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  • Hubris on the Yangtze 0

    Posted 6 years ago
    • 555 -- height, in feet, of the Washington Monument, the tallest structure in Washington, D.C.
    • 575 -- height, in feet, of the new Three Gorges Dam in China (which is also wider than 100 Washington Monuments standing edge to edge)
    • 4.3 million -- cubic meters of concrete needed to build the Panama Canal
    • 26.4 million -- cubic meters of concrete needed to build the Three Gorges Dam
    • 80 -- number of cracks, up to 8 feet in depth, that have appeared in the Three Gorges Dam since its construction 1
    • 53 -- number of engineers and other… Read More

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