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01-28-2013, 02:21 PM | #32 |
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Re: Pros and cons of growing your own island nation?
Only when the airplanes come to shoot you down. Pouring boiling water on an anthill isn't combat - at least not to the boys that do it,
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01-29-2013, 02:54 AM | #34 |
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01-29-2013, 04:56 AM | #35 |
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Or, if you're not wedded to an island, Bir Tawil is still terra nullius ...
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01-29-2013, 12:27 PM | #36 |
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Re: Pros and cons of growing your own island nation?
I don't think earth elementals are able to create earth, are they? So rather than earth elementals, wouldn't you want fire elementals, to agitate the magma from below? Or perhaps both, to arrange an eruption most efficiently?
More on new islands: Surtsey appeared off the coast of Iceland (in relatively shallow 425-foot-deep water) and took almost four years to reach a maximum size of one square mile. By 2002, wind and wave erosion had caused its area to dwindle to half that, though that harder remainder is expected to last until at least 2100. Wikipedia has a list of new islands -- most of them temporary, due to just such erosion. One of the better options might be Kavachi: it's already highly eruptive, and located between Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, neither of which has much renown for enforcing territorial claims. Other possibilities might include Metis Shoal and Home Reef, though both are decidedly within the Kingdom of Tonga, so there'd need to be some politicking and horse-trading by any prospective "owners". |
01-29-2013, 12:31 PM | #37 |
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01-29-2013, 01:32 PM | #39 |
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I don't have time to run the math at present, but I'm pretty sure that, even using the profile of a shield volcano, the creation of a moderate-sized island will have a negligible effect on worldwide sea level. The oceans are really, really big.
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01-29-2013, 02:56 PM | #40 |
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However; build a new island chain in the artic or antartic <don't need to be big>, and make them set up to support a huge ice shelf growing over them and you could REDUCE water levels (Doubly so if you have a complex infrastructure to encourage ice forming). Declare yourself a country with the intent of lowering sea levels and anyone who attacks you will be condemned as an eco-terrorist by everyone else!
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