• someguy3@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I hate maps that don’t have North as up. Why why why.

    As for this, usually there are rivers that drain into seas. You need to have a plan for those too. Here is the drainage basin for the baltic sea:

    So no not feasible.

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      4 months ago

      Alternate plan (as it would be a shame to waste a dam): Keep the dam, flood the Baltic sea until Kaliningrad is under water?

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      4 months ago

      Where is that map from? At least two of the Finnish rivers are titled with the name of a tributary, but with the correct name.

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          4 months ago

          Have traveled to Finland a couple of times and one of those rivers was familiar to me.

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            4 months ago

            So the US, Canada, and Finland just joined an icebreaker design consortium. And I’m wondering why Finland knows icebreakers. Do they need them in the baltic?

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              4 months ago

              https://akerarctic.fi/en/arctic-passion/world-icebreakers-overview/

              Finland leads the world Following World War II, Finnish companies made rapid advancements in icebreaking technology, pushing the state of the art in icebreaking design, construction, power supply, and propulsion systems. Today, Finland is a global leader in icebreaker design and construction, with most of the world’s icebreakers originating from Finnish expertise. Naturally, every single icebreaker in service in Finland has been designed and constructed locally.

              Doesn’t really fully answer the question, but yeah basically we have a lot of ice and shipping routes on the coastlines both west and south

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      4 months ago

      But there’s a chance that, cut off from the sea, the water collected wouldn’t be enough to offset losses (evaporation, etc), right? Kind of like how the Mediterranean was dry when it was cut off from the Atlantic?

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        4 months ago

        Well, no, its too far north for that to happen.

        A telling sign is that the baltic sea gets less salty the further you go away from its connection to the north sea. That means that the water is flowing out of the baltic sea, so putting a dam there would only slowly rise the sea level.