Comment Comment by npinguy Off-topic question: Why do people insist on calling The Hoover Dam "one of the top engineering marvels".Surely, a dam that doesn't even make it into the top-25 tallest dams in the world, and is 57th in the world in power generation is not that impressive? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_dams_in_the_wor... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hydroelectric_p... parent npinguy 11 years ago
Surely, a dam that doesn't even make it into the top-25 tallest dams in the world, and is 57th in the world in power generation is not that impressive? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_dams_in_the_wor... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hydroelectric_p...