@@benlevy48 According to my calculations, once drained the sea floor would actually be on average close to that of the death valley in the summer! That is unless heat waves cause it to get as hot as 140-170 degrees (F), but the distant oceans from the distance may regulate the temperatures at lower altitudes. I calculated average summer highs would be 105-130 (F), not too bad for over 3000 meters below sea level!
"What would happen if..."? Easily to see in Asia, the Aral sea. A devasted landscape, poison sand storms. That happened and it's only the size of Ireland
I remember watching a documentary as a kid that explained that tectonic shifts will close up the Strait of Gibraltar within the next 5 million years, leaving behind the hellish wasteland you described. Hopefully, if humans are somehow still around by that point, we'll have plenty of ways to prevent that from happening.
@@dianacamacho9575 No, Italy and Sicily are divided by the strait of Messina. They were once connected, but an earthquake divided the two regions of Calabria and Sicily.
@@Misterjuzz It would still be there, just not surrounded by sea anymore. It wouldn't be an island but it would still exist. Probably not good for the economy though when the entire sea around you disappears.
@@cammarc We're already a rock as is, but being even less of rock doesn't really make Malta what it once was... I don't mean to be negative about it, but we really don't have much to help us.
@@LittleHomieLightningtech The mediterran sea acts like a huge fridge. If it disappears the Sahara will expand to the north due the heat. And Europe will become a steppe like the savanna in Africa.
Well a lot of Europe would be pretty much fucked, and a lot of Northern Africa would also be pretty much fucked. I doubt northern European countries would be that "doomed". Russia would be pretty much okay(sort of, lol), a few Russian cities would probably go under water though. And fucking with the weather this much, would probably fuck over other countries on the other side of the world. It'll probably warm up the planet, causing ice to melt in the Artic. Ice melting and Mediterranean sea water going elsewhere is not a good thing, lol.
The Mediterranean Sea was actually empty (or around 25%) capacity around 6 million years ago, due to movements in the Eurasian and African plates closing the strait of Gibraltar. There was s breach and the Mediterranean experienced a massive flood, which filled it up again.
Many continents had ancient seas in them. Thats why the earth has so many huge sedimentary mountain chains. All that deposition didn’t come from a river bed. The Grand Canyon was in part formed by shallow seas. Plate tectonics moved these land masses together and apart, either by pushing or pulling and mountains were formed, or rivers cut through these layers to expose their gorgeous layers. Everything we could imagine happening on earth has already happened over it’s about 4 billion year history of having a solid crust.
3:33 Hottest Temperature on earth was in Iran (( Abadan 86.7 °C (188.1 °F)) in June 1967 An alleged temperature of 86.7 °C (188.1 °F) was recorded during a heat burst in Abadan, Iran.
Fun fact(s): 21,488,041,344 Toyota Corollas could fit in the new land gained through the atlantropa project. Also, 1,764,594,927,744 Corollas could fit in the continent of atlantropa (europe, africa, and the new land). And finally, 1,850,546,907,072 corollas could fit in Europe, Africa, and the entire dried up medderatinian sea.
Nah, the Dutch are far more interested in damming the North Sea (from Scotland to Norway and across the English channel) to combat it's rise due to global warming....😃
Parkski Gaming because Toyota will stop the production of the prius if we simply just dump then in the ocean... We need something to mock and it won't be tesla
The Mediterranean actually did almost completely dry up about 5.6 million years ago after the strait of Gibraltar closed. Apart from a few extremely salty lakes the Mediterranean was a dry desert until the Strait of Gibraltar opened back up 5.33 million years ago in a sudden cataclysmic flood
Is there a way the opposite could be done? Create a new body of water in a sparsely populated land like central Australia, Sahara or Siberia and lower sea levels?
Constantine V+ But then if you did that. Wouldn't the water evaporate, and travel back to the ocean. Once again becoming salt water, and increasing the ocean levels.
Robert is right. You would need some way to keep replenishing that water. Like in the video, he says that the Mediterranean gets replenished by the Atlantic Ocean, otherwise it would evaporate as well. They would have to create a river from the ocean, connecting it to this new body of water. It is possible, but would be very expensive. And it would have to be a salt water lake too, obviously. Creating a freshwater body is outta the question. There would be no way to replenish water lost from evaporation.
Sure, but I think the results would be better by spreading the bodies of water throughout river valleys across the world if lowering sea level was the objective. In addition to lowering sea level, we could generate more hydro power and store freshwater for use or send it to places that need it like the southwest US.
And of course several million years ago, the Med was empty when tectonic movements closed the Strait of Gibraltar. And yes, it became largely a salty desert until the sea broke through once more.
So what if we do it the other way around and instead of making new land, dig a river trough the shara desert to compensate for rising sea levels and make that place less hot.
I wonder if that would require even more concrete than the dams given how long it would need to be in order to connect to the Atlantic to the southwest and or to the red sea or Indian ocean to the east or the lake Victoria river systems
Trius the reason why I didn't think that that's what he meant was he said to dig a trough, not simply flood the area. I was also considered about wildlife because of all the micro ecosystems that exist in parts of it. Sure it's a desert but i am sure that some rare animals and plants live in it somewhere. A controlled river system would be able to dodge those animals and plants better than general flooding.
drain salty water into the land making it useless,these people dont use common unless they are being affected themselves.And who would agree to this sickly savage idea of yours and for what?lets make Africa salty,go go go
as someone who lives in crete,greece i agree ,also cruising from cyprus to spain all,mediterranean sea is magical^^ but the weather is painfully hot in summers
@@fayHoran Greetings brother I am from northern Algeria (kabylie) ,I can say that we are lucky to be the sons of a beautiful region like the Mediterranean , Even the food is healthy and good, olive oil, figs, fish and sardines ,The only problem is hot weather and humidity in summer
@@joseph1541 that is personal preference, in my opinion there are places i'd rather visit like the caribbean or the seychelles but the mediterranian has in my opinion the best food in the world, very rich culture and stunning nature with high mountains, beautiful cliffs, long beaches, warm and clear water etc. And it helps that i live in europe so i can travel there easily.
The scary part is this has happened before, and will happen again (plate tectonics, which are slowly killing the strait, will eventually turn the Mediterranean Sea into a mountain range that will make the Himalayas look like Appalachia)
I recently heard that in the 1930s there was a proposal to drain a portion of the North Sea to connect Britain to Mainland Europe. Could you do a video on what would happen if that was done?
This actually happened 6 million years ago, when a continental shift closed the Strait of Gibraltar and the evaporation made the Mediterranean dry out in 900-1000 years. What happened was that as the Mediterranean sea dried out, the vaporized contents fell as freshwater droplets in the other oceans, watering down the salt content slightly. in fact, they were watered down enough to freeze again over larger areas than normal. The enlarged frozen areas sent back more sun rays than usual, and sent the earth into an ice age, or so the hypothesis goes.
correct on the first part but not the second the closing of the Strait of Gibraltar did in fact cause the Mediterranean to dry up considerably but this only caused large areas to become salt flats (similar to the areas around the Great Salt Lake). the high salinity of the remaining water would consequently reduce the freezing point making it highly unlikely that any significant portion (if any) of the remaining Mediterranean would freeze over a more interesting story is how the melting glaciers of North America created the massive glacial Lake Agassiz over central Canada. once the retreating glaciers reached the Hudson Bay, the lake drained out into the sea raising ocean levels dramatically. this is thought to have caused the Mediterranean to spill over into the giant freshwater lake to the north of Anatolia to become the modern day Black Sea. fun fact: people definitely lived around the ancient proto-Black Sea lake when this was thought to have happened which is speculated to be the origin of the Biblical flood story about from Noah's Ark
Also, the team of "expert engineers" were from an era when the environment wasn't really something that got thought about. They planted kudzu to stop farm erosion, caused the dust bowl by stripmining the earth, turned cars into lead vaporizers, and dumped industrial waste into the same rivers people drink out of. They'd probably have just dredged all of the oceans and beaches in the world to get enough concrete sand for the dam, logged all of Europe (what was left by then anyway, some places like Denmark were already 100% deforested) to replace the old port cities that were no longer ports, launched a billion tons of something into the atmosphere to fix the weather problems, and then stepped up phosphorus mining to keep growing food in the dead soil despite the extinct ecosystem. Big solutions, triumph of man over nature, as if it's an enemy to be destroyed rather than what we depend on for our lives and livelihoods, was the prevailing MO of civil engineering until about 50 years ago.
The team of expert engineers werent planning to drain the entire Mediterranean Sea. Just 20% of its water over a period of a 100 years, the environmental impact of that would be much less and it was thought that they would have more land and lots of hydropower. All hydropower projects have had some kind of impact on the environment. Anyway.. the experts themselves realised that this project was not worth it upon careful analysis.
Its big thinking but only because the elite stand the most to lose. They own most of the land on the coast new cost land ruins this. Old harbors can be forged again in fresh but still water is water.
There was a solution for this actually, A lot of water that was planned for Project Atlantropa would be sent south into the Congo Basin and Chad river making them much bigger rivers. So i think it would do the opposite effect if we use the Antlatropa Example, More waters goes to africa so it makes the Sahara more green. This example is important since you used the Atlantropa as a example which is two different things compared to draining the Mediterraninean
napoleon said that st.peter (in upper austria) is the centre of europe and as europe is the centre of the world .......... and the heart is also at the centre....
When I heard that the hottest temperature recorded before the Death Valley temperature was in Kuwait I was very confused since Kuwait is not even on the equator line
Atlantis is an ancient greek myth. Ancient greeks were eastern mediterranean people. I don't think ancient greeks would know if some city in the middle of ocean got sinked. They didn't had news feed back then. If there is an Atlantis, it's somewhere under Eastern Mediterranean sea.
the most unethical geographic transformations on Earth are already happening: the melting of the land ice in Greenland and the South Pole, the melting of the North Pole, the melting of the permafrost in much of Siberia, Canada and Alaska ...
@@timber7744 ah yes, wanting to have high living standards is totally unethical. Turn off the device you've used to write this crap comment of yours. Walk everywhere, grow your own food and let's see how long you last without contributing to 'the most unethical geographic transformation'
@@CIAinTaiwanAndUkraine Moral outrage at something natural happening: climate change, while being on the internet contributing by using electrical power and all the energy used to make that possible. Also i'm 99,99% sure the person in question goes to the supermarket by car, contributing even more. I don't care that this person does contribute, but crying about it at the same time seems a tad bit hypocritical to me. China is nr1 carbon emitter on this planet. Every time you buy something that says: 'made in china', you're part of the problem which he calls the most unethical...... I'm sorry you couldn't connect these obvious dots.
The principal concern in the nations of early XX century is territory. Some say the world wars happened because an ever expansionist mindset clashed with the reality of a world already fully colonized. A key concept in german culture is that of 'vital space': to ensure the growth of the german people and to secure the empire, Germany must secure a vital space, an area of territory big enough to sustain it's populace. This meant displacing all other races within that space. If the germans achieved that...they would surely look for ways to extend it's borders even more. If you combine that mindset with the ignorance we used to have when it comes to geology, ecology, climate and so on, you'd have people willing to at least toy with the idea of expanding europe in such a manner.
I think the most scary part is that those territorial and supremacist feelings still exist in many nations. When resources start getting tight we're gonna see a return of nationalism, and then tribalism. Live your life to the fullest because the future isn't bright.
Death Valley may be the second lowest point on dry land in the world, but it's still on continental crust. Which means it *can't* dip low enough to start heating up geothermally. Only a few of our caves even get that deep. But a dry oceanic trench absolutely would be able to get that deep. The Hellenic Trench in the Mediterranean Sea is 17,300 feet deep--well below the shoreline of the Dead Sea, which sits at 1,412 feet below sea level. If the trench were dry, it would certainly reach temperatures hot enough to slow roast a chicken.
Every time I go to a Mediterranean food place, it’s always Greek food. So next time I go to some French restaurant, I’m gonna yell out. “MMMMMM, THIS MEDITERRANEAN FOOD IS DELICIOUS”
"This is what happens when engineers had too much whiskey".
Nailed it.
Add too much cannabis & cocaine on top.
@@benlevy48 According to my calculations, once drained the sea floor would actually be on average close to that of the death valley in the summer! That is unless heat waves cause it to get as hot as 140-170 degrees (F), but the distant oceans from the distance may regulate the temperatures at lower altitudes. I calculated average summer highs would be 105-130 (F), not too bad for over 3000 meters below sea level!
@@SylkaChan how can you calculate that
@@SylkaChan🤓
this its inevitable.... soon or later its gone happened.... ...atiki taki tiki tu ta ta
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"Amsterdam will go under water"... Underestimating the Dutch
Yeap.... they forgot what weve build
Yepp haha that will never happen
Shit better rebuild Amsterdam on Mt. Everest so we don’t get in contact with the sea...... and oxygen
SybeHier inderdaad. De oceaan in onze geslagen vriendin die alles voor ons doet ook al misbruiken we haar.
Can I get context for some one that's not from you awesome country
How many toyota corrollas would fill the Mediterranean Sea?
2
To be honest, a few billion could.
Atleast 3
Earth: YOU KNOW I HAD TO DO IT TO EM
Like 5 potentially though 4 is more realistic
"What would happen if..."? Easily to see in Asia, the Aral sea. A devasted landscape, poison sand storms. That happened and it's only the size of Ireland
Ya thanks Joe.
@@amaybindlish8760 Aisa? What is this?
Cyprus is completely gone and yet isn't the most affected
Affected*
If it doesn't exist anymore there's nothing to get affected
Martin Laird you’re dumb he spelled it right
@@swiftbuddy8878 the message is edited, check before you start callin names buddy
Howabout malta?
And war would break out five minutes later
Hey let’s not be ridiculous.
That is a very generous amount of time, I’d give it 2
China: "I want the land... I want 😫 I will sell whole China 🇨🇳
- Xi Jinping and C.P.C
Arnab De why would they sell China lol
Nah probably like 0.11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 seconds later
@@arnabde1311 china wouldnt but european countries would
What would happen if you create a massive sea in Sahara desert?
Then Countries like Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and Half of Sudan would be Under Water
water would hace evaporated away
@@Hussar-bt8sv it would increase rainfall as well
1st half of you:that would be horrible, thousands would drown...
2nd half of you:WHY AREN'T WE FUNDING THIS?!
Fucking
I remember watching a documentary as a kid that explained that tectonic shifts will close up the Strait of Gibraltar within the next 5 million years, leaving behind the hellish wasteland you described. Hopefully, if humans are somehow still around by that point, we'll have plenty of ways to prevent that from happening.
Nukes
Most likely humans will not still be around. It's possible that planet Earth will not be around. Every day is a holiday and every meal is a picnic :)
They can totally just carve up a pathway for the water to go through, considering the Suez was created in the past, this shouldn't be too hard
@@knguyennguyen5559 and Panama
@@haroldlawson8771 or you know... digging a trench
I have 3 things to say.
1. That is crazy
2. They forgot the Suez Canal
3. They forgot Sicily isn’t connected to Italy.
in the video he forgot it, but not in the actual plan.
It is connected boii
Yep
@@dianacamacho9575 No, Italy and Sicily are divided by the strait of Messina. They were once connected, but an earthquake divided the two regions of Calabria and Sicily.
You absolute Legend
*BREAKING NEWS*
Earth announces Sahara 2!!!
You think that's cool? I drained the entire world's ocean and now earth announces
DEAD PEOPLE WHO JUST WANTED TO SWIM NEAR THE COAST 2.0
Elextric boogaloo!!
how come everybody has the same profile pic!?
Dry boogaloo
@@demiwitch2898 cause it's a dead joke
4:06 You can’t even see Cyprus anymore and you don’t even mention it on your list of most affected countries.
Not even Malta. It would cease to exist, and likely cause our language to die quicker with us needing to move in to other countries and acclimate.
Cyprus is bae
@@Misterjuzz
It would still be there, just not surrounded by sea anymore. It wouldn't be an island but it would still exist. Probably not good for the economy though when the entire sea around you disappears.
@@cammarc We're already a rock as is, but being even less of rock doesn't really make Malta what it once was... I don't mean to be negative about it, but we really don't have much to help us.
Don’t forget about Monaco, Malta and Vatican City
Meanwhile in an alternate universe: what if we make a giant sea in the middle of the desert?
4:09
>Cyprus and Malta get completely swallowed
>Doesnt mention them
ikr. I live in Malta. ):
Oti Na Nai Malta is italy u.u (no... Isn't true, it was)
Malta is not Italy, it's its own country...
(I live there)
Well i didnt say the opposite, its just he mentions countries that lose some of their land and not Cyprus and Malta that lose their entire land
I wasn't responding to you; I was responding to TheAlivededChannel. Not to sound rude.
what if we draine-
the netherlands: yes
😅
Well after moustache man and germany attacked us we got a tsunami so that also destroyed a large part of the country
Singapore will also go yes
Short answer: The Sahara expands and Europe is doomed.
How?
@@LittleHomieLightningtech The mediterran sea acts like a huge fridge. If it disappears the Sahara will expand to the north due the heat. And Europe will become a steppe like the savanna in Africa.
@@LittleHomieLightningtech most of the lands will be gone due to the heat and some parts would be inhabitable in europe and africa
Well a lot of Europe would be pretty much fucked, and a lot of Northern Africa would also be pretty much fucked. I doubt northern European countries would be that "doomed". Russia would be pretty much okay(sort of, lol), a few Russian cities would probably go under water though. And fucking with the weather this much, would probably fuck over other countries on the other side of the world. It'll probably warm up the planet, causing ice to melt in the Artic. Ice melting and Mediterranean sea water going elsewhere is not a good thing, lol.
@@LittleHomieLightningtech Did you watch the video?
"Why wasn't it ever built?"
TNO: Am I a joke to you?
*Alternatively*
“This would cause sea levels around the world to raise by 1 centimeter.”
The Maldives: *Uh oh*
what?
@@Samuel-zs8hv he said the maldives would say uh oh
@@Samuel-zs8hv The Maldives are about to be underwater anytime now.... they very low in terms of height....
@@damour3317 thanks dude 😊
Why not 1000 meters ?
only 1 way to find out
rob I hate how this made me laugh
cherry sticcs LMAO SAME
Yeah
Watching the video
Jyrsky i know i was just kidding
Was just about to comment that but then I saw this! Lmaooo
So basically Spain to Egypt will turn into mad max desert
no, more like Venus.
You're spoiling my mad max aspirations
Miriam Sharpe basically expect with huge trenches and shit
Im sad cus i would die covered by sand
More Spain to Afghanistan
Thanks!
Fool
If this project actually happened, the first comment that world leaders agree on would be "this was a mistake."
Go get your straws, we’re draining the Mediterranean.
Or spongebob. He was able to drain the entire Atlantic ocean using vaccum cleaner.
Not Losky that’s not possible
χσνєятιмєχ it’s a joke 9 year old 😂😂
χσνєятιмєχ WOOSH
χσνєятιмєχ r/woosh
The Mediterranean Sea was actually empty (or around 25%) capacity around 6 million years ago, due to movements in the Eurasian and African plates closing the strait of Gibraltar. There was s breach and the Mediterranean experienced a massive flood, which filled it up again.
Many continents had ancient seas in them. Thats why the earth has so many huge sedimentary mountain chains. All that deposition didn’t come from a river bed. The Grand Canyon was in part formed by shallow seas. Plate tectonics moved these land masses together and apart, either by pushing or pulling and mountains were formed, or rivers cut through these layers to expose their gorgeous layers. Everything we could imagine happening on earth has already happened over it’s about 4 billion year history of having a solid crust.
Pics or gtfo
@@DaniHMcV bro there's not that many continents ..
@The NIFB Jesus lol
@@JonahWoods Are you seriously asking for pictures from a period that was 6 million years ago
3:33 Hottest Temperature on earth was in Iran (( Abadan 86.7 °C (188.1 °F)) in June 1967
An alleged temperature of 86.7 °C (188.1 °F) was recorded during a heat burst in Abadan, Iran.
Won't somebody think about the FISH
Exactly
Looks like the fishes would have to find nemo somewhere else
Here you go: they die.
RealLifeLore But then we would have a fish refugee crisis
RealLifeLore SpongeBob reference?
I have three thing to say:
I live in Bosnia
That is stupid
Also that guy is crazy
TheThomasFan 119
Bosnia eeeee
Pa izgubili bi Neum, i nije neka steta lol...
@@zedmas9744 I kako bi dobili zemlje? Odvojili bi hrvstsku sa dubrovnikom ja ni reko bolje je vako kako je sad
Guy is probably dead 😊
1.- ok i guess
2.- it is indeed stupid
3.- not crazy but drunk
how many toyota corollas would be fit inside Mediterranean sea
Suresh Bhamidipati 45/78
Depends on the year and what generation of Corolla you mean....
Suresh Bhamidipati at least 69
LOL
10
Thanks
Have a cup of coffee on me mate! Cheers.
Fun fact(s): 21,488,041,344 Toyota Corollas could fit in the new land gained through the atlantropa project. Also, 1,764,594,927,744 Corollas could fit in the continent of atlantropa (europe, africa, and the new land). And finally, 1,850,546,907,072 corollas could fit in Europe, Africa, and the entire dried up medderatinian sea.
Strigon Team lol we needed something about the corollas, thx
Strigon Team wow
People: you can't drain the mediteranean sea
The dutch: Hold my beer
for real haha
Hold my Heineken
Nah, the Dutch are far more interested in damming the North Sea (from Scotland to Norway and across the English channel) to combat it's rise due to global warming....😃
@@LilHobgoblin yea do be true
@@LilHobgoblin we're also interested in that sea
What if we filled the Mediterranean Sea with Toyota Corrolas?
that's just stupid..... what if the airbags went off ? you need to think these things through properly
exceltraining omg lol
One massive artificial reef
Why not use Priuses
Parkski Gaming because Toyota will stop the production of the prius if we simply just dump then in the ocean... We need something to mock and it won't be tesla
The lesson of the video:
Don't drink too much whiskey
0:40
Can settle for a Mediterranean Pond
still worth it
+Joel0937 Just say no.
lol
Not a Pond idiot
mediterranean ｇｌａｓｓ ｏｆ ｗａｔｅｒ
Europe: We are draining Mediterranean sea to get some land
USA: I'm coming!
TheBluePC 5 the USA doesn’t take land from anyone tho
@@Patrick3183 keep living in denial
dondemižon who did it take land from?
Patrick3183 oh my friend, the USA is trying to BUY Greenland, after Denmark repeatedly says it’s not for sale
@@bigbadbear2962 That comment was posted before United States wanted to buy Greenland
But how many Toyota Corolla' s could fit in Atlantropa?
5,21 trillion.
Sam McCullough asking the real questions
Sam McCullough ahahahha
Wouldn't surprise me if RealLifeLore actually made a video on that.
I'd genuinely enjoy that.
Every single one ever produced
The Mediterranean actually did almost completely dry up about 5.6 million years ago after the strait of Gibraltar closed. Apart from a few extremely salty lakes the Mediterranean was a dry desert until the Strait of Gibraltar opened back up 5.33 million years ago in a sudden cataclysmic flood
Is there a way the opposite could be done?
Create a new body of water in a sparsely populated land like central Australia, Sahara or Siberia and lower sea levels?
Frost If we find a way to remove colossal mases of icebergs from the poles and drop them into holes that we have diged, than yes
Constantine V+ But then if you did that. Wouldn't the water evaporate, and travel back to the ocean. Once again becoming salt water, and increasing the ocean levels.
Robert is right. You would need some way to keep replenishing that water. Like in the video, he says that the Mediterranean gets replenished by the Atlantic Ocean, otherwise it would evaporate as well. They would have to create a river from the ocean, connecting it to this new body of water. It is possible, but would be very expensive. And it would have to be a salt water lake too, obviously. Creating a freshwater body is outta the question. There would be no way to replenish water lost from evaporation.
Sure, but I think the results would be better by spreading the bodies of water throughout river valleys across the world if lowering sea level was the objective. In addition to lowering sea level, we could generate more hydro power and store freshwater for use or send it to places that need it like the southwest US.
Look up the Sahara Sea, it was a plan to make a lake in the Sahara Desert by using nukes to create a canal.
And of course several million years ago, the Med was empty when tectonic movements closed the Strait of Gibraltar. And yes, it became largely a salty desert until the sea broke through once more.
So basically, the UK would finally have a decent weather.
Do IT!
No don't because the weather rises up to 40℃ and we as British we couldn't survive hot temperatures
i love hot weather but i like rain weather to lol from a brit ;p
No, since the UK would still get most weather from the west.
that's the tEa sister ☕
I bet no one ever thought about any of this before.
So what if we do it the other way around and instead of making new land, dig a river trough the shara desert to compensate for rising sea levels and make that place less hot.
I wonder if that would require even more concrete than the dams given how long it would need to be in order to connect to the Atlantic to the southwest and or to the red sea or Indian ocean to the east or the lake Victoria river systems
Trius the reason why I didn't think that that's what he meant was he said to dig a trough, not simply flood the area.
I was also considered about wildlife because of all the micro ecosystems that exist in parts of it. Sure it's a desert but i am sure that some rare animals and plants live in it somewhere.
A controlled river system would be able to dodge those animals and plants better than general flooding.
or you could wait for a few thousand years for the Sahara to become a sea again naturally
drain salty water into the land making it useless,these people dont use common unless they are being affected themselves.And who would agree to this sickly savage idea of yours and for what?lets make Africa salty,go go go
FuZZbaLLbee yeah remember they tried to dig a canal through panama that didn’t go very well
Why build dams when you can fill the gaps with Toyota Corollas
dazzaburger true
and hondas!
john72ss .
HONDAS ARE RACIST.
yes of course they are!
what is with the toyota comments anyway.
The Mediterranean Sea is the most beautiful place in the world.
as someone who lives in crete,greece i agree ,also cruising from cyprus to spain all,mediterranean sea is magical^^ but the weather is painfully hot in summers
@@fayHoran
Greetings brother
I am from northern Algeria (kabylie) ,I can say that we are lucky to be the sons of a beautiful region like the Mediterranean , Even the food is healthy and good, olive oil, figs, fish and sardines ,The only problem is hot weather and humidity in summer
@@fayHoran as someone who has visited crete several times i agree. The mediterranian is really heaven on earth.
Must not get out much. There are far more beautiful places in the world
@@joseph1541 that is personal preference, in my opinion there are places i'd rather visit like the caribbean or the seychelles but the mediterranian has in my opinion the best food in the world, very rich culture and stunning nature with high mountains, beautiful cliffs, long beaches, warm and clear water etc. And it helps that i live in europe so i can travel there easily.
The scary part is this has happened before, and will happen again (plate tectonics, which are slowly killing the strait, will eventually turn the Mediterranean Sea into a mountain range that will make the Himalayas look like Appalachia)
4:47 Shanghai literally means above the sea
Charles Calvin I know so it would never go under water right? 🙃
Just barely
If this project happened. Shanghai would literally become Xiahai.
Nihauma? Concona chi cheng hanzi siywbwiwjjwwkkw
Don't let Elon Musk see this video
E Winters
Why Not?
Homie Missouri it would happen
E Winters?? Don't let volvo and mercedes see this video
Hingle McCringleberry bullshit it would
Because he would scam even more money out of people
I have a question
If you wait for a waiter, do you become the waiter?
MahadAli how u talking to your dad like that
Ya Dad I never noticed your name😂😂😂 this made my fucking day
MahadAli 😂😂
Ya Dad fucking amazing😂😂
MahadAli what can i say
"Another dam between Tunisia and Sicily will divide the Mediterranean Sea in two halves"
Messina Strait: "Well yes but actually no"
This could be a nice inspiration for a science fiction 🙄🙄🙄
AlternateHistoryHub actually wrote a book on that.
The alt history novel man in the high castle actually came along with this idea... the mediterranean sea is drained
But science fiction became science fact, as Africa will collide with Europe in a few million years, draining the Mediterranean.
I recently heard that in the 1930s there was a proposal to drain a portion of the North Sea to connect Britain to Mainland Europe. Could you do a video on what would happen if that was done?
This actually happened 6 million years ago, when a continental shift closed the Strait of Gibraltar and the evaporation made the Mediterranean dry out in 900-1000 years.
What happened was that as the Mediterranean sea dried out, the vaporized contents fell as freshwater droplets in the other oceans, watering down the salt content slightly. in fact, they were watered down enough to freeze again over larger areas than normal.
The enlarged frozen areas sent back more sun rays than usual, and sent the earth into an ice age, or so the hypothesis goes.
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wow
correct on the first part but not the second
the closing of the Strait of Gibraltar did in fact cause the Mediterranean to dry up considerably but this only caused large areas to become salt flats (similar to the areas around the Great Salt Lake). the high salinity of the remaining water would consequently reduce the freezing point making it highly unlikely that any significant portion (if any) of the remaining Mediterranean would freeze over
a more interesting story is how the melting glaciers of North America created the massive glacial Lake Agassiz over central Canada. once the retreating glaciers reached the Hudson Bay, the lake drained out into the sea raising ocean levels dramatically. this is thought to have caused the Mediterranean to spill over into the giant freshwater lake to the north of Anatolia to become the modern day Black Sea. fun fact: people definitely lived around the ancient proto-Black Sea lake when this was thought to have happened which is speculated to be the origin of the Biblical flood story about from Noah's Ark
Huh
Interesting
so we need to dry the Mediterranean sea to deal with climate change, Got it
I miss when his videos were short
africans: *dying of thirst and hunger*
other people: *yoo i got this idea that let’s just drain water*
Sampezii *Sea water
Sampezii You do know that you can’t drink sea water or use it for farming, don’t you dummy?
*sea you dumm fuck
@JasmineChu YT .....
fuckin weeb
😂😂😂
Team of expert engineers: “Let’s do it!”
One RUclips guy: “I’ve found like fifteen reasons why it’s a bad idea.”
Also, the team of "expert engineers" were from an era when the environment wasn't really something that got thought about. They planted kudzu to stop farm erosion, caused the dust bowl by stripmining the earth, turned cars into lead vaporizers, and dumped industrial waste into the same rivers people drink out of. They'd probably have just dredged all of the oceans and beaches in the world to get enough concrete sand for the dam, logged all of Europe (what was left by then anyway, some places like Denmark were already 100% deforested) to replace the old port cities that were no longer ports, launched a billion tons of something into the atmosphere to fix the weather problems, and then stepped up phosphorus mining to keep growing food in the dead soil despite the extinct ecosystem. Big solutions, triumph of man over nature, as if it's an enemy to be destroyed rather than what we depend on for our lives and livelihoods, was the prevailing MO of civil engineering until about 50 years ago.
The team of expert engineers werent planning to drain the entire Mediterranean Sea. Just 20% of its water over a period of a 100 years, the environmental impact of that would be much less and it was thought that they would have more land and lots of hydropower. All hydropower projects have had some kind of impact on the environment. Anyway.. the experts themselves realised that this project was not worth it upon careful analysis.
@@mrubuntuking5257 Stop it with the paragraph long comments
@@mrubuntuking5257 dude stfu
@@OnurKRB the fuck?
I think the Mediterranean sea is fine as it is 🙂
Splash'n'Skillz #37 me too
well it was a theory anyways so i dont get what you were going for
andy765gtr normally i agree with the "stop the influx of refugee" sentiment...but wtf is wrong with you?
Nah, let’s end humanity🙂
All the wine growing regions would be lost.
3:25 actually it was 136 Fahrenheit in Death Valley CA
1:30 more land doesn’t sound so bad
3:30 oh nevermind
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The idea itself is ridiculous
Not really
Its big thinking but only because the elite stand the most to lose. They own most of the land on the coast new cost land ruins this. Old harbors can be forged again in fresh but still water is water.
@@Brianpeckin it is.
@@fmichaela99 if u say so. Lmao
yea i agree with u
Italy making pizza
TV go's on
Let's drown the mediterranean sea
Italy: *MAMMA MIA*
Mamma* not mama
Italians would probably start shooting at the people making the dams lmao
@@offstroke1568 anyone would
@@offstroke1568 not only italy.france Spanish Egypt Greece Turkey & MANY More. Ciao.
it's mamma mia everyone says mama mia
There was a solution for this actually, A lot of water that was planned for Project Atlantropa would be sent south into the Congo Basin and Chad river making them much bigger rivers.
So i think it would do the opposite effect if we use the Antlatropa Example, More waters goes to africa so it makes the Sahara more green.
This example is important since you used the Atlantropa as a example which is two different things compared to draining the Mediterraninean
There would be no water. Saved you time.
SMG gaming OMG HOW COULD I NOT GET IT
SMG gaming It's pretty obvious that's gonna happen. We want longer, more specific and interesting answers to the question.
Jack Ganbat Pretty sure he was being sarcastic.
Jack Ganbat you must be fun at parties
Stupidadi What? Im a nerd because my mind is capable of receiving longer and better answers, unlike yours? Fuck off.
3:32 Wait wat. Death Valley in California consistently gets over 130°F in the summer.
It's actually very rare. Even when then temperature does exceed 130, it reaches only 131 or 132. The record is 134.
xD such passion
Yes in celsius it is 58°C
Real Life Lore: *makes video about draining the Mediterranean sea*
Elon Musk: ｈｅｙｙｙｙｙｙ， ｗｈａｔ ｉｆ．．．
Oh no you don’t!
Oh you mean the elongated muskrat
This seems Like a really cool scenario For some sort of Post-apocalytic Story/Game
@Dominic Haertig european Mad Max Sounds like it'd Just be sad
Before you say "The refugees/Muslims/Africans will flood over", check out 3:15 - 3:32.
I can't imagine the world without Mediterranean. 😭😭
It's the heart of the world.
napoleon said that st.peter (in upper austria) is the centre of europe and as europe is the centre of the world .......... and the heart is also at the centre....
No the core is
Leave the Mediterranean Sea 🌊 just the way it is. I love the Mediterranean Sea. I love Greece 🇬🇷, the Greek islands and Rome, Italia 🇮🇹.
What about North Africa 😔
@CIOBOTARU IONUT ???
@CIOBOTARU IONUT fr ong 🙏🙏
@CIOBOTARU IONUT I care you piece of ****
Woah, chill bro
When I heard that the hottest temperature recorded before the Death Valley temperature was in Kuwait I was very confused since Kuwait is not even on the equator line
Simple, we find Atlantis
Gemini Apollo wasn't Atlantis rumored to be located between Europe and North America?
Gemini Apollo preeety sure its supposed to be in atlantic ocean, not mediterranean sea...
Edin743 hence the name 'atlan'tis
'Atlan'tic
Atlantis is an ancient greek myth. Ancient greeks were eastern mediterranean people. I don't think ancient greeks would know if some city in the middle of ocean got sinked. They didn't had news feed back then.
If there is an Atlantis, it's somewhere under Eastern Mediterranean sea.
Like Brican said, the Greeks didn't know anything past the Gibraltar strait.
Sea
help me, i didnt get it
JeanPeiter it really doesn't mean anything I put a random word on the video and a get likes😶
Im Nate: I read it as "See?"
I thought it had something to do with your username so I was like wtf lol.
Im Nate Shut up,beach
''What Would Happen If We Drained the Mediterranean Sea?''
Immigration in Europe would get even more out of hand
We would have to build a wall..
Actually it would be tough to migrate over a hot desert. Much harder than it is to might by boat
They’d be so screwed lol
Yeah, let nature and god do the work rather than humanity taking over nature
Viktor Orbán knew it and built a wall
We should do it, 50% of France gone is a win in my books.
bruh im french WHYYYY
@@tytsuw2320 Because I'm English
@@BazamO aaah
Should have used minecraft sponges
Jan Vališer, makes sence.
Jan Vališer true
Fuck you, you are everywhere
Sorry I'm late but /drain also work, though it would lag the earth server
*_F O R B E G G I N E R S ..._*
When you want likes
This would be one of the most unethical geographical transformations on Earth.
the most unethical geographic transformations on Earth are already happening: the melting of the land ice in Greenland and the South Pole, the melting of the North Pole, the melting of the permafrost in much of Siberia, Canada and Alaska ...
@@timber7744 ah yes, wanting to have high living standards is totally unethical. Turn off the device you've used to write this crap comment of yours. Walk everywhere, grow your own food and let's see how long you last without contributing to 'the most unethical geographic transformation'
@@AwoudeX what the fuck is your point
@@CIAinTaiwanAndUkraine Moral outrage at something natural happening: climate change, while being on the internet contributing by using electrical power and all the energy used to make that possible. Also i'm 99,99% sure the person in question goes to the supermarket by car, contributing even more. I don't care that this person does contribute, but crying about it at the same time seems a tad bit hypocritical to me. China is nr1 carbon emitter on this planet. Every time you buy something that says: 'made in china', you're part of the problem which he calls the most unethical......
I'm sorry you couldn't connect these obvious dots.
@@AwoudeX impressive. Every single word you said is wrong; you sound like a white angsty boomer or X'er
The all-time highest temperature ever recorded is 134°F in the Death Valley, CA not Kuwait
"Why wasn't it ever built?"
I mean, why would you do that☠️☠️
The principal concern in the nations of early XX century is territory. Some say the world wars happened because an ever expansionist mindset clashed with the reality of a world already fully colonized. A key concept in german culture is that of 'vital space': to ensure the growth of the german people and to secure the empire, Germany must secure a vital space, an area of territory big enough to sustain it's populace. This meant displacing all other races within that space. If the germans achieved that...they would surely look for ways to extend it's borders even more.
If you combine that mindset with the ignorance we used to have when it comes to geology, ecology, climate and so on, you'd have people willing to at least toy with the idea of expanding europe in such a manner.
@@ignazioacerenza9881 that's insane and terrifying
I think the most scary part is that those territorial and supremacist feelings still exist in many nations. When resources start getting tight we're gonna see a return of nationalism, and then tribalism. Live your life to the fullest because the future isn't bright.
@@ignazioacerenza9881
You are right such mindset still exist and less resources can further push this ideology in front of the world
But .. Why? There's nothing more beautiful than the Mediterranean sea
N yup
I see your Mediterranean Sea and raise you a Rainbow Mountain
The Pacific and the Atlantic... trash is beatifull
Because whiskey
If anyone decides to empty my sea then me and him have a lot to talk about
Loving all of your videos, they're just my cup of tea. I feel that subscribing and liking just isn't enough 😀
Hottest temp ever recorded was not in Kuwait, rather in death valley California
Aye new upload. The amount of effort that goes into his videos is jaw dropping. Keep it up.
To me it looks sea level dropping
im offended
The Og One And only Rods I use internet explore
Franklin D Roosevelt its 2017. We have chrome.
Öööö I saw your bitch ass comment on romanatwoods vlog aswell off yourself
We would build a Wall, and Africa would pay for it
The Otaku 8th Grader Africa is already poor ?
Says who many.from Zimbabweans
wakanda can afford it
Sarcasm is lost on you guys.😂😂😂
Africa would said im not gonna pay that fucking wall
U would see a lot of ships that sank during WW2 and sank
And Ancient Greek ships.
spacfe ships
Well
I will just take a picture of the wreck of the German battleship (Bismark
Warren552011
Oh OK
Thanks
you would see more than that since...history didnt begin at ww2
4:45 Wait, he realise Amsterdam is part of the netherlands doesn't he? We would probably engineer our way out of this.
ah yes finally daddy uploaded a video
Thanks for using celcius
Amith Bhat be weird if he didn't, since the area he's talking about uses Celcius.
There's Fahrenheit here too.
MegaMrblackguy Said the bitchass idiot that only has a M as his profile and is pretending to be "cool"
I prefer Kelvin.
I prefer Celsius.....but if celcius works for you...
Salt has layers!
OGRES HAVE LAYERS!
ONIONSSSS
2:55 To be fair: "one well placed nuclear strike" will pretty much always ruin the lives of millions of people regardless of the closer circumstances.
good video, but it has been hotter than 129° F in Arizona, USA within the last 25 years! - not to mention Death Valley, California!
Death Valley may be the second lowest point on dry land in the world, but it's still on continental crust. Which means it *can't* dip low enough to start heating up geothermally. Only a few of our caves even get that deep. But a dry oceanic trench absolutely would be able to get that deep. The Hellenic Trench in the Mediterranean Sea is 17,300 feet deep--well below the shoreline of the Dead Sea, which sits at 1,412 feet below sea level. If the trench were dry, it would certainly reach temperatures hot enough to slow roast a chicken.
or Kebilli or Libya
@@AtarahDerek Woosh
Every time I go to a Mediterranean food place, it’s always Greek food. So next time I go to some French restaurant, I’m gonna yell out. “MMMMMM, THIS MEDITERRANEAN FOOD IS DELICIOUS”
well rip everyones summer vacation (greece and italy) :(
KNG b1LLn0 And Cyprus, us brits love Cyprus
one time the gibraltar strait was blocked by an earthquake and it caused a worldwide crisis as rainwater levels dropped dramatically
Atleast we could fake landing on Mars.
Otto von Bismarck hello sir you were a very complicated man. How are you sir?
Doing fine, but I'm concerd about Germany and Europe...
lol, earth is flat.
Christopher Martin What the fuck would you know about it
It would look like we could fake landing on Mars, but Mars is actually really cold, not really hot like we all think.
You can say goodbye to the relatively mild Mediterranean climate.
It exists in other places.
Wow, nothing gets by you. I meant around the Mediterranean Sea. Where the video is about.
cyprus and malta would completely be gone but spain is most affected??ok
Of course were the most affected, if that happened I wouldn't have a house by the sea
The boats in the Mediterranean:Am I a joke to you
but spain is bigger
I think they would get huge land, but not so expensive like nowdays :D
@@YurkerYT so no beaches?
Sad :( i used to go to Spain yearly just for the sake of swimming in those hot beaches and the sexy girls :(
Who in his right mind would want to do that?!? You're totally bonkers! More of these lovely ideas? Anyhoo, I shutting you out!
I feel like you neglected to mention the fact that it has actually happened before. About 5 million years ago, the Mediterranean was a desert.
And 5 million years from now, it will be again.
@@Shaun_Jones no its going to expand bcuz of globel warming
The real question is: How many Toyota Corrolas would fill the Mediterranean Sea?
This channel surprisingly has a lot of center right viewers :)