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[–] 288 points 3 years ago (22 children)

The Dutch, not content with merely driving the sea back, now seek to taunt and humiliate it

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  • [–] 66 points 3 years ago (15 children)

    OP's image needs to be captioned with your comment and then ever so slightly jpegified. chef's kiss

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  • [–] 147 points 3 years ago (12 children)
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    [–] 89 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    What the fuck is this place. The hills look like a PS1 game

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    [–] 77 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Even the history of this is fascinating. This is the "Moses Bridge", and it's a renovated part of the old dyke system that was used to prevent attacking armies from getting in - because the dykes and levee's had blocked the sea so effectively, they realised they could stop attackers by... flooding them out. Literally.

    When it came to renovate this area, they wanted to provide access without denigrating the fact it was an old defensive structure, hence this unique sea-level bridge.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    The world loves dutch pragmatism. "You don't want this? Well, fuck it. We just do it that way then. Everyone happy? Fine. Done."

    Germans could learn a thing or two...

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    Feels like it’s more of a “trough” than anything else.

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    [–] 53 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I feel like that shit floods every time it rains lol. I'm curious how they would drain it.

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  • [–] 60 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Just drill drain holes in the bottom. Duh! Oh wait...

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  • [–] 43 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Wow. There is very small margin for overflowing here...

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So it's the Berlin Wall for fish...

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This looks like something someone would make in Rollercoaster Tycoon

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    Dutch people really hate water huh

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    Looks inefficient resourcewise.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    It's all water besides the bridge now

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Is there an underpass for fish and such?

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    [–] 10 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    And if it floods then....?

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    it doesn't flood, this is the netherlands

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Holy shit this comment fucking killed me. It's so funny.

    I understand that a flood in the Netherlands would spell catastrophe but it sounds like the water just can't flood there, because it is the Netherlands, not because of the amazing stuff that they built

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    [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    That looks like a neat experience until there's a slight breeze.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    How does this work? Wouldn't even a light rainfall cause it to flood in on itself?

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