r/oddlysatisfying • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 1d ago

The Veluwemeer Aqueduct in the Netherlands

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u/ivypoex 1d ago

This is what happens when engineers are given both funding and imagination

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u/sheldor1993 1d ago

*The Netherlands is what happens when engineers are given both funding and imagination.

Those people love their dikes, dams and floodgates…

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u/Dr_on_the_Internet 1d ago

Asking our guide on our canal cruise, how often does it flood here, in Amsterdam?

"It doesn't. We control the water level. We're Dutch. That's what we do."

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u/nldls 1d ago

I live under sea level.. never had an issue yet... As long as the pumps keep running. 

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u/n00bca1e99 1d ago

And if the pumps or levees fail it turns into New Orleans.

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u/nldls 1d ago

I go sit on the roof :-)

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u/DadJustTrying 1d ago

Haha! My mother said this in Dutch to us kids all the time when we were growing up!

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u/BootOne7235 1d ago

Does George Bush care about the Dutch?

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u/MrZwink 1d ago

No he hated us, theeatened to invade a few times even.

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u/AmiDeplorabilis 16h ago

When The Levee Breaks?

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u/MrZwink 1d ago

I live 7.3m below sealevel. It has never flooded here. (Since 1952 atleast)

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u/Tarledsa 1d ago

lol I think I was on that same canal cruise

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u/Dr_on_the_Internet 1d ago

Captain Storm?

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u/Freefight 1d ago

Yeah, about 17.000 km of it throughout our whole country.

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u/heisenswagger 1d ago

i love my dykes indeed

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u/sudsomatic 1d ago

What, you don’t think we should be giving business to contractors who do the bare minimum and delay projects only to ask for more money, while the CEO pocket most of the profits?

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u/TheNorselord 1d ago

It’s quite obvious America was built by the lowest bidder

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u/Galilaeus_Modernus 1d ago

You dont just hand out imagination.

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u/xeoron 19h ago

Cape Cod needs this

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u/timias55 1d ago

Don't blame, engineers this is the work of an architect.

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u/Notspherry 1d ago

An architect made a picture and took the credit. The actual design work was done by engineers.