• BarqsHasBite
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    4 months ago

    I hate maps that don’t have North as up. Why why why.

    As for this, usually there are rivers that drain into seas. You need to have a plan for those too. Here is the drainage basin for the baltic sea:

    So no not feasible.

    • @[email protected]
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      84 months ago

      Alternate plan (as it would be a shame to waste a dam): Keep the dam, flood the Baltic sea until Kaliningrad is under water?

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      But there’s a chance that, cut off from the sea, the water collected wouldn’t be enough to offset losses (evaporation, etc), right? Kind of like how the Mediterranean was dry when it was cut off from the Atlantic?

      • @[email protected]
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        104 months ago

        Well, no, its too far north for that to happen.

        A telling sign is that the baltic sea gets less salty the further you go away from its connection to the north sea. That means that the water is flowing out of the baltic sea, so putting a dam there would only slowly rise the sea level.

  • @[email protected]
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    404 months ago

    Completely unfeasable, Denmark doesn’t understand the concept of funding infrastructure unless its highways

    • @[email protected]
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      144 months ago

      Instead of draining it, they could build the dam between Finland and Estonia, to force them to sail the long way around Scandinavia to reach it.

    • cobysev
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      104 months ago

      Have you ever tried to drive a tank through soft muddy terrain? Those tanks will sink into the muck at the bottom and be stuck.

    • @[email protected]
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      64 months ago

      Well, when the land forces are positioned equidistant from each shore, release the damns and flood the fuckers.

  • @[email protected]
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    184 months ago

    There was once a proposal to dry up the Mediterranean to make more land. Turns out that if the insane plan was implemented it would have laid waste to all of Europe.

  • Suzune
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    134 months ago

    Dude, there are some people who are enjoying their holidays at the sea.

  • Lord Wiggle
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    64 months ago

    Technically not possible. It’s easier to build a dyke between Poland and Lithuania and between Estonia and Finland.