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Ampersand

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Re: The human race needs a mega-project.
« Reply #60 on: September 06, 2010, 04:50:59 pm »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa

Dam the Strait of Gibraltar and the Bosporus.
Lower the Mediterranean sea level significantly.
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Profit.
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Re: The human race needs a mega-project.
« Reply #61 on: September 06, 2010, 05:01:46 pm »
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Re: The human race needs a mega-project.
« Reply #62 on: September 06, 2010, 05:04:58 pm »
That's even more impossible than cutting down a tree with a herring.
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Re: The human race needs a mega-project.
« Reply #63 on: September 06, 2010, 08:05:43 pm »
Here's a megaproject more difficult than all of those combined: World peace.
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Re: The human race needs a mega-project.
« Reply #64 on: September 06, 2010, 08:12:49 pm »
Quote from: CrownofFire on September 06, 2010, 08:05:43 pm
Here's a megaproject more difficult than all of those combined: World peace.
Considering world peace is a preequisite for about a third of those, I'd say my suggestion was more mega.
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Re: The human race needs a mega-project.
« Reply #65 on: September 06, 2010, 08:14:38 pm »
Build a pyramid that goes to the top of the atmosphere, and put an elevator that goes to straight through the Earth, to the other side, and to the moon.
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Re: The human race needs a mega-project.
« Reply #66 on: September 06, 2010, 08:15:42 pm »
I'm going with world peace.It would be a great megaproject

That and making people have rights around the world.
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Re: The human race needs a mega-project.
« Reply #67 on: September 06, 2010, 08:16:44 pm »
Build an amusement ride consisting of a tunnel that goes straight through the Earth to the other side.  Invent a suit that can survive the conditions of the center of the Earth and equip it with thrusters and onboard computers that keep the person from hitting the side of the tunnel at terminal velocity.  Design nets to catch the person before gravity pulls them back in.

Best ride ever.
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« Reply #68 on: September 06, 2010, 08:17:23 pm »
World peace the dwarven way: nuke anyone who goes to war.
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Re: The human race needs a mega-project.
« Reply #69 on: September 06, 2010, 08:23:21 pm »
Quote from: Cthulhu on September 06, 2010, 08:16:44 pm
Build an amusement ride consisting of a tunnel that goes straight through the Earth to the other side.  Invent a suit that can survive the conditions of the center of the Earth and equip it with thrusters and onboard computers that keep the person from hitting the side of the tunnel at terminal velocity.  Design nets to catch the person before gravity pulls them back in.

Best ride ever.
i will NOT go.
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Re: The human race needs a mega-project.
« Reply #70 on: September 06, 2010, 08:38:55 pm »
Quote from: Cthulhu on September 06, 2010, 08:16:44 pm
Build an amusement ride consisting of a tunnel that goes straight through the Earth to the other side.  Invent a suit that can survive the conditions of the center of the Earth and equip it with thrusters and onboard computers that keep the person from hitting the side of the tunnel at terminal velocity.  Design nets to catch the person before gravity pulls them back in.

Best ride ever.
Gravity is kind of funny when you take out the core and go through the space where it was. As in we have no idea what will happen. Unless you reinforced that tunnel, it would just collapse on itself.
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Re: The human race needs a mega-project.
« Reply #71 on: September 06, 2010, 09:55:22 pm »
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Re: The human race needs a mega-project.
« Reply #72 on: September 06, 2010, 10:03:51 pm »
Technically, if you were to jump down one of those holes, you would just drop straight through, since gravity would be pulling equally on all sides. That, or you would just get torn apart. I think that's how it works anyway.
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Re: The human race needs a mega-project.
« Reply #73 on: September 06, 2010, 10:06:15 pm »
Even if it did work, at terminal velocity it would be about a 14 hour ride. You might OD on your own adrenal response, or somthing.
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Re: The human race needs a mega-project.
« Reply #74 on: September 06, 2010, 10:07:54 pm »
Yeah, but think of the experience.  You'd be able to ogle at all of Mother Earth's unmentionable areas.
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