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.
It seems you put the Wikipedia link twice
Should be fixed now, thanks for the heads up!
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
Wouldn’t there be a lot of displaced water that needs to go somewhere?
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!
I mean, we probably could, but it’d be immensely expensive and also why?
Couple Dutch engineers will get that sorted for you no problem.
Definitely, they could just drain it like they drained where I live.
Sell these houses to who, Terraman?
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 you’re comment is stupid enough to be mistaken for a bot, are you really human?
Clearly never been to Boston
It would work better on the west coast, tbh. Ecological disaster, aside from practicality issues.
As a Dutch I don’t understand this joke
After reading through the comics 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.
lebensraum
Is this a loanword?
I don’t think it’s a loanword as such, hence my italicising it. I was using it as a reference to the nazi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum
Wikipedia is free, and just a click away.
I’m swiss german and Lebensraum is a word, which is why i asked. Who knew there’s some nazi concept associated with it.
Thanks for the link!
By far the best website in the world for over 20 years now, I hope it never dies or enshittifies.
The joke is that we have more land to the north so we don’t have to. We can just invade Canada before we start with polders
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!
As an American I’m baffled also
Looks like everyone is missing your joke.
Why school bus? Is there a deeper joke here than just sinking a school bus? English is not my primary language…
they’re telling them to go to school
Ok, thanks. My thought process was like “Is land also another word for student?”
This is white people twitter, our jokes aren’t that funny or creative, unfortunately.
Imagine giving Elon Musk money so you could tell that joke.
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??
Can I put that extra ice in my drink?
No, but you can put the extra ice on top of the ice that is your drink. You’re in an ice age, after all.
Half of it would be The South, though.
As in, it the South would literally have to rise?
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.
Kinda funny considering how it was mostly scots who ended up settling the mountains during colonization.