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Preston Waters posted:how the gently caress I'm guessing about as possible as dismantling Mt Everest rock by rock; theoretically possible, but good luck actually doing it. It'd be interesting to see the math on how deep the channel would be and how much it would cost, though...
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AnoHito posted:I'm guessing about as possible as dismantling Mt Everest rock by rock; theoretically possible, but good luck actually doing it. they’d have to deal with the trench in the Irish Sea where the Brits dumped their chemical weapons and nuclear waste in the 50s
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Sep 12, 2019 18:54
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Preston Waters posted:how the gently caress how loving dumb are you
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Goa Tse-tung posted:how loving dumb are you oh please filling up the Irish Sea is easier than the plans to drain the Mediterranean
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AnoHito posted:I'm guessing about as possible as dismantling Mt Everest rock by rock; theoretically possible, but good luck actually doing it.
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really disappointed boris didn’t have liz refuse assent on that bill, what a bitch
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the bitcoin of weed posted:wasn't bojo going to be arrested for treason against the crown did that get dropped no that was a rowdy scotsman threatening a citizens arrest
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Sep 12, 2019 18:59
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a modest proposal
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Raskolnikov38 posted:oh please filling up the Irish Sea is easier than the plans to drain the Mediterranean it's even easier to drain the entirety of the Great Lakes to fire one giant laser at your enemies
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Sep 12, 2019 19:07
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lots of bremoaners itt if it was up to you we never would have build the Suez or the panama channel. I bet you all never even hosed a pig
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:no that was a rowdy scotsman threatening a citizens arrest how do i support this patriot
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Sep 12, 2019 19:14
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Preston Waters posted:how the gently caress Certainly not with this attitude.
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Victory Position posted:it's even easier to drain the entirety of the Great Lakes to fire one giant laser at your enemies We've set one of them on fire, so work is in progress.
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Sep 12, 2019 19:18
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genericnick posted:Certainly not with this attitude. I’ll get the glitter and fax machine
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Sep 12, 2019 19:19
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happyhippy posted:Cheaper to just kill us all and blame the french. Pinter already did it https://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/20...y-trump-nuclear
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Sep 12, 2019 19:20
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ArmZ posted:a modest proposal I also assume the source of the image was satirical
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it would probably be like 1.5 trillion lamo
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I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to build a bridge, bigger ones have been done before - but it'd cost about 5x as much as he's saying.
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Sep 12, 2019 19:23
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Doccykins posted:Pinter already did it wtf how real is this
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Thom12255 posted:I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to build a bridge, bigger ones have been done before - but it'd cost about 5x as much as he's saying. It's not about the size of the bridge, it's about the peoples it brings together
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Thom12255 posted:I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to build a bridge, bigger ones have been done before longer, yes, but not deeper. cf the engineer's tweet listing the ludicrousness of it.
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I like how the bridge plan makes absolutely no sense, as even the current longest bridge, Oresund, initially terminates onto an artificial island before descending into a tunnel into an island near Copenhagen it works due to the Schengen Agreement, allowing for the construction of such an artificial island between Sweden and Denmark, but I guess Johnson didn't really think it out, so he's imagining a literal Brooklyn Bridge that's like 22 miles long
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Victory Position posted:I like how the bridge plan makes absolutely no sense, as even the current longest bridge, Oresund, initially terminates onto an artificial island before descending into a tunnel into an island near Copenhagen
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Also due to the depth of the trench, it would have to be almost a mile high. Imagine building something that's held up by pillars a mile high in an area that is incredibly prone to violent storms and if anything goes wrong you are 10 miles away from any land in the middle of the ocean.
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Dravs posted:Also due to the depth of the trench, it would have to be almost a mile high. Imagine building something that's held up by pillars a mile high in an area that is incredibly prone to violent storms and if anything goes wrong you are 10 miles away from any land in the middle of the ocean. I did try to find information concerning the depth of pylons driven into the sea in order to make Oresund work, but came up empty. On the plus side, this is a return to Victorian Age work safety catastrophe, only magnified by some exponential amount!
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Sep 12, 2019 19:48
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Dravs posted:Also due to the depth of the trench, it would have to be almost a mile high. Imagine building something that's held up by pillars a mile high in an area that is incredibly prone to violent storms and if anything goes wrong you are 10 miles away from any land in the middle of the ocean. I bet you'd get a few cars every year that got washed into the ocean. Not my idea of a good time.
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i cannot believe you would all disparage england's can-do blitz spirit like this. everything is world war 2 and you cannot convince me otherwise
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Sep 12, 2019 19:54
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Just fill up the trench with the Dead Of Brexit, old chap.
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Dravs posted:if anything goes wrong you are 10 miles away from any land in the middle of the ocean. on a bridge built on top of 1.5m tons of abandoned assorted unexploded ordnance
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Sep 12, 2019 19:56
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we won world war 2, incidentally. it was all us
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:we won world war 2, incidentally. it was all us I was listening to a podcast the other day, and they quoted somebody who said "British people eat like the Germans are still flying overhead". I thought that was a pretty good line -- they really get off on the WWII flashbacks. (I am not saying the US is any better, so settle down, you eggs and beans.  )
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If you think the border between Ireland and the north has problems now, you just try and create an umbilical cord joining us to the loving UK. It would be an utter clusterfuck of a warzone. I mean aside from the idea being loving stupid in the first place
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Serious question, what's up with the bridge? Is there some kind of legal loop hole in the magna carta that makes everything reachable by ox legally part of the crown or something?
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GABA ghoul posted:Serious question, what's up with the bridge? Is there some kind of legal loop hole in the magna carta that makes everything reachable by ox legally part of the crown or something? Boris likes bridges. He spent a lot of money on a stupid bridge that never got built when he was mayor of london as well.
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prefect posted:I was listening to a podcast the other day, and they quoted somebody who said "British people eat like the Germans are still flying overhead". I thought that was a pretty good line -- they really get off on the WWII flashbacks. some of us can go days without thinking about world war 2, but yes, it's very much the go-to reminiscence for the Elds i think it's because it was the last time people were actually valued by the state as more than just piggie banks or votes. sort of like after the bubonic plague. i have not put any thought into this
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Dravs posted:Also due to the depth of the trench, it would have to be almost a mile high. Imagine building something that's held up by pillars a mile high in an area that is incredibly prone to violent storms and if anything goes wrong you are 10 miles away from any land in the middle of the ocean. I will not be imagining that nightmare tyvm
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AnoHito posted:I'm guessing about as possible as dismantling Mt Everest rock by rock; theoretically possible, but good luck actually doing it. I tried some napkin math there. The irish sea is 160m deep around that area, and that area marked on the map is roughly 742km squared. Something like a kerbillion pyramids worth of earth. And then again, you are loving ruining Loch Neagh. But on the bright side, my home town may have a canal beside it.
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