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What are some structures today that you think will become "anceint" structures in the future (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Something like the pyramids, or colosseum

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I watched a show that asked this question. The undisputed champ was ~~Hoover damn~~ Mt. Rushmore with an estimated expected life of hundreds of thousands of years.

EDIT: It was Mt Rushmore not Hoover Dam.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hoover Dam is also expected to last a long time. The forces on the structure are mainly compression and it isn't a seismically active area. The big question is whether the electricity generating turbines would fail open or shut.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

What about servicing those turbines so they don't fail at all? "This dam powers our city since 4000 years." Sounds nice and Star Trek-ish doesn't it?