What Would Happen If We Drained the Mediterranean Sea?

[+ Avalon]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa

 

I remember reading this book in school. I was finally able to buy a copy.

 

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/books/ley-engineers-dreams-2009.html

[Kippy]

Imagine the treasure to be had!

 

Kipp

[+ E.T.Bass]

What if they moved the Rocky Mountains to Wisconsin!!??

Edited August 3, 2018 by E.T.Bass

[+ sync]

Draining the swamp in DC has been counterproductive thus far.

[Mocha]

I'm kinda focusing locally considering we've gotten like 200% over of our rainfall totals and warming doesn't seem to be slowing up:

 

[+ WilliamM]

Draining the swamp in DC has been counterproductive thus far.

 

Yes. And all that water from the Mediterranean has to go some place. Salt water. Africia would not survive. Neither would Italy and Monaco.

[+ WilliamM]

Imagine the treasure to be had!

 

Kipp

 

All that supposed treaure would be nothing but salt and bones. The real finds more likely in lakes in places like Norway and espially Sweden.

Edited August 4, 2018 by WilliamM

[Guy Fawkes]

Moses would get upset?

 

[+ WilliamM]

Too bad William Buckley is gone. He would chosen the Baltic to get rid of Leningrad and Stockholm.

 

Putin still calls St. Petersburg by its Soviet name.

[+ Tarte Gogo]

Putin still calls St. Petersburg by its Soviet name.

This is really interesting, I know he was born there in 52, but I didn’t know he hadn’t’accepted the new name. Where did you read this, if you remember?

My google-fu fails me on this one, only brings “Putin was born in Leningrad” articles.

[+ WilliamM]

This is really interesting, I know he was born there in 52, but I didn’t know he hadn’t’accepted the new name. Where did you read this, if you remember?

My google-fu fails me on this one, only brings “Putin was born in Leningrad” articles.

 

Not sure, probably the New York Times. The article was about Putin's liking Chris Wallace upcoming (then) visit to Petersburg.

[mike carey]

What would be really odd would be if someone called in Petrograd.

 

For me, one of the transformational moments was when Russia reverted the name of Leningrad to St Petersburg and the Russian navy commissioned a ship called Пётр Великий (Peter the Great).