So this article talks about a giant pump in New Orleans.
It's a few years too late to be any help to Katrina victims, but not too late to help other future people in the region.
On a purely Tim Allen kind of MAN level this pump really makes me go "Ooohhhh Ah ah ah ah."
I just want to see it run and watch the water pour from the outlets in huge gushing rivers. It's too bad that it took 5 years to get around to starting this particular project and that it will be another year or more before the pump is in place.
Why does it take so long to get projects like this started? Why weren't we already talking about something like this before Katrina smashed the place flat? It's frustrating to me that we seem to move so slowly on things that are really important and yet another part of our society is waiting in line for literally hours to get the new iPhone or some such other tech thing.
It's not that I don't have my own hunger for cool gadgets. It's not even that Cool gadgets don't have their place. I just think that we put so much pressure on companies to turn around new technologies for new cool doohickies and yet we allow slow development of things like this pump system that would truly be a boon to the very livelihoods of a significant portion of our society.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment