[TheForge] Is anyone on-line ? OT:

[Ries Niemi]

we think so highly of ourselves that we tend to think that things we have done and built recently, say in the last fifty years, are representative of all time.
However, in terms of Geological Time, we are wildly over-reaching. As recently as the 1930's, the entire Skagit River, which can be up to 180,000 cubic feet PER SECOND, decided to change its course- and, needless to say, it didnt pay any attention to zoning, where houses were built, libertarian principles, or governmental regulation- it just moved. 

this kind of thing happens all the time, we just try to pretend it doesnt.

ries


On Nov 8, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:

> 
> Nomadic populations (both man and beast) move in response to changing 
> conditions.
> Any man made erection WILL be distroyed by natural causes. It is but a 
> matter of time.
> 
> In a discussion on permanent structure siteing (anything expected to last 
>> 50 years).
> "Mother nature has no respect for the permanance of man." F.W. Wilson. 
> 
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