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Originally Posted by SJCX
Engineering Expert Takes Down Trump's Wall Piece By Piece
https://www.georgetakei.com/engineer...33ab68d22425b2
Am I a wall expert? I am. I am literally a court-accepted expert on walls.
Structurally and civil engineering-wise, the border wall is not a feasible project. Trump did not hire engineers to design the thing. He solicited bids from contractors, not engineers. This means it’s not been designed by professionals. It’s a disaster of numerous types waiting to happen.
It does not account for rework, complexities beyond the prototype design, factors to prevent flood and environmental hazard creation, engineering redesign... It’s going to be higher than $50bn. The contractors will hit the government with near CONSTANT change orders. “Cost overrun” will be the name of the game. It will not be completed in Trump’s lifetime.
I’m a structural forensicist, which means I’m called in when things go wrong. This is a project that WILL go wrong
"The wall, therefore if we judge it by the standards of previous walls, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that the hierarchical society needs. Wall, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of wall, did build against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not building against one another at all. The wall is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the wall is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word "wall," therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous wall has ceased to exist." - GO, sorta