Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:

gently caress Duke.

Mel Mudkiper posted:

I want to see Trump try and declare a national emergency

lets go

GonadTheBallbarian posted:

someone crammed an alexa into a shitter and called it a smart toilet at CES

deedee megadoodoo posted:

Can it track the weight, volume, and color of my poops?

GonadTheBallbarian posted:

someone crammed an alexa into a shitter and called it a smart toilet at CES

deedee megadoodoo posted:

Can it track the weight, volume, and color of my poops?

hallebarrysoetoro posted:

yeah right now it's like what, a 30' high wall? with wind exposure category c or d (it will experience a metric fuckload of wind exposure one way or the other) and the steel would have to be set at 12" centers to keep people from shimmying through meaning it's basically catching almost all of the wind blowing against it....those vertical steel posts are going to need to be like W8 or so sized steel with some relatively boss sized wind bracing behind each and every one

the galvanization on the steel would need to be loving insanely thick to have a reasonable time till first maintenance unless they plan on having border patrol kitted out with cherry pickers to have them galv spray everything as they go down the line. i don't even know where to begin to see how much zinc is mined each year and how much galvanization material is produced yearly but i'm assuming it's a massive chunk of what america produces

not to mention the concrete footers or caissons necessary to support the wall, guess they're not going to ready mix that poo poo lol. i work in an area where concrete is easily brought to a site and weather conditions aren't much of an issue, i have no idea how the gently caress you would try to set concrete in a place that has such temperature extremes

the engineer in me is like "yes a giant mega project like this would be fun to see how it plays out" because it would be one of the largest engineering and construction undertakings in human history, it will require several times more concrete than the hoover dam, somewhere around 5-10 billion pounds of steel in just rebar for the concrete alone which would represent roughly 1/3rd of all american yearly steel output, and i don't know how much of that can be formed as rebar

i don't do much concrete reinforcement design in my job so i'm going to be lazy and just assume they'll use trumpcrete that is magic and needs no steel and can perfectly hold this giant dumb loving wall up from toppling forces. just to make the wall "tamper" proof it needs a continuous 5' deep concrete footer, and ideally 3' wide to prevent it from being easily punched through, and, no matter what steel it is, you need a pretty big loving footer to land all that steel in

so you get 2000mi*5*3 and you get roughly 160 cubic million feet of concrete, at roughly 150lbs per cuft for some relatively respectable strength concrete, which is about 10% of total concrete output in america (which, just the way concrete is, tends to be localized because concrete doesn't travel very well). so we need to build an insanely large supply chain for all the aggregate etc just for that alone

that $5bn number $2.5m a mile, and just using some kludge numbers for that concrete you end up using half of that money just in concrete alone lol not even including the labor to transport and put the concrete in place, all the steel necessary, and the steel wall itself

not to mention even if all regulatory concerns are somehow bypassed, it's still a legal nightmare for land acquisition because i'm pretty sure i read somewhere that 75% of the proposed route is on private land?

and that you'd need to find tens of thousands of workers who would be willing to go live out in an inhospitable area in temporary housing, along with building all the necessary logistical stuff like sanitary sewer, hospitals, potable water, food, blah blah blah

like the wall is just so loving insanely stupid from a feasibility standpoint and it hurts to even think about. it's like "yeah let's just re-direct the entirety of the american economy to build a wall that does nothing". it's loving painful to see people talk about it like it will actually happen instead of a giant grift by bechtel where $5bn is absconded with for nothing in return. $5bn barely loving covers the "cheap" part that can be done from a desktop like acquisition or design. the whole thing will run into the trillions loving easily

also not to mention people will just roll out to the wall with a torch and make off with some free steel

Kalli posted:

Is the board going to light up with telestrator circles and penises to tell you which ramp / bumper to hit next?

Tiny Tubesteak Tom posted:

Those drop targets on the left side are going to spell "BOOM" and when you get all four, some crazy poo poo is gonna happen.

Tiny Tubesteak Tom posted:

in a dream world, instead of tickets the game would dispense free turducken for every high score

FizFashizzle posted:

This is fun.

FizFashizzle posted:

This is fun.

"that $5bn number $2.5m a mile, and just using some kludge numbers for that concrete you end up using half of that money just in concrete alone lol not even including the labor to transport and put the concrete in place, all the steel necessary, and the steel wall itself"

FizFashizzle posted:

This is fun.

CannonFodder posted:

For perspective, $2.5 million a mile is about the cost of building a 2 lane undivided road in a rural area. So the entire $5 billion would be spent on the road to access the wall. And that's just for regular access, there's canyons and cliffs and mountains and just general rough terrain that are areas where it's lovely and expensive to build.

$5 billion for the wall is a laughable amount just on the face of supplies, never mind labor and logistics and government billing feature creep. Why build one when you can build one at the price of four plus cost?

weird Asian candy posted:

Indeed. However Zion is a national treasure and transcends all Duke hatred imho

Shame he is going to end up in Cleveland.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:

I prefer women with boobies

Update goon spreadsheet accordingly

MY NIGGA D-LINK posted:

I hate engineers and architects because they consistently want you to build things the dumbest way possible since they generally have little to no field experience with actual building. Take for example the post you quoted, that's a couple hundred words to say that $5bil is a drop of piss in an ocean of expense for a wall that has no practical means of succeeding even it's built.

quote:

Work began in August 2016 on a 7.3-mile long, four-lane truck route designed to relieve some of the congestion on U.S. 301 in Starke.

The approximately $90 million project will be constructed between County Road 227 and County Road 233 on the west side of Starke. The new roadway will consist of two travel lanes in each direction, and overpasses will be constructed over County Road 100A, the CSX Railroad, and County Road 229. Interchanges will be constructed along the new roadway to provide access to State Road 100 and State Road 16.

The new roadway will provide an alternate route for freight-carrying trucks, and will help alleviate some of the traffic congestion on U.S. 301 through downtown Starke.

In addition to relieving congestion on the busy U.S. 301 corridor, it is expected to provide additional capacity for future traffic growth. The new route is projected to carry more than 25,000 vehicles per day by 2020, and increase to more than 31,000 per day by 2040.

Construction on the new truck route should not affect travel in and around Starke.

JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:

I prefer women with boobies

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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:

She was a waitress at the time? That’s incredible. How did she get the support to be the party representative and how did she get the money to actually run a campaign?

Teach me your wisdom Jedi master

JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:

I prefer women with boobies

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The Puppy Bowl posted:

Were those his words or did he actually thank Dick "Mass Murderer" Cheney?

The Puppy Bowl posted:

Were those his words or did he actually thank Dick "Mass Murderer" Cheney?

The Glumslinger posted:

She didn't, she managed to primary the 3rd most powerful democrat in the House by just doing good local campaigning and no real money

GonadTheBallbarian posted:

So you know, she actually tried unlike other democrats

swickles posted:

He literally thanked Satan.

The Glumslinger posted:

She didn't, she managed to primary the 3rd most powerful democrat in the House by just doing good local campaigning and no real money