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Dunny0
07/06/09

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So, did the people of 2050 truck in a bunch of sand to Vegas, or did we just move the city somewhere else?
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goldfarb
07/06/09

@Dunny0: Vegas is in a desert, if you turn off the water it'll be gone in a year.
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Dunny0
07/06/09

@goldfarb: I realize that, it is my home. But turning off the water won't transform it into Tatooine; there's just not that much sand around here.

Seriously, it's more a flat, scrub-brush kind of desert. Let it go back to nature, and it'll be dusty and kind of brushy.

Heck, the name is Spanish for "The Meadows" - before settlement, and urbanization, this place was an oasis. I know it won't go back to that, it it won't be the surface of Arrakis either.

As I said, it's a matter of sand, and the lack thereof. Not all deserts are sand dunes.
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goldfarb
07/06/09

@Dunny0: "But turning off the water won't transform it into Tatooine; there's just not that much sand around here."

BOOO! :(
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
07/06/09

@Dunny0: Exactly. It'll be all hardpan with scruffy little bushes here and there, just like the outskirts of the city are nowadays.

There really aren't a lot of sand dunes in the US deserts -- they're so unusual that those that do exist are national parks and tourist attractions.

I don't know where all that sand would come from. More of the Stupid, I guess?
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goldfarb
07/06/09

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is this just concept art?

I hope so...it's terrible.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
07/06/09

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Ah, complaining about stupidity via a "docudrama", if irony was a currency these people would be Bill Gates.
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Lassus
07/06/09

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: I'm usually with you, Garrison, but on this one I feel a little left behind.

What do you mean, exactly?
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
07/06/09

@Lassus: Yeah it's not my clearest comment. While I have nothing against them, docudramas are sort of the lowest brow form of information dispersement. Those who don't want to read about it can see a documentary, for those who a documentary is too dry and need a little more zazz can go for a docudrama, after that we get into the realm of things like "The Patriot". I just think it's ironic that they use that medium to call people stupid.
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tetracycloide
07/07/09

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: nothing plays to the lowest common denomenator better than telling them there's an even lower denomenator to make them feel superior.
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