{"id":5996,"date":"2011-11-21T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2011-11-21T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:36:39","slug":"cellular-confinement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/cellular-confinement\/","title":{"rendered":"cellular confinement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5998\" title=\"cellular-confinement-2\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cellular-confinement-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[Cellular confinement systems were originally developed by the Army Corps of Engineers to facilitate the quick construction of temporary roads for heavy military vehicles; photograph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prs-med.com\/upload\/Flippingbooks\/br_01\/files\/neoloy%20brochure%20web.pdf\">from a Neoloy brochure<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a remote polar region, there is a small country that is rarely visited by   outsiders.\u00a0 On the advice of a rogue Army Corps of Engineers liason \u2014   who was attached to the American embassy there in the mid-seventies and   forgotten when the embassy was closed a decade later, but who, through   his close relationship with the country\u2019s ruling party, has become the   country\u2019s Minister of Internal Improvements \u2014 all of the nation\u2019s roads   are constructed using built-to-fail cellular confinement systems.\u00a0  What  this means, of course, is that the nation&#8217;s roads are completely  ephemeral,  constantly appearing, disappearing, and re-appearing in  response to the  whims of commerce, the dictates of the Ministry, or  even the happy  mistakes of mis-directed or confused systems crews.\u00a0 You  drive in to  lead a medical clinic, and two years later, when you go to  leave, the  road you came in on has disappeared.\u00a0 Or zags northwest  instead of  northeast.<\/p>\n<p>Maps of the nation\u2019s roads are thus out of  date as quickly as they  are drawn, though it should be noted that  clever cartographers have  taken to color-coding the lines for roads  based on their expected date  of expiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Cellular confinement systems were originally developed by the Army Corps of Engineers to facilitate the quick construction of temporary roads for heavy military vehicles; photograph from a Neoloy brochure.] In a remote polar region, there is a small country that is rarely visited by outsiders.\u00a0 On the advice of a rogue Army Corps of Engineers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[30,666,551],"class_list":["post-5996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure","category-landscape","tag-cartography","tag-cellular-confinement-systems","tag-erosion-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5999,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/5999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}