I'm completely forgoing mention of culture and people. economically however, its as I said before.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
Blah, most of their industrial centers are farther inland, look at a map
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
what do you think I meant by slums?
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Dailan, Canton, and other coastal cities are the heart of China's economic power. The rural areas are mainly agricultural and a major gap has risen between the wealth of the coastal and inland areas.

As to the dam, China will just fill in the holes with peasant bodies. That'll help their overpopulation problems.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
*mental image of 300*
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
no eets, that was the great wall of China. this is merely a grander historical repeat.
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
I end this thread, for it was not intellectually stimulating!
Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top
are any of ours intellectually stimulating?
Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top
Ya, for the first 50 posts usually, and towards the end.

But usually they are pointless arguements(which I always win). I miss those days.

*Throws a rock at Schem*

Dirty Conservative Capatalist!!!

*runs away*
Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top
*nukes TGE from his antorak in orbit*
you know the ninjas always win you filthy liberal pirate!
Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top
  

*Throws and elephant at schem*

Take that you Stupid Republican!!
Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top
emp, I thought you knew about the little thing called "gravity"

*watches as Emp is commically flattened by the tossed elephant*

new meaning to bleeding heart I guess...
Reply #17 from Sins Forums Top
Double :O

Screw this!!

Throws Nancy P(whatever) at Schem.

Take that, you non-blinking neocon!!!
Reply #18 from Sins Forums Top
*Destroys Schem and TGE with his politically-moderate anti-matter bomb*

Moderation...It works bitches.
Reply #20 from Sins Forums Top
Oh really? Who was more effective, Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X? MLK was definitely more moderate than Malcolm X and guess who acheived more.   
Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top
*tosses SoG out the airlock, while he's shackled to TGE*
Reply #22 from Sins Forums Top
HAHAHA!

Foolish Schod...I have on trait of extremists: I'm full of hot air and thus can survive for hours in the vacuum of space!

*breaks into the ships and chokes Schod*
Reply #23 from Sins Forums Top
you dont have anything to push off of, and if you want to save TGE you're going to have to half your time in space. not that it matters much

*lights SoG on fire, while he's still in space (not anywhere near my ships, loser)*
Reply #24 from Sins Forums Top
*points and laughts at Schem and SoG*
*walks through an interdimensional portal provided by the Socialists League of the Galaxy*
*travels to the darkest, deepest, most conservative place in the entire galaxy... and destroys Schem's evil capatalistic base of cheap priced monopolies that keep driving hard working people our of their jobs*

Bah, Socialism wins!!
Reply #25 from Sins Forums Top
Actually Schod I can use some of my hot air as a jet to push me back to the ship. Besides...you can't light me on fire in space, there's no oxygen to fuel it ergo, my original series of events (where I choke you) wins.   

Besides, I wasn't trying to save TGE.

*rips off disguise*

I'm Chuck Norris bitch.

*roundhouse kicks TGE in the face*