@@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
@@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.
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.
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
@@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 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)
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
@@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.
The only thing I can think of with this concept is the old Railroad tycoon 2 missions revolving around this. Now imagine what would happen if both this and the Doggerland dams were built together.
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.
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
What I'm missing is, that this happend already several times over the history of earth, where the tectonic shift closed Gibrtaltar and the mediteranian sea felt dry.
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....😃
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.
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 highest temperature ever recorded is not 129°F. It is 134°F set in July 1913 at Death Valley, California. In fact the week that record was set it TOPPED 130° three times and hit 129°F twice.
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.
He forgot to say that the world economy will go down either through imports or export as ships would have to go around Africa to trade because the Suez canal will lead to no where and thus it would be almost impossible to connect the West and European countries like the UK and Ireland. Forget about building a road through the land mass because of the temperature.
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.
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 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.
Damn, a few of the most popular countries like Greece, Italy and Croatia would lose popularity because they would become landlocked countries. And i would be devastated. ❤️🇭🇷❤️
when i watched this along time ago it was out of curiosity but now i question "what about the many destination location across the Mediterranean as my country doesnt have nice destination places and my country relys on countries with a Mediterranean for vacations
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
The only positive I see is that it'll be easier to get to the wreck of the HMS Britannic but yet the dry air will cause the ship to fall apart into a pile of scrap metal and scrap wood.
Fun fact, in The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, you have to go down to get to the Gerudo Desert in the Southeast. The Mediterranean being completely drained resembles that in a way.
"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
"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
*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 ?
"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?
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
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
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
Meanwhile in an alternate universe: what if we make a giant sea in the middle of the desert?
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?
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
"Why wasn't it ever built?"
TNO: Am I a joke to you?
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
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
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?
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)
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
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
*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
The lesson of the video:
Don't drink too much whiskey
0:40
"Another dam between Tunisia and Sicily will divide the Mediterranean Sea in two halves"
Messina Strait: "Well yes but actually no"
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
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
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
I think Germany suggested to do so, because are extremely jealous of the Mediterranean Sea countries.
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.
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
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
The all-time highest temperature ever recorded is 134°F in the Death Valley, CA not Kuwait
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
If this project actually happened, the first comment that world leaders agree on would be "this was a mistake."
Europe would have millions of refugees crossing over from North Africa if it was drained.
The only thing I can think of with this concept is the old Railroad tycoon 2 missions revolving around this.
Now imagine what would happen if both this and the Doggerland dams were built together.
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
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?
4:45 Wait, he realise Amsterdam is part of the netherlands doesn't he? We would probably engineer our way out of this.
If Herman Sörgel used Brilliant
The dam could've been built
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
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
I enjoy your videos 👍🏼
I bet no one ever thought about any of this before.
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
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
I like how he’s saying “would of” as if this was a serious plan at some point that people thought was possible and a good idea.
The only thing they should think before doing this:
"Is gaining more land better than having sea?"
It depends what sort of land. In this case it'd be useless, salty desert.
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
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.
What I'm missing is, that this happend already several times over the history of earth, where the tectonic shift closed Gibrtaltar and the mediteranian sea felt dry.
awesome!
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
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
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.
Who in his right mind would want to do that?!? You're totally bonkers! More of these lovely ideas? Anyhoo, I shutting you out!
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
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.
The highest temperature ever recorded is not 129°F. It is 134°F set in July 1913 at Death Valley, California. In fact the week that record was set it TOPPED 130° three times and hit 129°F twice.
one time the gibraltar strait was blocked by an earthquake and it caused a worldwide crisis as rainwater levels dropped dramatically
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 ☕
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
😂😂😂
I only watched the first few seconds but it sounds like a good idea. Let's do it.
Me laughing like a villain in a movie... I've big plans to Europe xD
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!
Mauro Molinero and WhyAreLess that's because he just shows them ironically. Like he showed them in some universe (probably black hole) video!!
Why the fuck would anyone want this?
SylenDraws Wypipo
RealLifeLore really? That's interesting.
RealLifeLore do you know why?
RealLifeLore with all the horrifying consequences, it seems like something only a supervillain would do
RealLifeLore youre a squirtly dude
"Amsterdam will go underwater",
You underestimate my power
-Netherlands
The Mediterranean Sea has dryed up in the past during ice ages.
This could be a nice inspiration for a science fiction 🙄🙄🙄
you mean the atlantropa articles?
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.
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.
I feel like this alternative history concept would make an excellent Bioshock title
dutch be like ima end this whole mans career
Can settle for a Mediterranean Pond
still worth it
+Joel0937 Just say no.
lol
Not a Pond idiot
mediterranean ｇｌａｓｓ ｏｆ ｗａｔｅｒ
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.
3:25 actually it was 136 Fahrenheit in Death Valley CA
He forgot to say that the world economy will go down either through imports or export as ships would have to go around Africa to trade because the Suez canal will lead to no where and thus it would be almost impossible to connect the West and European countries like the UK and Ireland. Forget about building a road through the land mass because of the temperature.
Salt has layers!
OGRES HAVE LAYERS!
ONIONSSSS
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...
What a relief it was never done
Correction: The hottest temperature recorded on the earths surface was 56.7°C (134°F) at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley.
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
Team of expert engineers: “Let’s do it!”
One TH-cam 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?
3:30 - That's a pretty high increase in temperature. How did you (or your source) arrive at that result?
Every country that surrounding the sea: ThIs Is Impossible?!
The Netherlands:let me introduce myself
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.
"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
sacramento would not go underwater, it is far away from the sea
I caught that too. I think he meant San Francisco.
Pretty sure you’d find a shopping trolly in there 😱
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.
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
Damn, a few of the most popular countries like Greece, Italy and Croatia would lose popularity because they would become landlocked countries. And i would be devastated. ❤️🇭🇷❤️
It would be fascinating to find the remains of past settlements everywhere.
''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
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
when i watched this along time ago it was out of curiosity but now i question "what about the many destination location across the Mediterranean as my country doesnt have nice destination places and my country relys on countries with a Mediterranean for vacations
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
The real question is: How many Toyota Corrolas would fill the Mediterranean Sea?
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
The only positive I see is that it'll be easier to get to the wreck of the HMS Britannic but yet the dry air will cause the ship to fall apart into a pile of scrap metal and scrap wood.
Hms britannic bruh
It's hmhs britannic
and then, half a century later, some engineer would go "Oh let's fill these canyons with water"...
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
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
Fun fact, in The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, you have to go down to get to the Gerudo Desert in the Southeast. The Mediterranean being completely drained resembles that in a way.