• BarqsHasBite
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    2 months ago

    I hate maps that don’t have North as up. Why why why.

    As for this, usually there are rivers that drain into seas. You need to have a plan for those too. Here is the drainage basin for the baltic sea:

    So no not feasible.

    • aname
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      82 months ago

      Where is that map from? At least two of the Finnish rivers are titled with the name of a tributary, but with the correct name.

      • BarqsHasBite
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        2 months ago

        Found on duck duck go images, vividmaps.com which looks like random maps.

        Are you Finnish? I have a question if you are.

          • BarqsHasBite
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            12 months ago

            So the US, Canada, and Finland just joined an icebreaker design consortium. And I’m wondering why Finland knows icebreakers. Do they need them in the baltic?

            • @[email protected]
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              31 month ago

              https://akerarctic.fi/en/arctic-passion/world-icebreakers-overview/

              Finland leads the world Following World War II, Finnish companies made rapid advancements in icebreaking technology, pushing the state of the art in icebreaking design, construction, power supply, and propulsion systems. Today, Finland is a global leader in icebreaker design and construction, with most of the world’s icebreakers originating from Finnish expertise. Naturally, every single icebreaker in service in Finland has been designed and constructed locally.

              Doesn’t really fully answer the question, but yeah basically we have a lot of ice and shipping routes on the coastlines both west and south

            • Pelicanen
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              32 months ago

              Yeah, the northern parts of the gulf of Bothnia tend to freeze up during the winter.

        • aname
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          12 months ago

          Have traveled to Finland a couple of times and one of those rivers was familiar to me.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 months ago

      Alternate plan (as it would be a shame to waste a dam): Keep the dam, flood the Baltic sea until Kaliningrad is under water?

    • @Klear
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      62 months ago

      That’s a shame. I like the dam plan.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      But there’s a chance that, cut off from the sea, the water collected wouldn’t be enough to offset losses (evaporation, etc), right? Kind of like how the Mediterranean was dry when it was cut off from the Atlantic?

      • @[email protected]
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        112 months ago

        Well, no, its too far north for that to happen.

        A telling sign is that the baltic sea gets less salty the further you go away from its connection to the north sea. That means that the water is flowing out of the baltic sea, so putting a dam there would only slowly rise the sea level.

  • @[email protected]
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    402 months ago

    Completely unfeasable, Denmark doesn’t understand the concept of funding infrastructure unless its highways

    • @[email protected]
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      142 months ago

      Instead of draining it, they could build the dam between Finland and Estonia, to force them to sail the long way around Scandinavia to reach it.

    • cobysev
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      102 months ago

      Have you ever tried to drive a tank through soft muddy terrain? Those tanks will sink into the muck at the bottom and be stuck.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      Well, when the land forces are positioned equidistant from each shore, release the damns and flood the fuckers.

  • @[email protected]
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    192 months ago

    There was once a proposal to dry up the Mediterranean to make more land. Turns out that if the insane plan was implemented it would have laid waste to all of Europe.

  • Suzune
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    132 months ago

    Dude, there are some people who are enjoying their holidays at the sea.

  • Lord Wiggle
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    62 months ago

    Technically not possible. It’s easier to build a dyke between Poland and Lithuania and between Estonia and Finland.