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@MaverickBlue42

Жыл бұрын

Just saying, you spelled it At-LAN-toe-pea-ah....but you're saying it at-land-trope-ah.....they can't both be right....are there any videos where you say utopia for comparison? 😆

@Rachel_M_

Жыл бұрын

I watched something about the plan to dam San Francisco Bay a few days ago... Simon: "Hold my pint"

@gshaindrich

Жыл бұрын

4:13 why not let a computer read, it would too just read without thinking/realizing that areas are measured and reported in SQUARE-km (km²) or SQUARE-mile! Why have an editor when he/she doesn´t realize such simple things?

@22steve5150

Жыл бұрын

The Med is slowly shrinking as the African and European plates are colliding. So in a some tens of millions of years it seems like we are in for some serious problems when the floor of the Med rises and the sea slowly shrinks

@xxpyroxx1670

Жыл бұрын

that would be a good idea to train it it used to be lower in the past. just think of all the ancient structhers that would be uncovered if we drained it.

One problem with the idea of draining the Mediterranean Sea is that once done, all of that new land would then become one huge archeological site.

@Thrillhou

Жыл бұрын

"Problem"

@nolongerblocked6210

Жыл бұрын

That's the first thing I thought about too. Since the oceans were much lower thousands of yrs ago those areas would be amazing to dig

@fireborn

Жыл бұрын

The Nazis would hust have burnt everything that did not prove their thoughts.

@garretth8224

Жыл бұрын

A dust bowl from hell is what would happen.

@mattm4600

Жыл бұрын

That's only a problem if they give a shit

Reminds me of an Aral sea disaster but on a massive scale

@preppen78

Жыл бұрын

We could have ended up like Utah :(

@ilajoie3

Жыл бұрын

@@preppen78 full of Mormons and unable to drink?

@diogorodrigues747

Жыл бұрын

@@geraldh3932 It was unintended because every totalitarian regime is completely outdated. The Aral Sea disaster is after all a stupid decision made by Soviet officials that didn't care about anything than their power. This same problem in the regime also lead afterwards to the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

@diogorodrigues747

Жыл бұрын

@@geraldh3932 If the country had more civilian rights the Aral Sea project would never go on. Every single scientist would predict what happened after what was made there - the problem back then was that every person that contradicted the policies of the Communist Party was imprisioned or, sometimes worse, sent into the gulag. The existance of some kind of opposition is crucial to avoid these long-term and very predictible disasters, and that's impossible in a totalitarian country.

@SkunkApe407

Жыл бұрын

@@ilajoie3 Magic Underpants for everybody!!!

One other possible useful adaptation of the basic idea is to dam the Strait of Gibraltar, but instead of using that to drain the Mediterranean, use it to potentially keep its water level as it is now instead of it increasing if the Antarctic and Greenlandic ice sheets melt. Basically, keep the whole Mediterranean at its present day levels even if the Oceans rise.

@PeasantByTheSouthernSea

Жыл бұрын

Until the levee inevitably breaks

@Stettafire

Жыл бұрын

Define "useful"

@Transilvanian90

Жыл бұрын

@@Stettafire You know... that has use. If the sea levels do rise, it could be a method to keep the Mediterranean as it is.

@maxpower19711

Жыл бұрын

The Suez Canal would have to be blocked or else water would just flow in from the east

@Transilvanian90

Жыл бұрын

@@maxpower19711 That's a far easier task, it's just a water canal that's 200 meters wide. A few locks would take care of that easy peasy. The Straight of Gibraltar with its 13km width is the true engineering challenge.

570,000 kilometers? Simon, Simon, Simon. . . Being sponsored by Squarespace does NOT allow you to neglect SQUARE Kilometers. . . 😉

@rogaineablar5608

Жыл бұрын

Lots of errors in this video. Salt water is not 33% saline but rather 3%.

@WileyGunslinger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@garretth8224

Жыл бұрын

@@rogaineablar5608 He said salinity which is between 32-35% in the ocean. Saline and salinity are different terms. Next time look it up before you try to correct someone, it makes you look foolish.

@MarvinWestmaas

Жыл бұрын

@@garretth8224 Underrated comment

@MarvinWestmaas

Жыл бұрын

@@rogaineablar5608 Overrated comment

Imagine 1,000 dried up Great Salt Lakes blowing salt dust 500 miles in all directions.

@comentedonakeyboard

Жыл бұрын

Or the (former) Aral lake in the former soviet union.

@Chris-hx3om

Жыл бұрын

800 kilometres.

@kelleren4840

Жыл бұрын

I'm already dealing with 1 great salt lake drying so please no.

@reapersasmr5483

Жыл бұрын

And all the life and food gone from that area

@comentedonakeyboard

Жыл бұрын

@@kelleren4840 i know, it's a rather salty topic.

This definitely qualifies as the perfect scenario for a Gerard Buttler disaster movie

@jimdigitalvideo

Жыл бұрын

This scenario would make a great movie.

@DannyPhilipsen

Жыл бұрын

Or a Bond film

@polreamonn

Жыл бұрын

Dam the Med!

@LloydWaldo

Жыл бұрын

Gerard Buttler Disaster Movie: Gerard butler tries to do various American accents.

@frankgesuele6298

Жыл бұрын

"This is Atlantopia!"

There's a book named The Atlantopian Articles by Cody Franklin, from the Alternate History Hub. It's a good read, and describes an environment similar to this video, though it focuses on the ideologies of those who maintain that this is somehow a good idea...

@zidini

Жыл бұрын

Oh shit, I didn't know Cody wrote books!

@rya3190

Жыл бұрын

@@zidini It's the only one I know of as his, but it's pretty good.

Have you heard of the proposal to flood Death Valley in California? The proposal stated a lot of positives from the project as well as its potential to introduce a more temperate climate comparable to the Mediterranean in what is now desert. I would love to see a video on that topic and an exploration of the pros/cons. When I looked up the subject there wasn't much about it.

@22steve5150

Жыл бұрын

Flooding Death Valley? I do know of a plan to create a sea canal system linking the Sea of Cortez with the Salton Sea, greatly expanding the size of the Salton Sea and making it as inhabitable as any saltwater body, along with creating a new shipping canal system to a new inland port city as well as side branches of the sea canals that feed multiple artificial lagoons in what used to be desert, with marinas and towns that would spring up around them and large solar power plants, making sections of the desert livable and making it easier to establish solar and wind power plants as well as desalination plants and brine recovery pond facilities in a part of the world there they would be most efficient but which is incredibly hard to logistically support via mere roads and air strips.

@deviildogg1

Жыл бұрын

@@22steve5150 The proposal I'm talking about is specifically for flooding Death Valley. It called for pulling in water from either the west coast or sea of Cortez. It basically listed similar economic benefits tho like towns forming along the coast and such. What you mentioned would actually not be such a bad idea. There Salton Sea area is abundant in lithium which could become a thriving industry if a port were near by.

@shaneabrahamson8732

Жыл бұрын

Why not, the Salton Sea worked out well. Maybe include an exclusive golf course and spa.

@deviildogg1

Жыл бұрын

@@shaneabrahamson8732 the only reason that the Salton Sea became what it is today is because it's essentially a large pool. It was built accidentally by runoff.

@craigb8228

Жыл бұрын

They're going to flood the Sahara first.

As someone who already saw the video from AlternateHistoryHub on this subject, it’s a good thing this didn’t happen.

@kennedyngumba320

Жыл бұрын

I saw it there first too

@clamum9648

Жыл бұрын

When I saw the video title, I thought of AltHistoryHub's book, The Atlantropa Articles, where the drained Mediterranian is part of the history.

@missmishka8379

Жыл бұрын

This reply sent me down such a rabbit hole. I didn't know about AlternateHistoryHub last night, but now I've binged so much of their content. I had no idea how big the alt history genre is.

@jackleg2007

Жыл бұрын

Read the first book, waiting for sequel.

Have you done a video on the scores of plans to alter New York city by blocking off numerous waterways? if not, could be a good one to follow this one up with!

@megaprojects9649

Жыл бұрын

Will check it out, thanks!

@JohnPritzlaff

9 ай бұрын

Even better is the plan to expand Manhattan by reclaiming more land from the water-the same way much of it was originally made.

I can't tell where the beard ends and the shirt begins!

Real life Tatooine? I’m in!

This video made my day because it contains a correct usage of the verb sublime.

The idea was adapted by Philip J. Dick in his alternate history novel “The Man in the High Castle”.

@hobinrood710

Жыл бұрын

Amazing book. Haven't seen the show... Kinda want to.

@Poseidon-1

Жыл бұрын

@@hobinrood710show was awesome for the first 2 seasons then it kinda goes off the rails

@hobinrood710

Жыл бұрын

@@Poseidon-1 then I'll definitely take that into consideration when I watch it.

@mho...

Жыл бұрын

@@hobinrood710 yeah its one of the better shows on the last years!

@SL4PSH0CK

Жыл бұрын

My gamer friends recommended me this, haven't tried it yet

I love the intro sting with the guitar music..... Its like nobody learned any stylistic lessons from 1990s television.

I seriously am starting to binge this channel more than the Discovery+ I pay for. Damn great content!

@SkunkApe407

Жыл бұрын

The only downside is limited content. We need to solve the cloning issue stat. Fact Boi needs at least a dozen of those no-bellybutton freaks.

@MaverickBlue42

Жыл бұрын

You pay for Discovery? There's another website for that pseudo-science/downright absolute fake garbage, it rhymes with "wire-it day"....if people stop paying for it, maybe they'll actually produce something worth paying for, like the content they used to make back in the late 90's early 2000's...

@rogaineablar5608

Жыл бұрын

Just be advised their facts aren't 100%. Like in this video alone, he claims oceans are 33-40% saline, which is off by a power of 100.

@matthewdopler8997

Жыл бұрын

Actually just off by a factor of 10.

One of the old Star Trek novels mentioned this had been done in the 21st century as a way of stabilizing the climate and making cheap electricity for Europe. They only mention the pluses of those two things, along with finding all kinds of ruins and remains from prehistory. Obviously, this was before the discovery of the real history of the basin area. This was set in the the TOS era, but I don't remember which book. In the TNG era, there was mention, sometime after Picard was taken by the Borg and then saved, that someone asked him, while he was recovering on Earth (So around the time of the episode "Family", so maybe in the novelization of that story), if he wanted to become leader of the "New Atlantis" project, which intended, through geo engineering, to raise a new continent in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. Pretty advanced planning, for the 23rd century.

@geoguy001

Жыл бұрын

novelization of Star Trek The Motion Picture by Allen Dean Foster

How is it that during a World War, Germany had all these plans, and actually executed some of them. I know the development of military equipment happens fast and gets put into effect quickly because there is a massive need and huge turnover, but all these other infrastructure things. Am I missing the long term view of the leaders at the time (i.e. the War was a temporary irritation compared to the decades and more view when the War was over), or the fact that 'back at home', things were normal compared to the front line, or that 6 years ('39 - '45) is actually quite a long time, or something else?

Hey Simon, or Factboy as you like to nickname yourself, since you mentioned Utah, and I am from Utah, I have a question for you. Will you make a video addressing the people proposing to refill lake Bonneville? Going over the pros and cons and possible costs of it.??

@scottielambert9312

Жыл бұрын

You had me at Utah. The first white meat

@Caleb1874ya

Жыл бұрын

Then where would Utes guys race??? You could go from fastest to slowest state real quick.

@michaellutes1057

Жыл бұрын

@@Caleb1874ya I mean, if the lake were refilled it could become a race for amphibious vehicles instead of land vehicles

The literal LITERALLY the most insane The DOOMSDAY Ever Event.

“This insane plan would have completely reshaped the face of the Earth and the world.” Editor? I’m pretty sure the Earth and the world are the same thing,

This story always reminds me of Mr Burns in The Simpsons, "Ever since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun."

You do know that this is not the first time the *Mediterranean* has been drained. The passage between *Morocco* and *Spain* has been blocked by an expanding/shrinking *Gibraltar* on at least one other occasion, and possibly more than that. There are whale carcasses found in the *Sahara.*

weird, i just read about this yesterday

Megaprojects is discovery channel level of production value.

have you watch drain the ocean on disney+ and do de havilland mosquito

5.00 mins is enough of this fellow no matter how fascinating the subject

Um when the Sahara was a forest water levels in the med were way lower if not cutoff at gibraltar

This is literally the most insane megaproject I have ever heard of. The scale of potential disaster is completely mind-boggling. Thank you for sharing this story with us!

1:04 reshaping the face of Europe? 5:11 sponsorship 6:36 uniting the worlds 8:59 no way, no how 10:19 desertifying the world 13:56 just because you can

@TS-jm7jm

Жыл бұрын

you legend

@rudiboyrip

Жыл бұрын

How dare you spoil the unexpected ad

@scubaskelly

Жыл бұрын

How?

@matthewellisor5835

Жыл бұрын

Good fellow, that Martin.

@scottielambert9312

Жыл бұрын

Nice work. Your awesome

A terrible idea and not only on the environmental issue

Always great videos with tons of knowledge. You are by far my favorite narrator on KZread!

Reminds me of the plan to drain the north sea. If I remember correctly, that plan was presented as a cheap way of dealing with rising sea levels. At least cheaper for the bordering countries than saving every island and shore individually. Though this entire plan could just be a ruse by the Dutch to enjoy their favorite two pastimes: Building dams and planting tulips, as draining the north sea would make the Netherlands a lot bigger.

@neuralnetwork17

Жыл бұрын

As a kid, in the Netherlands, I thought draining the North sea was a great idea. And my favorite thing to do on the beach was building dams. You might not be far off.

@medler2110

Жыл бұрын

We'd get Doggerland back though, at last somewhere for all the doggers in Europe to meet. 😁

@ajstevens1652

Жыл бұрын

​@@medler2110 Maybe it's for the best it sank

atlantopia sounds like a strip club in atlanta😂

@walkingcontradiction223

Жыл бұрын

It is, you haven't been? Damn!

@MrMuz99

Жыл бұрын

Atlan-tits does it for me.

@jochenstacker7448

Жыл бұрын

I'm German and I find this idea too German.

The best laid plans of mice and men are often best left on the planning table.

If this ever happened we would find soooo many answers to our past… most mediterranean bronze age civilisations were coastal and water levels were far lower back then… so many answers lie in the bottom of that sea…

If you're doing videos on insane proposed megaprojects, you might want to consider NAWAMPA or GRAND, two continental water diversion projects from northern Canada to southern US states.

@zarroth

Жыл бұрын

something like that would never happen without the 2 nations merging into one though, so not really an issue...ever.

Good vid, ta for the work you put in. How about that mad-cap scheme to do the same from the Netherlands all the way down to France, sealing off the North Sea?

@russellholmes3187

Жыл бұрын

Or is here where I saw that? bad memory - sorry

Ah yes. Whenever I actually feel the absolutely fondness of beholding Simon's fabulous beard. What a honor xD

There's one car that will always find it's target 😂

Germany: Britain has a bigger navy then us, so let’s just remove the sea. That’ll fix em.

This similar project was in the man in the high castle

Damn! The dam was damned! DAMMIT! 😂😂😂❤

Cody Franklin (Alternate History Hub) actually wrote a whole novel about this! It's pretty wild...kinda like cyberpunk Dune.

Speaking of massive unbuilt projects ment to alter the seas of the world: Please do a vid on the Russian/Soviet idea/plan to redirect rivers in Siberia to the Aral Sea!

Handful of deterium and a few lasers: I'm about to end this whole man's career

Nice blazer Simon. 👍🏻

Reminds me of another video on a plan to dam San Francisco Bay

Hello and Good Morning Simon

I think I would have answered the loon, "How about this instead, and hear me out, instead of farmable lands we create a giant fish farm that is accessible to several countries over great distances because fish is also a very important food. Oh wait, we already have one, it's called the Mediterranean." Then slapped him in the forehead.

The geopolitical, economic, and ecological consequences of this idea would make a killer dystopian novel (or series of novels). The resulting Grecco-Turkish War, among others, would be a blast!

@bthsr7113

Жыл бұрын

Unless it was to be a novel that ended in a frozen wasteland with dregs of humanity clinging to the iceball that had once been home to diverse biomes, I think a key plot point is the dam being destroyed before it's too late.

Some people drop the volume of entire phrases or whisper the important words to make a point. Problem is, these words and phrases which are being thrown away are simply not heard.

I was with you till you started to tell us what the climate would be like should all of this happen, when the local weather station can’t even accurately predict tomorrows thunderstorms

@Brinta3

Жыл бұрын

@Dime X Climate and weather are two very different things.

Makes perfect sense, along with all the other Madness,going on

Sounds great. When can we start?

I can only imagine what sunken ships and cities would be found.

@mho...

Жыл бұрын

that would be the only awesome thing about this! we got a bunch of lakes around where i live & they get drained by a couple meters every other decade or so to get the fish & clean em up a bit.... crazy treasures have been found in these, can only imagine whats just off the shoreline in the sea!

Act like they are talking about the weather last week when talking about the weather 2 billion years ago. Those geologists & scientists are just so smart. They must have a time machine to know so many details with such confidence...

As far as hydro-electric dams are concerned, they cost .. *_a lot!_* Photovoltaic panels spread on the existing sands of the *Sahara* cost a lot less *Watt* per *Watt.* Winner: *_Photovoltaic panels_*

@alfredorotondo

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes black panels in an almost white desert, what could go wrong...

Sounds like a great idea.

Seems like the juiciest target in the history of warfare that would be all but impossible to defend.

I love your Videos, Simon and I Love you too! You are amazing. Happy New Year! Jeff

One crazy mega project that I never hear mentioned these days; create a new, wider and deeper replacement for the Panama canal by drilling down to a certain depth, forming a string of such holes along the route, setting off a series of atomic bombs. The land would subside along this route and wonder of wonders; a new canal could be formed. As a way of getting rid of old bombs as well as creating a new canal…almost instantly. No idea if it would irradiate ground water, but then I imagine a lot of sea water would rinse through the new canal

@silverbackag9790

Жыл бұрын

And this is how we get the new Siberian Traps. Panamanian Traps I suppose.

@scottdoesntmatter4409

Жыл бұрын

gee, what would you do with the radioactive fallout? Bathe in it? That's spectacularly stupid!

@FectacularSpail

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this idea was studied and rejected because basically all of the material you're displacing gets turned into fallout. Less than ideal.

@bennyfloyd2375

Жыл бұрын

That was discussed as part of Project Plowshare, an effort of the Atomic Energy Commission to find "peaceful uses of atomic bombs. IIRC the only actual bomb they set off was to cause fracturing in a natural gas field owned by El Paso NG co. They also had a plan for a canal 300 feet deep and 600 feet wide along the border with Mexico to shorten shipping lanes.

Absolutely crazy. But I have to admire the audacity of it

It's worth noting that the Atlantropa plan called for the water level to be kept at -100 m in the western basin and -200 m in the eastern basin, which is a quite different from completely drying out the entire Mediterranean as in the distant past. It still would have been a bad idea, though.

@leeboy26

Жыл бұрын

You mean what he says in the video?

@sualtam9509

Жыл бұрын

@@leeboy26 He afterwards suggests that the entire Mediterranean would be dry by referring to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Albeit this crisis woouldn't exactly repeat since the throughflow of water would still be there.

One should never let reality get in the way of a big idea.

"Again, we know this because...this is what happened, when it happened before." LOL.

Oh entonces no vendrían guiris a las playas de España ; me encanta!🤣👍

Completely bonkers from start to finish ........ Yep, you've sold me on this one Simon

Cody Franklin, author of Alternate History Hub, wrote a novel about this: the Atlantropa Articles.

Thank you

Just came across a proposed project to dam San Francisco Bay area off from the ocean. The plan was to turn the bay into a fresh water lake and to test it the corps of engineers built a giant scale model to test it. Might be something you want to do a vid on

@varrantgreen4259

Жыл бұрын

Could cover the meditrainin sea with solar panels to prevent evaporation mabe the meditrainin can be tuned to fresh water

@peterjames1088

Жыл бұрын

I think a better idea is for people to slow down breeding for awhile or nature will do it for us. I think depopulation is a cure for every long term problem. We are running out of resources and the physical properties that sustain all living things including us is breaking down. Any large scale change and the whole system will fall apart leading to war, starvation, and death on a scale unimaginable. I think we need to stop messing with a tested 4.4 billion years evolution of our planet and life and focus on slowing things down.

I was put off the idea of starting my own web sight when I realised I would have to change my jacket!

Just need the magical Dam/Wall of Ice from Game of Thrones.

Well, the ice age portion of the fallout from this plan sounds like a good side effect, not sure I wanna wait for it to go desert first though

I can't see your beard in the square space ad! As a fellow beardian I think you should know.

I mean, what could go wrong?

Never give an idiot a child's atlas, pen and time to think.

Ok, but what about the NEED. HOLLANDS plan seems feasible?

Looks like the waters are receding now. Abnormally low tide since Saturday.

Simon. Whistler gets where a breeze wouldn't. He pervades all aspects of life. He is omnipotent, omniscient, and delivers in mellifluous tones Maybe he should become Pope. Or a wok in McDonald's, they are everywhere just like Simon Ant p uk teacher retired

It will be a large muddy plain.

I just heard a segment on a new spaceport in Cornwall on BBC Newshour. Is this Mega enough for a video?

Fun fact: creators of The New Order: Last days of Europe (modification for Hearts of Iron 4) decided to cut Atlantropa from the mod, because even for such insane alternative history it would be too OP

Thank heaven something like this was too hard to even try. Deep plowing and other disasters from short-sighted, raving ideologists would have paled in comparison to this error.

Like Biden said Miners can become programmers, The Mediterranean Fisherman can become farmers, yes? I thought the Quatre Depression would be flooded?

@wwoods66

Жыл бұрын

A canal linking the Qattara Depression to the Med is worth exploring. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project Also, there's a potential project to deliver water to the Dead Sea. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea%E2%80%93Dead_Sea_Water_Conveyance

Seems legit. Let's do it!

I really appreciate the subtle instrumental music in the background. It rounds out the listening experience👍

Gadaffi drilled the Sahara for oil but actually found huge aquifers of sometimes fresh water. More often he found huge aquifers of salt water or brine. Is this yet more dried up Mediterranean salt since hidden by Sahara sandstone?

@irenezettler9585

Жыл бұрын

Or water from the Atlantic. There is evidence of a greater deluge that spawned in the Atlantic, blasted across North Africa, hit the Mediterainian (possibly further) and then receded back to the Atlantic.

I think for exploiting Africa having an ocean as a barrier is actually beneficial since European powers can mess around with Africa as much as they want causing instability whenever they want. It’s a lot easier for Italien, Spanish and French navy’s to patrol and ocean then it would be for their army’s to patrol a vast plane.

Hi Simon. When are you doing a video on the consequence of setting off a nuclear weapon in the upper atmosphere causing a Electro Megnetic Pulse laying waste to electronics that are not hardened. I read a book called One Second After that tells a story of what could happen ?.

Now do NAWAPA, the equally bonkers American plan from the early 1960s to pump and divert water from basically every river in Canada and the Northern USA from the Rockies westward to the Southwest USA, mostly California. People back then thought that river water that reached the sea or evaporated was wasted.

I have a few hypothetical questions i really want answered. 1.What would happen if all the fault lines of Japan have a 9.7 earthquake all at the same time. 2. If the Wan du fuca and San Andrea plate had a 9.8 earthquake. Is it possible that Canada and USA could split apart 3. What would happen if 2 Magentars collided with one another?

@Mark_Bridges

Жыл бұрын

1. A bad day for Japanese people and aid pouring in from other countries. 2. You realise Canada and USA are 'joined' all along their border to the Atlantic coast, while these plates only join on the Pacific coast? Expecting an earthquake in one place, or along one relatively short fault, to affect the whole border is ridiculous. 3. Probably a bigger magnetar, however if the combined star has enough mass then a black hole will form.

@Transilvanian90

Жыл бұрын

Canada and the US wouldn't split, but British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California might become a lot smaller.

Megaprojects: Brain Blaze Edition

I would love to see that power generation plan explained in depth. Do another video on it Simon?

The author Julian May had a (mostly) dry Mediterranean basin in the "Saga of Pliocene Exile" series of books, in those however the climate of Europe and North Africa was much as it is today. I remember another SciFi/fantasy trilogy also set in a dry Mediterranean during about the same time frame but can't recall the title or author. . Regarding generating hydro-power through Gibraltar, they would be better off looking into fully submerged or even sea-floor generators. Otherwise it would interfere too much with shipping.

@michiganengineer8621

Жыл бұрын

@@geraldh3932 As long as submarines don't run into them trying to sneak into or out of the Med 🤣🤣

@stroncium128

Жыл бұрын

Glenn Cook have one fantasy trilogy about theme like that

@michiganengineer8621

Жыл бұрын

@@stroncium128 While I'm still pulling a blank on either the author or names of books in the series, it doesn't look like Cook is the one I'm after. His "Black Company" does look interesting though, especially since I love re-reading David Drake's books

@stroncium128

Жыл бұрын

@@michiganengineer8621 i meant this series Instrumentalities of the Night

simon? have we perchance done a show of the f-22? if so i cant fi nd the miserable beast, if not can we get one please? nobody does these things like you. big fan, here!

Yeah, it’s difficult and has some negative points, but has to be worth a try, right?

Ahead of his time. Solving rising sea levels by draining the sea 😂

Never mind the environmental effects of removing a body of evaporating water from the water cycle, affecting global rainfall plus the considerable weight redistribution of Terra tonnes of water which would affect the planets' rotation, nutation and possible even the tilt, affecting seasons.. Quite insane. Makes CO2 pale into insignificance.