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Don't think it's a good idea at all. Waste precious coasts to get more more mundane heartland? Who ordered that? For nations that do not grow? In the world where agriculture is barely profitable?

Why would you need land, seriously, in 2016? Look at Hong Kong and Singapore, land is liability. Interesting how perspective changed in a hundred years.

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But the archaeology would be fantastic.

We'd only have to drop the water level by 10/20 meters or so for the archaeology wouldn't we?

The black sea was only ~5000 years ago, now that would have some good archaeology.

There's a few thousand years of Mediterranean cargo and shipping distributed over the seabed.

And I'm sure Atlantis is down there somewhere...

I'm sure there is, underneath the layer of 20th century sewage and trash.

A rather good point about the Mediterranean being used as a shipping channel! There would still need to be huge canals.

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