• enkers
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    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!

      • Cyrus Draegur
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        151 year ago

        We will as the sea levels rise. Displacing more water will also NOT help…

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Put the spare water into orbit, where it’ll freeze and give us rings like Saturn!

          Omg let’s do that anyway

          • Cyrus Draegur
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            11 year ago

            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…?

        • mosiacmango
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          Just put it where the mountains used to be in a mountain shaped container.

          Easy.

          • Cyrus Draegur
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            61 year ago

            Ah yes, the alchemical art of literally transmuting H2O into SiO2 that everyone knows.

  • @[email protected]
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    321 year ago

    Basically every coastal city in the US has significantly added to their land by doing exactly this (obviously far less…)

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      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

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    671 year ago

    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

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    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!

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    It would work better on the west coast, tbh. Ecological disaster, aside from practicality issues.