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    Image of TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
    11/10/09

    In reply to Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline
    What they are not telling you that this is just a sly way of hiding their secret volcano supervillain lair in plain sight.

    Muhahahahahaha! No one will ever know... oh, wait #theberg
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline
    Why don't they turn that land into something useful instead, like a humongous community produce garden or something? Think of something that gives back! #theberg
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    Image of Jeriba Jeriba
    11/10/09

    In reply to Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline
    Am I the only one who thinks the ruins of an enormous abandoned airport would be MUCH more fun? #theberg
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    11/10/09

    @Jeriba: That would absolutely get my tourist dollars. Throw in flashlights and non-lethal weapons and I know where I'm spending New Year's Eve. #theberg
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    11/11/09

    @MISS MERCY STREET: Happy new year.
    Night vision goggles? #theberg
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    11/10/09

    In reply to Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline
    I wonder what the carbon footprint of this project would be. #theberg
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline
    I wanna move out west. Who's with me! #theberg
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    Image of Chip Skylark of Space Chip Skylark of Space
    11/10/09

    In reply to Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline
    Wow. This triggers so many responses...

    1) Berlin was built on a marsh. Nice soft ground; it's been filled in for 750 years now, but a swamp is still a swamp. If these people were to dump 1000 meters of fill into a flat area, there will be a greater subsidence, and foundations around the area will crack as the ground sinks. The areas that were covered by glaciers during the last ice age are still rebounding- this is the obverse of that.

    2) If you build a 1000 meter mountain, will you get avalanches? Once again, if you live down the road from the newly minted Tempelhofberg, keep aware of where you children are, during the winter.

    3) Does it rain much? Landslides could be a joy as well. Landslides are more deadly then the avalanches. The rubble and debris from each landslide could be added to the new mountain. Hugh Grant might be able to explain what it's like to walk up a hill but come down a mountain.

    Doesn't this seem like something they'd be doing in Dubai? #theberg
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline
    Won't it attract those Dead Snow SS zombies from Norway? #theberg
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    11/10/09

    @emweb: no it wont but it might raise the SS Dead from the battle of Berlin. #theberg
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline
    Then this is gonna happen
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    Image of DraconisXC DraconisXC
    11/10/09

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    I'm willing to support this if the local government can assure the people that they will limit the amount of yodeling that goes on. I mean, you put up a big snow-capped peak in Europe, you're gonna attract Swiss yodelers. And once the yodelers move in, THEN you've got St. Bernards all over the place with those tiny barrels of booze and the whole neighborhood goes to hell. Just you wait. #theberg
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    Image of mattycakes mattycakes
    11/10/09

    @DraconisXC: Big fluffy dogs carrying hooch to people? How hard is to learn German again? #theberg
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    11/10/09

    @DraconisXC: Don't forget the precocious, illiterate little blond girls running around yelling about their grandfather. Once you've got Heidis it's only a matter of time before you start getting von Trapps. By then you pretty much better be checking the real estate adds. #theberg
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    11/10/09

    @mattycakes: I like dogs, blond girls, and booze. What's the downside to this again? #theberg
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    Image of CSX321 CSX321
    11/10/09

    In reply to Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline
    Okay, so the unasked question... We have man-made mountains? What's the world's largest man-made mountain now? #theberg
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    Image of snaboobaly snaboobaly
    11/10/09

    @CSX321: Right here. (kisses biceps) #theberg
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    11/10/09

    @CSX321: I thought Disney's "Matterhorn" was the current tallest man-made mountain, but I'm likely wrong. #theberg
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    Image of PhDelish PhDelish
    11/10/09

    @CSX321: Better question - WHY do we have man-made mountains? Who is like...you know what? My city needs a big fucking mountain. #theberg
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    11/10/09

    @snaboobaly: At least nobody's posted a link to Fleshbot. #theberg
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    11/10/09

    @PhDelish: well, just judging from the information available here, germans and walt disney corp. to name a few. #theberg
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    11/10/09

    @PhDelish: You underestimate the power and lunacy of your average tourism board. First Berlin, then Orlando -- a full set of Floridian Alps, staffed by twirling animatronic Julie Andrews(es?). #theberg
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/10/09

    In reply to Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline
    Ooooh ooooh oooh...This gives me a great idea for the empty lot that was the former site of Mervyn's department store in San Lorenzo, CA. Oh...no, wait our gimmick is the liquor store with ample parking.
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    11/10/09

    In reply to Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline
    "Piker."

    -- Albert Speer #theberg
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/10/09

    In reply to Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline
    I love mountains, but this is just stupid.
    the environmental impact will be huge, the loss of usable space, changes to the weather, the giant shadow, where are they going to get the material? will they also promote the "Giant Hole in the Ground" just outside of town?
    why not make super efficient housing? using cutting edge materials and methods? make the area a model of future urban design?...with a big park in the middle...
    or just make a huge go-kart track/paint ball park? #theberg
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/10/09

    @goldfarb: make the area a model of future urban design sounds an awful lot like replacing a massively expensive earth works project with a urban construction project at least as costly and massive. furthermore the mountain could be a kick ass pain ball park in the summer. #theberg
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    11/10/09

    @tetracycloide: yeah, the housing thing could turn out terrible...but it has fewer down sides than a mountain...er, you know what I mean. #theberg
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/10/09

    @goldfarb: "Where are they going to get the material" made me think of this. Heritage moments deserve their own heitage moment.

    Now I'm not saying I'd offer Montreal as a source for building material, but I would offer Toronto. And Calgary if they really needed it. #theberg
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    11/10/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: haha...Toronto yes, Calgary no - everything there is only 30 years old.
    although if Calgary built a subway (and junked that damn C-Train) then I'm with you. #theberg
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    11/10/09

    @goldfarb: They can have Montreal's Olympic Stadium - it's already falling apart! #theberg
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline
    Has this "increasingly vocal group" been very vocal about who would pay for such an enormous project? #theberg
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    11/10/09

    In reply to Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline
    That just seems silly. Expensive, very difficult to pull off, environmentally questionable, and silly.

    But I guess if you can't make Berlin go to the mountain, you can try to make the mountain come to Berlin.

    But they'll have to install a big red dragon, to guard the mountain against the dwarves who come to claim it as their ancestral home. #theberg
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    11/10/09

    @Anekanta - Space Hippy!: I see. The mountain is no doubt a huge vault for forgotten Nazi treasures. #theberg
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    11/10/09

    @Pessimippopotamus: And there's a secret entrance, with a riddle to get in:

    Five feet high the door, and three may walk abreast! #theberg
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    11/10/09


    @Anekanta - Space Hippy!: Only when the sun is this high. #theberg
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