Scientists Want to Terraform The Sahara, The Pricetag: $2 Trillion Per Year - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Bredirish123;17330400]Maybe they should only do a 100 miles or so of it, this could help advance our terraforming technology so we can use it in space one day.[/QUOTE] Spore taught us much

[QUOTE=The Epidemic;17330625]But it's just so dangerous. It could end man-kind![/QUOTE] But think of all the jobs that would open!

[QUOTE=Ginteru;17338395]Spore taught us much[/QUOTE] Ah chuna waana. Hitsu sane a dishua!

[quote]The catch: it will cost $2 trillion a year, and possibly destroy the Amazon jungle while [b]unleashing giant swarms of locusts across Africa.[/b][/quote] Holy christ

[QUOTE=radioactive;17338535]Ah chuna waana. Hitsu sane a dishua![/QUOTE] Anitsa? Ikura na ya wa akibura!

[QUOTE=Ginteru;17338592]Anitsa? Ikura na ya wa akibura![/QUOTE] No foyr chan du wane Kérr

[QUOTE=Dr.C;17330235]That's not a bad idea, locusts will probably fuck it up though, they ruin everything[/QUOTE] Fill it with locust to energy converters then :v:

[QUOTE=Saxon;17338310]Ha only just 2 trillion? that's like enough to end poverty in Africa[/QUOTE] You could give everyone in Africa $2000.

[QUOTE=smurfy;17339363]You could give everyone in Africa $2000.[/QUOTE] Warlords would take people's share for themselves.

[QUOTE=Saxon;17338310]Ha only just 2 trillion? that's like enough to end poverty in Africa[/QUOTE] Unfortunately you cannot just inject money into these countries. The problem is not that they are poor, it is that the people in power take the money they have away from them.

Genesis Device anyone...wait...no...KHAAAAAAANNNNN!!!

[QUOTE=Xmeagol;17337732][Insert right amount] years ago it was full of forests, get the fuck out.[/QUOTE] We ALL accept the Sahara at a point in time used to be a giant forest, ok cool You guys don't get it, and I'm going to say it one more time. You cannot do it NOW, you can't plant a forest in these areas, [img]http://weathersavvy.com/Deserts_Worldwide_HorseLati.gif[/img] This is the climate of TODAY, the trend is right there in your face. You'd have to do this somewhere else, everything that comes from a forest climate will die in the Sahara, that's why naturally we don't have a forest there anymore, the earth's climate changes Fuck, you can't even plant certain things your own backyard without it dieing This idea in OP is a gigantic fuck up and should not be taken seriously.

[QUOTE=Craptasket;17339594]You cannot do it NOW, you can't plant a forest in these areas,[/QUOTE] Can't? [img]http://www.jstottphotography.com/2003/2003-09-03_-_usa/san_francisco/slides_l/dscn1859.jpg[/img] That's the San Fransisco bridge right there, when the injuns were roaming about with little babies strapped to their backs they couldn't imagine a thing like that bridge was possible- but the white man came in and DID it. And GOD DAMMIT, we'll do it again!

[QUOTE=RichardNixon;17339658]Can't? That's the San Fransisco bridge right there, when the injuns were roaming about with little babies strapped to their backs they couldn't imagine a thing like that bridge was possible- but the white man came in and DID it. And GOD DAMMIT, we'll do it again![/QUOTE] It's not impossible, it's a waste of money and it's not smart at all, you'd have to change our own orbit and change sea currents and weather patterns, not to mention move a fuckton of sand and whatever ecosystem that has claimed it, and yea those animals take no shit from humans. do more harm than good you'd have to do it somewhere else, really you'd have too,[b] this idea is equated to terraforming Antarctica, yea it too used to have a massive vegetation, but com'on doesn't that not sound right to you? it's too fucking cold, get the clue? do the same with Sahara, too fucking hot, BARLEY ANY RAIN, bad idea[/b]

Fuck solar panels. Fuck terraforming. We should use the $2 trillion dollars on signs in sahara. So that people will never get lost.

the ego trip from completing a project like that would be more than worth it.

[QUOTE=Epidemick;17339391]Warlords would take people's share for themselves.[/QUOTE] No cuz you could spend their share of the money on a hitman to kill them instead. Do it

Instead of destoying the amazon to make cattle ranches and growing forest in the sahara to offset it, why not just build the cattle ranches in the sahara? Cut out the middle man yo?

I lost my cat just because of those damn locusts [editline]09:08PM[/editline] They eat everything

fuck terraforming lets build underground cities lets call one rapture, it will be in the middle of the Atlantic ocean

Oh great, they stole my sandvish. [editline]09:08PM[/editline] And there goes my lunch for today. [editline]09:09PM[/editline] Now those pesky locusts took my pillow! [editline]09:09PM[/editline] oOH SHIT THEY ARE ALL OVER MEEEEEEEEE

[QUOTE=Dlaor;17340080]Oh great, they stole my sandvish. [editline]09:08PM[/editline] And there goes my lunch for today. [editline]09:09PM[/editline] Now those pesky locusts took my pillow! [editline]09:09PM[/editline] oOH SHIT THEY ARE ALL OVER MEEEEEEEEE[/QUOTE] shit! unfunny

[QUOTE=Craptasket;17339720][b] this idea is equated to terraforming Antarctica, yea it too used to have a massive vegetation, but com'on doesn't that not sound right to you? it's too fucking cold, get the clue? do the same with Sahara, too fucking hot, BARLEY ANY RAIN, bad idea[/b][/QUOTE] uh no, it's not, with enough supermassive canals you could turn the sahara into a p. nice place. Antarctica is fucked no matter what you do, not even third worlders want to live there.

[QUOTE=RichardNixon;17340369]uh no, it's not, with enough supermassive canals you could turn the sahara into a p. nice place. Antarctica is fucked no matter what you do, not even third worlders want to live there.[/QUOTE] Antarctica is in a cold part of the earth, so it has to be frozen.

[QUOTE=RichardNixon;17340369]uh no, it's not, with enough supermassive canals you could turn the sahara into a p. nice place. Antarctica is fucked no matter what you do, not even third worlders want to live there.[/QUOTE] You'd have to redirect the Nile just for your water supply, what about the conditions? ALL THAT DAMN SAND! is the soil not permanently destroyed after hundreds of thousands of years under fuckton of sand? Weather? Solar? Tricky Dick you're not getting it, you cannot plant a banana tree in the Sahara even with all the water you can get, It would die on it's own

The forest would be very dry a few years after the project is done.

fine I give up.

I love global warming guy so quit bitchin bout it

[QUOTE=Superkilll307;17340512]I love global warming guy so quit bitchin bout it[/QUOTE] I am global warming guy, and this is my sun. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires 5000 gamma rays per second.

[QUOTE={FP}ST;17330160]Best idea EVER and by best I mean worst[/QUOTE] That's Sam Tilgan allright! :v: