floofloof@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoThe Great Wall of China Has Suffered 'Irreversible' Damage After Two Workers Excavated a Shortcut Through the Cultural Relicnews.artnet.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1261arrow-down15cross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
arrow-up1256arrow-down1external-linkThe Great Wall of China Has Suffered 'Irreversible' Damage After Two Workers Excavated a Shortcut Through the Cultural Relicnews.artnet.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square31fedilinkcross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
minus-squareErtebolle@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up34·2 years agoThe tourist-y parts of it are pretty much all newly rebuilt anyway; there’s not much of the original wall left at Mutianyu or Simatai or wherever.
minus-squareChicoSuave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 years agoNow there’s even less of the original wall.
minus-squareBloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 years agoOnly a matter of time before it becomes the Ship of Theseus
minus-squareDogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoThe whole point of that dumb thought experiment is that it’s already the Ship of Theseus and always was.
The tourist-y parts of it are pretty much all newly rebuilt anyway; there’s not much of the original wall left at Mutianyu or Simatai or wherever.
Now there’s even less of the original wall.
Only a matter of time before it becomes the Ship of Theseus
The whole point of that dumb thought experiment is that it’s already the Ship of Theseus and always was.