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We should build a river between Mexico and America.The river should be about a mile deep by 2 miles wide, allowing any ships, subs or future naval vessels to go through with no problem.The river will be an extension of the Rio Grande, an already existing river between Mexico and America. By building this river, it will help border security by preventing the average person from breaking into America. A river would also increase America's defenses by allowing naval vessels and subs to go through a shorter route. Naval vessels and subs would no longer need to go around north, south america, and/or Panama Canal thus saving massive amount of money, time, and resources. The river can also be used to transport normal sea vessels and charging them money like Panama Canal. By being a river, we can have a bigger flow of ships and have it cheaper to get through. This would put the Panama Canal out of business. Then, by having every one go through the new Rio Grande River, the price could be raised to earn more money. Also the construction of river will give massive employment and easy work(if you consider construction easy aka no degree work majority). As a bonus, the people on welfare would be able to help construct the river if they want to keep collecting tax money. Another benefit would be a reduction of people on welfare who are solely using it to earn money (i.e. fraud) thus gaining even more money from this river project. By having all these people come to the river area, this would cause massive moving, allowing the highways, gas stations and other businesses to benefit. With the people moving to the river area, new businesses would appear causing more employment to occur and more money which would cause more tax dollars to be collected, paying for the river worker's wages. Also, the river can be used to cause mass irrigation so more land can be farmed, providing more jobs, tax dollars and money in the economy. Also, with a river, we could build more water generators and nuclear power plants, causing more money and jobs. Like the Hoover Dam, new cities will arrive helping out even more. This will also help the environment by causing new plants to grow which would lead to more foods and habitats for animals.

How about we divert all the money we give to other countries and funnel it back into our economy. Sit back and watch the EU crumble, SE Asia go up in smoke, ME goes back to the stick age, and ban PS3 and Xbox

a mile deep........ the whole border a mile deep..... i see you know nothing about excavation

...What the hell did I just read? Are you high, man?

Question:

What good would a "hover dam" do? I was under the impression that it would need to be in contact with the water to generate energy, but I'm a bit of a layman.

We need to electrify the river, and fill it with depth charges and alligators.

 LoneLictor wrote:
We need to electrify the river, and fill it with depth charges and alligators.

...My God. We need to bio-engineer electrified exploding alligators immediately!

We would need to conduct a study to determine a depth for said charges so they don't get inadvertently set off by the alligators.

I'm assuming we'll be equipping the 'gators with rubber bodysuits in order to swim in an electrified river. I saw a Godzilla movie once where they mentioned that reptiles are aversive to electricity.

I really really wish that this made even a little bit of sense.
Seriously?

I don't think you realise how massive a two mile wide river actually is, nor how much water flows through such a river daily. And which way would this pan-american river be flowing, and why?

And rivers aren't just freshwater by default. They're only freshwater when they draw from freshwater sources (rainfall, lakes etc). When they're just flowing from ocean to ocean, they're going to be saltwater, and why would that be good for local plantlife?

Why does it need to be a mile deep? You're making a river not a deep sea trench. Where would you put all the cubic miles of soil unearthed? I suggest you ship it to Holland and raise their country by a few feet above sea level to prevent flooding by rising sea levels.

Pretty good demand for top soil here anyway..after that...well Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico....its all salt water....Cheaper to build Jersey Walls...

Not enough paragraphs, did not read. By comments, not missing out.

Capital idea, OP ol chum. Absolutely spiffing i say.
How much costing be this?


You know, i know a bloke up in the Northern Territory who can get me some Salt water Crocs. Big bastards they are too. I'm sure if we teach them to react violently to illgal immigrants and invaders and not to swimmers/men over board/etc it could save tons of cash on electrifying and mining the river.

Am I the victim for reading this, or is the OP for posting it? I need someone to blame here!

The Lyndon Larouchites have a policy of building a bridge that runs from New York to London, and, well, the OP's idea is nuts, but it's less nutty than building a bridge from New York to London. And those guys are an actual, honest to God political party, that runs candidates in places all over the world. And hey, the world is full of really stupid make work projects that we all now call great wonders, because we're not the ones who had to pay for them the first time around.


Anyhow, what other completely awesome and completely impractical bits of world engineering should we have? I'd like some place safe to build a new pyramid, even bigger than Giza, largely because Egypt isn't really a great place for tourists right now and might not be for a long time, and I'd still like to see the pyramids.

I think there really should be an escalator to nowhere, that goes up like a mile high, and then drops you off the end in to a really deep pool. I've just been stuck behind the donkey-caves who chicken out of the bunjee queue for way too long, and it'd be awesome to them the try to run all the way back down the mile high escalator.

And there should totally be a train through the centre of the Earth connecting Perth to, I don't know, anywhere. Because this city is way too far away from everything.

I prefer the 'Billy Connoly' solution

There are 2 main problems:
Too many people
Not enough food

So if each of use eats 1 person, we halve both problems overnight. I'll eat one of your enemies, you eat one my enemies, where's the damage?

 Jihadin wrote:
How about we divert all the money we give to other countries and funnel it back into our economy. Sit back and watch the EU crumble, SE Asia go up in smoke, ME goes back to the stick age, and ban PS3 and Xbox

I like that.

It doesn't need to be a mile deep but deep enough for commercial vessels would work. Also we need geneticlly modified gators that taste like bacon, and of course angry fresh water bass with lazer beams.
Lets spend the bucks and rebuild all the bridges and interstates.
Lets build a buttload more dams. If we're going for renewable, quit talking and make renewable. If tree huggers get in the way, concrete galoshes!
While we're at it, we need a wall. Lets build a wall around the entire US, and its newly acquired Canadian states. What, Canada is still a country? Clearly that needs to be rectified.
Same for Cuba.
Drugs need to be legalized, and all tax proceeds going to education with a 5% management fee to yours truly.

Having just been to Detroit, why don't they condemn all those burned out buldings, blow them up and turn them into parks or forest? Why the manuments to crap?

 IMPERIALGUARD40K wrote:
We should build a river between Mexico and America.The river should be about a mile deep by 2 miles wide,

A wall would be cheaper. And you could put look out posts and stuff on it. And have guys with guns and bows and crossbows manning it.

Or not.

 kronk wrote:

 IMPERIALGUARD40K wrote:
We should build a river between Mexico and America.The river should be about a mile deep by 2 miles wide,

A wall would be cheaper. And you could put look out posts and stuff on it. And have guys with tomatoes, and rocket propelled chainsaws manning it.

Or not.

Fixed your typo.

Walnuts would hurt more, and you could use a sling shot.

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
Why does it need to be a mile deep? You're making a river not a deep sea trench. Where would you put all the cubic miles of soil unearthed? I suggest you ship it to Holland and raise their country by a few feet above sea level to prevent flooding by rising sea levels.

But if this fixes global warming, won't sea levels stop raising? I thought I saw a congress critter crying about that on TV the other day.

 kronk wrote:
Walnuts would hurt more, and you could use a sling shot.

Wait, I think you're the only person ever to turn down rocket propelled chainsaws. Even baby Jebus liked him some rocket propelled chainsaws.

remember IN STALINIST RUSSIA ROCKET CHAINSAWS PROPEL YOU!

I meant instead of tomatoes. RP Chainsaws was understood in my original post. If it had to be spelt out, then you're no boarder guard.

 kronk wrote:
I meant instead of tomatoes. RP Chainsaws was understood in my original post. If it had to be spelt out, then you're no boarder guard.

No but I did stay at a Holiday Inn, and am now qualified to guard the boards.

How do you.... nah, nevermind.

Wow though. Wow.

Just let yourself go D...this is not reality....


Lets screw around with the genetics of the tomato and splie the gene of the tomato withone of Frazz Legion puppies......Attack of a rocket propel chain axe tomato......little SoB's cut you off at the knees..

Now that is capital thinking.

Dude, you realize that swimming 2 miles really isn't that bad, right? And from a security standpoint, it's a nightmare, since you have a much smaller silhouette swimming than you have walking in a desert.

Have you ever swam two miles in a river? Not could you, but have you?

Did you swim two miles in a river with gators? How about with pissed off bass with freeking laser beams?