Sell these houses to who, Terraman?
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Hold on y’all, we -justyoulistenhere- get a buncha bulldozers and push thems dirt into the water, just like Ja-apan did right? And get this! Then there’s MORE AMERICA!
It would work better on the west coast, tbh. Ecological disaster, aside from practicality issues.
Clearly never been to Boston
I mean, we probably could, but it'd be immensely expensive and also why?
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we get the dirt from the Moon
the Moon dirt will be even closer to the ocean when it's under it instead of over it, so the tides will work even better
By God, it's foolproof!
Basically every coastal city in the US has significantly added to their land by doing exactly this (obviously far less…)
Boston is a crazy example of this. Original Boston is so insanely different than what's currently there. It's like 75% of the damn city used to be ocean lol
It's actually not quite as crazy as it sounds. OK, it is as crazy as it sounds, but hear me out. Some inventor (Wolf Hilbertz) tried to build an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea through electrical mineral deposition on metal frames. He based the technique off of how coral plateaus accrete. There's a fascinating video essay on its attempted construction and failure on YouTube.
Coles notes ending reveal
The plan was pretty half baked and perhaps a bit of a venture capital cash grab attempt, and it turns out that nations also don't much like the idea of independent micronations popping up near their adjacent sea areas. The video is still very worth a watch if it sounds interesting!
Edit: YT link is fixed. Thanks!
You could also destroy mountains and use the rubble to expand the coast.
It's really fucking stupid, but it would technically work.
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It seems you put the Wikipedia link twice
Should be fixed now, thanks for the heads up!
You can suck all these water into your head. Lol
Interestingly, lack of land.
Do we really need all these mountains?
We will as the sea levels rise. Displacing more water will also NOT help...
We will just put salt on the water so it dries up
No, no, you don't understand. It's not displacing, it's replacing. Less water, more land.
Ah yes, the alchemical art of literally transmuting H2O into SiO2 that everyone knows.
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Maybe this was why Trump wanted to buy Greenland lol