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Did you know that an idea was floated in the 1920s to drain the Mediterranean and thereby expand Europe?http://io9.com/5794669/a-plan-from-the-1920s-to-drain-the-mediterranean-sea-and-create-the-nation-of-atlantropa
How in the heck would they have accomplished that?
It seems they were big on imagination, short on means back in the day. Think of all the amazing predictions that people had back then about the future; they were pretty grand, I must say.
Given that the med flows out into the Atlantic, how were they going to divert all the rivers that flow into it to dry it out?
Good question. Perhaps a moat/channel around the outside? I'm guessing they would need to keep some lakes anyway in places with the greatest depth. Seems like an excessively ambitious plan, doesn't it? Had they done it, they could have made a fortune off all the ancient loot discovered at the bottom!
That would be pretty cool to find all the ships at the bottom of that particular sea.
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