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China makes everything, so the wall
would
contain a vast array of products, ranging
from entire segments of ships to tiny
fake
chrome plastic components.
The construction would be carried out
using
the traditional methods of dry stone wall
masons, who carefully assess each stone
before
setting it in place. This ensures
stability but also serves to create a type
of
natural harmony.
I envisage a long, perfectly formed
oblong,
tapering towards the top with the more
massively engineered parts being
interspersed with the DVD players,
shoes,
furniture, toys, tools and all the other
general detritus of modern life.
In time the wall would become bound
together by opportunistic vegetation and
inhabited by birds and other animals.
see links to: Dry Stone walls
Music
of
Chance (film based on a Paul Auster
story)
Temple of Angkor Wat and of
course the Great
Wall
of China
Dry Stone wall
http://cache.viewim...C33A55A1E4F32AD3138
construction method [xenzag, Dec 28 2007]
Music of Chance
http://en.wikipedia...The_Music_of_Chance
wall of debt [xenzag, Dec 28 2007]
Angkor Wat
http://www.images-p...red-betty-black.jpg
taken over by vegetation [xenzag, Dec 28 2007]
Great Wall of China
http://dl.nlb.gov.s...ll%20of%20China.gif
[xenzag, Dec 28 2007]
Katamari Damacy
http://en.wikipedia...iki/Katamari_Damacy
what globaltourniquet said [jaksplat, Dec 30 2007]
Short name, e.g., Bob's Coffee
Destination URL.
E.g., http://www.coffee.com/
Description (displayed with the short name and URL.)
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I think it's called a trade barrier. |
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"All in all, you're just another brick in the wall ......." |
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I think there should be a wall made entirely from sparkling China.
That'd be great. |
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HA! Love it! ("Great Wall of Crap" indeedy.)
I see miles of those glittery fans embedded in the sturdy barrier. (Toss in some fortune cookies for good luck, and I think it's a go!) |
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Just watch out for the lead paint. |
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Let's see, there are 1,400,000,000 Chinese, each producing a standard 200g (the human average is 150-250g) stool approximately 1.5 times per day (average human frequency) which is 420,000 cubic metres of shit per day. |
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By one estimate, The Great Wall is 6,352,000 metres long, 7.6 metres high on average and 5.8 metres wide, on average. That gives us a total volume of 282,112,000 cubic metres. |
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By another estimate, it is 6,700,000 metres x 10 metres x 5 metres, for a volume of 335,000,000 cu. m |
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Therefore, not allowing for dessication, dung beetles, theft or any growth in China's population, it would take somewhere bewteen 667 days and 798 days to build the Great Wall Of Crap, to the same dimensions as the existing wall. |
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Assuming the lesser of the two, that is 1 year and 10 months, as opposed to the original wall's construction period, from about 278 BC to around 1630 AD, the construction time is approximately 0.0958% of that for the real wall. |
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That's a whole lotta shit, by the way. |
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Why does this idea remind me of Katamari Damacy? |
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That WAL already exists...mostly scattered in disparate segments across the United States, and populated by newly unemployed small town merchants. In fact, after some rough calculations, it appears that the Sino-American WAL at 29 square miles in total surface area already easily tops the Great Wall's 13 or so. |
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If we're going to isolate nations with giant walls of trash, there have to be better candidates than China. We could completely barricade most of iraq with the trash that Wal-Mart produces in a week |
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Absolutely. Haiti. Walls of voodoo. |
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The way I see it, Polititions could build the great wall of crap in a day according to your calculations [UnaBubba]. (Just Imagine what they could do with seven) |
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(edit) I unflagged the dry stone wall link
image, because it opens ok for me. As
for references to Wal-Mart... they don't
"produce" anything that I know of. I'm
sure 99% of their stock is made in
China. That was one of my alternative
titles for this idea: i.e. The Great Wal-
Mart of China. The Chinese don't just
make rubbish - they make EVERYTHING.
Own an iPod? guess where it's made?
Timberland boots? New Lap-top? The
list is endless. |
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Therefore, not allowing for dessication, dung beetles, // theft // or any growth in China's population, it would take somewhere bewteen 667 days and 798 days to build the Great Wall Of Crap, to the same dimensions as the existing wall. |
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... Theft? I'm not so sure you would have too much of a theft problem there.
I'm not talented enough to find the exact ratio of scat-lovers vs nons without polluting my computer, otherwise I would try and help your theory out a little further. |
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People are always trying to steal the good shit, [Bluewraith], aren't they? |
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Seriously, if you cornered the market in shit in China there would be a quasi-governmental gang spring up within weeks, looking to steal and sell it to farmers. |
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saxman, - Camouflage (things are never quite the way they seem). |
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Well, after it's built, it's going to be fairly ugly, but you can always get Microsoft to come along and make it look and smell nice - they're experts on sticking gold leaf on turds .... |
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