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Mississippi River Basin Model
- ekun 8y agoMy neighbor's grandfather worked on this and she drunkenly told me about it last weekend. I don't have anything else to add.
- c3534l 8y agoReminds me of this Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i70wkxmumAw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i70wkxmumAw
- tacon 8y agoThe 99% Invisible podcast episode, "America's Last Top Model", is an excellent history of the project.[0] [0] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/americas-last-top-model/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/americas-last-top-mod...
- evanlivingston 8y agoThere's a huge model of the SF Bay that you can visit for free! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_Bay_Model https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers...
- arnarbi 8y agoIt's mentioned in the linked article for size comparison. 1.5 acres compared to 200 for the Mississippi one (!)
- evanlivingston 8y agoBah, I missed it. That's incredibly large!
- twic 8y agoReminiscent of the Huangyangtan model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksai_Chin#Chinese_terrain_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksai_Chin#Chinese_terrain_mod... And getting on for Borgesian proportions: https://genius.com/Jorge-luis-borges-on-exactitude-in-science-annotated https://genius.com/Jorge-luis-borges-on-exactitude-in-scienc...
- vermontdevil 8y agoAtlas Obscura video here https://youtu.be/WeTcYcd5dUM https://youtu.be/WeTcYcd5dUM
- bentleycook 8y agoJohn McPhee's "Control of Nature"[0] covers a fair amount of the Mississippi River Basin Model's use and provides a lot of insight into the history of controlling waterways. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Control-Nature-John-McPhee/dp/0374522596/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527340629&sr=8-1&keywords=control+of+nature https://www.amazon.com/Control-Nature-John-McPhee/dp/0374522...
- selimthegrim 8y agoThis book is a compendium of two or three long articles that appeared in the New Yorker in the late 80s. You can find it there as well.
- selimthegrim 8y agoApropos of this system - the Old River Control Structure has been depositing unaccounted for sediments that threaten to upset the diversion above Morgan City - https://biggerpieforum.org/environment/tip-of-a-mudberg/ https://biggerpieforum.org/environment/tip-of-a-mudberg/
- azhenley 8y agoMud Island in Memphis (located in the Mississippi river) has a 2000 foot long model of the lower Mississippi river that is neat to walk along: http://www.mudisland.com/c-14-riverwalk.aspx http://www.mudisland.com/c-14-riverwalk.aspx