QUOTE(Somey @ Sun 21st June 2009, 11:24pm)
QUOTE(Kato @ Sun 21st June 2009, 9:53pm)
Not me, Hersch. That was Somey who likely knows more about photoshopping than me...
Well, it's not like I'm a professional Photoshopper.
The actual
monument is real - it's located in
Lianyungang City, which appears to also be a real city, despite their terrible-looking website. (I'm sure the Chinese-language version looks
fabulous!) They even advertise it.
It's just the inscription that's Photoshopped, not the monument itself - I would assume this is because they're trying to sell this idea to other countries, and while English is the language of modern-day commerce, it's also the language most likely to cause Chinese citizens to want to deface the monument.
So, your argument is that
this photo, from the LaRouche website, and
this different photo, from an unrelated website, were both photoshopped? The LaRouche conspiracy must be vaster and insidiouser than even I had suspected.
QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Sun 21st June 2009, 8:22pm)
I just don't get it. The largest engineering project ever to connect two economically marginal, although currently ecologically pristine parts of the globe? A bridge to two nowheres?
It's unclear from the context, but you may be talking about the Bering Straits project, which is not the same thing as the landbridge, although it is a subsumed feature of the landbridge.
QUOTE(Cla68 @ Mon 22nd June 2009, 2:27am)
OK, then, I want to see the business plan for LaRouche's version of this connector between Asia and North America.
Back in the '90s, LaRouche published a humongous report, some 300 or so pages. Only parts of it are available on the internet, and I'd simply recommend that you start your search engines.
QUOTE(CharlotteWebb @ Sun 21st June 2009, 3:34pm)
P.S. I'm still curious whether any of the proposed routes include Lake Baykal...
It appears that they do.
This article provides some detail on something called the Baikal-Amur Mainline.