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posted by mrpg on Saturday October 21 2017, @09:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the and-the-fauna? dept.

The last two of eight prototypes for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall took shape Thursday at a construction site in San Diego.

The prototypes, including one built by Israeli defense firm Elta, form a tightly packed row of imposing concrete and metal panels, including one with sharp metal edges on top.

[...] The models, which cost the government up to $500,000 each, were spaced 30 feet (9.1 meters) apart. Slopes, thickness and curves vary. One has two shades of blue with white trim. The others are gray, tan or brown — in sync with the desert.

Bidding guidelines call for the prototypes to stand between 18 and 30 feet (5.5 and 9.1 meters) high and be able to withstand at least an hour of punishment from a sledgehammer, pickaxe, torch, chisel or battery-operated tools.

Features also should prevent the use of climbing aids such as grappling hooks, and the segments must be "aesthetically pleasing" when viewed from the US side.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 21 2017, @03:21PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 21 2017, @03:21PM (#585678)

    Enough room for a mine field perhaps or the option to shoot to kill anything that gets close to the wall.

    I see you support extra-judicial killings as well as judge-jury-and-executioner powers for those you whom you, mistakenly, think would welcome you in their 'in-group'.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday October 22 2017, @02:29AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday October 22 2017, @02:29AM (#585848)

    See, I wonder if Trump even knows about the wall that came down in 1989? That one started construction in 1961 and had a pretty successful run reducing border crossings for 28 years. A lot to learn from that experience: frontier zones, shoot to kill towers, etc. Also: what people on both sides thought of it, and what that ultimately did to the empire which tried to maintain it.

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