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posted by cmn32480 on Monday April 17 2017, @01:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the that-is-NOT-what-we-expected dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

BusinessInsider reports on some creative solutions that have been submitted for "The Trump Wall"

Main link:
http://www.businessinsider.com/design-trumps-border-wall-hyperloop-2017-4

This aliases to:
http://www.businessinsider.com/design-trumps-border-wall-hyperloop-2017-4/#the-19th-century-brought-us-boundaries-the-20th-century-we-built-walls-the-next-will-bridge-nations-by-creating-communities-based-on-shared-principles-of-economic-resiliency-energy-independence-and-a-trust-based-society-the-designers-wrote-5

Homeland Security has put out a request for proposal and some of the submissions are truly creative. This article focuses on a joint Mexican-US proposal to convert land along the border to a neutral zone and build a Hyperloop along the border.

The Trump administration is reviewing design bids for its proposed wall along the US-Mexico border. But not all plans are interpreting the word "wall" literally.

A group of Mexican and American engineers and urban planners called MADE Collective want to build a $1 trillion hyperloop transportation network instead. The plan would turn the border into a shared nation, called Otra Nation, with an independent local government and nonvoting representatives in the US and Mexican legislatures.
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The plan would cost approximately $15 billion — less than the $21 billion that the Department of Homeland Security estimated a border wall would cost. The designers also predict that their system would create $1 trillion in trade.
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The group submitted its design to the US Customs and Border Protection's official call for proposals in March.

While this certainly wasn't what your AC was expecting, it appears to be a completely serious proposal from experienced builders and planners -- http://www.otranation.com/proposal

Other proposals submitted include:

MADE Collective is not the only one to submit a fantastical design for the border wall. Other proposals include a wall covered in solar panels, a binational park, and an "Inflatoborder" made of plastic bubbles.


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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 17 2017, @06:33AM (1 child)

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday April 17 2017, @06:33AM (#495143) Journal

    It was most likely a net positive to keep out the ravaging Mongols from the more civilized Chinese starting circa 771-206 BC. Kind of like have certain present day suicide sects combined with imperial ambitions at the border. The problem happens when a nation decides on a isolationist policy like the Haijin starting in 1371, towards nations where they have something to learn or doing a profitable trade with.

    Btw, Moscow and thus Russia broke free from the Mongol in 1380-1480 so their influence hampered other nations. The ravages of the Ottoman empire 1299-1922 have similar traces, at least in neighboring European countries.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @09:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @09:06AM (#495174)

    771-206 BC.

    Just, wow, China, and you are not even Runaway1956BC. Chou Dynasty? Spring and Autumn Period? Warring States? And you finally are into it by a decade or two with The First Emperor.