There are some winners of the world that are so amazing that they changed the world and I remembered forever. For example, the Great Wall of China or the Panama canal.
Imagine you were president and you wanted to use the treasury of the United States and your term and perhaps beyond to create an amazing work of wonder that would make your name go down in history for centuries. I somewhat suspect that might be Trump's mindset.
Here are a few ideas of what a president could possibly achieve if he put all his effort into a wonder of the world.
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Irrigate the Southwest: it's possible to divert water from many of the lakes from Canada down to the driest places of America such as nevada. We would have to be careful to ensure that the water supply in Canada remain at the same level but I see this as something feasible.
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International highway: this would require building chunnels underground from Alaska. With world cooperation, other channels could possibly be created like wants to connect Japan to Korea and Europe to Africa.
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Self-driving car highway: self-driving technology is already here but it is unlikely it will catch on until these cars have their own highway. There's too many decisions that you don't want to leave to a machine, for example does the car turn to hit a bus full of people or does it continue to go straight in Hit through pedestrians? Creating a highway of its own would revolutionize traffic as we know it. It would be the end of traffic jams as all automobiles would move together in conjunction like those drone shows we see. Other expenses would likely plummet, such as automobile insurance and Auto repair.
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Mission to Mars: this is something that has been discussed for decades. There is much to learn about mars. We know it used to have water, did it have life? Many of these questions could only be answered by sending humans there. Of course, if we do not continue with space missions, in 60 years now people will be saying it was all faked.
In any case, those are a few ideas I would have if my goal was to make a wonder how the world. What ideas do you have?
Canada's hydroelectric generation is being reduced by drought. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=63684 The friction in pipelines is somewhat high which might make it too costly for water. Oil and gas are much more valuable per unit volume than water which makes their transport economically viable.
Combine with 3.
And electrically powered so we could travel 900 miles without fueling stops while we sleep.
Yes.
What I would like to see:
A. Routine hypersonic travel. We've gone from 6 MPH horses, to 60 MPH cars, to 600 MPH planes. Where's 6000 MPH?
B. Build a life size great pyramid, maybe outside of Las Vegas. The construction of the Egyptian pyramids is incredible and we may not be able to match their construction.
C. Our own LINE cities. Minus the smart city crap.
A pyramid…. Seriously…
Las Vegas already has the Sphinx, which is two stories taller than lifesize. The great pyramid is shorter than lifesize only because the airport is nearby.
Yes, and there are pyramids all over the place as well, and we are ruled by Babylonians who prize those Egyptian symbols for some reason whether because of the human hierarchical symbology, links to pagan symbolism, or perhaps most likely because of some occult function we don’t widely know about yet.