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What America really needs(lemmy.world)

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jet@hackertalks.com
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Bonus question: would this make a new continent?

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RedCarCastle@aussie.zone
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Would the north and south go to war again for control?

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jet@hackertalks.com
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We’d have to change all the names!

Canada’s pants become Canada shorts and Canada socks

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kylie_kraft@lemmy.world
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we’re already on the edge of civil war over clumps of undifferentiated cells and pronouns. absolutely yes

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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Yes, but not for slavery this time, but for fresh water in the decades ahead of climate change. Those freshwater Great Lakes will be awfully attractive 100 years from now.

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HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world
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The south doesn’t believe in climate change so they won’t mind right, right?

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Gladaed@feddit.de
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No, it would not. There already are waterways splitting North America into multiple large pieces.

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Successful_Try543@feddit.de
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Then you’d need to dig really, really deep. Even deeper than where the Balrog lives.

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moriquende@lemmy.world
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as long as you don’t do it greedily you should be fine

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constantokra@lemmy.one
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This is the United States we’re talking about.

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Ephera@lemmy.ml
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Nope, the continental plate would not be separated by a river flowing over top.

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onion@feddit.de
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Continents are not defined by tectonic plates, for example Eurasia is separated by an imaginary line. There is no universally agreed upon definition of what exactly earths continents are either.

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argh_another_username@lemmy.ca
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Well, the Panama Canal is exactly that, built mostly that way.

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Rayspekt@lemmy.world
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Panama Canal is the biggest NIMBY project ever

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Serinus@lemmy.world
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Because it was built at the thinnest part of the content and used existing lakes?

Pretty sure Omaha would have loved an East\West canal across the continent.

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Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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Because it wasn’t done for or with the approval of locals

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HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world
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It connected several lakes in the narrowest part of the continent. Not ‘exactly that’ at all

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dariusj18@lemmy.world
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And if abandoned halfway we could just turn it into a park.

The Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway follows the path of the abandoned Cross Florida Barge Canal.

https://www.floridastateparks.org/learn/history-cross-florida-greenway

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aeronmelon@lemmy.worldM
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“I get my kicks… on Canal 66.”

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jackhp95@lemmy.world
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Literally described the Mississippi river.

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Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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If we could connect the Missouri to the Snake River we could do pretty much the same thing. There’s a seaport in Idaho already

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grue@lemmy.world
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Technically, it’s already done!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parting_of_the_Waters

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Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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Time to get dredging!

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jballs@sh.itjust.works
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Except the map makes it look like a thousand times wider than the Mississippi.

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