Half of it would be The South, though.
As in, it the South would literally have to rise?
Just trigger an ice age. Sea levels will drop. Plus think of all the extra ice you can live on.
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.
Did I hear nuclear winter??
Superman. Superman’s stopping us. The deadbeat dad version.
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.
Coles notes ending reveal
The plan was pretty half baked and perhaps a bit of a venture capital cash grab attempt, and it turns out that nations also don’t much like the idea of independent micronations popping up near their adjacent sea areas. The video is still very worth a watch if it sounds interesting!
Edit: YT link is fixed. Thanks!
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?
It seems you put the Wikipedia link twice
Should be fixed now, thanks for the heads up!
Maybe this was why Trump wanted to buy Greenland lol
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Interestingly, lack of land.
Do we really need all these mountains?
We will as the sea levels rise. Displacing more water will also NOT help…
Put the spare water into orbit, where it’ll freeze and give us rings like Saturn!
Omg let’s 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 quickly… 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 system…?
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.
No, no, you don’t understand. It’s not displacing, it’s replacing. Less water, more land.
Ah yes, the alchemical art of literally transmuting H2O into SiO2 that everyone knows.
Basically every coastal city in the US has significantly added to their land by doing exactly this (obviously far less…)
Boston is a crazy example of this. Original Boston is so insanely different than what’s currently there. It’s like 75% of the damn city used to be ocean lol
I mean, we probably could, but it’d be immensely expensive and also why?
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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!
Hold on y’all, we -justyoulistenhere- get a buncha bulldozers and push thems dirt into the water, just like Ja-apan did right? And get this! Then there’s MORE AMERICA!
Clearly never been to Boston
Couple 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. Ecological disaster, aside from practicality issues.