Rebuilding New Orleans With Science 564
EccentricAnomaly writes "The New York Times has a discussion of flood control methods in use in Holland, England, and Bangladesh that could be used in the rebuilding of New Orleans. Of particular interest is the $8 billion Delta Works built by the Netherlands in response to the North Sea flood of 1953, which almost destroyed the city of Rotterdam, but for a heroic captain who plugged a breach in a dike with his ship." From the article: "While scientists hail the power of technology to thwart destructive forces, they note that flood control is a job for nature at least as much as for engineers. Long before anyone built levees and floodgates, barrier islands were serving to block dangerous storm surges. Of course, those islands often fall victim to coastal development."
I know... (Score:5, Funny)
Got To Go There (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like the trashy novels my wife reads. Was his ship full of sea men?
Jetskis for everybody! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Got To Go There (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Absolutely Stupid to Rebuild (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Doing what is right (Score:3, Funny)
your right, we should definitely be hoping for another ice age.
Most of countries who bellow loudest about global warming (Canada, Scandanavia, Germany, France) would cease to exist in the next ice age. That's reason alone to fight global warming!
Rebuilding New Orleans with... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:after I submitted this... (Score:2, Funny)
Lessons from Monty Python (Score:5, Funny)
political hacks cannot trump facts (Score:2, Funny)
Years Louisana operated under a Republican dominated government: 6.
Years Louisana operated under a Democratic dominated government: 128.
Conclusion: Clearly the Democrats are at fault.
(Note: Conclusion based on the same dumb fucking logic the parent poster uses.)
Re:Rebuild? There's a Bright Idea. (Score:4, Funny)
So you expect Bush will fund it then?
Re:Learn from nature OR GOOGLE at least (Score:3, Funny)
There's no reason to make the Dead Zone seem that bad.
Yes, I'm from NJ.