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Old 09-03-2005, 11:00 AM   #16 (permalink)
vautrain
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Originally Posted by Fremen
Is it possible to build up NO?
To maybe....truck in a shitload of dirt and put a new New Orleans on a higher foundation, and get it out of that bowl?
That's what they did with Galveston. It took ten years (1901 to 1911) and millions of dollars. And, Galveston is a much simpler place than New Orleans, geographically speaking.

It would take an earth-moving effort on a scale never before seen, I think.
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