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Each prototype will be 30 feet long and built in San Diego, according to the requests for proposals.Beyond that, bidding contractors have much latitude in what kind of wall they propose.Under the new timeline established in the documents, interested bidders will have two weeks to create and submit a design concept of what the border-wall prototype will look like, with two design options for companies.One will be exclusively for "reinforced solid concrete" prototypes, while the second for "other" materials is more vague and does not specify the type of materials that can be used in the design.Other requirements include:• A "physically imposing" height [ I love this presidency] of no less than 18 feet but preferably 30 feet tall.• Anti-climbing mechanisms, either by ladder or other tools like hooks that humans may be able to get across.• Prevent tunneling 6 feet below ground.• For breaches to the wall (using building or cutting tools, or torches) to take at least one hour in concrete designs, and 30 minutes in the "other" designs.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, K-State fans could have beheaded the entire KU team at midcourt, and K-State fans would be celebrating it this morning. They are the ISIS of Big 12 fanbases.
KU is right on par with Notre Dame ... when it comes to adding additional conference revenue
Beer pro tip: never drink anything other than BL, coors, pbr, maybe a few others that I'm forgetting
Probably should be accepting RFPs to build roads to actually deliver the wall materials to the construction sites. That would have to be done first.
Oh man, 6' down. That's really going to stop those tunnels! http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-mexican-drug-cartel-narco-tunnels-on-the-us-border-2016-4/#the-sinaloa-cartel-later-had-another-tunnel-mastermind-jose-sanchez-villalobos-14also
However, walls are a different story. When built tall enough and strong enough (although never 100% efficient) they are very discouraging. Nothing can prevent illegal immigration with a 100% effectiveness, but having to build a tunnel makes it much more cumbersome, expensive and riskier to cross the border. The funneling effect of the flow also makes it easier to intercep. Drug lord Joaquin Guzman did escape from prison using an underground tunnel that was dug under his prison but several things are to be noted here. Many experts believe that the police and prison employees were aware that a tunnel was being dug given the fact that all the soil removed and traffic it generated should normally have caught someone's eye. This tunnel was only 1 mile long and costed millions of dollars. More importantly it took a year to dig.Typically what happens is that US border patrols don't destroy cross-border tunnels as soon as they spot them. They wait until completion and just before the tunnel becomes effective it is destroyed. This is much more time consuming and expensive and demoralizing for the diggers. Huge amounts of drugs can be seized at once when the drugs arrive for the first time as well. A new cross-border tunnel then needs to be built costing millions of dollars again and years to build.
Quote from: Rage Against the McKee on March 19, 2017, 05:17:48 PMProbably should be accepting RFPs to build roads to actually deliver the wall materials to the construction sites. That would have to be done first.I'm sure the cost of a road is easily calculated.
Oh man, 6' down. That's really going to stop those tunnels! http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-mexican-drug-cartel-narco-tunnels-on-the-us-border-2016-4/#the-sinaloa-cartel-later-had-another-tunnel-mastermind-jose-sanchez-villalobos-14
What's bedrock in the mojave
Quote from: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on March 19, 2017, 09:31:45 PMWhat's bedrock in the mojavethe mojave is 200 miles north.
So many white people irrationally scared of brown people itt