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    Road destroyed by landslide - GIF

    Road destroyed by landslide at the Thetford Mines in Quebec, Canada.




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    Bingham Canyon mine landslide - GIF
    Car driver and passenger survive landslide - GIF
    Mudslide sweeps through town - GIF
    Landslide caught on camera - GIF
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    I do believe I would not have wanted to be anywhere near that section of roadway when it began to slip

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    When I first viewed the clip it seemed like I was actually driving on the road and I half expected to crash off the first ravine.

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    Near here is a place called Boom Town. A Hotel Casino that has a Motion Theater. You are strapped into a seat and as you watch the movie the hydraulically controlled seat moves with what's on the screen. It feels real...

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    China has a different approach to mountainous roads. The roads are built on massive pillars like skyscrapers shooting up from the bottom of the mountains. The roads are clear of the mountains and subsequently clear of any potential mountainslides/ landslides.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mansworld View Post
    China has a different approach to mountainous roads. The roads are built on massive pillars like skyscrapers shooting up from the bottom of the mountains. The roads are clear of the mountains and subsequently clear of any potential mountainslides/ landslides.
    That is until a million tons of rock and mud slides into 1 of the pillars
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    No one said that the Chinese design is a landslide-proof. But it significantly improve the safety of mountainous highway users.
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    That is until a million tons of rock and mud slides into 1 of the pillars

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    Quote Originally Posted by mansworld View Post
    No one said that the Chinese design is a landslide-proof. But it significantly improve the safety of mountainous highway users.
    It could also be said that using mountains to fill in valleys creating flat plains or gentle rolling hills do the same thing, but that is already happening at an alarming rate all over the world
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    Swell, China raises roadways on pillars, while 400 million are at risk in failure of just one problematic dam, 'Three Gorges'. They have tens of thousands smaller dams suspect as well.
    A hot mess of honked up priorities, all around.
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    When your enemy achieves something good, give him credit for that. Don't discredit your enemy all the way because of his failure elsewhere. The crumbling infrastructure in North America doesn't mean that the United States has failed everywhere. Though, ironically, the flood barriers/ levees in New Orleans and surrounding areas failed during the destructive Katrina Hurricane in 2005. Is going back to the Moon a priority over fixing the decade infrastructures?

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