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19956994 No.19956994 [Reply] [Original]

So if the 3 Gorges Damn in China were to collapse and destroy all of their cities down river, will the stock market and crypto tank? Surely the destruction of the lives up to 600 million Chinese will do massive damage to the world economy.

>> No.19957068

if this happens we will see the collapse of the chinese state

>> No.19957090

>>19956994
honestly it doesn't look like there's much water behind it. what's the water level difference on either side?

>> No.19957206

>>19957068
I think the opposite and it will be planned to happen by Xi. Think about it.. Every fucking American and Euorfag's Facebook profile will be with a China flag and #StandWithChina will be trending for the next year. So much foreign money will flow into China to help them "rebuild".

For China they get to wipe down some of the population and completely rebuild their industrial system. Its an easy out to stop getting blamed for Trade and Corona

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>>19957090
This is an old image but the dam had accumulated far more water now than it has years ago.
I took this on Google Earth.

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>>19957090
There's been lots of reports of flooding in China as of recent with historical rainfall with more through the weekend and through next week. If this were to collapse this weekend, I expect lots of freakout in the stock market.

>> No.19957264

>>19956994
If this happens I'd like to buy some cheap waterfront chinese property, how would I go about doing that?

>> No.19957277
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19957277

Weather in China right now.

>> No.19957301

>>19957264
Well, Satan. If the Chinese government collapses, you might be able to get over there, pay off a few gangs, and take over a few thousand acres of land.

>> No.19957328
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>>19956994
Stop trying to recruit retards who went bankrupt on stocks to destroy the 3 gorges dam. Its obvious and illegal what you are trying to do here.

>> No.19957339

Here's a video that helps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6QyfrS7ARI&feature=youtu.be

>> No.19957356

china gets something like 3% of their electricity from 3 gorges

i don't know how flexible their grid is, but given how reduced industrial production is right now, 3% may not even be noticeable.

now, the flooding could be an entirely different story.

>> No.19957374

>>19957206

the problem with any dam they rebuild is, it will still be "Made in China".

>> No.19957387

>>19957206
no, the chinese state would collapse due to financial stress and a revolting population. not even the army would back the elite after 600 million deaths.

then rebuilding would become a profitable business years later

>> No.19957406

>>19957206
Are you joking? If the dam breaks at LEAST 200 million Chinese will perish. The CCP will cease to exist, and the Chinese nation would likely fracture into smaller local powers for the foreseeable future. America would offer some aid, as would all other developed nations, but if you think anyone has the capabilities and resources to rebuild a destroyed China you're out of your fucking mind

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>>19957328
Fuck off Xi
>>19957356
Yeah, I'm not worried at all about the electricity generation from the dam, it's the flooding part that is the main danger here.

Check out 2:11- 2:20 timestamp on the YT video for the changes of the dam.

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Almost 23 inches inbound in the next 10 days

>> No.19957581

>>19957406
I could see smaller local powers but Xi will never give up full control and the world will try to help and save the CCP

>> No.19958188

Can someone post the coordinates of this thimg? I feel like the one you can see on google maps is not only distorted but way bigger than the pictures ive seen here.

>> No.19958204

You think a country with that much assets would know more about dams than this biz poster

Who knew

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>>19957328

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>>19956994
Is a CIA psyop?

>> No.19959290

>>19957206
The number of people affected will be higher than most counties populations, nobody is going to be able to provide a meaningful amount of aid

>> No.19959350

>>19956994
It's not happening. China will do everything they can to prevent it

>> No.19959410

>>19957206
>help China rebuild
what the actual fuck. Who helps other first world countries rebuild with funding except in maybe times of war? China's a big state it can handle its own shitty decisions.

>> No.19959525

>>19956994
Will I be able to buy a Chinese wife for pennies on the dollar after the dam collapses? How do I test them for coof before delivery? And what is the age of consent over there?

>> No.19959564

>>19959350
>China will do everything they can to downplay the risk until the 2nd major catastrophe in a year completely decimates their entire breadbasket and plunges its populace into a massive famine in the middle of the worst viral pneumonia outbreak in a century, causing widespread civil unrest as the bug people attempt a revolution due to "Mandate of Heaven."

FTFY

>> No.19959596

>>19957206
They have a long history of rebellion and a dissent mate

>> No.19960006
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>>19957277
Literally over 1 meter of rain is expected over the better part of the rivers that feed into the lake behind the dam. This is going to be the ultimate stress test for the dam. Remember that the German firm that evaluated the dam for the Chinese noted that the foundations of the structure were only placed on the bedrock, not sunk down into it, and that the dam was constructed of several different sections, rather than a continuous single body. The big collapse concern will be water flowing over the sides of the dam, and turning the soil where the dam anchors into a flowable slurry.

Hell, even without a dam breach, the sheer volume of water means everything down stream sill gets massively flooded, as the 3 gorges has to discharge millions of gallons per minute to keep form overtopping. This means that a massive amount of crops are already being lost to flooding, and China was already food insecure, with very little cold storage capacity outside its tier-1 cities.

>> No.19960034

I wonder if people in china monitor our supervolcano and think the same thing

>> No.19960244

>>19960034
a volcano isnt manmade

>> No.19960345

>>19960006
I would be very interested to know if the dam is even capable of discharging the amount of inflow that will follow from the coming rains. I'd imagine there's some kind of spillway to basically allow unlimited discharge?

>> No.19960355

>>19960244
Its also not Chinese made,which is how we know it will eventually do what it's supposed to and erupt.

>> No.19960389

>>19960244
I'd rather think they talk about your sexual and other kind of degeneracy, recent riots, and your handling of cov19.

>> No.19960392

>>19956994
Chinks have nothing to do with SHLL and the Horse so I’m still gonna get rich

>> No.19960412

>>19960355
yeah once every 10000000 years or so

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>>19956994
>Surely the destruction of the lives up to 600 million Chinese will do massive damage to the world economy.
its a net gain in the long run unironically

>> No.19960527

>>19956994
all that's gonna happen is a billion chinese people going to Australia and Europe lol it would be a pretext for starting chinese satellite nations

>> No.19960585

>>19960345
It has a battery of spillways, but eventually you get to the point where it finds other ways to flow out too. Consider that the dam has a nominal spillway flow capacity of 116,000 cubic meters/s. Nominal capacity is a best case scenario, and assumes nothing is blocking are obstructing any of the gates, and assumes the water isn't turbid as shit and full of silt and dirt and mud. And opening the spillway for max flow still massively inundates everything from the damn to Shanghai. If they can't prevent the water from over topping, the water that comes over the sides of the damn will rapidly strip away the earth where the damn is moored because it full of abrasive particles), and massively increase the stress on the damn, as the weight of the water will now be pushing the damn against only its bottom anchors (which aren't actually in the bedrock, just on it)

>> No.19960701

>>19957301
yeah but you'd have a bunch of stinky dead gooks in your backyard. good luck with rampant diseases

>> No.19960714

Do we know of any companies with operations down river that would be wiped out if it gives? Trying to short

>> No.19960808

>>19960585
it's already 6 meters or something over the maximum safe capacity, and they can't discharge it fast enough.. and they are expecting double the rain they've already received. so if the soil in the surrounding hillsides gets saturated, the potential for a breach is likely.

buy rice futures

>> No.19960873

>>19956994
How do i buy a small nuclear device capable of exploding the dam in minecraft?

>> No.19960936
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>>19960006
>>19960345
the belly of the dragon will drip water

>> No.19961067
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>>19960808
If it breaches, the Chinese will experience the worst famine in recorded history. Even with the rest of the world pulling together to provide aid, there are simply too many people to feed in China. It won't take long before the CCP is reduced to regional power around Beijing, in the traditional Chinese heartland. Who is going to enforce your rule over the rest of the country? The soldiers you can't feed, and the party members you can't pay? This level of food insecurity was what was going to break the country in a decade, and its why the CCP was trying to whip up a nationalist front, but if the dam goes, it happens much faster.

From a humanitarian standpoint, pray it holds out.

>> No.19961099

>>19957406
> If the dam breaks at LEAST 200 million Chinese will perish
What the hell? Please help a brainlet understand, are there any major cities near the dam? Can't they evacuate? 200M is an absurdly high number

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>>19961067
from a humanitarian standpoint, we'd want the CCP to dissolve as soon as possible. Few countries in the world have worse human rights abuses than china

>> No.19961117

>>19961099
goes into detail about the area here.. basically no, there are too many huge cities downriver. the damage would probably be trillions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOxF-QiALsk

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>>19956994
>destruction of the lives up to 600 million Chinese

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>>19960936

>> No.19961190

>>19961117
In Chinese spiritual context, a great natural disaster tends to signify a change in leadership.

>> No.19961365 [DELETED] 

>>19961117
Damn... that sounds disastrous. A sick part of me thinks that if it happened it could lead to positive change as China rebuilds its society on better foundations but the cost is just too big, I hope it holds and they figure something out

>> No.19961551

>>19956994
This is at the mercy of a kinetic weapon from orbit
The USA can KO china with a couple of rods

>> No.19961652

>>19961365
China is literally turning into a benevolent actor (censoring for example gore, death, excessive porn in favour of more mentally harmonious depictions) with the way your anti-social and deluded Western world is developing. It would be an absolute disaster for humanity if this would happen you narcissistic and egocentric Western shit.

>> No.19961826

>>19961652
kek..

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>>19961652

>> No.19961867

>>19957206
>stand with China
>help China rebuild
Are you stupid? Even liberals are openly racist about China.

>> No.19961936

>>19959350
Let's hope they can stop the rain.

>> No.19961952

>>19959350
>>19961936
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPan-rEQJA

>> No.19962007

>>19960936
Holy shit.

>> No.19962008

>>19959290
I mean still like >90% of their population is Africa tier villages. But the cities would still run out of food. And they already can't produce enough food and have to import retarded amounts of it along with drinking water

>> No.19962031

>>19961867
criticizing an expansionist totalitarian state with a long history of human rights abuse is not racism

>> No.19962206

>>19956994
What’s with google saying the three gorges dam is permanently closed? I checked yesterday and could see it fine on google maps? Is it happening?

>> No.19962268

>>19960416
very cute apu

>> No.19962270

>>19956994
why don't they get everyone out of the flood zones? also food walls are a thing and american farmers are throwing away crops, this is going to be a retarded famine. people in charge are either incompetent or evil

>> No.19962318

>>19962270
ordering a huge evacuation would be admitting that the dam could fail, which makes the state look weak

>> No.19962414

>>19956994
nothing is going to happen stop fearmongering

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>>19961067
mfw

>> No.19962689

>>19961952
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gux5TRLMoxA

>> No.19962713

>>19962414
>Fearmongering
>implyign chinks come here

Its more like day dreaming actually.

AND THEN THE DAM WILL BREAK AND WE WILL ALL MAKE IT AND HAVE LAMBOS AND YOUR SHITCOIN OF CHOICE WILL DO A 1000X AND 20 VIRGIN GIRLS OF YOUR PREFERENCE WILL COME AND FORM N LINE TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU.

>> No.19962767

Everything being said here sounds like it'd be massive gains for US investors.

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>>19956994
>Surely the destruction of the lives up to 600 million Chinese will do massive damage to the world economy.

Cheap at the price 2bh

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>>19960936

oh no

>> No.19964141

>>19960936
fuuuuark you know how if you fold a 50 it looks like a damn collapsing so spooky

>> No.19964221

>>19957328
What are a bunch of retarded autists going to do? Meme the dam to death?

>> No.19964260

>>19961067
bugs love the wet, they can eat bugs. i see no famine possible

>> No.19964349

>>19961067
>From a humanitarian standpoint, pray it holds out.

nah, hope those chinks fucking starve after what they have pulled on the west. bitch

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>>19964349
It’s a shame that the small people will suffer. Really I’d like to see Xi dragged through the streets of Beijing by his entrails but the CCP will genocide their own people before that happens

>> No.19964730

nothing will happen

this reminds me of all those "it's happneing" threads that used to pop up and guess what?

Nothing.
Ever.
Happened.

>> No.19964861

>>19964730
Are you sure? I still remember when some meme virus from a meme Chinese city collapsed the whole world.
We used to laugh at those happening threads

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>>19964861
What a time to be alive!

>> No.19964969

>>19957206
This is a scenario I would make if I was a child daydreaming

>> No.19965010

>>19964585
>the Manchu will genocide their people before that happens
>the ming will genocide their people before that happens
>the Qing will genocide their people before that happens
It's just China bro, they alternate between oppressive omniscient governments that black bag people and anarchic warlords that kill millions trying to take over all Come. It's how they've always worked.

>> No.19965070

>>19965010
I am aware. The more things change the more they stay the same. I generally regard the current political system there as an aristocracy based on legalist principles and Confucian hierarchy much as it has been, at least intermittently, for the past few thousand years

>> No.19965814

>>19965010
Warlords back then had anachronistic weapons and armor while the rest of the world had some nice guns. If the regime collapses now, that won't be the case. China's high tech toys will be pilfered by the warlords that will rise up.

It's like Mad Max but with chinks, and wetter too. Hope the foreigners get out of dodge.

>> No.19966147

>>19960345
unlimited discharge is the damn collapsing