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it could solve the water crisiseses
Would also solve some of the rising ocean levels too!
It annoys me that you’re correct
Dude all you need is 4 square meters and 2 water buckets
Infinite water glitch
Infinite food glitch
I think I’d hate to live downsteam from where the Mississippi is bisected.
I wonder if that river would remain salty for its entire existence
You eliminate San Francisco but leave Washington D.C. ?
The Mississippi already does that, but south-north instead of east-west.
Well… it did. And then climate change happened
A long stretch of hot, dry weather has left the Mississippi River so low that barge companies are reducing their loads just as Midwest farmers are preparing to harvest crops and send tons of corn and soybeans downriver to the Gulf of Mexico.
Oh. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
That’s not climate change; that’s just a precedented drought and media trying to cash on doomscrolling climate change. It’s done the exact same thing almost every year. Rain has always been somewhat random.
That’s not climate change; that’s just a precedented drought
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Less rainfall
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Less accumulated upstate snowpack
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Higher regional temperatures
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More agricultural states draining off the Mississippi’s reserve in order to maintain a steady growing season
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Drier ground absorbing more of the remaining river water
What could any of this have to do with climate change?
I’m not arguing it doesn’t make sense. I’m just stating the evidence shows the Mississippi isn’t trending lower despite how you explain why it is.
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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.
Let’s fucking goooo
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
Hawa-II, this needs to happen. Opening date is June 13, 2025.
All you need is time and a LOT of shovels…
Nope. Just MS paint and one brush.
Ke~~~~ky.
we need efficiency IV tho
Diamond should be enough, making that many beds to mine netherite seems excessive especially since the update
A lot of the canals in the world (the majority I think, but please fact check that) were built in the 19th century. So yeah… with shovels.
That’s a gnarly cliff in Colorado
Bonus question: would this make a new continent?
No, it would not. There already are waterways splitting North America into multiple large pieces.
Nope, the continental plate would not be separated by a river flowing over top.
Continents are not defined by tectonic plates, for example Eurasia is separated by an imaginary line. There is no universally agreed upon definition of what exactly earths continents are either.
Would the north and south go to war again for control?
We’d have to change all the names!
Canada’s pants become Canada shorts and Canada socks
we’re already on the edge of civil war over clumps of undifferentiated cells and pronouns. absolutely yes
Yes, but not for slavery this time, but for fresh water in the decades ahead of climate change. Those freshwater Great Lakes will be awfully attractive 100 years from now.
Then you’d need to dig really, really deep. Even deeper than where the Balrog lives.
as long as you don’t do it greedily you should be fine
About 36 feet above sea level though. How are we gonna clear a waterway from coast to coast, though? C’mon, boffins, let’s sort this out!
Locks and dams. Thousands of miles of locks and dams.
But a bit more south would be easier. Oh, wait.
Does the USA still own the Panama Canal? I remember there being some disputes about that.
Nope. We gave it to Panama in 1999
I could get on board with a moat around Texas and Florida
Check out bdonvr’s comment about the Okeechobee Waterway. We could just cut Florida off following that line, then we could build a bigger moat around Texas with all the money will save by letting Florida go!
Grab a saw for the Florida part
If they could do it in ancient Greece then Americans can do it today for sure!
Stolen from [email protected]
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
Wait… They had a movable pool that they rode the ships into and then horses dragged to the other waterway? That sounds awesome
if anything i think this is more impressive than digging a stupid canal
Better even. They made the movable pool quite long. So while the horses dragged the pool the ships could still sail in it. That way the horses didn’t need to drag the pool the whole way!
I dont think so. Not in this case at least. They gave up digging in the hard rock and instead made a limestone road to drive them on dry surface.
This is the Corinth canal but before it was made the paved road for transporting ships was called Diolkos
I know. I was just expanding on the other persons joke (I assume he joked). :)
You are a good person for being this patient and sharing your knowledge.
Oh sorry. My bad
They more or less put wheels on ships or rather loaded them on trailers and simply dragged them over land. Funny thing is that Thucydides (460 BC–395 BC) wrote about this, and described it as an ancient practice!
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/09/diolkos-ancient-trackway-that-carried.html?m=1
No one in the north wants Missouri. I’m south of them and I don’t want them.
I’m in Missouri and can’t find error in your logic.
