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Re:Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity fr... by indigo945 on Monday April 13, 2026 @03:15AM (#47748752) 

    (I'm kidding, but I'm sure someone has a pie-in-the-sky geoengineering startup 
    about to disrupt topography using either AI, blockchain, or both.)
Well, there was that plan to use scores of nuclear bombs to alter the geography of Egypt in such a way that the Mediterranean could be drained into the Qattara Basin [1]. I think the story is somewhat well-known now, but it proves, at least, that pie-in-the-sky geoengineering startups are not a phenomenon unique to the 21st century. And given that nuclear bombs essentially were the blockchain of the 1950s, that is altogether unsurprising.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project#Fri...

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Re:Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity fr... by valgaze on Monday April 13, 2026 @03:37AM (#47748933)
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/453701

“Use of Nuclear Explosions for Excavation of Sea-Level Canal Across the Negev Desert”

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Re:Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity fr... by whatsupdog on Monday April 13, 2026 @03:32AM (#47748894)
> And given that nuclear bombs essentially were the blockchain of the 1950s

They were not destructive enough.

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