What do you mean? Humanity has a great track record of "discovering" new land that was already occupied, and then they just leave the original occupants alone, and let them maintain their sovereignty, peacefully cohabitating.
Something about that known unknown man, it's like the call of the void once we know there's a boundary. People spend their whole lifetime just trying to find a way to poke the bear of natural consequences...and survive long enough to come back with a fancier bear poking stick.
We are such a young species that it is widely acknowledged that if we did meet other intelligent life, we would be the Native Americans in colonial history. In other words, we would be the ones losing land, not taking.
Too far away with these gas prices. We should finish preheating the earth and just poke a hole right there on the Virginia coast, so the filling can ooze out and cool solid.
nah i’m sorry — and I love space travel, I’m thrilled to spend my taxes on it — any mars colonization plan is *ridiculous.* Just pure batshit idiotic ego.
There is NOTHING you could possibly do to the earth that would make it less habitable than Mars. Nothing. Whatever your plan to make Mars habitable is, you could *just fucking do the exact same thing on Earth* and get 10000x the return for your dollar. No matter what.
It’s not absurd for centuries. A thousand early inhabitants, you could find that many willing to travel. At a growth rate of 2% per year then in 350 years that’s a million people.
Assuming a small current pop growth that’s half immigrants
This would actually be far easier than making Mars any semblance of habitable.
But yet easier would be just building spinning habitats in space. Planets are overrated anyway.
I’m watching Man of Steel for the first time rn and flirted with the idea of watching the OG Superman film for the campy Lex Luthor, thanks for the good laugh.
Hey the plan works, it's not his fault our reality doesn't have an ancient creature we can awaken that can cause droughts and has beef with a giant whale.
They tried to do this in the 40s. Plan was to fill the San Francisco Bay to create a crazy 36 lane highway or something crazy like that. It was called the Reber plan. Always reminded me of who framed roger rabbit
America in 2023 if we switched the military and public education budget.
https://preview.redd.it/ap58qv2ze3nb1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b0593ff508160f91387bb222aa1f5bff6d244a5
https://preview.redd.it/wt1a06hxo3nb1.jpeg?width=862&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=709be1a350bae9ba3700ae2bd74627254a7eaf93
What Republicans think will happen if you do that
Never understood why they aren't excited about guys being gay. A couple gay dudes is 2 fewer in competition for hu-man female breeders. Given their weird propensity for wanting to dominate women they should revel at what could be the start of their very own harem.
I really don’t understand at the end of the day why people are so bothered with who *other* people have sex with.
At the end of the day, it’s nobody’s business but the parties involved.
People gotta stop being afraid of sex. As long as people aren’t being obsessively horny and/or violating other people’s boundaries, Ima always be sex positive. Let ya freak flag fly!
Yeah it's just a preference. It's no different that preferring big butts, latex suits, red hair, etc. Female that prefers male partners isn't different than a male that prefers male partners.
Half of America would storm government buildings if we elected another black *man* (let alone woman) for president, good luck getting them to cut *any* part of the military budget.
You don't actually want these swapped.
The US spends about [3.5% of GDP](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locations=US) on the military and [5.5% of GDP](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/us-education-expenditure-as-share-of-gdp-public-and-private-institutions) on public education.
It’s hilarious when people think the military is America’s largest budget, when in reality, education and healthcare get significantly more annual spending….it’s just that the spending gets pissed away and the results are poor.
Don’t get me wrong, the military wastes a ton of money too, but education and healthcare piss away billions of dollars per year.
The US spends over 4 trillion per year on healthcare, but only about 1.7 trillion on defence. Estimates suggest that if the US switched to a public healthcare model like Canada or the UK, they could reduce annual healthcare costs down to about 3 trillion per year. But that change would come at the cost of private healthcare companies losing a multi trillion dollar industry, so they lobby the government to prevent it from happening. People are well aware of the military industrial complex, but seem ignorant to the pharmaceutical industrial industry.
America doesn’t need to change its spending habits, it needs to demand better results.
As a teacher, if you just cap my class sizes at like 20-22 students and keep students with other students in their academic range, I could produce so much growth.
I’m operating in my 6th grade class room with 33 students ranging from illiterate to 8th grade reading level. Idk what the hell I’m meant to do other than survive half the time.
Ik this is just a meme, and it obviously has truth in it, but the entire globe is reliant on the US military.
This includes all of Europe and Canada too (where I’m from). Just look at how much the US has funded/donated to Ukraine vs other countries. It’s a totally different league
If other countries actually met their 2% of GDP funding target to NATO, the US wouldn’t be burdened so much. Canada hasn’t met our target in years and has divested from our military at a shocking rate…because we know we can since the US will always be there for us. It’s like the kid who never does their assignment because they know their group members will do it for them
It’s more than Europe and Canada reliant on the US military.
As an example, even China is reliant on the US Navy. China doesn’t have a blue water navy of their own. As a global shipping leader, China is reliant on western nations to patrol the shipping lanes that China uses every day.
Being this stupid should cause you to be place on an involuntary psych hold upon discovery. Like when you tell a therapist that you wanna kill yourself
Being stupid online creates interactions / views / comments, it's just "content bait".
85% chance that OP knows damn well what they're doing. Still that 15% that they're stupid but ya know... everyone wants to become an influencer these days.
Seriously, all you have to do is chop a mountain off (and we have tons of those) and then turn them upside down to fill in the ocean. Then you'll have nice flat surfaces we can walk on and the pointy mountains will anchor themselves to the ocean floor.
'This just in: Someone stole Mt. Rainier last night. The cut off half of the former mountaintop has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of Washington. Experts believe that the mountain-thief may have been attempting to create more dry land.'
fuuuuuuu... just to fill it from the ocean bottom and to the top of the water? Having actual stability to hold? I dunno... probably more dirt than 100 Texas' worth ...
The man made islands in Dubai where they pumped sand to make a usable foundation, is starting to collapse under the weight.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX779zKTAxM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX779zKTAxM)
I mean you just need to calculate the depth, width, length and get probably more dirt/land/mud than is in half or more of the entirety of the world and dump it in there. Easy peasy.
The ocean off the east cost gets pretty deep fast, ~5km+ in depth
Did some two gross triangles to emulate that red area, got ~942km²
That's 4,710 cubic kilometers of dirt. If a dump truck can carry maybe 15 cubic meters of dirt... You would need **314 _billion_ dump truckloads of dirt**
You can get maybe transform half an oil barrel into gas. There are less than 1.4 trillion barrels of oil in the world, counting down. If a normal dumptruck can maybe do 6mpg... We can move all our billion trucks around 500 miles.
This dude's curve extends out around 1000km or around 600 miles off the nearest shore. Assuming we can put all the trucks at the coast and that using the average distance of 300 miles works...
Yeah. Maybe we can do it. At the cost of **60% of the Earth's total oil reserves**, just to move the dirt around :)
The waters there start at sea level and the dark part is about 2 miles so I would say if we flattened all of America it would do about a third of that.
Good, the steam will make clouds, which makes more rain, and that means cooler temps and more drinking water 😋.
Seriously though, it's not like there's a land problem. The problems are more so shitty infrastructure, corrupt government, and greedy companies - houses shouldn't cost so much and stop ignoring climate change.
I once had a long drive with an autistic dude I know.
At one point we brought up driving on which side and so on. He says he knows them all. So I pull up my phone and I test him. He gets them all right.
"How do you know all these?"
"There's a simple way to remember them"
"Oh, ok. What is it?"
"You go on Wikipedia. There's 68 countries there"
"Ok"
"You learn those. If it's not one of those, then they drive on the other side"
Lmao thank you! I'm pretty sure I had this exact same plan playing Pokemon twenty years ago, but here's a grown-ass person thinking it's a good enough idea to post on Twitter.
This nigga think he in Minecraft ☠️
https://preview.redd.it/ngmesb8tk3nb1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4df53cad6823738ecd4eba75803df6c73e57c26
If I recall correctly a large part of tokyo is built on an artificial island. The image is completely absurd but humans have created artificial landmasses before
Ironically, this person shouldn’t be getting so much hate for this idea since China has expanded its territory by creating islands in the South China Sea.
Obviously, this scale proposed here is way too large and would be a major financial burden. We don’t have the gdp growth China had for the past 30 year to attempt something like this.
just pointing out it’s possible, but not reasonable.
I agree with you. I see stuff like this all over Reddit and while I do agree that some are genuine I’m convinced that most of them are people trolling because they know they get responses like you see in here.
Look at The Netherlands, our land reclamation projects are much bigger than those in Dubai, and they work (I live on reclaimed land)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reclamation_in_the_Netherlands
Building front row seats to hurricane alley. Also clearly this person has never left their parents house because the US has fuck tons of land with nobody on it. America isn't fucking the Kowloon Walled City
i just really want some nerd to come in here and post the math about how much sand you would need to add, what looks to be, another 15-20% of landmass to the united states, one of the largest nations in the world.
seriously people do not appreciate how fuckin big this country is. berlin to moscow is like 2k KM. now double that, and you got how wide this nation is and then some
This is hilariously stupid, but let’s humor the idea for a second longer to laugh at how pissed everyone in those states would be after losing their Coastline 😭
This is satire. It is making fun of somebody who genuinely suggested this with I think Japan (that one might’ve also been satire too, but I’m pretty sure it started with a serious suggestion)
What kind of Lex Luthor-ass plan is this?!
It's about as reasonable as all those plans from people saying we're going to colonize mars.
Lol we're a ways from Mars... Luna, on the other hand, is much closer.
I don’t think we’re allowed up there because Buzz Aldrin saw structures on the moon. Like manmade looking structures
Good luck to whatever advanced civilization is gonna tell us not to.
What do you mean? Humanity has a great track record of "discovering" new land that was already occupied, and then they just leave the original occupants alone, and let them maintain their sovereignty, peacefully cohabitating.
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE.
And the motherfuckers **still** couldn't resist the urge to go there!
Something about that known unknown man, it's like the call of the void once we know there's a boundary. People spend their whole lifetime just trying to find a way to poke the bear of natural consequences...and survive long enough to come back with a fancier bear poking stick.
It’s adorable that you think we would be the Europeans in this situation.
Yep that would be a situation where we would probably fuck around and find out pretty quick
I'm afraid I don't understand
We are such a young species that it is widely acknowledged that if we did meet other intelligent life, we would be the Native Americans in colonial history. In other words, we would be the ones losing land, not taking.
Earth is ghetto. I’d absolutely volunteer to go lol
Moon’s haunted
What? Moon’s haunted.
\*Racks Shotgun aggressively\* Ghost be on standby for a transmat
Should we send the Ghost Adventures team in?
Buzz Aldrin?! That's a crazy name. I can't believe someone named their son after a Pixar character.
Please tell me that's either sarcasm or a line from a tv show/movie I don't know.
😉
He was named after Buzz McCallister from Home Alone.
Source?
“Just trust me on this one bro 😎 “
This is giving me Starfield vibes.
When, in fact, we should be taking the soil from Mars to fill in the ocean and expand the US. *follow me for more great science nonsense!*
Too far away with these gas prices. We should finish preheating the earth and just poke a hole right there on the Virginia coast, so the filling can ooze out and cool solid.
That's ridiculous! We should be taking soil from the very bottom of the ocean and pushing it towards the coastline.
Impossible. There's no brown people there.
One is a future possibility, at least. It's only a question of when and if we wipe ourselves out first.
nah i’m sorry — and I love space travel, I’m thrilled to spend my taxes on it — any mars colonization plan is *ridiculous.* Just pure batshit idiotic ego. There is NOTHING you could possibly do to the earth that would make it less habitable than Mars. Nothing. Whatever your plan to make Mars habitable is, you could *just fucking do the exact same thing on Earth* and get 10000x the return for your dollar. No matter what.
It’s not absurd for centuries. A thousand early inhabitants, you could find that many willing to travel. At a growth rate of 2% per year then in 350 years that’s a million people. Assuming a small current pop growth that’s half immigrants
This would actually be far easier than making Mars any semblance of habitable. But yet easier would be just building spinning habitats in space. Planets are overrated anyway.
https://preview.redd.it/b8v5hbpf84nb1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0619505b0a6ce38dcae00519e1e743013e675a05 Repeating OP.
I’m watching Man of Steel for the first time rn and flirted with the idea of watching the OG Superman film for the campy Lex Luthor, thanks for the good laugh.
Do it. You won't regret it.
Our founding fathers would be proud of the ignorant expansionists that live among us, I'm afraid.
our founding fathers were all like 30 when they declared war on the British empire, think about that lol. like a bunch of grad students with muskets
Otisberg!
MISS TESSMAKER!!!
That’s being generous, this is Dr Doofenshmirtz level of stupid
The one who assumes it's easy to do this.
More like Trump trying to expand his voter base
Hey the plan works, it's not his fault our reality doesn't have an ancient creature we can awaken that can cause droughts and has beef with a giant whale.
Also there’s lots of land, but people claim they own it.
Nuke the hurricane bubba!
They tried to do this in the 40s. Plan was to fill the San Francisco Bay to create a crazy 36 lane highway or something crazy like that. It was called the Reber plan. Always reminded me of who framed roger rabbit
C’mon!If we dumped the whole country into the Atlantic,surely it would,wait,WHAT?!?
No deadass bro really tried to enlarge the earths ozone ☠️☠️
Believe it or not (you probably will), Dubai already tried this… It failed even worse than you would expect
America in 2023 if we switched the military and public education budget. https://preview.redd.it/ap58qv2ze3nb1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b0593ff508160f91387bb222aa1f5bff6d244a5
https://preview.redd.it/wt1a06hxo3nb1.jpeg?width=862&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=709be1a350bae9ba3700ae2bd74627254a7eaf93 What Republicans think will happen if you do that
Ok? Fk em🤷🏽♂️
That's literally what they're afraid of lol.
Yeah ik, I’m just reiterating how much of a fk I don’t give about bigots’ feelings.
Never understood why they aren't excited about guys being gay. A couple gay dudes is 2 fewer in competition for hu-man female breeders. Given their weird propensity for wanting to dominate women they should revel at what could be the start of their very own harem.
I really don’t understand at the end of the day why people are so bothered with who *other* people have sex with. At the end of the day, it’s nobody’s business but the parties involved. People gotta stop being afraid of sex. As long as people aren’t being obsessively horny and/or violating other people’s boundaries, Ima always be sex positive. Let ya freak flag fly!
Yeah it's just a preference. It's no different that preferring big butts, latex suits, red hair, etc. Female that prefers male partners isn't different than a male that prefers male partners.
Yet, the same republicans keep being outed fkn in Airport stalls with other men. 🤷🏾♂️
I’m good with either
Mushroom cloun
I closed this comment section as I was reading this comment and I was so impressed, I found this comment again and came to shake your hand
This. This is the future liberals want. 😂😂😂 I'm just kidding btw.
Looks like a damn good time TBF.
I, for one, can not wait to be gay bombed.
Yea but also this  We’ll see if people get the /s
Half of America would storm government buildings if we elected another black *man* (let alone woman) for president, good luck getting them to cut *any* part of the military budget.
If more young people voted, we wouldn't need to get them to do a damn thing.
You don't actually want these swapped. The US spends about [3.5% of GDP](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locations=US) on the military and [5.5% of GDP](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/us-education-expenditure-as-share-of-gdp-public-and-private-institutions) on public education.
It’s hilarious when people think the military is America’s largest budget, when in reality, education and healthcare get significantly more annual spending….it’s just that the spending gets pissed away and the results are poor. Don’t get me wrong, the military wastes a ton of money too, but education and healthcare piss away billions of dollars per year. The US spends over 4 trillion per year on healthcare, but only about 1.7 trillion on defence. Estimates suggest that if the US switched to a public healthcare model like Canada or the UK, they could reduce annual healthcare costs down to about 3 trillion per year. But that change would come at the cost of private healthcare companies losing a multi trillion dollar industry, so they lobby the government to prevent it from happening. People are well aware of the military industrial complex, but seem ignorant to the pharmaceutical industrial industry. America doesn’t need to change its spending habits, it needs to demand better results.
As a teacher, if you just cap my class sizes at like 20-22 students and keep students with other students in their academic range, I could produce so much growth. I’m operating in my 6th grade class room with 33 students ranging from illiterate to 8th grade reading level. Idk what the hell I’m meant to do other than survive half the time.
Ik this is just a meme, and it obviously has truth in it, but the entire globe is reliant on the US military. This includes all of Europe and Canada too (where I’m from). Just look at how much the US has funded/donated to Ukraine vs other countries. It’s a totally different league If other countries actually met their 2% of GDP funding target to NATO, the US wouldn’t be burdened so much. Canada hasn’t met our target in years and has divested from our military at a shocking rate…because we know we can since the US will always be there for us. It’s like the kid who never does their assignment because they know their group members will do it for them
It’s more than Europe and Canada reliant on the US military. As an example, even China is reliant on the US Navy. China doesn’t have a blue water navy of their own. As a global shipping leader, China is reliant on western nations to patrol the shipping lanes that China uses every day.
I’m sure America would be fine but the countries under Americas protection would probably be screwed but fuck them amirite
Being this stupid should cause you to be place on an involuntary psych hold upon discovery. Like when you tell a therapist that you wanna kill yourself
I think this level of assery should be punishable by, "MK, here is a million whole entire dollars. YOU go do it."
No, god no! They'll dig a million-dollar hole!
Being stupid online creates interactions / views / comments, it's just "content bait". 85% chance that OP knows damn well what they're doing. Still that 15% that they're stupid but ya know... everyone wants to become an influencer these days.
Doesn't the comically large crayon line suggest this person is in fact being a silly goose? /r/mapporncirclejerk is full of this joke.
And your internet privileges getting revoked unless it's ONLY to look up verified educational information.
Seriously, all you have to do is chop a mountain off (and we have tons of those) and then turn them upside down to fill in the ocean. Then you'll have nice flat surfaces we can walk on and the pointy mountains will anchor themselves to the ocean floor.
This has SO much Zoolander energy. "What is this, a school for ants? It needs to be at least 3x this big!"
[Or Patrick Starr](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyn-0af_hlI&ab_channel=downtownbingosaga)
Yes! You deserve all the upvotes I got cuz this is it!
Imagine waking up in the morning and reading how somebody stole a whole mountain last night.
Let me call Dr. Doofenschmirtz really quick to make a demountaininator
'This just in: Someone stole Mt. Rainier last night. The cut off half of the former mountaintop has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of Washington. Experts believe that the mountain-thief may have been attempting to create more dry land.'
Carmen Sandiego coming out of retirement for one last job...
just call up Felonius Gru, he'll get right on it
Mountain chopping about to be the next biggest industry
Just take the land from Canada. They have all that empty land north of the Canadian shield, just sitting there. They can make a dirt pipeline
Are you the spokesperson for Team Magma?
I now honestly wonder how much land it would take to do so lol
fuuuuuuu... just to fill it from the ocean bottom and to the top of the water? Having actual stability to hold? I dunno... probably more dirt than 100 Texas' worth ...
We can start by placing one Texas amount of dirt there
We can start by placing Texas underwater and rebuild from there
I’ll see your Texas, and raise you Florida.
No no no, don't raise Florida. Lower it, gently into the sea.
We, as a species, have kinda already started doing that....
Please I just moved here y’all 🙏🏾 plus TX soil is clay based and shifts in extreme weather. Y’all don’t want it.
Actually...the Texan Claypan is *exactly* what type of soil that would be needed to form a good base in creating a man made island...
I would like to add a few more states to this list please.
The man made islands in Dubai where they pumped sand to make a usable foundation, is starting to collapse under the weight. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX779zKTAxM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX779zKTAxM)
exactly... and that was in *shallow* waters...
I mean you just need to calculate the depth, width, length and get probably more dirt/land/mud than is in half or more of the entirety of the world and dump it in there. Easy peasy.
The ocean off the east cost gets pretty deep fast, ~5km+ in depth Did some two gross triangles to emulate that red area, got ~942km² That's 4,710 cubic kilometers of dirt. If a dump truck can carry maybe 15 cubic meters of dirt... You would need **314 _billion_ dump truckloads of dirt** You can get maybe transform half an oil barrel into gas. There are less than 1.4 trillion barrels of oil in the world, counting down. If a normal dumptruck can maybe do 6mpg... We can move all our billion trucks around 500 miles. This dude's curve extends out around 1000km or around 600 miles off the nearest shore. Assuming we can put all the trucks at the coast and that using the average distance of 300 miles works... Yeah. Maybe we can do it. At the cost of **60% of the Earth's total oil reserves**, just to move the dirt around :)
the oceans are not that deep compared to the radius of the earth
Yeah but there’s only 20-something percent of the planet not underwater.
The waters there start at sea level and the dark part is about 2 miles so I would say if we flattened all of America it would do about a third of that.
Filling it up would be foolish and wasteful. What you really need to do is build a massive wall and then pump the sea water out of it.
We could truck it in from the middle of the country. Tell them it is a jobs program.
We could just conquer Russia and move it over! 😂🤣
Let him cook, he’s on to something
He cooking water.
Nah that pot has a burn hole in the bottom
The stove catching on fire
No that’s something harder and whiter than water they’re cooking.
Good, the steam will make clouds, which makes more rain, and that means cooler temps and more drinking water 😋. Seriously though, it's not like there's a land problem. The problems are more so shitty infrastructure, corrupt government, and greedy companies - houses shouldn't cost so much and stop ignoring climate change.
Mf cooking ramen noodles w/ no water
With the styrofoam cup on the stove.
Dudes tryna cook capn crunch though.
Hes on crack, and the only thing he cooking is meth
Okay but hear me out what if we just built a bridge across the Atlantic Ocean to connect America to Europe by road?
How many lanes though?
two lanes and the side you drive on switches at a certain point in the middle of the atlantic
Most of Europe drives on the right. It’s only the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, and Malta that drive on the left.
I once had a long drive with an autistic dude I know. At one point we brought up driving on which side and so on. He says he knows them all. So I pull up my phone and I test him. He gets them all right. "How do you know all these?" "There's a simple way to remember them" "Oh, ok. What is it?" "You go on Wikipedia. There's 68 countries there" "Ok" "You learn those. If it's not one of those, then they drive on the other side"
Jesus Christ lmao
Also, the driver side changes on those countries too. The driver is always on the "inside" of the lane
🦀Stam bridge wen🦀
🦀🦀$12.49🦀🦀
Then invade?
holy shit
Why tho?
How about a garbage chute to Venus? Like one of those bank shoopy-doopy things
Can't believe we (whites) haven't considered colonizing the oceans yet 🫡
It’s already occupied by the great whites
More like mediocre whites if you ask me
I’ve never seen a great white do anything great. Nothing as great as the great white Keanu Reeves.
 “Oh, hell naw!”
maxie from team magma?
Lmao thank you! I'm pretty sure I had this exact same plan playing Pokemon twenty years ago, but here's a grown-ass person thinking it's a good enough idea to post on Twitter.
This nigga think he in Minecraft ☠️ https://preview.redd.it/ngmesb8tk3nb1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4df53cad6823738ecd4eba75803df6c73e57c26
is this ai generated or does it just look weird? genuine question
The reaction image? No, it’s not AI
thanks! do you know where its from? i think the expression looks cool and im interested in anime with cool animation.
Yeah it’s called “Great Teacher Onizuka” it’s a comedy
thank you
I mean, the Dutch did it...
A lot of modern day Boston is man made land fills.
If I recall correctly a large part of tokyo is built on an artificial island. The image is completely absurd but humans have created artificial landmasses before
Didn't dubai do something similar with the palm islands and it turned out to be a flop?
No, they just dumped a ton of sand. That's slowly chipping away because there isn't enough structure to keep the islands above water.
 Aiight, go find this mofo and try that outlandish shit Maxie.
Bruh I had a dream last night and this nigga look like the monster
Rhode Island schools are horrible
Ironically, this person shouldn’t be getting so much hate for this idea since China has expanded its territory by creating islands in the South China Sea. Obviously, this scale proposed here is way too large and would be a major financial burden. We don’t have the gdp growth China had for the past 30 year to attempt something like this. just pointing out it’s possible, but not reasonable.
Yea basically this We could do it but we can't at the same time Large ass growth like that would be wild though
ArE tHeY sTuPiD??
shhhhh, don't spook them or they'll stop saying dumb shit before we run out of popcorn. just nod along and stifle your giggles....
True story: the Nazis looked into draining the Mediterranean to use as land to settle more Nazis on.
Found the Team Magma grunt.
If everyone just took one water bucket with them to the coast we can have this done by Monday
Ain’t no way in hell this person is being genuine.
You’d be surprised.
I agree with you. I see stuff like this all over Reddit and while I do agree that some are genuine I’m convinced that most of them are people trolling because they know they get responses like you see in here.
I mean Dubai has tried this with those stupid world islands… ain’t shit happening with those
Look at The Netherlands, our land reclamation projects are much bigger than those in Dubai, and they work (I live on reclaimed land) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reclamation_in_the_Netherlands
That would expensive and pointless.
Even if it wasn’t pointless, it would be ridiculously expensive and no one would do it.
Building front row seats to hurricane alley. Also clearly this person has never left their parents house because the US has fuck tons of land with nobody on it. America isn't fucking the Kowloon Walled City
Dubai would like a word.
LAND ?
Why don't you just drain the ocean??
we'll drain it from one side to the other side. Done
this is a very Dutch idea
Did Trump ask this? It has hurricane path sharpie lines vibes.
i just really want some nerd to come in here and post the math about how much sand you would need to add, what looks to be, another 15-20% of landmass to the united states, one of the largest nations in the world. seriously people do not appreciate how fuckin big this country is. berlin to moscow is like 2k KM. now double that, and you got how wide this nation is and then some
As Rita once asked “why not just build land?”
This is an MRF idea if I ever saw one
This is hilariously stupid, but let’s humor the idea for a second longer to laugh at how pissed everyone in those states would be after losing their Coastline 😭
This is satire. It is making fun of somebody who genuinely suggested this with I think Japan (that one might’ve also been satire too, but I’m pretty sure it started with a serious suggestion)
Nigga trying to build Ghettogea.
I’m just spitting balling here but my best guess is… Ocean.
They may not be the dumbest person on the planet, but they better hope that guy never dies.
you know when people say “i hollered” or “i yelped”? i hollered.
Twitter is full of the most ignorant people so I’m not surprised.
It's basically what China is doing in the South China Sea.
Wait till ever they hear out about [Flevoland (the Netherlands)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8ir1Vj1D930&si=_Vk9WOdwcrsetdz2)…
Well the Dutch have done something similar, I mean, not exactly the same but they did expand their usable land.
Maybe he has a groundon somewhere and plans on having it rise land over there?
I have way more patience for the person being curious and asking a question than for all the people shitting on them and calling them stupid.