Flying SquidM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world • 1 year agoWhy has no one thought of this before?!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1770arrow-down114
arrow-up1756arrow-down1imageWhy has no one thought of this before?!lemmy.worldFlying SquidM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world • 1 year agomessage-square63fedilink
minus-square@NIB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•1 year agoThats literally what China is doing atm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_Sand
minus-squareFlying SquidOPMlinkfedilink13•1 year agoI wouldn’t call creating some artificial islands with sand is ‘literally’ doubling the size of a continent into the ocean.
minus-square@A_A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•1 year agoThat was just a tiny first step … give it a few thousand years and some cement mixed in with the sand. Of course we would need many thousand years without big wars… which is not sure, and far from it.
Thats literally what China is doing atm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_Sand
I wouldn’t call creating some artificial islands with sand is ‘literally’ doubling the size of a continent into the ocean.
That was just a tiny first step … give it a few thousand years and some cement mixed in with the sand.
Of course we would need many thousand years without big wars… which is not sure, and far from it.
Dubai beat them to the idea.