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Wow, I would like to see this. I love that the Venice Tides Office used syzygy.
"The phenomenon is due to low pressure, that is, the good weather that coincides with the syzygy, the alignment of the moon, earth and sun," said Venice's tides office.
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"The phenomenon is due to low pressure, that is, the good weather that coincides with the syzygy, the alignment of the moon, earth and sun," said Venice's tides office.
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The Venetians have always been very conscious of the planetary influences on their city, you only have to look at where it is and how it's designed to understand that the utmost respect for the elements must have been instilled in it's children across countless generations.
Even so, I've not seen the water table so low there in my adult lifetime. *shakes head* In the light of recent events, that's something to think about. Just north of us here, in Carlisle, they're still bailing out.
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Even so, I've not seen the water table so low there in my adult lifetime. *shakes head* In the light of recent events, that's something to think about. Just north of us here, in Carlisle, they're still bailing out.
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perdita said:
Hi Perdita.
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Isn't it more likely that they simply used the Italian word "sizigia"?oggbashan said:
Someone at Reuters must have an Italian/English dictionary, though.
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Ooh, she's started.Tatelou said:Hi Perdita.
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Venice has been sinking for centuries, and will continue to do so. There are programs to delay it, but one day she will be no more. Mother Nature, ya know. I mean the city was built on water! Its foundation is millions of poles of wood. Get there while it lasts.shereads said:
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Disney will figure something out.
Actually, I saw a Discovery Channel program last year that compared some of the proposed solutions. There are ways to create more permanent foundations, but first the flooding has to be controlled. Engineers from all over the world have proposed ways to do that, but the cost would be prohibitive for Italy to bear without a cooperative global effort.
(Right. A cooperative global effort on behalf of a city belonging to one of the participating countries. Imagine being a fly on the wall at that round-table discussion. Circle-jerk of the gods.)
One proposal that seemed simplest but most unappealing from an environmental and aesthetic standpoint involves surrounding the city with a protected lagoon. Epcot, anyone?
The most expensive solution was a variation on the lagoon idea that would allow an almost-natural exchange of water between the ocean and the lagoon during the change of tides. There was theoretical support for this one, because it would prevent the lagoon from turning stagnant and would keep the city more like a city than an artificial preserve. But the cost was so high, that at the time of the broadcast there wasn't sufficient funding to construct a realistic test model.
I did visit Venice once. I was five years old. It's one of the places in Europe that remains vivid in my memory. What kid wouldn't be impressed with a city where everybody drives boats from door-to-door? And the architecture reminded me of wedding cakes.
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