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    The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah

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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    11/10/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah
    When I was at the dam a few years back, they were just starting to put up the concrete supports on the sides of the mountain. That thing looks AWESOME, and would warrant me to go to Nevada/Arizona just to drive over it.

    Oh, and never try and walk over the Hoover dam and expect the time to change after Daylight Savings Time. You'll just look like an ass.
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    Image of Identity (Metric) Identity (Metric)
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah
    dam bridge #hoverdambypass
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah
    Beautiful photos. I'm always intrigued by buildings that look better being built than they do finished. The double arch design is impressive, but I find it much more beautiful with the temporary cable stays in place.

    #3 must have been a tense moment. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah
    I'm afraid of heights, this would not be good for me. Just standing on the Dam itself I feel like it's trying to suck me in. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of hbuzzell hbuzzell
    11/09/09

    @Shamoononon: I am with you; afraid of bridges so this is just another one to look at from a distance but close my eyes while someone else is driving me across it (if I am even willing to get into the car). #hoverdambypass
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah
    But how will it keep people from entering Arizona now?! #hoverdambypass
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/09/09

    @Pessimippopotamus: People are trying to get into Arizona?

    I jest. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of Possums Possums
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah
    I love the comments damning (lolz) Hoover Dam for its environmental impact. As an engineer, and one who happens to work on a Lake Mead project in Vegas, it amazes me how clueless people are regarding how vital civil infrastructure is. Do you live in Southern California? Do you like drinking water? Then be thankful for Hoover Dam. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    11/09/09

    @Possums: I think that's the problem. Outside of SoCal, we all wish they didn't have water. Why fuck up 1000s of miles of wilderness so a bunch of assholes can build sprawling cities in the desert?

    How about living in a mildly sustainable place instead? #hoverdambypass
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    11/09/09

    @drewdrawshashtags: It's really a delicate balance though if you think about. First off, yes they are stealing resources from elsewhere, and have pretty much ecologically destroyed the surrounding area. However, you have to weight that against the fact that we really really don't want those hippies, liberals, artsy-fartsy, Hollywood type folks to move away from SoCal, as we like them out there, away from us. A maddening conundrum to be certain.

    I think I have a solution though. Just destroy the dam. Now that there all out there we can just cut off water and power and leave them to fend for themselves. Hopefully the desert will keep too many of them from escaping to the rest of the country. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    11/09/09

    @NorwoodIsMyHero: I'm pretty sure we're on the same page there ;-)

    What's a reverse flood called? #hoverdambypass
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    Image of Possums Possums
    11/09/09

    @drewdrawshashtags:

    The decade long drought we're in right now is practically a reverse flood. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    11/09/09

    @Possums: Yeah, I suppose "catastrophic drought" would be the words I was looking for. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of PinballFan PinballFan
    11/10/09

    @drewdrawshashtags: Yeah, instead of Hoover Dam, we could've gone with the Sierra Club's original idea for the Grand Canyon. Smaller dams along the floor and elevators to take people to the bottom to fish. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    11/10/09

    @PinballFan: That sounds great! All that walking is so tiring.

    Look, I'm no treehugger, I swear, and 100 years ago nobody understood the long-term consequences, but we do now. The uninterrupted sprawl of desert cities will be "our" Hoover Dam that future generations will be forced to deal with. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of phool phool
    11/10/09

    @drewdrawshashtags: But, but look! Pretty pictures! #hoverdambypass
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    Image of bigbaddaddy bigbaddaddy
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah
    One point made by the tour guide. Hoover Dam is a major government project that actually paid for itself. It cost only $50M to build. The overrun in building the bypass far exceeded the cost of building the dam. #hoverdambypass
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    met2art promoted this comment bigbaddaddy was starred bigbaddaddy was unstarred
    Image of met2art met2art
    11/09/09

    @bigbaddaddy: Adjusted for inflation, the original dam cost close to 800 million dollars. Also, consider that at the time there was a major economic depression, workers were often mistreated and subjected to long hours, extremely dangerous and deadly situations. A worker's strike was quelled with armed response from the construction company not local or government law enforcement.

    Of further consideration, at the time ecological and environmental impact were of no major concern and thus did not effect the cost of studies, design and construction of the dam. The five year time frame for the new bridge is comensurate with modern advancements in taking time to assess long-term environmental impact and to ensure safety for all of the workers involved. There has been one death (that I am aware of) during the construction of this bypass, compared to the 112 confirmed deaths during the dam construction. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of aerospaceman aerospaceman
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah
    that's a pretty steep grade on that arch. Only good ole' powerful American muscle cars can cross the dam from now on! #hoverdambypass
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    Image of psychiccheese psychiccheese
    11/09/09

    @aerospaceman: That's what I thought at first too. Then I realized it was just the supporting arch, and the road isn't there yet. #hoverdambypass
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    BeyondtheTech promoted this comment psychiccheese was starred psychiccheese was unstarred
    Image of BeyondtheTech BeyondtheTech
    11/09/09

    @psychiccheese: I thought I was looking at a completed bridge, too. I looked at it and said, that's one hell of a downward ramp, everyone will be lifting their arms and screaming like they're going down a rollercoaster! #hoverdambypass
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    Image of Stitchopoulis Stitchopoulis
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah
    I totally remember this level in Pontifex. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of flicman flicman
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah

    I have some pictures of it as well, taken in August. Being there is really spectacular, and driving across the Hoover Dam is like stepping back into the 1950s, both in a good and a bad way. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of Recoil Recoil
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah
    $240 million? And this saves people what, like 2-3 minutes of driving? It's beautiful, I'll be the first to admit that, but this is just a ridiculous example of runaway funding. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/09/09

    @Recoil: It's a bypass. You gotta build bypasses! /British accent #hoverdambypass
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    Image of htsu htsu
    11/09/09

    @Recoil: It's mainly for security purposes...this bridge exploding from a car bomb would cause less problems than the dam exploding from a car bomb. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of OMG! Twitter!! OMG! Twitter!!
    11/09/09

    @Recoil: More like saves people 1-2 hours.
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    11/09/09

    @htsu: I dunno about "mainly." But my father lived in Kingman, AZ and travelled to Vegas frequently. We saw the bridge when it was just a couple pillars on each side of the canyon.

    He had read that limiting traffic on the Dam was a motivating factor when they first green-lighted it. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of Animal_Chin Animal_Chin
    11/09/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: A bypass, what is it?

    Bypasses are devices which allow some people to drive from point A to point B very fast whilst other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people of point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people of point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

    ...but that's not important right now. #hoverdambypass
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    Kaiser-Machead promoted this comment Animal_Chin was starred Animal_Chin was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/09/09

    @Animal_Chin: Do you realize how much damage Gizmodo would suffer, if I just ignored this argument and moved on?

    ................

    none at all. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of krystar krystar
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah
    lulz. hover dam. first #hoverdambypass
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/09/09

    @krystar: If you want to make calls of first, please head off to digg or icanhascheezburger. Calls of first usually result in the banhammer, and you won't like it when Jesus busts out his banhammer. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of stan-the-man stan-the-man
    11/09/09

    @Nathan Obbards: The iron bar is so much more entertaining though... #hoverdambypass
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/09/09

    @stan-the-man: It is, though it always makes me want to go play some Half-Life and bash some head crabs. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    11/09/09

    @krystar: First off, you're laughing at your own joke. One that is not at all funny in the first place. Don't do that. Red Skelton laughed at his own jokes. He also painted clown paintings. Clowns are creepy. They show up drunk to your fifth birthday party, and throw up in the living room. In conclusion, stop being racist, thank you. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of -daddy- -daddy-
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah
    The Hover Dam? Jay-Z getting into power generation now?
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    met2art promoted this comment Edited by -daddy- at 11/09/09 12:38 PM -daddy- was starred -daddy- was unstarred
    Image of stryder100 stryder100
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah
    Better fix that spelling quick before the interweb gets bogged down by posters correcting you - it's Hoover - unless I'm missing a pun or something. #hoverdambypass
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    ceilingFANBOY promoted this comment stryder100 was starred stryder100 was unstarred
    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    11/09/09

    @stryder100: Well, you do need a hovercar to get across that bridge in its current state. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah
    Cue the greenie commenters in 3....2....1.... #hoverdambypass
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    ceilingFANBOY promoted this comment NorwoodIsMyHero was starred NorwoodIsMyHero was unstarred
    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    11/09/09

    @NorwoodIsMyHero: I don't know, that waterway and canyon is already FUBAR. Not that I have done any research on the environmental impact of this bridge, but it can't be any worse than the dam that's just a few feet away. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/09/09

    @NorwoodIsMyHero: I'm tired of you insensitive clods that have no respect for the endangered spotted owl, whose dwindling population happens to be right where that bridge is going. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    11/09/09

    @ceilingFANBOY: Which is what I was referring to. Most of the times with any free form discussion regarding the Hoover Dam, the flames are loud, long and hard. I guess Giz commenters are a bunch of soulless technocrats who don't care about the environment. #hoverdambypass
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    11/10/09

    @NorwoodIsMyHero: It could also just be that this is the wrong forum for such an argument. Had this been on treehugger, the comments, even from the same people, would be quite a bit different. That, and I don't think that anyone is going to tear down the Hoover Dam any time soon. #hoverdambypass
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