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The US-Mexican border is like 2000 miles long. From an engineering perspective, is building a wall along it even possible? If so, how many years would it take and how much would it cost?
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Aug 23, 2015 22:26
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Aug 23, 2015 22:26
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No because we would have to hire Mexicans to build it and they would put in a bunch of secret tunnels.
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Aug 23, 2015 22:29
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There's already a partial one and it doesn't do jack poo poo. There's also a very nice natural barrier in the form of a desert hellscape that people are still willing to cross. The wall thing is just a talking point to get people at rallies to holler like morons that has no chance of actually being implemented.
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Aug 23, 2015 22:30
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Lord of Pie posted:The Trump thing is just a talking point to get people at rallies to holler like morons that has no chance of actually being implemented.
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Aug 23, 2015 22:36
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uh the great wall of china is way bigger than 2000 miles and it was built like 3 million eyars ago. so ya, 2000 miles of wall built by the greatest nation on earth seems plausable. who would build it? probably a construction company. it would take 1 year and cost 45 million kronen.
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Aug 23, 2015 22:41
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They should just build a wall of factories. Racists get to keep immigrants out, capitalists still get cheap labor.
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Aug 23, 2015 22:54
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filthy ditch posted:uh the great wall of china is way bigger than 2000 miles and it was built like 3 million eyars ago. so ya, 2000 miles of wall built by the greatest nation on earth seems plausable. who would build it? probably a construction company. it would take 1 year and cost 45 million kronen. yeah back when they didn't have labor unions 
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Aug 23, 2015 23:43
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The cost is determined by how much human misery and death the US government would be willing to throw at the project. Which is to say, a lot, but not insurmountable. Also no.
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Aug 24, 2015 00:56
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I think a moat would be equally feasible.
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Aug 24, 2015 01:44
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Whiskey Sours posted:I think a moat would be equally feasible. Fatal Flaw: Humans like waterfront property
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Aug 24, 2015 02:25
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Whiskey Sours posted:I think a moat would be equally feasible. California would divert it to Tom Selleck's house
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Aug 24, 2015 02:41
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Mexicans with canteloupe-calves from all that drug-running would just find a way to scale the wall
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Aug 24, 2015 02:59
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Great Wall is obsolete with the invention of dynamite, anyway.
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Aug 24, 2015 03:36
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sullat posted:Great Wall is obsolete with the invention of dynamite, anyway. The best reference ever, I dont care how nerdy it makes me.
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Aug 24, 2015 04:02
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It is one of those things where you say "god drat IT why didnt I think of it first"
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Aug 24, 2015 04:13
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Vienna Circlejerk posted:They should just build a wall of factories. Racists get to keep immigrants out, capitalists still get cheap labor. Make this man President of the United States
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Aug 24, 2015 04:18
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A literal wall is impracticable. But you could have plane/blimp drones with solar panels giving pretty much total overwatch. You allow free travel and trade at specific crossings, while computers watching all the video feeds flag people/vehicles in the wilderness so the military can intercept them.
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Aug 24, 2015 14:25
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just cast this and you're set op
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Aug 24, 2015 18:31
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A literal huge wall would be fuckin sweet, like the walls in Pacific Rim, and the US could also build giant fusion-powered robots to patrol the border and annihilate anyone trying to cross with giant robot swords
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Aug 24, 2015 19:54
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It just isn't feasible. It's too expensive, and lol if Republicans raise taxes to get it done.
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Aug 24, 2015 19:58
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Wheeee posted:A literal huge wall would be fuckin sweet, like the walls in Pacific Rim, and the US could also build giant fusion-powered robots to patrol the border and annihilate anyone trying to cross with giant robot swords much like kaiju, mexicans are 100s of feet tall. when will congress act on this imminent threat?
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Aug 24, 2015 20:25
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Nonsense posted:It just isn't feasible. It's too expensive, and lol if Republicans raise taxes to get it done. You know they wont. They will just cut federal funding to everything but the military. It's such a dumb loving idea, and I can't believe people are falling for this.
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Aug 24, 2015 21:14
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A wall would be trivial to build and engineer. Think about the complexity and size of the highway system. Surely a fence is not more complicated and difficult to build than a 4 lane highway. Yes, its a retarded idea and among the dumbest things I've ever heard of, but it is easily within our ability to construct.
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Aug 24, 2015 21:32
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There is no physical or engineering reasons why you can't have a wall of nearly arbitrary length across land. It would financially cost billions of dollars. Really dumb waste of money. The idea is incredibly stupid and people would be able to circumvent it quickly almost regardless of how it was put together. Either up, through, or under. No wall is security on its own. Walls are just something to slow people down, not truly a solution to keep people out.
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Aug 24, 2015 22:19
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joke_explainer posted:There is no physical or engineering reasons why you can't have a wall of nearly arbitrary length across land. sure but what about a double wall maybe with a moat with sharks in between? also electrify both walls
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Aug 24, 2015 22:21
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Salt Fish posted:A wall would be trivial to build and engineer. Think about the complexity and size of the highway system. Surely a fence is not more complicated and difficult to build than a 4 lane highway. Yes, its a retarded idea and among the dumbest things I've ever heard of, but it is easily within our ability to construct. I would be so goddamn conflicted if this actually grew legs and resulted in the resurrection of the WPA.
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Aug 24, 2015 22:37
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Well duh, that's why your "wall" is just a moat filled with burning tires and machine gun nests every 50 meters on the US side. Dumb pinko commie libs, don't you know anything???
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Aug 24, 2015 22:41
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Just have sentry guns every couple of hundred meters like Israel has done for gaza
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Aug 24, 2015 22:48
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbiB8oFkR7s&t=21s (Really though the whole episode.)
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Aug 24, 2015 23:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3n5cUaG5fg Just get the best solar panels, electric motors, batteries, computers, and data connections and you can watch the border 24/7/365
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Aug 24, 2015 23:53
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I don't even think the majority even cross over the land anymore. It's all just hundreds of tunnels and poo poo. You can't block that with a wall, you can't watch it from the sky. Maybe dirt radars and pet tremors or something. Trump for Tremors 2016.
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Aug 25, 2015 00:29
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The "wall" would be penalties on employers that hire illegals. Bam! Done. They built the Great Wall of China, so I'm sure we could build the wall. Get a bunch of slave labor and we could do that poo poo in a few years.
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Aug 25, 2015 00:33
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Thump! posted:Well duh, that's why your "wall" is just a moat filled with burning tires and machine gun nests every 50 meters on the US side. Left out the self-healing minefield, 8/10.
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Aug 25, 2015 00:39
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joke_explainer posted:There is no physical or engineering reasons why you can't have a wall of nearly arbitrary length across land. I guess my OP should have been more specific. I meant it is possible to build a 2000 mile long wall that actually works.
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Aug 25, 2015 01:42
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Pohl posted:The "wall" would be penalties on employers that hire illegals. great minds think alike 
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Aug 25, 2015 01:43
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Boosted_C5 posted:Make this man President of the United States As much as I'd love to take credit for some kind of evil ingenuity, wasn't that pretty much what NAFTA was supposed to be?
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Aug 25, 2015 02:42
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American politicians, especially local pols are grifters, and grafters along with the construction firms that are at the top of the donor list for many of the national level scum fucks. gently caress giving them another give away. Imagine the corruption a Trump presidency would entail, it would be hilarious.
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Aug 25, 2015 03:47
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NotWearingPants posted:great minds think alike Wait gently caress is that real? Because holy poo poo I guess she would be the one to not realize that Mexicans didn't loving exist 5000 years ago.
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Aug 25, 2015 03:52
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Thump! posted:Wait gently caress is that real? Or that Mexico and China are far apart.
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Aug 25, 2015 04:07
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