[HN Gopher] A Dutchman and his man-made mountain
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       A Dutchman and his man-made mountain
        
       Author : docdeek
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2020-05-16 04:31 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
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       | thdrdt wrote:
       | I believe everybody knew there was not going to be a mountain.
       | But people are curious creatures. The main question became: can
       | it be done?
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       | It is interesting a lot of money was put into the project while
       | most people knew there would never be a mountain. But they
       | learned so much from it. So I think you can't say it was a waste
       | of time and money.
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       | But for the coming years I still believe the Netherlands (lower
       | countries) will remain flat.
        
         | soperj wrote:
         | They made a ski-hill in saskatchewan, which is definitely as
         | flat as the netherlands.
        
       | phyzome wrote:
       | "It had become more of an innovation platform than a building
       | project; it was used by scientists and universities to think
       | outside the box."
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       | OK, I love whimsy and spitballing of wild ideas as much as the
       | next person, but... innovation platform? Did anything actually
       | come out of this? New ideas that have been put into use? Research
       | that changed how we understand things? A focal point for
       | education of the public, even?
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       | I love the idea, but I see nothing in this article that backs the
       | spirit of the claim "a meeting of minds that sparked a new wave
       | of innovation in the Netherlands".
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       | Design is cheap. And this appears to have never gotten out of the
       | early CAD & Photoshop phase.
       | 
       | It's fine to just say "it was a wild idea and we had a lot of fun
       | thinking about it".
        
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