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arrow-up1253arrow-down1external-linkThe Great Wall of China Has Suffered 'Irreversible' Damage After Two Workers Excavated a Shortcut Through the Cultural Relicnews.artnet.com@floofloof@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square31
minus-squareErtebollelinkfedilink34•9 months 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-square@ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink14•9 months agoNow there’s even less of the original wall.
minus-square@Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish8•9 months agoOnly a matter of time before it becomes the Ship of Theseus
minus-square@DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months 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.