How do you imagine Annoying Orange's wall?

[Shift Kitty]

made out of fraud, painted as orange as his skin

[Ad Bot]

[Trogtor]

[Drydess]

holy stuff this is exactly what I thought of

[Magus]

Made out of hardened concrete, rebar, and steel. 90 feet high.

(source)

How thick? I'd like to do some rough cost estimates.

[Gytyyhgfffff]

How thick? I'd like to do some rough cost estimates.

i calculated that if the wall was 2 feet thick and 10 feet high the materials for the concrete alone would have been around 2.5 billion (assuming the price of 1 cubic yard of concrete is $80)

a 90 feet high wall made out of concrete, rebar, and steel will cost probably upwards of 50-100 billion dollars alone not factoring in paying the workers

a wall isn't going to happen

[Drydess]

How thick? I'd like to do some rough cost estimates.

miles thick, he wants it to be just like himself

[CRITAWAKETS]

The wall MOVES. Thats enough to stuff your pants if you are a mexican.

[Cybersix]

[Biostorm]

[Qwepir]

and it will slowly move south, expanding the US border until all of central america is consumed

[Planr]

The wall MOVES. Thats enough to stuff your pants if you are a mexican.

i never understood those combine walls. like wtf even are they

[Alyx Vance]

i never understood those combine walls. like wtf even are they

Mechanical moving walls

[The Resonte!]

Mechanical moving walls

of DOOM

[Harry Mason]

[Gytyyhgfffff]

if i mess up my math please do say. its likely cause i have a bad headache right now and my logical thought process is a little forgeted
if the wall was 90 yards tall and two feet deep this is what it would cost for the concrete required

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height = 30 yards
length = 3500640 yards (length of us/mexican border)
depth = 2 feet divided by 1 yard (aka 3 feet)

height*length*depth = volume of the entire wall in cubic yards
multiply the volume by $80 (1 cubic yard of concrete costs $80) and you get $5,601,024,000 (5 billion. i probably forgeted up my first calculation that i replied to magus with somehow). the depth seems too small though so lets assume that the depth would be 10 feet (3 1/3 yards)

ok lets assume the depth is 10 feet (3 1/3 yards) now

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height = 30 yards
length = 3500640 yards (length of us/mexican border)
depth = 3 1/3 yards

run that through the equation again and you get $28,005,120,000 (28 billion) for the concrete cost alone. this is a rough estimate but i would assume that the entire wall would be $100 billion+ with all the other materials and man labor combined.  $100 billion+ for a wall that might be entirely useless (remember the drug dealers are good at tunnels and will probably find different ways into the country) seems a little dumb

also remember people will still smuggle in stuff through boats, we can't build a wall out at sea. a wall won't fix problems it'll just move the problems elsewhere.