Ah yes, nothing quite spreads the Christmas message of love, peace and goodwill to all as driving 5 hours to tear down your distant neighbour's strange art exhibit to replace it with a shoddy plywood cross while shouting "Christ is King".
Wouldn't it be ironic if people went to these people's properties and tore down things (garages, mailboxes, etc.) and replaced them with shoddy crosses. If the home owners dare touch the crosses everyone can yell how anti-Christ these people are!
Which just means the flash floods will wash it away and being biodegradable there won't be a long term mess. Much nicer than the metal art school project.:-)
Really? You might want to rethink that. That iron monolith was installed in a desert, not a field or a forest. There was no decomposing vegetation at the site but, if you think about where the red colour of those rocks comes from you'll realize that there was a lot of natural iron present.
Mechanical damage from flood waters, water saturation, etc
Deserts are generally not known for their high water content and only flood rarely and in established drainage channels so this will not be a fast process and rotting bits of plywood don't look good or natural anywhere. Stainless steel still degrades with time and possibly on not too different a timescale from wood in a dry environment. Whenever it does it will form more of what is already there in the natural environment.
Christmas Message (Score:5, Insightful)
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I'm not surprised at all. It's a typical religious mindless automaton reaction to me.
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Wouldn't it be ironic if people went to these people's properties and tore down things (garages, mailboxes, etc.) and replaced them with shoddy crosses. If the home owners dare touch the crosses everyone can yell how anti-Christ these people are!
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And racist comments. Don’t forget those.
Much nicer than the metal art school project (Score:2)
... replace it with a shoddy plywood cross ...
Which just means the flash floods will wash it away and being biodegradable there won't be a long term mess. Much nicer than the metal art school project. :-)
Those rocks are red for a reason... (Score:2)
Stainless steel doesn't turn red. (Score:2)
Deserts have their own charm and quite a bit of biology. They are worthy of protection just like forest.
Mechanical damage from flood waters, water saturation, etc
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Mechanical damage from flood waters, water saturation, etc
Deserts are generally not known for their high water content and only flood rarely and in established drainage channels so this will not be a fast process and rotting bits of plywood don't look good or natural anywhere. Stainless steel still degrades with time and possibly on not too different a timescale from wood in a dry environment. Whenever it does it will form more of what is already there in the natural environment.
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