I think they were just talking about curves as in the non-sexual sense: The opposite of straight, where the "straight" is as in the non sexual-orientation sense.
Tho if that's your thing, I can recommend to you the Atlantic Ocean.
Looking up who controlled that peninsula, I found this lovely feature:
The UAE controls a lot of that peninsula, but the tip is controlled by Oman. Halfway down the peninsula is a roughly circular region, inland, that is controlled by Oman, but surrounded by territory controlled by UAE. Inside that circular region is an even smaller circular region controlled by UAE. I wonder how that happened.
These are called Exclaves and there's way more of them than you might think. I think this isn't the only double Exclaves either. There are so many border fuckery things around the world, even in countries you might not expect, I want to make a YouTube video on them, I'm obsessed with finding them on google maps.
Take a look at the border of Nederland and België for an extreme example:
Wow, I knew the border wasn't a straight line, but I didn't realize quite how fractal it was. It's like they interviewed each household and decided on a case-by-case basis who was Belgian and who was Dutch.
If you look closely it's not even house by house. Much of it is just random fields or parts of fields. Maybe houses stood there decades or centuries earlier when the borders were drawn up, IDK
Fun little fact, several underground detonations were carried out in gas fields as an early attempt at fracking. The result was a giant cavity full of radioactively contaminated methane, that didn't even link up to the other two giant cavities full of radioactively contaminated methane.
Overall, massive failure all around. But the fun fact is that areas where those nuclear fracking tests occurred were the same areas where the first mysterious cattle mutilations were reported.
As a further note, local farmers, ranchers, and police were not told about the fracking tests, or the radioactive methane below their feet. Also, the cattle that were mutilated were missing lymph nodes, which could theoretically be tested in a lab for certain radiation based cancers.
Finally, the guy who did the initial investigations on the mutilations was best friends with a member of Air Force Office of Special Investigations who had been actively lying to a very smart yet gullible man, telling him that the strange aircraft and mysterious signals he was getting from the Air Force base across the street was in fact, aliens and not super classified aircraft and weapon systems tests.
It tells the whole story, and yeah, some of the loudest voices in the UFO movement, were literally paid by the US government to lie, saying that top secret weapons tests were actually aliens.
OH that's the same story. I think I watched part 1 of that a while ago. It would seem to me the answer is in El Dorado. Both.
I don't believe Lazar is an acting prodigy who devoted his to an elaborate charade but I'm also certain many of these psyops are real. Mixing lies and truth in creative ways to specific ends is what some of these spooks live for.
I'm not gonna hold your hand through the logistical challenges that would be orchestrating Bob Lazar's life instead here's a body language expert watching his original reel: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DOj_BMFLhrk
I've watched a couple other interviews with Lazar, if he's lying he's better at it than Leonardo DiCaprio. And to seemingly no positive end.
You got me thinking, such a canal could easily be disrupted. Hell, Hormuz is only 26km at the thinnest point and Iran can dominate the whole strait. Picture a bomb hitting the Panama Canal.
To anyone about to pounce on this hoser that apes aren't monkes: all apes are a branch within the monkes and you can't evolve out of a clade (monophyly). So either apes are monkes, or the word ape is synonymous with catarhini (making rhesus macaques also apes), or monkes don't exist. The reason science goes with the first is that monkeys all share similar body plans while us apes have the weird derived features you damn, dirty apes!
Now if you look at my proposal:
At 50m elevation change it is inline with the Panama Canal or the Canal of Corinth and a length below 600km it should be easy doable.
Panama Canal has a natural lake to feed water to the canal locks. Where are you going to get a sufficient water supply for the 50m of elevation in this proposal?
Im sure 2 nation that export lots of fossil fuels will find the energy to pump up ocean water. Nothing could possibly go wrong when pumping salt water inland.
NGL though, I didn't think much that there is a mountain on that jutting peninsula. I based my knowledge of geography of the region from playing Hearts of Iron too much 🤣
98 Comments
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works · 130 pts · 203d
Why is it called a Strait with all those curves?!
marcos@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 203d
Because a long, long time ago some Roman dudes though it was a good idea to make that word mean "thin".
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 53 pts · 203d
I have a strait peepee
ceenote@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 203d
So people fight over it?
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 203d
They call me Crassus the Tuna Can.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 3 pts · 203d
The musk of victory is upon you
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 203d
Ah yes, the Never Given
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 203d
It was easier than saying no homo after Hormuz.
crazycraw@crazypeople.online · -2 pts · 203d
BOOBS Big, make go up, many many dick
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 203d
I think they were just talking about curves as in the non-sexual sense: The opposite of straight, where the "straight" is as in the non sexual-orientation sense.
Tho if that's your thing, I can recommend to you the Atlantic Ocean.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 203d
I... can never unsee that...
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 203d
That's Sohm Plain, alright...
merc@sh.itjust.works · 59 pts · 203d
Looking up who controlled that peninsula, I found this lovely feature:
The UAE controls a lot of that peninsula, but the tip is controlled by Oman. Halfway down the peninsula is a roughly circular region, inland, that is controlled by Oman, but surrounded by territory controlled by UAE. Inside that circular region is an even smaller circular region controlled by UAE. I wonder how that happened.
negativenull@piefed.world · 62 pts · 203d
Kind of like this:

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 203d
Borders are stupid.
Jyek@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 203d
Ah yes, the daylight savings donut. The most confusing bite of desert you'll ever have
merc@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 203d
Wow, that has to be confusing.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 203d
These are called Exclaves and there's way more of them than you might think. I think this isn't the only double Exclaves either. There are so many border fuckery things around the world, even in countries you might not expect, I want to make a YouTube video on them, I'm obsessed with finding them on google maps.
Take a look at the border of Nederland and België for an extreme example:
merc@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 203d
Wow, I knew the border wasn't a straight line, but I didn't realize quite how fractal it was. It's like they interviewed each household and decided on a case-by-case basis who was Belgian and who was Dutch.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 203d
If you look closely it's not even house by house. Much of it is just random fields or parts of fields. Maybe houses stood there decades or centuries earlier when the borders were drawn up, IDK
wabasso@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 202d
https://youtu.be/Vui-qGCfXuA
Maybe you’ve already seen that and are proposing a video covering even more of them, which I would love to watch!
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 203d
It also funnels all the traffic into an even narrower pass that can be easily blocked by a bad actor
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 24 pts · 203d
Why would Carrot Top want to block traffic?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 202d
Or a good one
Or a bad actor going a good job
Or a good actor doing a bad job
dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 201d
Could a stage hand work in a pinch?
Riverside@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 202d
vane@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 203d
bang bang it instead of dig dig
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 203d
Fun little fact, several underground detonations were carried out in gas fields as an early attempt at fracking. The result was a giant cavity full of radioactively contaminated methane, that didn't even link up to the other two giant cavities full of radioactively contaminated methane.
Overall, massive failure all around. But the fun fact is that areas where those nuclear fracking tests occurred were the same areas where the first mysterious cattle mutilations were reported.
As a further note, local farmers, ranchers, and police were not told about the fracking tests, or the radioactive methane below their feet. Also, the cattle that were mutilated were missing lymph nodes, which could theoretically be tested in a lab for certain radiation based cancers.
Finally, the guy who did the initial investigations on the mutilations was best friends with a member of Air Force Office of Special Investigations who had been actively lying to a very smart yet gullible man, telling him that the strange aircraft and mysterious signals he was getting from the Air Force base across the street was in fact, aliens and not super classified aircraft and weapon systems tests.
redsand@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 202d
I had heard of cow mutilations as part of tracking prion diseases but this is an interesting version
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 202d
Part One: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man's Mind | BEHIND THE BASTARDS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8F1HnpeQTo
and
Part Two: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man's Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cD5WETr_DA
It tells the whole story, and yeah, some of the loudest voices in the UFO movement, were literally paid by the US government to lie, saying that top secret weapons tests were actually aliens.
redsand@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 202d
OH that's the same story. I think I watched part 1 of that a while ago. It would seem to me the answer is in El Dorado. Both.
I don't believe Lazar is an acting prodigy who devoted his to an elaborate charade but I'm also certain many of these psyops are real. Mixing lies and truth in creative ways to specific ends is what some of these spooks live for.
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
I mean, it's not hard to keep telling the same sorts of lies for years when people keep paying you to do so.
I'm not talking about the government here, the UFO community is happy to support a number of conmen and fake experts.
redsand@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 202d
An onion of intellectually lazy assumptions.
I'm not gonna hold your hand through the logistical challenges that would be orchestrating Bob Lazar's life instead here's a body language expert watching his original reel: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DOj_BMFLhrk
I've watched a couple other interviews with Lazar, if he's lying he's better at it than Leonardo DiCaprio. And to seemingly no positive end.
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
Of course a "body language expert" is your proof.
I almost died laughing when I saw it.
It's conmen all the way down. It's what they do. They reference each other in a web of "legitimacy".
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 203d
Trump can practice for when he destroys Mt Rushmore.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 203d
Polymarket took that bet down already, you don't have to keep advocating for it
Agent641@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 203d
Straight of Hormuz❤️🧡💛💚💙💜Gay of Hormuz ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
nexguy@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 202d
Dude just speed the ships up and skid over the land (while drifting) and slide back into the water so sick
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 202d
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 201d
Cybran master race
hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 202d
For the family.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 203d
Looks like Operation Plowshare is back on the menu
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 203d
They said ELI5, not ELICaveman
kubica@fedia.io · 16 pts · 203d
Just schedule a few meteorites to fall there and you don't have to spend so much in terrain modifications.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 203d
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 203d
Ah, yes.
Let's start a major infrastructure project... in the middle of a warzone that is actively being hit by precision missile strikes on an regular basis.
While a pipeline in this location might make more sense... its still the same fundamental problem.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
You got me thinking, such a canal could easily be disrupted. Hell, Hormuz is only 26km at the thinnest point and Iran can dominate the whole strait. Picture a bomb hitting the Panama Canal.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 203d
I mean yeah, all fixed, exposed surface infrastucture is generally quite fragile.
Wanna start a forever war with China?
Blow up the Three Gorges Dam, you'll kill like 10 million people, minimum.
But uh yeah, if Iran can figure out some kind of way to stealthily lay out naval mines ... yeah that ain't great.
Or they could aim for the existing oil pipelines meant to avoid the Hormuz bottleneck.
Or maybe aim at the Saudi/UAE/Dubai's mega vanity projects, just to fuck with their investments and ego.
AwakenedAce@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 203d
there basically is a pipeline in this location
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 202d
Huh!
Well, I... hope it has a big strong hat, or something like that.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 202d
Pfft. Why bother with this stupid sea travel bs? We have airplanes, just fly the oil out.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
Nah. Planes are too expensive. Let's just have a giant oil canon that shoots oil in a huge fluid arc from the Middle East to markets.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 202d
Hot air balloon and then you can burn the oil as fuel.
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 203d
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
Not with TNT duping and a flying machine. That’s pretty much made for canal digging.
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
psud@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 200d
Two hundred thousand blocks by 150 blocks, then filled with water 20 blocks deep. It'll take a bit of time even using perimeter machines
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 200d
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 203d
Where is that located in the world?
Edit: Ah, between Saudi Arabia to the south and Iran to the north, my bad
Hupf@feddit.org · 7 pts · 202d
Also it should be called the Bendy of Hormuz
4am@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 203d
The problem is that the map has two more dimensions than the original poster’s mind can think in
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
You can see time on this map?
4am@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 201d
Todd just has zero-dimensional takes; they’re (probably) someone else’s and he’s put no thought into repeating them
dumbass@piefed.social · 7 pts · 203d
But lots of boom boom work.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 203d
https://www.osti.gov/opennet/servlets/purl/453701.pdf
qualia@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 203d
ELIC (Explain Like I'm Caveman)
Edit: the thumbnail looks like two chimps holding hands
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 203d
Explain like I'm 5 million years ago. (Well, 500,000 is more like it, but there's no nifty name for that, so a chat with monke it is)
qualia@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
To anyone about to pounce on this hoser that apes aren't monkes: all apes are a branch within the monkes and you can't evolve out of a clade (monophyly). So either apes are monkes, or the word ape is synonymous with catarhini (making rhesus macaques also apes), or monkes don't exist. The reason science goes with the first is that monkeys all share similar body plans while us apes have the weird derived features you damn, dirty apes!
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 0 pts · 202d
Thank you, although I feel like using the meme spelling offered some protection anyway.
Also public service announcement that pachyderm is no longer a category of any meaning. I made a wet of myself with that one, once.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 1 pts · 203d
Unga bunga, dig long cave!
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 203d
Fuck it add some loopty loops like a curly straw add some barrel rolls and a turn pike. Gotta give the ships something to do
vodka@feddit.org · 6 pts · 203d
Why not tunnel?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stad_Ship_Tunnel
(not that this will ever make it out of bureaucratic hell)
WoefulPeanut@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 203d
The line he drew is 200km
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 202d
Swiss: hold my beer
squaresinger@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 202d
Just imagine the Ever Given floats into that tunnel.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 203d
Operation Plowshare 2: Middle East Boogaloo
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 203d
Project plowshare 2?
b0ber@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d
Its possible but will be super expensive
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 203d
Now if you look at my proposal:
At 50m elevation change it is inline with the Panama Canal or the Canal of Corinth and a length below 600km it should be easy doable.
matlag@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 202d
Now you need to balance the cost of building that vs bombing the shit out of Iran. Manly men like Hegseth know the answer!
brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 202d
Ok, but hear me out: We drop the bombs all along this line instead! Iirc Alaska was planning (or did?) this with nukes 💀
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
Panama Canal has a natural lake to feed water to the canal locks. Where are you going to get a sufficient water supply for the 50m of elevation in this proposal?
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 202d
Im sure 2 nation that export lots of fossil fuels will find the energy to pump up ocean water. Nothing could possibly go wrong when pumping salt water inland.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d
I mean, the ships are coming from the ocean, just tell them to bring some of that water along for the trip.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 202d
tunnel down far enough under desert? Use oil they can't sell to power pumps? ...
profitsome revenue.Matty_r@programming.dev · 5 pts · 203d
Just put big scoop on boat
Riverside@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 202d
nexguy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 202d
Don't even worry about canals and all that bs. Just go that way what are they gonna do about it?
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
Ahh, the Republican tactic
bearboiblake@pawb.social · 4 pts · 203d
found the Wurm Online player
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 203d
NGL though, I didn't think much that there is a mountain on that jutting peninsula. I based my knowledge of geography of the region from playing Hearts of Iron too much 🤣
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 202d
Bro there's mountains there in HOI
Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 203d
Imagine the money went into that canal instead of a 20 mile long feverdream of a livingspace.
The idea is good im not joking.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 2 pts · 202d
Is it tho
PugJesus@piefed.social · 3 pts · 203d
Diggy hard
13igTyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 203d
Dynamite go boom. Make hole.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 203d
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 202d
I like the idea that this guy isn't doing a bit and just treats every 5 year old he meets like a caveman
tackleberry@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 202d
No need for that when you finally take down Putin. In less than 2 years from now, Vladimir Putin will be history.
Depress_Mode@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 203d
m3t00@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 202d
stay in territorial waters. same effect with no digging. zealots going to attack regardless
https://maps.app.goo.gl/d9JFAvYGcCnmqXZv7