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[Mel_Vixen]

So i was browsing through the news on Reuters and found this little gem. Some of you have done similiar in DF but if the netherlands really pull that off and build this 2000 meters or ~1.25 miles high Mountain it would be one of the Dwarfiest projects - not to mention the highest "building" - in the world.

I atleast wonder what it takes to build real looking mountain and what kind of consequences it would have. It could influence the weather and climate for some regions around the mountain for example.

The 2 most pressing questions would be:

1) How could it be made dwarfier
2) Whats next? 

[Oliolli]

1) How could it be made dwarfier

Make it an artificial, working active volcano.

[Man of Paper]

Litter it with the corpses of elves.


And then we dig too deep.

[Mister Always]

What's next? What's next?

We smoke some weed and watch Ajax-PSV. Duh.

[Raging Mouse]

Fun fact: The Netherlands is sinking. It's due to the last ice age -all those kilometers of ice above Scandinavia pushed down the local tectonic plate there, and the plate under the Netherlands rose up like the other end of a seesaw. When the ice age ended, and the ice melted, all that weight was removed, and the land has been slowly returning to equilibrium ever since -the land in Scandinavia is rising, and the land around the Netherlands is sinking.

Knowing this, I wonder just what effect a 2,000 meter high mountain placed there would have.

[Mister Always]

Fun fact: The Netherlands is sinking. It's due to the last ice age -all those kilometers of ice above Scandinavia pushed down the local tectonic plate there, and the plate under the Netherlands rose up like the other end of a seesaw. When the ice age ended, and the ice melted, all that weight was removed, and the land has been slowly returning to equilibrium ever since -the land in Scandinavia is rising, and the land around the Netherlands is sinking.

Knowing this, I wonder just what effect a 2,000 meter high mountain placed there would have.

What? This is terrible! If Nederland sinks, it could change the climate in such a way that we won't be able to grow any more pot ;(

(Also: it's "Dutchmen", not "Netherlanders". In English, at least. In Dutch, it actually is "Netherlanders", but...fuck it, the English made up their stupid shit, so now stick to it.)

[LordMelvin]

Knowing this, I wonder just what effect a 2,000 meter high mountain placed there would have.

Won't somebody think of the Fjords?

[cephalo]

I can't find in the article any reason for doing this except a mention of skiing. That is also very dwarfy.

[Rowanas]

It's a proper mega-construction. Gets the immigrant workers busy, serves no real purpose and is a wild swing at the cruelty of nature.

[BigD145]

It's a proper mega-construction. Gets the immigrant workers busy, serves no real purpose and is a wild swing at the cruelty of nature.

Nature will likely become much more cruel on the downwind side of that mountain.

[hermes]

Fun fact: The Netherlands is sinking. It's due to the last ice age -all those kilometers of ice above Scandinavia pushed down the local tectonic plate there, and the plate under the Netherlands rose up like the other end of a seesaw. When the ice age ended, and the ice melted, all that weight was removed, and the land has been slowly returning to equilibrium ever since -the land in Scandinavia is rising, and the land around the Netherlands is sinking.

Knowing this, I wonder just what effect a 2,000 meter high mountain placed there would have.

It will provide them with a sea-locked mountain home when the rest of the country actually does sink.

[Lagslayer]

It's a hermit challenge! At least until we invent boats.

[bombzero]

Fun fact: The Netherlands is sinking. It's due to the last ice age -all those kilometers of ice above Scandinavia pushed down the local tectonic plate there, and the plate under the Netherlands rose up like the other end of a seesaw. When the ice age ended, and the ice melted, all that weight was removed, and the land has been slowly returning to equilibrium ever since -the land in Scandinavia is rising, and the land around the Netherlands is sinking.

Knowing this, I wonder just what effect a 2,000 meter high mountain placed there would have.

well how heavy would a massive pile of rock like that be? tectonic plates are unimaginably heavy so i cant think it would do too much.

[Raging Mouse]

They are quite colossal, indeed, but for all their apparent solidity they are still essentially floating like a broken ice sheet on top of a very thick liquid. If the mountain is made by taking material from local quarries, then the result is not so much adding weight as concentrating it, and the net effect is zero (but that much concentrated weight does cause local problems -big buildings sink). But if they quarry that rock in, say, germany, then they are adding an entire mountain on an already fluid (geologically, anyway) situation.