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Two things construction crews don't have to worry about in the U.S. Unexploded ordinance from WWII and accidently digging up pharaohs.
by ourmandave 4y ago
Two things construction crews don't have to worry about in the U.S.
Unexploded ordinance from WWII and accidently digging up pharaohs.
- pestatije 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33150272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33150272
- cafard 4y agoNo pharaohs, and perhaps no unexploded WWII ordnance, but here and there WWI ordnance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Leach#Environmental_impact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Leach#Environmental_impac....
- lakkal 4y agoSome still washes up along the shores of the US: https://www.app.com/story/news/local/ocean-county/2018/03/31/beach-replenishment-munitions/33427167/ https://www.app.com/story/news/local/ocean-county/2018/03/31... No pharaohs have washed up recently, though, as far as I know.
- Hikikomori 4y agoOnly a nuclear bomb to worry about. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-military-missing-six-nuclear-weapons-180032 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-military-missing...
- sho_hn 4y agoConstruction in North America has destroyed a lot of the indigenous archeological record, however. It's more valid to say they didn't worry about it, but perhaps should have.
- Maursault 4y ago> Unexploded ordinance from WWII Common misconception, but municipal legislation so rarely detonates it's somewhat of an urban myth, even poorly constructed local bills from the WWII era.