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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Assuming the river would be identical in depth and breadth to the Panama canal, if every man, woman, and child in the US picked up a shovel they would need to move 305 cubic feet of dirt each. So if we all just moved 1 cubic foot of dirt per day, we could pull this off in a year.

[–] HootinNHollerin 1 points 1 week ago

That’s how the Soviet gulags built canals and railroads btw. Lots of deaths

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