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    Mount Rushmore Gets a Virtual Backup — In Case It's Ever Destroyed

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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    08/27/09

    In reply to Mount Rushmore Gets a Virtual Backup — In Case It's Ever Destroyed
    Call me kooky but I feel like if a huge monument gets destroyed for whatever reason... we'll have bigger fish to fry and spend the boatload of money on then re-building it.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    08/28/09

    @Sunshineyness:

    I think you miss the point.

    There's always bigger fish to fry. Under your reasoning, there's never a compelling reason to build a monument in the first place. Why spend a boatload of money rebuilding something when you can just not build it to begin with?

    What an inspiring world that would be.
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    Image of Communist Pope Communist Pope
    08/28/09

    @Sunshineyness: We may have bigger fish to fry than rebuilding monuments, but that doesn't mean future generations won't. I'm sure no one was in a position to rebuild, say, the Hanging Gardens when they were destroyed, but if this tech had existed back then, I'm sure someone would have replicated them by now.

    That said, I would encourage future generations to build their own monuments rather than rebuilding ours should it ever come down to that.
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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    08/27/09

    In reply to Mount Rushmore Gets a Virtual Backup — In Case It's Ever Destroyed
    Too bad this is just a 3D model and not an actual backup. If we could make a real backup, we could back-up the entire planet... so that if we mess it up beyond repair, we could just reload our saved game and try again!
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    Image of Super Moose Super Moose
    08/27/09

    In reply to Mount Rushmore Gets a Virtual Backup — In Case It's Ever Destroyed
    This is odd because if you are a member of the Lakota the mountain has already been destroyed by a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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    Image of girckin girckin
    08/27/09

    @Super Moose: Yes, mod parent up. Gutzon Borglum, the designer behind Mount Rushmore, was an active member of the KKK. In fact, the KKK gave financial backing for some of his sculpting projects. One of the reasons the mountain was carved in the first place was to assert Manifest Destiny in conjunction with the genocide of the Lakota.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    08/27/09

    In reply to Mount Rushmore Gets a Virtual Backup — In Case It's Ever Destroyed
    Buck Rogers Approves!

    [en.wikipedia.org]

    Look under Testimony of A Traitor
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/27/09

    In reply to Mount Rushmore Gets a Virtual Backup — In Case It's Ever Destroyed
    "particularly at risk due to excessive tourism"

    HEY YOU! With the binoculars!! Don't look at that so hard, you'll wear it down!!
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    Image of astrogirl astrogirl
    08/27/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: I think this statement refers more to touristy locations such as the inside of tombs in Egypt where the decorations on the walls are deteriorating and the walls are crumbling due to things like humidity and lack of ventilation when hundreds of people wander through them on a daily basis. It's a big enough concern that they are actually closing several of the more important ones (like the tomb of tutankamun) to preserve them and there are plans to build replicas.
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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    08/27/09

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    Robots... From Space!
    *turns of cell phone*
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    08/27/09

    @Dunny0: My first thought as well.
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