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Tbh, building a mountain and tearing it down again would be about as useful as half of existing jobs.
Americans will literally do anything except build trains
now that we have this river across the whole country, we can finally introduce swimming cars!
They’re nowhere near the top if you relate it to size though (and also next to none of it is electrified, which is a pretty good indicator of it being mostly old - after all, rail is what even allowrd the country to be built).
But also it’s a joke
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With the low resolution I can’t quite tell if I would suddenly live on the beach or underwater
Depends on if you can outrun a shovel.
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.
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.
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.
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
Hawa-II, this needs to happen. Opening date is June 13, 2025.
I would need a study on if this would negatively impact desert ecosystems or introduce invasive species, but otherwise it sounds pretty cool if we limit the size until it’s about as big as the new Panama Canal expansions.
Nevermind any communities you’d separate or destroy by dropping a big ol’ river through the middle of them
It’s not like the number of communities measuring a hundred miles wide are many. Also, believe it or not, the USA has bridge building technology. Shocking, I know.
Luckily this entire swath of land is completely void of human and animal life and nobody will be emminent-domained out of their homes and livelihoods with little to no reward for doing so, and bridges are notoriously so much more permeable than plain flat land. I’m such a silly goose to not have thought of those things when I wrote that very serious comment about this very serious hypothetical 🥸
Do you lack reading comprehension? I said we should make it smaller than the image, idiot.
How is it that whenever I see somebody getting shitty on Lemmy, 90% of the time it’s FiniteBanjo
I’m the most honest person you’ll never meet.
Or, and hear me out, just build a fucking high speed railway
High speed railway and river/canal are not in the same ballpark.
No, they aren’t. One is realistic, the other isn’t. I’m not going to debate which is which.
Stop trolling.
Says the guy seriously considering building a canal across the U.S. .
I wouldn’t tell anyone they’re a troll if I were you.
