• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
    80·
    1 year ago

    Use the leftover slag to close off the Mediterranean at Gibraltar too while we’re in Simcity God mode here.

    • theangryseal@lemmy.world
      361·
      1 year ago

      You know, I was going to defend my home state but as I typed my comment I realized that she has no redeeming qualities aside from being pretty when no people are around. Especially where I’m from.

      It’s all cousin fucking and methamphetamines. I wouldn’t take a job that offered me $100 an hour to go back. Seriously. I hate even driving through the shithole.

      Maybe it’s better up north.

    • Neato@kbin.social
      141·
      1 year ago

      We can spare Huntington. It can be an island. Residents will approve as their property values will increase because now they have a lake as a neighbor instead of West Virginia.

  • Izzy@lemmy.ml
    431·
    1 year ago

    Worlds longest water slide. That’s how gravity works right?

  • Captain Aggravated
    27·
    1 year ago

    Ah for just one time, I would take the Northwest passage to the sea.

    Westward from the Potomac, t’is there t’was said to lie The sea route to the orient for which so many died

    • Classy
      2·
      1 year ago

      God I love his songs.

      Goddamn them all! I was told

      We’d sail the seas for American gold

      We’d fire no guns, shed no tears!

      Now I’m a broken man in a Halifax pier

      The last of Barrett’s privateers

      • Captain Aggravated
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s been six years since we sailed away, and I just made Halifax yesterday! God damn them all!

    • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
      101·
      1 year ago

      It’s considerably more insane because its doubling an existing massive river from northern Saskatchewan up to the exit point for no reason. Particularly in an area where there isn’t enough infrastructure to support begin to support such an operation.

      Using the same start point you already have the Mackenzie river going to Lake Athabasca. From there you have existing rivers and canals getting you to Lake Winnipeg, albeit somewhat inefficiently and would need expanding to get bigger ships through. Although you might need some locks to be added to get around the dams on Lake Winnipeg.

      Making the only real canal section being Winnipeg to Superior, and then you’re in the great lakes.

      If you want the crazy option, get up to Lake Athabasca then go out through the Peace River to end at Bella Bella Coola, BC. Only have to cross several massive mountain ranges and do the crazy descent from BCs central interior plateau down to the ocean.

  • whitecapstromgard
    192·
    1 year ago

    One could make the case that the loss of West Virginia is a benefit in itself.

    • doingthestuff@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      There is some fine white water rafting there though. I don’t know what else, it’s the only reason I’ve ever gone there. Nice curvy backroads too.

  • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
    15·
    1 year ago

    Sounds like you should speak with Robert Evans (not the director, the journalist) of Behind the Bastards, he wants to nuke the great lakes, so may as well tie your plan into his.

  • The dogspaw @midwest.socialEnglish
    132·
    1 year ago

    We need to make the northwest passage we have the northwest passage at home this post is northwest passage at home

      • PickTheStick@ttrpg.network
        3·
        1 year ago

        Shoot, one of Alaska’s biggest northern settlements, if not the biggest, is an oil work camp. Look up Deadhorse / Prudhoe Bay. The road up there is totally worth taking if you’re into birdwatching or really rugged roughing it.

    • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      That canal rips through the heart of the NWT, a hotbed of uranium, gold and diamond mining.

      And gets close to the northern end of the tar sands.