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[–] Monument@piefed.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Bugs bunny sawing off Florida, but it’s most of the Americas.

Similarly, the Rio Grande is pretty shallow, and doesn’t go all the way across. It would take a cartoonish amount of effort to get that done.
It may actually be easier to build a giant solar mirror and use it to melt a path through the Arctic ice, or to hoist the boats into sextouple-wide train tracks and literally run an overland boat train, or possibly to use the money to try to invent teleportation (they would probably fail, but the discoveries generated in their failure would at least be more useful for humanity).

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Imagine the amount of work it'd take just for maintenance of a 2800-mile-long canal big enough for ships. And the logistics of one broke down in the middle. And...

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

My first thought was I believe people wade across the rio grande at parts.