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[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Beavers built a dam in Alberta (850 meters) that is twice the length of the Hoover Dam. It isn't the technical marvel as the Hoover Dam, but one would have to be lying to say it's not impressive.

Extra info: we know it has existed since at least 1975, as it's visible in arial photographs. (Many from space).

So 50+ years for rodents maintaining a project seems pretty neat.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Also over in Europe sometime in the last several years, some beavers completed a dam that had been stalled in the planning and funding phase. The beavers just rolled up and in 24 hours with $0 in funding and built a dam in almost the exact spot that the planners were going to build them anyway.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Yeah after we slaughtered them to near extinction, it sounds like they are making a good comeback. (Fur hats and anal gland perfume have different yearning these days)

[-] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

We still use anal gland stuff for cheap, faux vanilla flavoring 🤮🤮

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

This vanilla tastes like ass!

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For those curious, here's a great write-up

https://e360.yale.edu/features/worlds-largest-beaver-dam

I can't imagine traveling that terrain any time other than winter; the muskeg is super tough to travel through when it's not frozen and the mosquitoes would suck you dry.

[-] shweddy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Dam son

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 month ago

Obviously you’ve never played Timberborn

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Came here just to say this. OP need to play timberborn rn

[-] Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Can't, no fingers and I'm blind

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

If you can post memes you can play timberborn, I will hear no more excuses!

[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 month ago

Mainstream archeologists would like you to believe that.
But the truth will come out - it was aliens.

[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

Obligatory:

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

Some mf once tried to convince me some vacuum cleaner made this smh my head for real

[-] decolo@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

it was actually a us president that made it

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Nor did any Hoovers.

[-] Una@europe.pub 7 points 1 month ago

2, 2 beavers.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Obligatory: https://bigbeaverenergy.com/

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Obligatory you say:

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Like this shirt? GET this shirt!

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

And get sued by: Buc-ees

[-] dwemthy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Well yeah, it wasn't one beaver, it was hundreds of beavers

[-] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

Allways scary to see how much the water level has dropped

[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

No but OP's moms beaver really helped

[-] Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Hurtful

[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Some truths hurt.

[-] Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

This is my mom

[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I bet the grip is intense and of course stamina for days and days.

[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 points 1 month ago

This has "big government" written all over it. You can't convince me otherwise.

[-] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ok, but what about two beavers?

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What's with the weirdly large rolled up flag on top of the building? Or is it something that's been painted?

[-] perishthethought@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Dunno for sure but assume they unroll it for special occasions.

[-] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Am I tripping or is that the real life version of the damn in GTA V?

[-] VonReposti@feddit.dk 6 points 1 month ago

This is the Hoover Dam, the GTA V dam is based on Pacoima Dam and Morris Dam

Source: https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Land_Act_Dam

[-] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Hm, thanks. Looked very similar with the geography around it

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 points 1 month ago

The canyon and the river?

[-] Archimedes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

What about infinite beavers?

[-] tio_bira@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is this Hoover Dam ? I only knew it from New Vegas

[-] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes me wish for nuclear winter

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The picture is beautiful and captured how big and grandiose the dam is. New Vegas didn't manage to make the dam awe inspiring. There is a rumour of remaking New Vegas and hopefully that they re-skin and enlarge the scale of the dam.

[-] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

New Vegas and Fallout 3 remasters are confirmed, as well as Obsidian working on another Fallout with Bethesda oversight and Fallout 5 in pre production with production ramping up after Elder Scrolls 6 releases.

[-] myotheraccount@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Of course, they built it for the goats!

[-] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

What gave it away? A lack of wood, maybe?

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure beavers made humans build it. Who domesticated whom?

[-] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Huh-huh, huh. Is this the god dam? Huh-hu, huh, huh-huh.

[-] menjoo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

No, a vacuum cleaner build this!

[-] comador@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Welcome to Utah ...

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

You called?

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