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Trump releases design for new border barrier

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  1. MissingMayor

    MissingMayor Well-Known Member

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    MissingMayor, Dec 21, 2018
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    Let's not get ahead of ourselves, shall we?
     
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    PeppermintTwist, Dec 21, 2018
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    Love it. Looks great. Go Trump!
     
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    Wouldn't be a great look for 99% of this country.
     
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    Looks similar to the walls in El Paso and New Mexico. But I would round off the top so ropes cant be attached to it.
     
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    I would ask for specs on height, width, how sharp on top, sharp edges...

    But I am not sure this is past the clip art stage. It is absurd that this was even shown as an example. An engineer can come up with a better design in a few hours, and we have thousands on staff.
     
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    Trump doesn’t care about 99% of this country.
     
    AtsamattaU, Dec 21, 2018
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    So I did some math here, which I’m bad at so there could be mistakes. First we’ll make a couple assumptions: a) this drawing is to scale & b) the vehicle pictured is a late model Ford Escape. (Note: larger models seem unlikely, I’ll explain.)

    A 2019 Ford Escape is 178” long. The pictures vehicle bumper to bumper covers 10 whole beams and approximately 2/5 of the empty space to the right of the furthest right beam. 178” divided by 10 and 2/5 beams (including empty spaces) makes 17.11” from the start of one beam to the start of the next going left to right. The close up of the top shows the gaps to be slightly larger than the beams. My estimate is that the beams are 7.2 inches across leaving the gaps to be about 9.9 inches.

    Given my, possibly suspect, math... and a measurement I just took of my dog, Border Collies will have no problems getting across the border.
     
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    Anyone have any idea what they are joined to, holding them upright??
     
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    Just dug in like a post I think.
     
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    The cartels have a thing for hanging bodies off of freeway overpasses
     
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    I live in California and would love to discuss how Dems care about their people.
     
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    Of course, why wouldn’t we?
     
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    That’s definitely who we should emulate
     
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    I would be down for some nation building.

    How long are we going to allow globalist gangsters to control South America?
     
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    Partisan politics are for the ignorant, but I notice Jerry Brown achieved a surplus for California while Trump continues to increase deficit spending.
     
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    Indeed. I thing we should build a moat right at the wall and fill it with gators, least some Illegal Alien get an idea to scale the wall and impale himself on it.
     
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    Yep, it's pretty medieval. I wonder if he's going to plan a moat next?


    Ah, great minds do think alike. But gators? Try fricken sharks with fricken laser beams on their heads.
     
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    **** happens.
     
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    I can't help but notice that we have transitioned from, "Wall" to "fence," to "border," to "steel barrier," to "border barrier." I kind of like that last one. Waddya' think? Got any new ideas?
     
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    Would you guess it is about 30 feet tall?

    Probably needs to go at least 15 feet into the ground and be somewhat squared or rounded. Likely need some sort of support at the ground and underground to keep from falling over.

    Trying to guess for the cost of such a fence that couldn't stop any drugs I am aware of.

    Although you and I have probably put more thought into this than anyone who used MS Paint to draw it. :roflol:
     
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    Jerry Brown achieved the kind of surplus we had in 2000's. That is, it's a balance between massive debt and/or prosperity if Californians choose. But the democratic California stronghold will not make the proper financial decisions. We can expect them back in massive debt relatively soon.
     
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