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What's stopping us?
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As a Dutch I don't understand this joke
After reading through the comments it could also be related to climate change but what first came to mind was the american housing crisis. Some people seem to think that the housing crisis could be solved by having more room for houses while, how I understand it, it is actually not a problem of available living space but a problem of affordable living space.
A simple map of population density across the US should clearly show that lebensraum is not the problem indeed. It's more a question of places that are both desirable for the opportunities they offer, while being affordable.
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Ask your german friend about the logistics and they'll probably already have a slideshow ready to explain it.
If you're lucky they might have an extra about their vacation to Spain!
Looks like everyone is missing your joke.
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Drive through a few underpopulated towns and tell me that there's no place for more people in America. Empty downtowns, empty houses, empty factories... There might be economic reasons why people don't want to or can't live in these places, but the one thing we absolutely have enough of in this country is space.
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!
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.
Technically you could dig a huge hole, that would work too lol
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It seems you put the Wikipedia link twice
Should be fixed now, thanks for the heads up!
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
Biggest stopper is we dont have trillions of tons of sand and the oil money to move it, Dubai
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Why school bus? Is there a deeper joke here than just sinking a school bus? English is not my primary language...
I know there are a lot of complete morons out there, but this has to be someone fucking around, right? A little old school trolling just looking for a reaction. Right?
Who knows anymore.
Reverse Turing Test + Dead Internet. If your comment is stupid enough to be mistaken for a bot, are you really human?
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
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Just trigger an ice age. Sea levels will drop. Plus think of all the extra ice you can live on.
Did I hear nuclear winter??
Superman. Superman's stopping us. The deadbeat dad version.
I mean, we probably could, but it'd be immensely expensive and also why?
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I mean of we just blew up the Appalachia's that oughta get us the materials required
Gonna have to put the water somewhere though, I vote right onto Texas because fuck Texas.
Fun fact, Appalachian has some of the world's oldest mountains, older than the atlantic ocean, the Scottish Highlands are part of the Appalachian range.
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Clearly never been to Boston
Where do I start looking for a school bus in the morning?
Random adult gets on local school bus in the morning. Ends up in jail.
It would work better on the west coast, tbh. Ecological disaster, aside from practicality issues.
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!
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