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[-] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago

Can't wait for a ship to get stuck there, holding up 70% of the worlds transports for a month

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 30 points 9 months ago

i think as the crow flies it is about 6.2 million meters from Bohai Bay to Neva Bay, and the country in the middle is actually Mongolia rather than Kazakhstan.

screenshot of google maps' "measure distance" feature, showing that it is about 6.2 million meters from Bohai Bay to Neva Bay

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 47 points 9 months ago

nah they should dig the canal so it looks straight on the robinson projection

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

Very good point comintern

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 27 points 9 months ago

It needs a loop so it's fun for the crews. Otherwise they'll just get bored if it's straight like that. Maybe there could be a ramp over a cool jump.

[-] darkmode@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

You joke but this is one of Robert Moses’s cited reasons for making multiple expressways that connect two parkways on opposite sides of Long Island (instead of any kind of trains): So the visiting metropolitan family don’t have to double back the way they came.

Much like OP’s proposed project, they used state power to bulldoze right on through wherever they wanted (unless you were rich enough and wanted them to go some other way)

[-] D61@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

One "Silver Dollar City Log Ride Express" coming up....

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

You've beat the Suez Canal. You've done the Panama Canal on Drought+ mode. Now try the 𝓀𝓑𝓐𝓛 𝓓𝓔𝓐𝓣𝓗 π“›π“žπ“žπ“Ÿ and prove you're the greatest cargo ship captain of all time.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

Can't wait to see the "photos" on the wall from this ride!

For 5 Rubles, you can get a copy of YOUR photo. For 15, we'll print it on a shirt!

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago
[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 9 months ago

You heard of "The Line", but have you heard of "The Channel"?!

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

I keep telling you, you can't compress landmass with the world's largest rubber band

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

Why stop there?

[-] mustGo@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

It should go to Hong Kong instead, so we can cut Mt Everest in half.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

Do it for Green Boots kitty-cri

[-] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

Turning Afroeurasia into 2 continents is bad and you should feel bad

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

Balkcanalization

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 months ago

There's also this thing called Suez channel.

[-] john_browns_beard@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

It's like a train, but with water

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

i'd start it at bohai sea to make it shorter

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Good idea, but I think instead we should start at Hanoi, dig right through the spine of the Himalayas, then empty into the Caspian Sea. From there we can go north and empty into the Arctic Ocean, connecting Novaya Zemlya and Hanoi by canal. I think this would be a good use of resources.

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

You don't mention where the land goes. Go the full way and make land bridge from SE China to Norway?

[-] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

ever given type beat

[-] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

One Fin's epic adventure after missing the final ferry to Tallinn to get cheap alcohol.

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Absolutely would watch.

[-] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 9 months ago

You did this to cut off Shandong, can't believe these crackers want to feminize China like this

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