UM-Bot Posted September 18, 2016 #1 Share Posted September 18, 2016 A prominent German architect once proposed joining Africa and Europe by draining the Mediterranean Sea. http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/298908/1920s-plan-sought-to-drain-the-mediterranean 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlatti Posted September 18, 2016 #2 Share Posted September 18, 2016 At the time he would of course seen this as a plan for Europeans to spread into Africa, not the other way around. A potentially good idea then would be catastrophic now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exojjl Posted September 19, 2016 #3 Share Posted September 19, 2016 A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exojjl Posted September 19, 2016 #4 Share Posted September 19, 2016 (edited) Not at all a "potentially good idea." Europeons were already invading Africa by World War II, so draining the Mediterranean would mean more land for people to make more war and fighting. Edited September 19, 2016 by exojjl will only post a few words of my post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habitat Posted September 19, 2016 #5 Share Posted September 19, 2016 Two things came to mind, how to pump all that water out into the Atlantic (seems technically unfeasible, in the extreme) and how much does the sea level rise world-wide as a result ? It can safely be filed under "hare-brained schemes". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Star Posted September 19, 2016 #6 Share Posted September 19, 2016 Where could this crazy idea have originated from? O I know - Revelation 20:1 "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away: and there was no more sea." This German architect took the bible and the 1,000 year Reich of Hitler much too literally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted September 19, 2016 #7 Share Posted September 19, 2016 I wonder what he was going to use to fill in the hole? Maybe the Sahara? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted September 21, 2016 #8 Share Posted September 21, 2016 there's a short but interesting review of Hoergel's ideas here along with the original pamphlet circulated at the time there's also an artists sketch of the dam complex stretching between Africa and Europe http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2011/04/jf-ptak-science-books-llc-post-691-blog-bookstore-simply-the-thing-i-am-shall-make-me-live-from-jorge-luis-borges-sha.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkHunter Posted September 22, 2016 #9 Share Posted September 22, 2016 On 9/18/2016 at 8:50 PM, Habitat said: Two things came to mind, how to pump all that water out into the Atlantic (seems technically unfeasible, in the extreme) and how much does the sea level rise world-wide as a result ? It can safely be filed under "hare-brained schemes". Since I had the time I did a rough estimation of how much the ocean level would increase if the Mediterranean was emptied and the water pumped into the ocean. It would be no less then a 5 meter increase and no greater then a 26 meter increase. Given the nature of volume and spheres the actual increase is probably around 10 meters. Since I'm lazy and figuring out the actual increase would require complex vector calculus which I didn't feel like doing I just found the upper and lower bounds for a rough estimate and if anyone is interested I can post the math for the estimator's bounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habitat Posted September 22, 2016 #10 Share Posted September 22, 2016 On 9/20/2016 at 2:23 AM, paperdyer said: I wonder what he was going to use to fill in the hole? Maybe the Sahara? Schnapps, imo. He must have taken to it in a big way to come up with this idea ! All the pumps in all the world would not have drained it in a thousand years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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