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- Voide, on 03/07/2008, -12/+188Anybody else think getting sucked into one of those drainage tubes would be one sweet ass ride?
- Joel32, on 03/07/2008, -18/+193I can't wait until we start slowing the earth down to make the days last longer.
- LEPT0N, on 03/07/2008, -1/+143"Who wants to drink from the FIRE HOSE?"
- leftcoastfunk, on 03/07/2008, -12/+128Anyone else find it odd that we first hear about this from a British news source?
- djepik, on 03/07/2008, -3/+94Erm, by releasing water into the grand canyon, we are restoring the place to how it was BEFORE human intervention. How do you think the canyon was made?
- Typhoon2009, on 03/07/2008, -0/+77If I was invincible then yes it would be badass
- hokie47, on 03/07/2008, -0/+70~
/god mode on - bxblox, on 03/07/2008, -1/+70turn the valve
- TyroPyro, on 03/07/2008, -0/+65In video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4NbX6Hb4CE - Shadic, on 03/07/2008, -3/+67You mean... One sweet ass-ride? ...Maybe?
http://xkcd.com/37/ - thesoprano, on 03/07/2008, -7/+56That's over 9000!
- ShootTheCore, on 03/07/2008, -0/+46On balance I am going to say no...
- Waskonator, on 03/07/2008, -3/+45300,000 gallons /second!
- inactive, on 03/07/2008, -0/+41I was gonna say get superman to do it, however, your answer is more realistic.
- Rickler, on 03/07/2008, -0/+38The moon already has that job.
- Supernova36, on 03/07/2008, -5/+42"My God! Thats like nine eleven times 329.30845225027442371020856201976!"
- h4ppydotcom, on 03/07/2008, -2/+39No, the real winner is when we speed up the rotation on weekdays and slow down the weekends.
Then again, Evil Corporations will probably fund the project so it's going to be vice-versa... - dunbone, on 03/07/2008, -2/+38Momentum, a function of mass and velocity. In layman's terms - speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out
- macaddct1984, on 03/07/2008, -4/+37We all know the Grand Canyon was formed in a matter of seconds during the biblical floods, when water had to travel faster than the speed of sound.
- legendxx, on 03/07/2008, -0/+31I can't believe the camera man missed the beginning of it.. he just panned over and the water was already gushing out
- Myztry, on 03/07/2008, -2/+33I hope they have a hydro electric setup in there. That's some power flying out those tubes.
- yojiffyskippy, on 03/07/2008, -1/+31DOH! I wish someone would have thought of that BEFORE the valve was opened!
- yojiffyskippy, on 03/07/2008, -0/+28Actually it bypasses the hydroelectric turbines so it's wasted potential energy. There was much debate about if they should waste the energy to attempt the ecological 'experiment'.
- schnikies79, on 03/07/2008, -3/+29Anyone else find it odd that you first heard about it on digg?
It's been all over the American press for the last few days. Every paper and every station. - inactive, on 03/07/2008, -2/+28damn.
- Pic0, on 03/07/2008, -0/+25NPR said yesterday they lost $3million in energy
- TnTBass, on 03/07/2008, -0/+24Right up until your horrible death it sure would.
- Wandel, on 03/07/2008, -3/+26They installed the turbines the wrong way around?
- Jaymoon, on 03/07/2008, -4/+25Better? You call 7 pictures with 8 sentences worth of descriptions better?
To the A.D.D. moron who can only understand a news story from pictures, maybe it is better. - Vagabond91, on 03/07/2008, -14/+34Anybody else think the pipe cap in picture 3 said USSR?
- Yetisquatch, on 03/07/2008, -0/+20Dugg for UHF reference. (im assuming)
- AKman24, on 03/07/2008, -0/+20no when we slingshot a satellite it changes the earths orbit around the sun, not how fast the earth spins. All the energy from all the nuclear bombs on the planet would not affect the earths rotation enough to make a day a second longer.
- coit, on 03/07/2008, -2/+22I love getting my US news from UK sources!
- Armstrong3, on 03/07/2008, -0/+18"mimic natural floods" - a.k.a. the river that used to flow through the canyon before it was damed up.
- diadem2, on 03/07/2008, -10/+26How the flying hell are they going to close that pipe after it's open?
- blackbeardtron, on 03/07/2008, -0/+16You found the marble in the oatmeal!!!
- giid, on 03/07/2008, -1/+17That's why when I go out jogging, I always run with the rotation of the earth to help speed it back up.
- Ludwig, on 03/07/2008, -0/+15Seriously. I've seen a guy pull a lever plenty of times. I've never seen all the water in the world shooting out of two giant tubes at the speed of light.
- NoCt1, on 03/07/2008, -0/+15Um I think djepik is talking about the dam blocking the flow of the water originally. Not intervening again. We intervened the first time. Now we are correcting an oversight. And djepik is not saying that humans created the canyon.
- Supernova36, on 03/07/2008, -8/+23Anyone else find those water jets frankly terrifying?
- Typhoon2009, on 03/07/2008, -1/+16Unless you speed up time, not really. Canyon got carved by water yes, but over hundreds, probably thousands of years. Erosion is slow.
- inactive, on 03/07/2008, -0/+15from irc:
McFly: suspects they are like air brakes, takes force to keep them open. If it fails, it closes - SRSco, on 03/07/2008, -2/+16I read/heard/saw about this on dozens of American news sources before this popped up on the front page of Digg.
- Arbinshire, on 03/07/2008, -0/+14*tsc tsc*
A singular flood didn't carve out the canyon - a river did, over the course of millions of years. - inactive, on 03/07/2008, -1/+15Rudy?
- chili555, on 03/07/2008, -1/+15I guess Arizona and Utah don't need electricity, then? Maybe we could replace it with 5 or 6 huge-ass oil-fired power plants. Or nukes...
- Winoria, on 03/07/2008, -6/+20If the rapids aren't washed out, I want pictures of those!
- earliodookie, on 03/07/2008, -1/+14yeah that would be one sweet ass-ride.
- scoot2006, on 03/07/2008, -0/+13"Not saying I'm not opposed"... So you are opposed?
Double negative = head asplosion. - Tripper44, on 03/07/2008, -2/+14gode mode on
inflatable rubber ring on
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