31-07-2005 21:20									#1
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I suggest replacing the Hoover Dam with the Three Gorges Dam.

It's a radical change, I know, but a fair one, in my view. It would be nice to have a modern Asian wonder. And it's not as if America is lacking in them.

	31-07-2005 21:35									#2
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quote: Originally posted by Sandman It's a radical change, I know

Too radical, man. It'll never happen.

	31-07-2005 21:37									#3
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Firstly, this dam isn't even completed is it?

Second, a big and radical change, and on the top of that a rather un-pc move I'd imagine, with the current Chinese politics(human rights and all that) and economic rising making tensions with the US and to a degree the West as a whole.

I doubt it will happen.

	31-07-2005 21:44									#4
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... Why not?

	31-07-2005 22:20									#5
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Re-read my post. You're free to disagree of course.

	31-07-2005 22:37									#6
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Well if not the three gorges, change it to the Snowy River Dam system. It's more of an engineering feat than the Hoover.

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	31-07-2005 22:48									#7
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A little imaginative thinking here folks. The first civ that finishes a major dam on the scale of the Hoover Dam gets the bonuses of the wonder. Who cares what it is really called.

Since in real life it was the Hoover Dam, that's what it's called in the game. Simple.

	31-07-2005 22:57									#8
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In fact I think that the dutch Delta Project is more of a world wonder.

	01-08-2005 01:32									#9
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insanity!

	01-08-2005 02:08									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Sandman I suggest replacing the Hoover Dam with the Three Gorges Dam. It's a radical change, I know, but a fair one, in my view. It would be nice to have a modern Asian wonder. And it's not as if America is lacking in them.

Wouldn't you have to move it in the tech tree for that?

	01-08-2005 04:38									#11
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Itaipu!!!

quote: The Itaipú hydroelectric power plant is the largest development of its kind in operation in the world. Built from 1975 to 1991, in a binational development on the Paraná River, Itaipú represents the efforts and accomplishments of two neighboring countries, Brazil and Paraguay. The power plant's 18 generating units add up to a total production capacity of 12,600 MW (megawatts) and a reliable output of 75 million MWh a year. Itaipú's energy production has broken several records over the recent years, after the last generating unit was commissioned in 1991. The generation of 77.212.396 MWh a year in 1995 will again be surpassed in 1996, and the new record will be around the 80 million MWh a year mark. The magnitude of the project can also be demonstrated by the fact that in 1995 Itaipú alone responded for 25% of the energy supply in Brazil and 78% in Paraguay. The power plant is also a major tourism attraction in the Foz do Iguaçú area, having received around 9 million visitors from 162 countries. The Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu, also home of the famous Iguaçú Falls, is located at the Western tip of Paraná State, right by the border with Paraguay and Argentina.

http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/Modern/itaipu.html

	01-08-2005 04:56									#12
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Hoovers looks cooler.

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quote: Originally posted by CyberShy In fact I think that the dutch Delta Project is more of a world wonder.

to the Dutch maybe

	01-08-2005 06:47									#14
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I think what makes the Hoover Dam a wonder is not that it is now the biggest or the best (it's neither), but the fact that it was one of the first (but not the first)really large scale hydroelectric dams. Moreover, it was a huge public works project and transformed an entire region through cheap electricity, reliable water supply, and flood control. At the time it was built, it was unprecedented. That's why it's a wonder. All these other dams may be bigger or better, but they aren't the groundbreakers that Hoover Dam was.

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quote: Originally posted by Shogun Gunner to the Dutch maybe

not likely.

The Delta Works is considered one of the 7 modern wonders of the world.

And just for everyone elses information, the Hoover Dam is not listed as one of the 7 modern wonders. While it was a first and it is massive, it wasn't exactly the hardest thing to do, thanks to its chosen location.

Itaipu Dam, Channel Tunnel and the Panama Canal are are also on the list.

	01-08-2005 15:42									#16
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same goes for the new Budha statue being built in India ?

we can always mod it later

	01-08-2005 16:31									#17
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The construction of the Hoover Dam did feature in the television series: Seven Wonders of the Industrial World


http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/societ...onders_01.shtml

quote: At the height of the depression of the 1930s, poverty-stricken workers on the dam, earning just a few dollars a day, died from horrific explosions, carbon monoxide poisoning and heat exhaustion as it slowly came to fruition. The chief engineer, Frank Crowe, did nevertheless get it built ahead of schedule and under budget - notching up one more extraordinary piece of evidence for the ingenuity and tenacity of man.

	02-08-2005 02:29									#18
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Itaipu > Hoover, for looks anyway.

	02-08-2005 02:32									#19
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No, this is way cooler looking:

	02-08-2005 02:35									#20
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It's a slab of concrete.

	02-08-2005 02:59									#21
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It's a cool-looking slab of concrete.

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quote: Originally posted by Platypus Rex same goes for the new Budha statue being built in India ? we can always mod it later

Can that thing actually be built?

That is going to be the scariest statue of them all

Isn't it some fat guy? They want to make a skyscraper sized fat guy?

	02-08-2005 06:19									#23
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Har, har, har. Don't make fun of someone else's religion.

	02-08-2005 06:39									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Nikolai .......... You're free to disagree of course.

Thank you!

	02-08-2005 06:57									#25
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Hoover Dam is more impressive if you drive across it

you just have to wait in traffic

inside the building is a topographical map of the whole water shed system...now the water shed sysytem is more of a wonder

	02-08-2005 07:36									#26
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"Replace the Hoover Dam with the Three Gorges Dam"

The transportation costs would be enormous and it might not fit.

	02-08-2005 07:40									#27
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It's amazing that no one thought about that pun before Lancer did.

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dams

	02-08-2005 08:02									#29
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quote: Originally posted by Lord Nuclear Har, har, har. Don't make fun of someone else's religion.

Jews what a riot

	02-08-2005 08:35									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker Jews what a riot

I have an idea. Why don't you start some kind of pro-toilet campaign?