http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgjlJ5hEbw&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:45:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgjlJ5hEbw&feature=youtube_gdata http://ask.metafilter.com/133195/Offsetting-sea-level-rise-An-engineering-idea-of-Biblical-proportions#comment The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years - Would it be possible to cordon off a section of land, somewhere in the centre of a continent, and flood it to create an artificial ocean, thus reducing the consequences of the sea rise? This Biblical scale engineering feat must take these issues into account: 1. The section of land would have to be a very large 'bowl', in the centre of a continent, that is already below sea level. Another… ]]> Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:12:00 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/133195/Offsetting-sea-level-rise-An-engineering-idea-of-Biblical-proportions#comment