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	▲	indigo945 a day ago
		`(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...
	▲	valgaze a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/453701 “Use of Nuclear Explosions for Excavation of Sea-Level Canal Across the Negev Desert”
	▲	whatsupdog a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> And given that nuclear bombs essentially were the blockchain of the 1950s They were not destructive enough.