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Why keep New Orleans drained? I think we should turn it into an American version of Venice. I realize it would be VERY difficult to plan and implement, but America hasn't really built a "wonder" in a while. What do you guys think? Imagine how cool Mardi Gras would be!

A Venice with water moccasins and aligators. I'm all for it! It would be natural selection at work. If you get too drunk to keep from falling into the water poisonous snakes and aligators remove you from the gene pool.

A Venice with water moccasins and aligators. I'm all for it! It would be natural selection at work. If you get too drunk to keep from falling into the water poisonous snakes and aligators remove you from the gene pool.

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A Venice with water moccasins and aligators. I'm all for it! It would be natural selection at work. If you get too drunk to keep from falling into the water poisonous snakes and aligators remove you from the gene pool.
ROFL, for real. Nearly fell out of my chair. :p

I've got an idea!
Why not cover a certain amount of every skyscraper in a dense CBD with concrete and stuff, build jetties on the floors directly above, build a massive wall about 5m higher than the concrete top, and flood it!

I've got an idea!
Why not cover a certain amount of every skyscraper in a dense CBD with concrete and stuff, build jetties on the floors directly above, build a massive wall about 5m higher than the concrete top, and flood it!


I'll do ya one better, build em' even higher, flood the city, and have the world's biggest WAVE POOL!!! Alcohol allowed, of course.

I do like the American Venice idea though. THAT'S IT!! I'll never have to leave the US again!! Except for a real Oktoberfest celebration, but that's understandable.

A Venice with water moccasins and aligators. I'm all for it! It would be natural selection at work. If you get too drunk to keep from falling into the water poisonous snakes and aligators remove you from the gene pool.
The sheer weight of your pessimism is staggering. How would this world look if everyone in history was too "scared" to build something great because they couldn't control wild animals. Its not hard. The levees are already there, and last I heard, alligators can't climb walls. People live side by side with alligators in Florida, and you don't hear them whining. Where do you live? Fluffy safe nerf world?

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Thanks for keepin score, buddy! Couldn't do it without ya! Wanna go wash my towels and get me some gatoraide now please?

People live side by side with alligators in Florida, and you don't hear them whining. Where do you live? Fluffy safe nerf world?

That's because the alligators usually get the whiners. ;)

The sheer weight of your pessimism is staggering. How would this world look if everyone in history was too "scared" to build something great because they couldn't control wild animals. Its not hard. The levees are already there, and last I heard, alligators can't climb walls. People live side by side with alligators in Florida, and you don't hear them whining. Where do you live? Fluffy safe nerf world?



Having an aligator or water snake in your back yard is one thing. Having them swim by your front door daily is quite another. And look how well we have already controlled nature in NO already.

And look how well we have already controlled nature in NO already.
I said "wild animals" , not nature. And if you really think about it, trying to keep the water out is a way more extreme way of controlling mother nature, than just "going with the flow"

Except that people living in Venice have to deal with many constant pains in their asses, which I'm sure they'd much rather do without.

Having people intentionally create these problems would be a waste of time and wouldn't improve anything.

Besides, the wouldn't be any gators in the city without a viable food source. Gators go where the food goes. Just don't try to have any floating pig farms in the middle of the city.

Why keep New Orleans drained? I think we should turn it into an American version of Venice. I realize it would be VERY difficult to plan and implement, but America hasn't really built a "wonder" in a while. What do you guys think? Imagine how cool Mardi Gras would be!

Mardi gras would not be cool. All the drunk people would fall into the water and drown. It's no good to mix alcohol with even the most avoidable of hazards.

I say we fill the bowl up with concrete and then build on top of that. Using the levees we could have it set above sea level.

Except that people living in Venice have to deal with many constant pains in their asses, which I'm sure they'd much rather do without.

Having people intentionally create these problems would be a waste of time and wouldn't improve anything.
People in ANY big city deal with pains in the ass, but they work through them.

But think about it...the reptiles should do a good job of eliminating rats and feral pets (and incautiously drunk partiers.) Win win win baby!

Of course, the mosquitoes might be kinda bad...I know, let's import some kind of breeding/eating machine frog...or perhaps we could genetically engineer a more agressive venus flytrap...or both! What could possibly go wrong?

I for one, welcome my new vegetable, frog, snake and alligator overlords.

LOL! Certainly one of the better idea's on what to do with New Orleans that I've heard lately. What about the misquitos though? That could be a pain in the ass.

I think Venice has enough problems from the erosion and mold created by the water. If we built another Venice in New Orleans and another hurricane came, I don't think it would do too well. I say let the sea reclaim it and move everyone from there to a different part of Louisiana.

People in ANY big city deal with pains in the ass, but they work through them.
But Venice has many unusual problems, and keeping New Orleans flooded would just be creating artificial nuisances.

New Orleans has been rendered uninhabitable for a long term period. The sewers have risen out of the ground and all of their contents have contaminated the water, Venice doesn't have the water running along all of the floor in every single building, and quite simply, Venice was was built to house the canals, New Orleans wasn't.

Volcanos are moe useful than hurricanes.You could have had your american-style supersized Pompeï. No luck...

American Venice? Why not American Atlantis, and leave it at that. It's even alliterative.

I like American Atlantis. Very catchy. One day people will dive to see the remains and bring up lost artifacts. It would probably be good tourism for Louisiana's new coast.