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Permalink Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on February 3, 2013 at 2:12pm

While these megastructures are impressive from a human perspective, I'm not sanguine that they will work in the mid term. Kuwait's ambitious artificial island project was humbled by nature. With escalating sea level rise, my expectation is that these structures will also be inundated.

Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on February 3, 2013 at 2:27pm

Even if we didn't have sea rise, those dreadful, ostentation designs are doomed to failure due to sea and air action. I will enjoy being able to say "I told you so!" to those overly wealthy oil barrons 

Permalink Reply by Chris Breman on February 14, 2013 at 12:59am

that these structures will also be inundated

I'm sure of that! Sometime in this century we'll ask the Germans and the Belgians to move over...

Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on February 14, 2013 at 1:18am

Sounds like a good plan! I have vivid memories of standing on the ground lower than boats floating by above me. Quite a disorienting thing for a visitor.