I'm not proposing this as an actual solution, it's just a dumb idea. But if we dug a huge, wide hole at the bottom of the ocean, or maybe widened the Mariana Trench or something, could that extra space make the sea levels drop enough to keep the land from flooding?

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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (9 children)

The energy required to lift that amount of rock from the seabed to above the surface would be impractical. But good news! It doesn't need to be from the bottom of the sea, just a part below the desired waterline. So we can dig these big holes you want right off the coastline and then, as a bonus, use the materials as landfill to raise or extend the current coastline. Still wildly impractical, but much less so than digging at the bottom.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Still more practical than musk rat going to mars though.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I say we still do that one, though. As long as he goes, personally.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sounds like... Dykes. See: The Netherlands.

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