[anonydsfsfs]

> C. The renaissance dam is a gravity dam. Giant concrete structure. It's not going to be easy to destroy.

To put this into concrete terms: the Renaissance dam is 476ft tall. According to Wikipedia[0], non-nuclear bunker buster bombs are limited to a penetration depth of ~20ft of reinforced concrete, which would barely dent a dam this size. Even the USAF would have a hard time destroying this dam from the air.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_buster

[mjevans]

What if erosion were the driving force? A smaller attack could be devastating if one or several targeted strikes caused a spill and damaged directive devises such that it began an active process of erosion. It's a failure mode I greatly fear for all mega-projects.

[ilstormcloud]

It would take thousands of years. Dams are strong enough to outlast us.