If you haven't seen the robot Colossus, watch it. It could go where people couldn't, and keep watching, and keep the water flowing. And the Paris Fire Brigade borrowed some drones, and got the "geofencing functions" bypassed so the drones could fly within the city limits. Apparently the French bureaucracy can move quickly when it wants to.
The cathedral has been modified before. I think this time maybe they shouldn't go with oak timbers. Steel. And since the upper stone is probably weakened, maybe some additional framework on the outside. It won't look the same--but then it didn't look quite the same after each earlier remodeling.
But first and foremost, if they want to rebuild it with any meaning, it must be a church.
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The noises you hear about jockeying for control reminded me to wonder whether the Haitians or the Clintons made out better with the hurricane relief money.
Your wish that it be rebuilt as a church could have a surprising result. The Cathedral was inspired, designed, and built by people whose God was the Creator of all things, vast, beautiful and grand. He was the giver and sustainer of life, the giver of all good things, and the Saviour. A cathedral to the gods of France today could turn out to be a government office building.
True. Or with a variety of different chapels intended for different faiths--not that that ever works.
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