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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
I love the 1950s, the solution to any problem was just "idk, have you tried nuking it?"
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"I get my kicks... on Canal 66."
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.
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.
Plus literally chopping down a large stretch of both the Appalachians and the Sierra Nevada would be insane.
Or could just go over tbh
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My first thought too. This needs a Randall Monroe ‘What If?’ explanation.
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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.
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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it could solve the water crisiseses
Dude all you need is 4 square meters and 2 water buckets
Would also solve some of the rising ocean levels too!
It annoys me that you're correct
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Do it small scale first and turn Florida into an island.
I don't trust anyone South of the Mistersippi river.
In which direction would it flow?
From the center to the borders, due to rain.
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!
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This will require more bridges, which creates more jobs. It's genius!
I feel like there has to be an easier way to solve the homeless problem in San Francisco.
Literally described the Mississippi river.
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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With the low resolution I can't quite tell if I would suddenly live on the beach or underwater
Most cost-effective would be to use the Photoshop eraser tool.
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.
That's a gnarly cliff in Colorado
But a bit more south would be easier. Oh, wait.
The Mississippi already does that, but south-north instead of east-west.
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