It's so easy!

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kata1yst@sh.itjust.works · 130 pts · 203d (11 replies)

Why is it called a Strait with all those curves?!

marcos@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 203d (5 replies)

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 (4 replies)

I have a strait peepee

ceenote@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 203d

So people fight over it?

TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 203d (1 reply)

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 (3 replies)

BOOBS Big, make go up, many many dick

Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 203d (2 replies)

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.

Map of the atlantic ocean. It's oddly curvy

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 (8 replies)

Looking up who controlled that peninsula, I found this lovely feature:

The Oman Donut

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 (3 replies)

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 (3 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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 (4 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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
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vane@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 203d (12 replies)

bang bang it instead of dig dig
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

chaogomu@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 203d (9 replies)

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 (8 replies)

I had heard of cow mutilations as part of tracking prion diseases but this is an interesting version

chaogomu@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 202d (7 replies)

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 (6 replies)

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 (5 replies)

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 (4 replies)

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 (3 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)

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 (4 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)

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 (2 replies)

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 (4 replies)
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humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d (1 reply)

Not with TNT duping and a flying machine. That’s pretty much made for canal digging.

TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
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psud@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 200d (1 reply)

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
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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 (2 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)

But lots of boom boom work.

qualia@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 203d (4 replies)

ELIC (Explain Like I'm Caveman)

Edit: the thumbnail looks like two chimps holding hands

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 203d (2 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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 (3 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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
b0ber@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d (9 replies)

Its possible but will be super expensive

anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 203d (6 replies)

Now if you look at my proposal:
line bypassing the entire straight of oman 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 (1 reply)

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 (3 replies)

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? ... profit some revenue.

Matty_r@programming.dev · 5 pts · 203d

Just put big scoop on boat

Riverside@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 202d
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nexguy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 202d (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)

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
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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