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[-] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 77 points 4 months ago

Well, the Panama Canal is exactly that, built mostly that way.

[-] Rayspekt@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

Panama Canal is the biggest NIMBY project ever

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Because it was built at the thinnest part of the content and used existing lakes?

Pretty sure Omaha would have loved an East\West canal across the continent.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

Because it wasn't done for or with the approval of locals

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

But it was done, which is kind of the opposite of NIMBY. Also it's not a project that could go anywhere, except that no one wants it.

Closing Guantanamo was a NIMBY thing because, while everyone agrees it should happen, no one wanted the detainees in their backyard. (As ridiculous as that is.)

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[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It connected several lakes in the narrowest part of the continent. Not ‘exactly that’ at all

[-] JohnOliver@feddit.dk 51 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If they could do it in ancient Greece then Americans can do it today for sure!

Stolen from !topview@lemmy.world

Also: although planned over 2000 years ago, it wasn't really made by ancient Greeks. They gave up and made a road to transport ships on it instead of actually digging. Only in modern time did they actually finish the canal

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 33 points 4 months ago
[-] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 months ago

I love the 1950s, the solution to any problem was just "idk, have you tried nuking it?"

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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 29 points 4 months ago
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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

"I get my kicks... on Canal 66."

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 20 points 4 months ago

My first thought was if this was remotely possible on this scale, how many things would be disrupted and changed from the water movement alone. The Panama canal has to have locks because of the ocean differences, but no way would you have locks spanning a few hundred miles across. This thing would have tides back and forth.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 20 points 4 months ago

Panama canal has to have locks because of the ocean differences

It's actually mostly due to the landscape of Panama, including the lake it uses to traverse and the mountains. The Pacific and Atlantic oceans don't different that much, maybe a few feet. And mostly due to tidal differences.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 4 months ago

Oh, so it's like an escalator for ships up and down.

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[-] Addv4@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Plus literally chopping down a large stretch of both the Appalachians and the Sierra Nevada would be insane.

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Or could just go over tbh

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[-] foofiepie@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

My first thought too. This needs a Randall Monroe ‘What If?’ explanation.

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[-] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 32 points 4 months ago

Actually, guys, maybe we should hear them out?

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 6 points 4 months ago

...northern kentucky still northern kentucking, looks viable...

[-] Kit 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Assuming the river would be identical in depth and breadth to the Panama canal, if every man, woman, and child in the US picked up a shovel they would need to move 305 cubic feet of dirt each. So if we all just moved 1 cubic foot of dirt per day, we could pull this off in a year.

[-] DeanFogg@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

Hey, you're a numbers guy right? What's to say we take all that extra dirt and make an island? Asking for a friend

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[-] variants@possumpat.io 16 points 4 months ago

it could solve the water crisiseses

[-] MasterNerd@lemm.ee 23 points 4 months ago

Dude all you need is 4 square meters and 2 water buckets

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 months ago

Would also solve some of the rising ocean levels too!

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[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Do it small scale first and turn Florida into an island.

[-] s_s@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago
[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

The Caribbean has suffered enough

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[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 months ago

In which direction would it flow?

[-] Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 months ago

From the center to the borders, due to rain.

[-] EunieIsTheBus@feddit.de 9 points 4 months ago

I wouldn't be so certain about that. Evaporation might be stronger similar to the mediterreanian sea. So water would flow from both sides into the channel.

But such a project probably disturbes weather patterns and ocean currents all together. Hence, I don't think we can be curtain until we've tried it. Now grab your shovel. FOR SCIENCE!

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago
[-] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 8 points 4 months ago

LET US ALL BECOME CURTAINS

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[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 14 points 4 months ago

I don't trust anyone South of the Mistersippi river.

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

I feel like there has to be an easier way to solve the homeless problem in San Francisco.

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

This will require more bridges, which creates more jobs. It's genius!

[-] jackhp95@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Literally described the Mississippi river.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

If we could connect the Missouri to the Snake River we could do pretty much the same thing. There's a seaport in Idaho already

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[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

With the low resolution I can't quite tell if I would suddenly live on the beach or underwater

[-] fatal_internal_error@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Depends on if you can outrun a shovel.

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[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

Most cost-effective would be to use the Photoshop eraser tool.

[-] erp@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

First I was excited thinking about South Canada and North Mexico, but unfortunately they screwed up the one opportunity in history to fix Oklahoma's awkward 'protrusion', so I can't with a clean conscience support and vote for this. Better luck next time.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

All you need is time and a LOT of shovels........

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[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 points 4 months ago

But a bit more south would be easier. Oh, wait.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

I could get on board with a moat around Texas and Florida

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[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

That's a gnarly cliff in Colorado

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

The Mississippi already does that, but south-north instead of east-west.

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[-] XOXOX@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago
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