It’s for a parking lot, isn’t it?
Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid?
Submitted 1 month ago by Gork@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
TeddE@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A construction plan of epic proportions. They’re calling it a freeway.
Eight lanes of shimmering cement running from here to Pasadena. Smooth, safe, fast. Traffic jams will be a thing of the past.
I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off. Off and on. All day, all night. Soon where the Pacific once was will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food, tire salons, automobile dealerships, and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see! My god… It’ll be beautiful.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And a couple malls, yeah
daw@feddit.org 1 month ago
They could literally task a SINGLE Dutch person and this shit would be poldered by yesterday
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
that’s a new verb for me. my favorite timer is a Polder so i always just used it as a proper noun. thanks for using fun language
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah see someone said there were still a few Dutch people bobbing about Greenland. Figure maybe one of them could do it
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Am American. Can confirm, we are very stupid, which means we’ll probably try this.
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It would create new spots in the house and Senate. Changing the whole dynamic of political. So it’ll never happen and if it does… It’ll just be a territory like Puerto Rico or Washington DC.
Can’t have folks having representation
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
This project is underway. What do you think all that ocean plastic is for?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
fun
irish_link@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Please take down this post. It will give the current administration ideas. First term he just drew outside the lines and this is exactly that.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Here’s why. The Kansai International Airport filled about 180k cubic km of land for about $15b. Given the shape is about 8m square km, and an average seafloor depth of about 3km, this project would cost about $1500 trillion dollars. That’s slightly under half of the new ICE budget and would not be approved by Congress.
WeeSheep@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes, but that’s not the reason why
lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Somebody get this to Trump’s desk! Let’s make it happen, people!
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sharpie it up!!
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month ago
This is not a stupid idea if you think about it for long enough.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Been thinking for an hour, when does it get better? Do I need drugs for this?
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month ago
If you keep them thinking about it for a good 80 years more (presidential age) it won’t matter so much until it finally doesn’t forever.
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 1 month ago
i know someone who can get us a great deal on dirt
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Good idea!
Hey, Canada, we need all your dirt.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
They can call it New Flevoland
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
No, Trump would auction off naming rights to corporations.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
take it down one degree of absurdity and you just have Bojack Horseman
The_Lurker@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We will completely engulf Canada. We’ll see who’s laughing then!
We’ll have all the poutine!
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
If you want trump to do, here’s what you’ll need to do:
Make the bottom border go straight across and connect to Mexico, then build that giant wall along the new mexican-us border.
The added benefit here is a larger border with Mexico, meaning he can run around screaming about the now larger border with Mexico, while simultaneously cutting off Mexico’s west coast from the ocean, fucking their supply routes. He’d absolutely be on board for this.
motor_spirit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
once all the contractors get out of gator’traz they’ll resume work
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
you can do that by lowering the global temp by releasing massive amounts of sulfur dioxide into atmosphere, leading to an ice age, then it wont be accesible due to massive glaciers.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Maybe the Dutch can help out with this.
Godric@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Then America has to import more D*tch 🤢
runwaylights@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They can have Wilders
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And everyone who votes for him
Archer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Great, we need someone to the left of the current administration
Godric@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ew this is why we can’t have the fill in :(
sc2pirate@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Team Magma Grunt breathes heavily
jrwperformance@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Should be waaaay bigger. The line must be drawn at the end of the Aleutian Islands.
Sergio@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Rusty@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Holy hell, new state just dropped.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Because that would need more than like four tons of sand.
huquad@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
There’s a scientist trying to do just that. Lex something
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The bering strait is probably doable. The ol land bridge is underwater there somewhere. Just build a bridge on top of that. If it keeps getting hotter, we are all going to want to move to alaska.
Montagge@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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We’re trying!
countrypunk@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Image I regret to inform you that it has become a specific cabbage patch.
Montagge@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
That’s where all those dang kids come from!
countrypunk@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I somehow misread garbage as cabbage for this.
arbitrary_sarcasm@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Um……
lemmy.ca/post/48509021
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
In about ten years, they’ll be able to connect all three with a land bridge made out of plastic garbage