Timeline for Is a proposal to build an artificial mountain being seriously considered?
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| Mar 1, 2018 at 17:55 | vote | accept | Oddthinking♦ | ||
| Jan 16, 2017 at 12:21 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiggin_Holes_2010_Winter_Olympic_bid | |
| Jan 15, 2017 at 19:28 | answer | added | SQB | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 10, 2015 at 2:01 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ |
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| May 7, 2014 at 2:25 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | The xkcd What If blog suggests that The Berg isn't so much a plan for a future mountain, as some weird joke about the existence of a mountain. | |
| Oct 14, 2012 at 23:45 | vote | accept | Oddthinking♦ | ||
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| Aug 25, 2011 at 7:02 | comment | added | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | ... Just saying, we Dutch have something of a history of terraforming engineering that people from larger countries might regard as crazy. Don't discount this one just because it sounds ludicrous on the face of it. | |
| Aug 25, 2011 at 7:01 | comment | added | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | Bear in mind that our ancestors back in the 17th century emptied [out a lake only slightly larger than modern-day Boston] (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haarlemmermeer) using windmills because they figured it'd make a nice place for an airport in a couple hundred years. More recently, we built up plans for [several hundred miles of storm surge barriers] (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltawerken) after a flood 60 years ago, then modified them more or less on the fly in order to preserve the fresh/saltwater ecology of the area... | |
| Aug 24, 2011 at 14:44 | comment | added | oosterwal | I have heard of proposals to turn landfills into ski areas once the "mountain" of garbage is too big to add to any more. I doubt anyone would want to ski with all the stink, though. | |
| Aug 24, 2011 at 1:17 | comment | added | Moab | Sounds like a great place to store spent fuel rods. | |
| Aug 23, 2011 at 15:55 | comment | added | Chad | Dont worry i am sure that the US with guarentee the funding of it... | |
| Aug 23, 2011 at 12:40 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSkeptic/status/105982755275415552 | ||
| Aug 23, 2011 at 12:32 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | @jwenting, here in Australia, it is wintertime, and the newspapers print ludicrous stuff all year around. :-) | |
| Aug 23, 2011 at 6:17 | comment | added | jwenting | As to "seriously considered", remember it's summertime when newspapers will print the most ludicrous stuff to fill their pages. | |
| Aug 23, 2011 at 6:16 | comment | added | jwenting | Such a structure would take up far too much valuable ground in what's already a small, overcrowded country. Not only would a large number of people loose their homes, it would also cover most of our natural preserves which are protected against any and all construction by national, EU, and in some cases UN treaties and laws. And it'd harm agriculture, a very influential lobby. | |
| Aug 23, 2011 at 1:42 | comment | added | user unknown | There are many artificial `mountains', built from ruins of WW II, the highest being the Teufelsberg from 55m above NN to 115m, which is a difference of 60m. The volume is about 12 Mio. m³. You have to multiply 60 with 33 to reach 2000m (the Netherlands is about 0m above NN) and you have to take 33 to the 3rd power, to get the factor for the material which is needed then. 33³ is about 36 000, and 12 * 10e6 * 36k = 432*10e9. I guess you can't imagine such numbers well - but 36 000 times the Teufelsberg might be a better measurement. | |
| Aug 23, 2011 at 1:24 | comment | added | user unknown | :) If you click row:2,col:1 (counting from 1, not 0) on 'Plans', I'm living in the upper left corner. I can tell you when the Berg will be build. | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 19:05 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | It appears to be a very faithful translation. :-D | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 18:59 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | Interesting. Is the manifesto as much gibberish in the original German as it is in English? "Logistics didn't work out." You shock me! :-) It may have been only a tiny fraction of the size, but at least, "Mount Thebarton" was built before it went broke. | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 18:49 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | Eh, not impressed. The Berg was there first. Logistics didn’t work out. | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 17:27 | history | asked | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |