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.
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.
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.
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It's been under Danish control, and the Arctic is warming more quickly than other parts of the world.
Start with a few bunker busting bombs, work outside of winter, dump ice, dirt into ocean. Sounds plausible.