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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