We could even use small-yield nukes to blast the canal into existence. One thing I learned when I served in the US military in Panama back in the day was that the Pacific ocean is 20cm higher than the Caribbean Sea, so without any locks, there would be a constant river flowing west to east.
Problems,
1)The nukes would kill too many cartel members near the border.
2)Gov. Newscam would make a killing charging passage fees.
3) Illegals would drown, causing WW condemnation.
4)All celebrities& politicians would have to give up all their assets to pay for the project.
All you would have to do is put a mote type system through the North passage and fill it with a shit load of antifreeze. I don't think there's any danger of cats drinking it up there where it's so cold.
The one flaw is that is if all the polar ice caps were melted permanently, I'm not sure there would be as much demand for a short cut as traffic would just be sent through the north passage.
I have heard some people say that all would be needed to do to take out panama canal would be to target missile and take out lake Gatun, which is source of canals water.
My question is why the heck can't they just use sea water? Well the answer is because the lake water is gravity fed to fill canal, and sea water would have to be pumped in.
But why couldn't you just dig the canal at the same level all the way through so no locks would be needed, and have a toll booth at each end where the ship would just have a bar code on the side where the reader would read its transit, the gate would open up like on Blazing Saddles, and a bill would be sent. Or if the shipping company bought a yearly passage membership, the would just buzz on through. Pleasure craft captains would just chunk a shit load of coins into the basket? (ha ha) Today they'd probably have to have a swim lane, or paddle lane, like a bike lane that's along the roadway for the environmental wackos that wanted to swim, or row through.
"I have heard some people say that all would be needed to do to take out panama canal would be to target missile and take out lake Gatun, which is source of canals water."
During training done in 70s and 80s it was determined the canals were impossible to defend. We had 2 teams one defense and one insurgents. Conditions for victory were simple. Team 1 kill all of team 2. Team 2 get a RPG within attack range of any lock. Team 2 lost once in 15 years that I know of.
This is way too long. The location of the Panama Canal was the short distance between the Atlantic and the Pacific and the small difference in elevation. This plan is about 2000 miles long and goes from sea level to a mountainous region over 1500 feet in elevation, then back to sea level. It would be an ambitious plan that would take more than a lifetime to build and cost more than quoted.
Not to mention the folks who might have an interest in that huge swath of territory. I think OP is using that most provocative of verbal tools: sarcasm.
Any river that flows can become a huge lake/reservoir over time.
Interesting unrelated point: 1/5 of all the fresh water that drains into the world oceans flows through the Amazon river delta. 224,000 cu meter/sec
The force of the current causes Amazon River water to continue flowing 125 miles out to sea before mixing with Atlantic salt water. Early sailors could drink fresh water out of the ocean before sighting the South American continent.
Amazon river has Over 100 dams, but no bridges.
40% of all water in South America ends up in Amazon.
it would create jobs on either side of the border/canal as ships passing through would likely disembark multiple times between one end and the other.
The ecofascists would of course through a bitch-fit, which is nothing new, but you might even get sane conservationists looking askance at the project, though... =/
edit: The biggest reason i'd be hesitant to support the project is the eminent domain issue...a lot of private property on both sides would have to be siezed, both for the canal and associated support infrastructure and for the construction itself.
I always joked that they should turn the American consulate into an HEB so the Mexicans wouldn’t have to come all the way across to get their welfare groceries. Somehow they lived in Mexico but received welfare benefits and would come over to the border store and load up and then go home.
We could even use small-yield nukes to blast the canal into existence. One thing I learned when I served in the US military in Panama back in the day was that the Pacific ocean is 20cm higher than the Caribbean Sea, so without any locks, there would be a constant river flowing west to east.
Maybe add a few strategically to the San Andreas fault and give communifornia a nudge west...put it out of our misery...win win win
Problems, 1)The nukes would kill too many cartel members near the border. 2)Gov. Newscam would make a killing charging passage fees. 3) Illegals would drown, causing WW condemnation. 4)All celebrities& politicians would have to give up all their assets to pay for the project.
We have the whole Mediteranean sea in Europe... doesn't stop migrants 😟
Build one on the Northern Border as well…🤔
Humm wouldn't that affect the great lakes? Unless they put in lots of locks.
All you would have to do is put a mote type system through the North passage and fill it with a shit load of antifreeze. I don't think there's any danger of cats drinking it up there where it's so cold.
i think it would be better to fill it with lava. In minecraft moats of lava stop the bad guys much better than moats of water.
The soap, or the igneous liquid rock?
🤣🤣
Excellent sarcasm!
I caught that too!
except the ice caps are only melting in Gretta's mind...
u/#howdareyou
That is a "Hell of an Idea". HA!
The one flaw is that is if all the polar ice caps were melted permanently, I'm not sure there would be as much demand for a short cut as traffic would just be sent through the north passage.
I have heard some people say that all would be needed to do to take out panama canal would be to target missile and take out lake Gatun, which is source of canals water.
My question is why the heck can't they just use sea water? Well the answer is because the lake water is gravity fed to fill canal, and sea water would have to be pumped in.
But why couldn't you just dig the canal at the same level all the way through so no locks would be needed, and have a toll booth at each end where the ship would just have a bar code on the side where the reader would read its transit, the gate would open up like on Blazing Saddles, and a bill would be sent. Or if the shipping company bought a yearly passage membership, the would just buzz on through. Pleasure craft captains would just chunk a shit load of coins into the basket? (ha ha) Today they'd probably have to have a swim lane, or paddle lane, like a bike lane that's along the roadway for the environmental wackos that wanted to swim, or row through.
"I have heard some people say that all would be needed to do to take out panama canal would be to target missile and take out lake Gatun, which is source of canals water."
During training done in 70s and 80s it was determined the canals were impossible to defend. We had 2 teams one defense and one insurgents. Conditions for victory were simple. Team 1 kill all of team 2. Team 2 get a RPG within attack range of any lock. Team 2 lost once in 15 years that I know of.
Actually scuttling a couple big ships in the canal would defeat canal, right?
Damage to the locks that stopped them from closing may require draining the whole thing to repair is what I was told.
But this map doesn't show how Mexico and Egypt swapped places, according to Biden.
This is way too long. The location of the Panama Canal was the short distance between the Atlantic and the Pacific and the small difference in elevation. This plan is about 2000 miles long and goes from sea level to a mountainous region over 1500 feet in elevation, then back to sea level. It would be an ambitious plan that would take more than a lifetime to build and cost more than quoted.
Yea but you have to consider the technology that existed during panama canal dig.
Not to mention the folks who might have an interest in that huge swath of territory. I think OP is using that most provocative of verbal tools: sarcasm.
BRILLIANT!!!
We need to annex Mexico and Canada that would solve a lot of problems
Game changer!
Take the 30 million illegals and give them a shovel. That shit is a wrap after a week lol.
Not to mention the tens of thousands of people it would employ.
Cannot tell if this is retarded or brilliant...
Water that fills the canal comes directly from the oceans, lowering sea level, helping to combat muh climate change
You wouldn't have to use polar ice melt.
Any river that flows can become a huge lake/reservoir over time.
Interesting unrelated point: 1/5 of all the fresh water that drains into the world oceans flows through the Amazon river delta. 224,000 cu meter/sec
The force of the current causes Amazon River water to continue flowing 125 miles out to sea before mixing with Atlantic salt water. Early sailors could drink fresh water out of the ocean before sighting the South American continent.
Amazon river has Over 100 dams, but no bridges.
40% of all water in South America ends up in Amazon.
honestly, this would help mexico as well.
it would create jobs on either side of the border/canal as ships passing through would likely disembark multiple times between one end and the other.
The ecofascists would of course through a bitch-fit, which is nothing new, but you might even get sane conservationists looking askance at the project, though... =/
edit: The biggest reason i'd be hesitant to support the project is the eminent domain issue...a lot of private property on both sides would have to be siezed, both for the canal and associated support infrastructure and for the construction itself.
Bye-bye Brownsville and San Diego, but I like the sentiment.
I used to live there.
I always joked that they should turn the American consulate into an HEB so the Mexicans wouldn’t have to come all the way across to get their welfare groceries. Somehow they lived in Mexico but received welfare benefits and would come over to the border store and load up and then go home.
Brownsville or San Diego?
I know there's a big border city in New Mexico, but I'm from Texas, so Brownsville came to mind first.