The Nicaragua Grand Canal: Long History, Minimal Progress

[@megaprojects9649]

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[@Darth-Claw-Killflex]

Or just buy your cereal at a grocery store like a normal person for MUCH less.

[@mickkidston7344]

9 bloody dollars a box !!!!!

[@angusmcnay5449]

*Its troubled history

[@cl4998]

Oh, yes...its not like the economy has gone to sht world wide, I'm sure everyone would love a $13 box of cereal. Its actually far more expensive than $13 USD when you compare $/oz, then its roughly $20+ per box of cereal.

[@FaceEatingOwl]

Hey, our cereal has less ingredients than others. Why don't you pay more for it…

[@ezzy525]

How many times can we get Simon to say Nicaragua? Writer: Yes.

[@henrycole6399]

Nicara goo ya

[@gordonl7455]

How many times the right way? Writers: No

[@ezzy525]

@@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248 To be fair to Simon, he's pronouncing it the British way. British and Americans both have different ways of saying it.

[@lilpaper3718]

can someone make a edit for all the time simon said or attempted to say nicaragua

[@wonkywaddlingwaterwingedwriter]

@@ezzy525 Sure, but let's split the difference and just say it how the Nicaraguans would. I am 1:33 into the video and had to pause it to check how many comments were about that. I'll accept jag-u-ar but this is wild lol.

[@chrisbusenkell]

Finally a video that covers all 25 years of the Pax Nicaragua, the golden age of Nicaragua when its population swelled to 50, briefly, and news worthy events were happening that weren't entirely criminal in their nature.

[@therealdoomsage]

"Do you remember those saturday mornings as a kid when you'd sit down with your favourite bowl of cereal?" ...those are the only kind of Saturday, Simon. It's the defining feature; mon-friday: hell, saturday: cartoons and cereal, sunday: dreading monday.

[@knutthompson7879]

There is another route that has been considered occasionally, in Mexico, called the Tehuantepec Route. It is considerably longer, but has some advantages over Panama and Nicaragua.

[@micnorton9487]

Looks like the Mexican government is going to improve the rail "corridor" and expand the ports,, the pass between the sierra is about as low as Panama or lower than Nicaragua,, I think,, and the rainfall on the Atlantic side is more than sufficient for feeder canals but the locks on the Pacific side would need major feedwater but hey,, the Atlantic sides a rainforest so wtf... It's long though,, if I had 10 or 15 billion laying around I'd do it,, just to piss Wall Street off,, because it'd make enough revenue for continued operation free and clear and be a boom for the Mexican economy but that's exactly why Wall Street WON'T do it...

[@sfoyogi8979]

nic-a-ra-gu-a can not be unheard.

[@Hillbilly001]

LOL! He butchers every language including English. LOL! Cheers

[@AcornElectron]

Um, it’s how we say it in England as far as I know. Sometimes the ra might be rah if you’re middle class. Like the way middle class people say Karate, ka rah tay.

[@Bino9898]

@KonixMultisystem yeah, but that's not how Nicaraguans, or anyone else, says it lol

[@silenttoxic707]

Especially since he says it about 15 times before the magic spoon ad hits lmao

[@TheGweilo701]

It’s true!

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:05 - Chapter 1 - The history 2:15 - Mid roll ads 4:10 - Back to the video 8:00 - Chapter 2 - The attempt 15:30 - Chapter 3 - The project's end

[@sailinbob11]

I'm not sure how ,or when , but my grandfather worked on bridges and dams in Nicaragua either before or after WW1. My Pop has his father's old photo album with pictures of Grandpa with natives kakis, a pith helmet , the whole Jungle Jim look. Pop's 87 now. Grandpa passed in 72. Probably oughta ask Pop but hadn't thought about it until now. Thanks... Oh... both are/were engineers.

[@ahseaton8353]

The Panama Canal wasn't Teddy Roosevelt's idea. The French started the canal under de Lesseps (who built the Suez Canal first) starting in 1881. The French also had a railroad across Panama for transshipping cargo and passengers before the canal was completed. Teddy just swooped in after the French attempt went bankrupt.

[@zeitgeistx5239]

The railroad was American. Americans had been there since the early 1800s offering a shortcut for human passenger traffic to the port on the Pacific coast.

[@MrSimplyfantabulous]

It sends shivers down my spine the way Simon Whistler turns the word "Nicaragua" into 23 mainly painful syllables.

[@RebeccaOre]

I wish the people who write these scripts would find a better voice actor.

[@paularcaria]

I spent a few days on omettepe island. That lake does not need to be screwed up anymore than it is.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

Major reason why it was completely canceled long ago.

[@brandonmoisesblandonflores1483]

i have been looking forwards to this one for months

[@pauljaworski9386]

THis was talked about in the states in the 60ies. Maybe popular mechanics. The talk then was to use a-bombs to blast out the canal.

[@AV57]

Wow. That’s horrific.

[@DonLefFL]

I remember that!

[@Woodie-xq1ew]

Project Plowshare. They were also going to widen the Panama Canal with nukes as well, mental

[@Mrgunsngear]

Thanks

[@kanakukgurl88]

Thank you Simon and Team for all your hard work ❤

[@blinard1]

Im in the UK....just looked out of curiosity to see how much the cereal was.....$10 a box?!?!? Is that normal in USA because to us over the pond...that is CRAZY!!!!

[@mastathrash5609]

Depends on where in the US, and on which cereal but some "high-end" ones can be even more which is silly cause you can make your Own granola for less.

[@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883]

The "welfare bags" of store brand cereal are still cheap. $10 is a lot for cereal, boxes of name brand cereal where i live costs about $3-7 depending mostly on size.

[@sk.8835]

Yep, that's nuts.

[@zackerymeltonturdle5648]

I'm in Los Angeles and you get the double sized boxes for 8 dollars. So yeah it's overpriced in general. I been trying to say these ad reads are my least favorite he just smacking his lips talking while he chews on privlege. Lmao no normal folks could afford that.

[@TalesOfWar]

I'll be sticking to Lidl's own stuff, it's pretty good. And doesn't break the bank! lol

[@nunya___]

A video where the music is louder than the speaker. _Brilliant_ production quality.

[@rsimpson69]

Maybe you need a different speaker setup for the audio selection you've chosen. It's well balanced on my TV. I can hear him clearly enunciate "nick a rog you a" every single time

[@wronger0123]

They never bothered to spell “its” correctly whatever did you expect?

[@nunya___]

@@wronger0123 Ya I think this channel is operated by old poorly skilled media editors that just add in bs "extra" so they conceal their actual lack of skill (and understanding of proper English). Simon is apparently easily fooled. Just a British face and voice. This could be sooo much better without the sad excuse of editor(s). The research and writing is very good only to be ruined by extremely bad editing.

[@brigz3602]

Simon, your documetries are top line. Please can you do one on how the US thought about using nuclear bombs to melt the Arctic.

[@simonmatthews7512]

The U.S gov want Nicaragua as a client kingdom. In these circumstances they will never allow any development.

[@RebeccaOre]

Nicaragua and Chinese just signed a trade agreement. The Cubans have busted people for shipping off Cuban men to fight for Russia. It's interesting down here.

[@markandkiminnewzealand2702]

Hey Simon Please can you also put this and your other channels out as podcasts I listen to Casual Criminalist and Decoding the Unknown

[@dae1973]

“If you wanted to take a…….ship” correct? 🤣🤣🤣

[@veganspacemonkey]

Oooohhh, ship. Really changes the meaning of the first line in the video

[@mattreynolds5671]

‘Imagine I get paid to just sit here and eat things for sponsors’ le sigh.

[@ERKNEES2]

😳😳😳😳😳😳😳 LET SIMON SPEAK!! 😂😂

[@Mr-G131]

Never mind salinating and polluting the largest fresh water lake in central america.

[@pentabular]

You are only doing this to see how many times I can put up with you saying "Nicarag-you-ah"

[@Parc_Ferme]

Wtf Simon, the lasts megaproject videos was about stuff that was insane and never started even their construction. Want a suggestion? ITAIPU powerplant, that was the biggest until the Chinese one was completed.

[@paulmeredith2037]

Hi Simon can you please do a video Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE was named a British Hero of the Holocaust by the British Government. Winton was awarded the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Fourth Class, by the Czech President Václav Havel in 1998. he was a British humanitarian who helped to rescue jewish children who were at risk from Nazi Germany just months before the start of World War II he saved 669 children all of them would’ve probably have been killed by the Nazis if he hadn’t got them out please do a video on this man thank you Paul.

[@hank1972]

I lived in Nicaragua for 4 years when I married a girl there. Here are my takes of what I saw. he San Juan River is actually owned by Nicaragua the shore of Costa Rica of the river is the actual border, according to historical and legal documents. Has Costa Rica tried to amend those agreements? Yes they have. But nothing come for it other than a border skirmish that lasted a sew days. China has done some other work out there tho. They build either a dam or power plant (can't remember which one) in the north of the country for Rural Electrification, They also did dig some wells and canals. Ortega's idea was to build up the cities on the shores of the Canal.

[@RebeccaOre]

One person I knew (he's died since) in 2018 before the mess was working for the Chinese on rescue archeology, and one other man had been working on the ecological survey. The businessman was probably a cover. The present trade agreement, and Nicaragua now works with the Chinese, not the Taiwanese. The US is threatening to occupy Nicaragua when Ortega leaves the presidency (most of us think he's going to go out lying flat and as long as a person with Lupus can live). The route was evolved through the findings of the ecological study group (moved to save a Pacific Coast mangrove grove). Ortega has outmaneuvered any number of plots against him, both inside the FSLN and outside directed by the US. The route wouldn't have gone near Concepcion. Everyone knows if Ortega pulls this off, he'll be one of the great Nicaraguan presidents, so a lot of people really don't like that. The Lake isn't the main source of drinking water for Nicaragua because it's very silty (per the ecologist who told me about it). Almost anything you've read about Nicaraguan recently is close to totally non-factual. A friend said that Ortega does everything he promises. The canal is about the only thing that he's failed (so far) to pull off. The British owe China a lot for pushing opium on China despite local laws against the drug.

[@kenoliver8913]

Pretty well ALL the objections (local corruption, geological, climatic, need for imprting large amounts of skilled labour plus explosives etc) were the same for the major widening of the Panama Canal. The reason the difficulties with one were blazoned forth in the US-led media while those of the other were ignored had everything to do with geopolitics, not engineering or economics.

[@bigmedge]

It had everything to do with economics & drinking water . It would’ve decimated Nicaragua’s main source (by far) of drinking water, & the Chinese guy who said he’d finance it turned out to be a scammer b/c his company has no idea or experience in how to build such large infrastructure

[@northerncaptain855]

As a kid I remember a press conference by President Lyndon Johnson back in the 60’s proposing a New Nicaraguan canal possibly utilizing peaceful nuclear explosives. I expect it had something to do with diplomacy with Panama.

[@MichaelSmith-ij2ut]

Long History, Minimal Progress was the title I gave to my amateur porno about a terrible student who would do anything for an A

[@davidwelch-w3c]

the lake is shallow. the ships will pollute the potable water.. they will stir up lake bed sediment. The huge propellers will only be only 30 feet above the lake floor. Nica needs to find other options to improve their economy. Hemp could be a big source of income.. its a building material with almost limitless potential.

[@neilchisholm797]

I understand that the Turkish govt is considering an alternative to the ships travelling thru the Bosphorus by building a canal slightly further west. That and a vlog on the Norwegian ship canal would be interesting. To continue the series some historical discussion on the Corinth canal, the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal in partic how the engineering improved over the centuries building those canals. Even smaller canals could be included such as the Grand Union Canal, the Manchester Ship Canal, the Erie Canal (and the effect that had on the growth of NYC as opposed to New Orleans) and also the Canal du Midi. Great doco. Very interesting

[@mitchellminer9597]

I once owned an old map that had the proposed canal route on it.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

It was on maps from as long ago as 1850.

[@kupaaiau]

Another episode featuring the great blue sweater! Smartest sweater in history

[@melquimartinez2735]

el canal en nicaragua sera una realidad muy pronto.

[@jwpipes47]

Take a shot every time Simon mispronounces Nicaragua if you want to die

[@private1177]

He doesn't. That's how it's been spoken in his accent. Other languages say it even differently. The world is more then just the US.

[@davefellhoelter1343]

he Speaks "The King's" English! was the "Queens" all others are catching UP!

[@tioopuh]

Amazing description the only thing that bothered me; It’s not lake Nicaragua, it’s called Xolotlan, you don’t say Lake USA you call it lake Tahoe; by name

[@drg9339]

Wrong we in Nicaragua say Lago Nicaragua “Lake Nicaragua” or El Cocibolca, also “Lake Managua which you are referring to is “Xolotlán “

[@RebeccaOre]

Lago Cocibolca is the larger lake, and Xolotlan (Lago Xolotlán) is the smaller great lake. What bothers me is people who are confidentially wrong.

[@jaydickey1049]

Nicas call it Colciboca.

[@alexmendoza4261]

Can I get magic spoon in the USA on a grocery store? Or just through this?

[@alexmendoza4261]

Found it in Walmart in Tx.

[@pluxauag7555]

Shipping companies, Rail Companies and Nicaragua/China could adopt a dual side approach with super heavy gauge rail cargo transport connecting two mega ports on the Atlantic and Pacific sides. Cutting the shipping time between the two ports by water using new heavy duty rail cargo transport to supply twin ships on either side.

[@martinstallard2742]

1:00 the history 4:10 end of sponsorship 7:57 the attempt 15:23 the project's end

[@SylvainDuford]

Magic Spoon Cereal? man, I guess times are tough.

[@mtlfpv]

$10 for a 200g box of cereal? Bruh

[@lanceferraro3781]

You got it, Simon. The real threat to both canals is the ice of the northwest passage disapearing. I don't recommend investing at all.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

Invest? THe project died a decade ago. LOL. You can't invest.

[@nancycasas1122]

Pero cuándo será ése proyecto...? Ya México sé quiere adelantar con un canal.

[@chrisbusenkell]

I think we should all chip in and buy Simon a trip down to good ol Nicaragua so he can do a part 2

[@WgCdrLuddite]

Good idea. We wouldn't need to pay for a return trip either.

[@Supallcomm]

I am now traumatized by Nicaragyooah.

[@andresmarioruizchavarria8980]

NICARAGUA 🇳🇮

[@disgruntledmarmotcustomsan1530]

I wish the ads were all the same length so you knew how far to fast forward

[@JBernhard72]

Why is Utube screwing with 1080P videos?

[@shorttimer874]

I remember seeing a proposal some 50 years ago to dig a Nicaraguan canal using atomic explosions...

[@managua-san8075]

Simon pronounces Nicaragua= "Nicaragiua". I am Nicaraguan and couldn't stop laughing the way Simon say it. 😁

[@andresmarioruizchavarria8980]

NICARAGUA 🇳🇮 GO🌊🐟🚢🛥⛴🛳i hope this canal came true

[@denniskrust2137]

I thought Simon said, "If you wanted to take a shit from New York to San Francisco...' when he started the video. I had to play it a second time. Sorry, Simon.

[@yuriabmxr]

Ni-cah-rah-gwah: yes. Ni-cah-rah-gyu-a: please, no

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

Even today ships are built to Panamax specifications. If an even larger canal could be built it would find customers! And Norway is now building a tunnel for huge ships, which could also be used as a method for a canal?

[@scottmoore6131]

The canal would ruin their largest freshwater source in the country.

[@RebeccaOre]

You're wrong. B. the trick would be making sure that the one lock between the Pacific and the lake was always kept in good condition. The water is not a major freshwater source for potable water. Easier sources with less turbidity and left over battery manufacturing waste.

[@davidecasarin4953]

You could wait september then use the north west passage

[@franktrask1264]

No less a person than Horatio Nelson was sent by the Royal Navy to give an opinion on the possibility of the Nicaraguan Canal. Hence the many English names like Bluefield, Bragmans Bluff etc. on the maps of the day

[@joshanderson7195]

It's been 3 seconds. What country were we talking about again?

[@peterinbrat]

"Its" Troubled History 😂

[@russell2952]

Yes. This bugs the hell out of me. How can someone like Simon mess up something like that?

[@cavhaunch3597]

Punctuation error in the thumbnail, tut tut

[@frankcooke1692]

Why does Magic Spoon always insist on people showing themselves eating cereal? Who wants to see that?

[@jorgecampos9659]

Eventually Nicaragua will become the next Panama Canal. The Panama Canal is dated

[@fredericktan857]

Can do one about the Kra Canal?

[@CarlosRIOS777]

I’m doing research on this and learned it would greatly limit and destroy indigenous land and areas claimed by certain tribes.

[@RebeccaOre]

The thing you don't hear about is a proposal to eliminate the squatter on indigenous land in exchange for permission to go through some of it. B. Some films show squatters pretending to be the original indigenous people on the land.

[@yancarlos9631]

Yes Nice SOS beuatiful Nicaguagua 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@RebeccaOre]

The megatons of propaganda dropped on Nicaragua over the desires of the old oligarchic families to loot the country again is amazing.

[@EeroMyrsky]

I had to stop watching when the only word I could hear anymore was "Nicaragyooah"

[@jakubznojemsky4936]

Even if shenanigans around canal might be funny there still might be need for it so we dont need to haggle over Panama canal capacity or having it jammed when another Everstuck arrives. It just depends if its build by Americans or someone else.

[@RebeccaOre]

The Americans have earned a 40 year time out from trying to fix other people's countries. Nicaragua tends to be politically polarized. Anything that makes that less would be useful. Americans, as at least some refugees are finding out, tend to be quite bigoted toward less than white people. Chinese have had that experience with various Europeans and Americans and the Japanese through 1949 or so. SE Asian countries do not like China, but they never colonized Africa and the Americas and the issue with seizing Tibet was not quite as clear cut as the US seizing half of Mexico. Cuba could also be guaranteed cheaper Chinese products as sea transport for them would avoid the Panama Canal.

[@jakubznojemsky4936]

@@RebeccaOre Sorry pal but I disagree about most of it. It would be nice for America to take break but nobody can rest until problems are solved and there are always problems. Nicaragua is polarised but also hole in the ground so if it would seal and breach any deal Just Cause 2.0 it is. Japanese did Nankin, screwed up war declaration and treated both subjected countries and war prisoners like sh!t so what a surprise they got same treatment afterwards. In other cases every state usualy watches over their own first then imigrants but race inequality is diminishing. It's rather poor vs rich which often happen to be some old white moneybag but white commoners are stuck in same rubbish like everyone else. But I agree that US have some unadressed bigots. When it comes to colonising it's best to remember that everyone was kinda bad with most of records remaining about Europeans who exploited local resources and workforce but the local "workforce" sometimes happened to be cannibals or great fans of human sacrifices and other nauseating habits. Also some tribes were selling rival tribe prisoners. Loss of less violent cultures is regretable though. Still all the exploitation covered costs to build local hospitals, schools, infrastructure and development in general. So yeah everyone involved was large S-hole yet everyone could benefit from that. But it's old news and eveyryone is given pretty much same rights now so who gives...?

[@bigmedge]

@@RebeccaOredelusional Wumao detected . Especially with the nonsense about the takeover of Tibet being not clear cut as when part of Mexico was given to USA as a war trophy

[@Plutonium239MXR]

Grain-free cereal? Don't you know it's all about whole-grain cereal? XD

[@roberttaylor3594]

maybe the Saudis should take this project over, and build a city next to the canal as a nice extra add on.

[@JS-oy6nn]

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[@davepitts4479]

Right next to the Gas Station Sushi

[@andylindsaytunes]

Thumbnail: It is troubled history?

[@mikeh.1130]

Lake Nicaragua looks like a super volcano.

[@baronteddyvonforsthoffer2567]

There's actually 2 volcanos in the lake. Beautiful place to visit.

[@RebeccaOre]

Cocibolca isn't. Most of the Nicaraguan volcanos are more decorative than anything else. One possible exception on the other side of Managua. Concepcion on Omatepe erupts occasionally, but never with any real violence so far.

[@nicaumann7864]

Eating way over priced ceral is so annoying to watch.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

By "minimal project" meaning it was fully canceled nearly a decade ago before anything was done, lol. Calling it a "project" is a bit of a stretch. More like "Idea with minimal interest" that no one has thought about in forever.

[@jonnywatts2970]

Magic spoon is delicious said the man that does not eat cereal...

[@jc-tu6pg]

nica- rag-You-ah. Lmao

[@dominicwaghorn6459]

I heard, "if you wanted to take a SHIT, from new York to San fransisco"

[@johnmurkwater1064]

Yeah, I actually paused it right at, "shi.." and then had to play it for a second to find out what he really said... LOL 🤣

[@chriswatson2407]

We need to close that door

[@nigelyorkshiremanwadeley6263]

I was wondering how far into the video before the Chinese were mentioned as taking Nicaragua under their financial ball and chain.

[@dan200317]

I watch all your channels... same volume... your volume and sound quality and fluctuations from channel to channel is quite frustrating

[@eastonagnew57]

*Its

[@EAWanderer]

Interesting 😮

[@denisalvarado9991]

There are so many errors in this video that it’s hard to know where to start. Nicaragua does not share the Río San Juan with Costa Rica. Costa Rica has commercial access to part of the river but the River is Nicaraguan territory. Nicaragua and Panama have similar climate and geographically are in hurricane prompt areas so the argument that climate is a big obstacle to the Nicaraguan canal would be true for the Panamá canal yet the Panama Canal was built and it still is very successful. Lake Nicaragua is not the country’s main source of drinking water. For instance in the capital of Managua the Asososca lagoon has been the main source of drinking water and from what I understand now the major source of drinking water in the country is groundwater. There are many other instances throughout where information is given as facts but they’re not. You can’t form an educated conclusion or opinion if part of the information given is false or at best half false.

[@RebeccaOre]

Simon's just echoing the talking points of the opponents to the canal, and their opposition was mainly not wanting Ortega to pull something like this off in reality. Several old Contras and their US handlers will spontaneously combust if Ortega does pull this off. And it will give Nicaragua two deep water seaports in addition to the canal. B Panama has nastier general weather than Nicaragua, but is south of the hurricane belt. C. getting potable water out of a lake with currents that roil sediment (hard to observe fish there) is non-trival. As far as problems with the Rio San Juan, Nicaragua owns the bed to the opposite bank, and Lake Gatun has fish in it, and ships, too.

[@nirorbach8046]

I visited Nicaragua in 2008, and remember the calamity of the Lake Nicaragua with its beautiful calm island Ometepe in its middle. But the country is in a big poverty. I hope for the Nica citizens one day the people will have a better leader than the s$itty one they have today...

[@jacobavners2394]

ניר אורבך :) קטע, לא ידעתי שיש עוד ישראלים חוץ ממני שצופים בסיימון

[@RebeccaOre]

The Nicaguan economy has been expanding ever since I moved here in 2010. It contracted when the various upper classes stirred up shit to fight each other for money and power, and then again in the Covid years, but is rebounding quite nicely in the urban areas (haven't spent time in the countryside recently). My block has new construction including a coffee shop my landlord's family run, new housing, and one block away the Mexican restaurant expanded by 2/3rds. Nicaraguans are traveling again inside the country. Some foreign travelers. Ortega is less shitty than any recent leader other than the second Somoza who seemed to have been decent but who didn't live long. I've been living here for a bit over 13 years.

[@staticwings488]

PLEASE STOP the hard ad cuts in the middle of a thought. PLEASE wait till a section break.

[@orangeboy8597]

Thai canal next

[@Shuten_Wukong]

Man, Monday sucks.

[@micnorton9487]

China would pony up the industrial capital and deliver the machinery and even provide the workers except for one small problem,, Wall Street... Wallstreet currently owns Nicaragua militarily and there's no way China is going to dump billions of dollars into a project that would just be kept and exploited by the United States...

[@jan_deno8175]

Fantastic! Do a video on Darian gap highway

[@alistairmcelwee7467]

Dude, you don't make Magic Spoon cereal look good when you actually eat it! Maybe just re-video that segment? But, as always, most interesting video - so, thanks for posting. OK, but really, when you eat eat it, looks like Lucy with VitaMeataVegimin!

[@billsimpson604]

With reshoring beginning & the Panama Canal already expanded, it will probably never happen. Venezuela and Guyana (big new oil discoveries there) would like to be able to ship oil and gas on a shorter route to Asia, if a huge canal was built. If they had 2 canals, a price war might soon follow. That can't happen with the Suez Canal. The global warming fight might hit ocean shipping too, as producing as close to demand as possible is adopted as a way to reduce transportation pollution. Before an American invented the container, things were made as close as possible to where they would be consumed. Furniture and TVs weren't shipped from China to New York. It was too expensive.

[@patrickgallagher9069]

The sound of chewing food in an add is hard to listen to without the urge to throw up....

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

*its

[@joeslattery4125]

Agua- ahgwah.

[@treecrusher]

Every single reason not to build this canal could have been levelled at the Panama cancel. We’re lucky that our forebears built the infrastructure we rely on today as we can’t seem to get out of our own way these days.

[@kdZA8209]

It depends on who stands to benefit from the project really. If it's an ''undesirable'' then we will point out everything that could go wrong with the project but swap beneficiaries then as if by magic it will be built

[@NewEnglandkevinfaure]

Oh god Magic Spoon took over Simon 😒

[@magnemoe1]

Panama canal being to small. Titanic was designed as an Panamax ship. Iowa battleships was too but this was an compromise who reduced their resistance against torpedoes. The unbuild Montana battleships and cold war carriers would also be to large.

[@guydemullet303]

Guess the Nic-a-ragh-u-Anne's didn't do their homework on Chinese construction practices.