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- HesNikke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+65FIRST?! thats just a bit misleading... look at Venice!
MARKED AS INACCURATE - iEnigma, on 10/12/2007, -16/+51Even nature is anti-Communist!
- sexycommando, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33What about Atlantis.
- bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Didnt Atlantis beat them to it eons ago?
- countmandible, on 11/15/2007, -1/+25Venice is going to be--and already is--the first city to sink to the sea. Though technically the sea is rising to meet Venice. The population of Venice is now down to about 70,000 people. Pretty low for a major international city.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20No silly, Atlantis was in a whole other galaxy. Don't you watch that documentary on the Sci-Fi channel?
- TheOther1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Not. There is a sunken city off the coast of India from possibly 7500 BC
http://www.hermetics.org/cambay.html - mtownand1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Shanghai is Chinese for above the sea. atleast it will be ironic.
- Cougaboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14The description and title of this article are a bit too sensationalist for my taste. Though they are true, the title and description fail to reflect that the article was talking about how Shanghai is slowing down its rate of descent, which is a good thing, rather than the "OMG China is sinking!" in the title.
- infimprob, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Booo! Foul Play, Low Blow!
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11[Movie announcer voice]
First, There was Atlantis. *montage of the fall of Atlantis*
Then, There was Tenochtitlan *shows the the modernization of Mexico City*
Then came New Orleans *Shows the levees breaking*
And now... Shanghai. *shows the skyline of shanghai under water*
*title appears center screen*
SHANGHAI. Coming to a theater near you. ...I hope you brought your water wings.
[/announcer voice] - bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10RFTA?
Read *****, The Article? - kevbell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Just add another layer of linoleum to the floors
- dreamlayers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10What if there's already stuff on top of the dirt? How're you going to raise streets or buildings? I suppose it may be possible to somehow inject dirt underground but I doubt it would be practical or safe.
- aggrazel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7and the third one burned down fell over and then sank into the swamp... but the fourth one stayed up!
- sexycommando, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9No the biggest threat to mankind.. is Manbearpig.
- Berkana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Sadly, Venice has become like a giant theme park. Tourists outnumber native Venetians at any given time, and it has been ranked one of the worst places in Italy to raise a family, unless the family intends to be in the business of doing tourist-trap-ish trades generation after generation. Their cathedral is slowly coming apart, and will one day collapse, because the ground under it is settling at an uneven pace. Venetians are actually migrating out of the city at an alarming rate. If it hasn't already, tourism will likely kill Venice before the rising waters/sinking land does.
- compucomp2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Jeez, people, don't you know how to RFTA?
This is an IMPROVEMENT. From the article it was sinking 10 cm a year in the 1960's. Now it's down to .75 cm, and this rate is decreasing.
Basically we have stopped Shanghai from sinking into the sea, for now. - markp93, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3FTA: "Shanghai, China's commercial and financial hub, is built on swamp land at the mouth of a powerful river."
monty python and the holy grail?
King: Listen, lad: I built this kingdom up from nuthin'. When I started
here, all of this was swamp! Other kings said it was *daft* to build a
castle in a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em! It
sank into the swamp. SO, I built a second one! That sank into the
swamp. So I built a *third* one. That burned down, fell over, *then*
sank into the swamp. But the fourth one......stayed up. - D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Atlantis, you say?
The continent of Atlantis was an island
which lay before the great flood
in the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean.
So great an area of land, that from her western shores
those beautiful sailors journeyed
to the South and the North Americas with ease,
in their ships with painted sails.
To the East Africa was a neighbour, across a short strait of sea miles.
The great Egyptian age is but a remnant of The Atlantian culture.
The antediluvian kings colonised the world
All the Gods who play in the mythological dramas
In all legends from all lands were from fair Atlantis.
Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth.
On board were the Twelve:
The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist,
The magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends.
Though Gods they were -
And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind
Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new
Hail Atlantis!
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be... - PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ariel, listen to me. The human world, it's a mess.
Life under the sea is better than anything they got up there.
The seaweed is always greener
In somebody else's lake
You dream about going up there
But that is a big mistake
Just look at the world around you
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things surround you
What more is you lookin' for?
Under the sea, under the sea
Darling it's better down where it's wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we're devoting full time to floating
Under the sea, ha ha...
Down here all the fish is happy
As after the waves they roll
The fish on the land ain't happy
They sad 'cause they in the bowl!
But fish in the bowl is lucky
They in for a worser fate
One day when the boss get hungry
Guess who goin' be on the plate? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Shangai may sink into the see first, but Mexico City sinks 10 _inches_ a year... of course, this is into what used to be Lake Texcoco, but is now nothing more than a salt marsh.
- atb12688, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2At least we know for a fact that this is not caused by Global Warming.
- theguy23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Which one's Japan Island?
- zediker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The World Is Sinking! Flee! Flee!
- Crossmenjeff, on 10/12/2007, -9/+117.5 mm? i'm thinking it's possible to put 1 cm of dirt on the ground to counteract this effect.
- superjarvo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You Racist Prick!
- jercraigs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Isnt part of that because they are sucking water out from under the city? I seem to recall something about that but forget the details.
- hudef, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In other news: the price of ground floor apartments in Shanghai plummets!
Check out the amazing architecture:
http://georgiadis.googlepages.com/shanghai-photographer_architecture - TheOther1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4What about the cities of Lycia?
- mattc908, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Theres nothing you can do to stop it........
So Mine as well step outta the way, just like maybe you should move out...... - polymorphist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What about the Netherlands cities? They're already under the sea...
- ernieoporto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sensational article titles on Digg? No! When did that happen?
- polymorphist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No. It means "going out on the sea"
- kelbear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg works through mass-effect. And pandering to the masses is best done through extremes, not moderation. As Jon Stewart noted, you don't see moderates marching through the streets in a political rally screaming, "BE REASONABLE!"
- Ignignokt01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So its democratic now? Is that what you're saying?
- mattc908, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37.5mm a Year..... Oh Jeeze Thats like a car a mile down the road travling 1mph thats heading right at you.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sorry, New Orleans is going first.
- kevbell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Awesome! One more thing for NASA to do on the moon: watch Shanghai sink
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Despite massive engineering efforts to keep the city above water"
Well. In China a massive engineering effort is giving 100,000 peasants each a stick and forcing them to build a dike. - Otium9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Imagine it we are the generation that sees the world crumble, we are the generation that will sit back and do nothing as the world is dismantled either naturally or by human hands. The earth will have a new landscape, a landscape of ruins of past glory cities, and thriving business memories.
- oldschool4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Amazing... please help fight the energy crisis @ http://www.energyworldwide.blogspot.com/
- Pix869, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Al Gore was right!
We...We didn't listen!
We didn't listen!
(We didn't listen!) - Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0yeah, but didn't the Chinese build an airport that is sinking into the sea? Isn't this just the normal state of affairs over there, put billiions of development on top of sinking ground? The Chinese even create disposable cities and airports, not just $1 junk.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3It's never too early... for a salad!
- deannnnnn, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5@tateswayz91:
"Why are you digging huntrm down?! It was -12 in Southern Michigan today! (unseasonably cold)"
Because unseasonable lows are predicted by global warming. The earth as a whole is heating up and temperatures are becoming more extreme. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.
Assuming that Global Warming means everywhere is going to be hotter all the time shows how ignorant you two are. - kevbell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Iran's president just announced that they came up with a cure for sinking cities: move to the desert
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2@deannnnnn
"Because unseasonable lows are predicted by global warming. The earth as a whole is heating up and temperatures are becoming more extreme. Those two things are not mutually exclusive."
I don't follow your illogic. (Takes a drag from crack pipe.) Oh ya! That makes sense.
"Assuming that Global Warming means everywhere is going to be hotter all the time shows how ignorant you two are."
Brave words coming from someone whose training in climatology consists of one masterbatory viewing of "An Inconvenient Truth". - SamiJam, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Wow people still calling China a Communist country... I bet they don't offer you free educations at the place where you live... Go to visit China and see it yourself.
- DanJohnHarris, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2"NEW ORLEANS, London, Venice and Bangkok all face subsidence problems similar to Shanghai's"
hahaha -
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