Comment by mordymoop
2 months ago
It’s always climbing mountains. Why does nobody ever go money-mad and excavate an exact replica of the dwarven city of Khazad-dûm in the Black Hills of South Dakota?
2 months ago
It’s always climbing mountains. Why does nobody ever go money-mad and excavate an exact replica of the dwarven city of Khazad-dûm in the Black Hills of South Dakota?
The "10,000 Year Clock" that Bezos is funding is kinda like that: https://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html
The mountains are loaded with metaphor, seem nearly insurmountable, filled with danger and excitement…
Turns out, of course, that they are less dangerous than in the past, money goes a long way, and the human body is pretty good at walking even without training.
Notice it’s never free climbing the nose in a day, which would require 5-7 years of dedicated training.
>Notice it’s never free climbing the nose in a day, which would require 5-7 years of dedicated training.
Would take way more than that for the average person. You can count the number of people who have done that as of now on one hand.
I have wondered this too. I think there are regulatory constraints.
A guy in Texas did that with the Forbidden City: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/forbidden-gardens