The Picard ManeuverWhat's stopping us?
MrJameGumbMaybe this was why Trump wanted to buy Greenland lol
someguy3Someone made an animation without the ice, looks like not much actual land.
ummthatguyInterestingly, lack of land.
š° š š± š¦ š³ š¦ š° š® šDo we really need all these mountains?
Cyrus DraegurWe will as the sea levels rise. Displacing more water will also NOT helpā¦
No, no, you donāt understand. Itās not displacing, itās replacing. Less water, more land.
Ah yes, the alchemical art of literally transmuting H2O into SiO2 that everyone knows.
We will just put salt on the water so it dries up
Just put it where the mountains used to be in a mountain shaped container.
Easy.
Put the spare water into orbit, where itāll freeze and give us rings like Saturn!
Omg letās do that anyway
kepler syndrome go brrrrrrrrrrr :3
especially what with our big beautiful moon, a ring system at an orbit high enough to not immediately endanger any craft we send up would be destabilized into an unrecognizable state very quicklyā¦ which would send a good bit of its debris down into dangerous altitudes close to earth x_x;
maybe what we need to do is turn luna into a ring systemā¦?
HenryYou can suck all these water into your head. Lol
Itās actually not quite as crazy as it sounds. OK, it is crazy, but hear me out. Some inventor (Wolf Hilbertz) tried to build an island in the middle of the the Mediterranean Sea through electrical mineral deposition on a metal frame. Thereās 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.
Itās really fucking stupid, but it would technically work.
Footnote2669Technically you could dig a huge hole, that would work too lol
Wouldnāt there be a lot of displaced water that needs to go somewhere?
Basically every coastal city in the US has significantly added to their land by doing exactly this (obviously far lessā¦)
Boston is a crazy example or this. Original Boston is so insanely different than whatās currently there. Itās like 75% of the damn city used to be ocean lol
Solitaire20X6we get the dirt from the Moon
the Moon dirt will be even closer to the ocean when itās under it instead of over it, so the tides will work even better
By God, itās foolproof!
I mean, we probably could, but itād be immensely expensive and also why?
An island is just a bit of dirt that sits above the sea level. Imagine what would happen if you scraped all that dirt into the ocean. Do it for every continent now. Well, the entire world is under water now. Oops.
Where is all this dirt going to come from?
missingno
NovaPrimeClearly never been to Boston
ObiCouple Dutch engineers will get that sorted for you no problem.
Definitely, they could just drain it like they drained where I live.
It would work better on the west coast, tbh.
Hold on yāall, we -justyoulistenhere- get a bunch bulldozers and push them dirt into the water, just like Ja-apan did right? And get this! Then thereās MORE AMERICA!
andrew_bidlawSell 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 youāre comment is stupid enough to be mistaken for a bot, are you really human?
Why school bus? Is there a deeper joke here than just sinking a school bus? English is not my primary languageā¦
stebotheyāre telling them to go to school
Ok, thanks. My thought process was like āIs land also another word for student?ā
NelotsThis is white people twitter, our jokes arenāt the funny or creative, unfortunately.
Imagine giving Elon Musk money so you could tell that joke.
As a Dutch I donāt understand this joke
Ask your german friend about the logistics and theyāll probably already have a slideshow ready to explain it.
If youāre lucky they might have an extra about their vacation to Spain!
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. Itās more a question of places that are both desirable for the opportunities they offer, while being affordable.
lebensraum
Is this a loanword?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum
Wikipedia is free, and just a click away.
By far the best website in the world for over 20 years now, I hope it never dies or enshittifies.
Iām swiss german and Lebensraum is a word, which is why i asked. Who knew thereās some nazi concept associated with it.
I donāt think itās a loanword as such, hence my italicising it. I was using it as a reference to the nazi.
Yup, learned of that after.
TrickDacyAs an American Iām baffled also
Looks like everyone is missing your joke.
The joke is that we have more land to the north so we donāt have to. We can just invade Canada before we start with polders
I thought you already did that in June 2072?
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 Appalachiaās 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 worldās 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.