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by tomjen3 4315 days ago
They dug a channel through Panama by hand. We humans are pretty good at engineering.
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jthol 4314 days ago
The panama canal is 50 miles wide and has an elevation change of 85 feet. Construction took 10 years.

It would be vastly more efficient to have a pipe line which would still be ludicrous.

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