[mixmastamyk]

Don’t modern mines remove everything over a very large area? It’s not tunnels and pickaxes any longer. The trucks are the size of a three story building.

Start with a few bunker busting bombs, work outside of winter, dump ice, dirt into ocean. Sounds plausible.

[fifilura]

Ok, and then repeat that every week when the new ice moves in?

[mixmastamyk]

It’s a misconception that there’s a lot of precipitation in the polar regions. They’re actually quite dry due to low humidity.

But yes mines continue mining, is that somehow unexpected?

[fifilura]

The ice comes from the side not from above.

[mixmastamyk]

And? So carve out a wider area. The defeatism is palpable in here, some hackers. Why even get out of bed in the morning, right?

They extract oil from tar sands in Alberta, for example. Difficult things are done all the time that are costly, as long as the price exceeds the cost.

To be clear my post above is not supportive of the administration, but rather the feasibility of mining at high latitudes.

[fifilura]

Yeah if there were no other cheaper alternatives I am sure someone would find a way.

But it seems like a pretty long financial stretch to first pay for invading a country and then this.

[mixmastamyk]

Greenland is 99% uninhabited. There is no significant bill for invasion beyond transportation of mining equipment, cheap at sea. They were talking about buying it or the inhabitants, but that is paid with other people's money.

Reply below: It's been under Danish control, and the Arctic is warming more quickly than other parts of the world.

[hackable_sand]

Don't about the resistance bombings! Every time you dig you get to unearth a pile of 22-year-old children