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MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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[Edward Burtynsky] What you see here is the Three Gorges Dam.
And this is the largest dam, by 50%, ever attempted by man.
Most of the engineers around the world left the project because they said it's just too big.
In fact, when it did actually fill with water a year and a half ago, they were able to measure a wobble within the earth as it was spinning. It took 15 days to fill it. So this is a massive, they created a reservoir 500 km. long, one of the largest reservoirs ever created. |
