Posted on 04/06/2018 4:01:09 AM PDT by C19fan
he Lost City of Atlantis may be little more than a fable but for the residents of Jakarta, the watery fate of that metropolis is an all-too-real threat. That is because the Indonesian capital is sinking faster than any city on Earth, by up to 25cm per year in some places, with experts warning large parts of it will be underwater within a decade. Ministers are currently building sea walls to shield the residents from disaster, but that does little more than delay the inevitable, since it is not the ocean rising but the ground dropping that is causing the problem.
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Yes, and I am sure they want trillions of US taxpayer dollars to fix it.
I read about a trainload of poop stranded in some town. 100 million cu yards of poop would raise the ground level a lot. So please package all you poop and Fed Ex it to the island. Please be careful not to ship any poop derived from pork products.
But the Tragically Hip told me that it was New Orleans that was sinking.
Why would we want to save it?
I guess that I’m missing the downside here...
Maybe Ohola could move back. Most libs think he walks on water...maybe he could teach them how to do it.
Some day Jakarta shall rise again.
Hard to claim that when the article clearly states the problem is the ground is sinking instead of the water level is rising.
Is Gilligan moving the Professor’s bamboo rod again?
Looks like 5 fault and 2 subduction zones within 250 km of Jakarta. Oy.
That’s never stopped them before:)
Yeah, well....sucks to be on the wrong side of a subduction plate.
Water front villages in the rest of the country aren’t sinking..... Jakarta has been built on a SWAMP, what do you expect?
The trivia that I like about that show is that Dabney Coleman was offered the role of the Professor, Carroll O’Connor was considered for the role of the Skipper,...and Jayne Mansfield was offered the role of Ginger Grant. She turned it down because she thought TV was beneath her and she wasn’t the only one in Hollywood who thought that way at the time.
I see it as a probability, as water simply fills the gaps in porous material. Suck the water out of it, and unless there is a rock bed above it, I can see where the ground level would go down. This would be especially true if that porous material being a very fine sand or silt.
A true mud puddle out in a dirt field will recede and crack once dried out. Similarly, an aquifer should shrink in size as the water is removed leaving the dirt above it no choice but to settle.
This situation is too dire to totally lie about... even the liars in our 'press' wouldn't try to fake this one.
This situation's too dire to totally lie about... even the liars in our 'press' wouldn't try to fake this one.
Too bad the Indonesians kicked the Dutch out, back in 1949. The Dutch are experts at reclaiming land below sea level and keeping it dry. They would know what to do here.
“She turned it down because she thought TV was beneath her and she wasn’t the only one in Hollywood who thought that way at the time.”
Television has long been the red headed stepchild of the entertainment world.
Kind of like Vegas that way.
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