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Death Valley has a golf course. This is the most American thing ever.
An Apple Maps satellite image showing an artificially irrigated golf course in the middle of the Death Valley desert
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Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown
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@Cassandra "We will make grass grow here if we have to burn the ENTIRE WORLD to do it, dammit!"

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Alexandra Lanes
Alexandra Lanes
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@Cassandra I think when @jugglerchris was over there once he took a photo of someone painting their lawn green.
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Chris Emerson
Chris Emerson
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@ajlanes @Cassandra That was in Tucson, and was a patch of grass outside a McDonalds IIRC. Presumably much cheaper than the water would have been.
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Chris Emerson
Chris Emerson
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@ajlanes @Cassandra There are a load of golf courses in Tucson too - though I believe they're required to water them with some variety of waste water at least.
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Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown
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@Chris Emerson @Alexandra Lanes @Cassandra I once changed planes at phoenix.

The view of the suburbs coming in to land made me despair of there being any future for humanity.

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Alexandra Lanes
Alexandra Lanes
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@jugglerchris @Cassandra US suburbia is mad. It’s practically designed to make people live so far from each other and anything else that they can only be dependent on cars.
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Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown
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@Alexandra Lanes @Cassandra @Chris Emerson The suburbia around Phoenix is covered, and I mean covered, in golf courses.

How long has it been since the Colorado reached the sea?

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