My crank project is a massive geoengineering project to restore Lake Megachad and then expand it beyond its previous greatest extent to create Lake Gigachad
I would bring big efforts to resurrect the Irish language by having all sporting events, news broadcasts etc in Irish, having Irish be taught in school before English, having social events where people are expected to speak Irish etc. However this would merely be a Trojan horse for my real goal: slyly take out gendered pronouns from Irish and have everyone's pronouns be gender neutral by default, and only otherwise if specified.
It should be obvious that I'm Irish but we can apply this to any Anglophone country. England speaks Irish now, fuck you
I'd start math education with formal logic, elementary number theory, and mathematical language in the first grade. That way everyone has a chance to actually understand the math they're expected to manipulate in high school.
I'd make all detached single-family homes near an urban center illegal and start replacing them all with a combination of low-rise attached units for families, and apartment complexes for people without kids (notionally, I'm fine with some intermixing). Make sure that there are services and amenities within walking distance of all newly-densified housing, and run bus service and light rail everywhere. Then I'd ban private vehicles anywhere within view of a skyscraper. You will live in a pleasant, walkable community with greenspace and accessible services, or you will be sent to the reeducation camps.
Also, big bronze statue in a park. Big enough to provide ample shade to park goers in the summer.
A truman show-esque reality TV program, where donald trump is planted as a regional manager of a small chain restaurant and monitored 24/7.
oh and trains, I guess, space trains
Antarctica colony. Big ass bronze statue staring out over the ocean north like the Colossus of Rhodes
i'll put chemicals in the water to make the ~~frogs~~ everyone gay
and more dog infrastructure
and retirement homes for cows
superheroes are illegal now
fursonas are mandatory
free kalashnikovs for the unemployed
mao gets beatified
make werewolves real
drag the moon closer
Duodecimal system baby, fuck this non divisible by 3 system.
We counting on our phalanges now.
Make rokos basilisk real but exclusively target dipshit techbros. And genetically modifying humanity so I can eat all the unhealthy tasty food I want without getting some kind of cancer or turning into a blimp, or anything else really.
Bike freeways, playgrounds for adults, free/open gyms, and municipal go kart tracks with competitive leagues
Bringing streetcars and trams back to as many roads as logistically possible
I want to de-populate most of the midwest and allow giant herds of buffalo to return to the region.
If you built a 5km tall lightning rod, it'd sap all the electrical potential from the clouds before lightning can form. There's gotta be a lot of electric potential there, given that it's enough to make lightning. Catumbo experiences 1.6 million bolts of lightning per year, and the average lightning bolt is 5 gigajoules of power, so harnessing it all would produce about 2.5 gigawatts of power, which is about the same as 2.5 ordinary nuclear power plants. This is clearly not worth it, let's do it.
I think the hard part with lightning power is storage. You need some extremely cool/dangerous capacitors that won't detonate on you to pull it off.
That's if you want to actually harness lightning, say with a really big lighting rod. This would be harnessing electrical potential before it becomes lighting, which would be a much cleaner, more continuous flow.
But a five kilometer tall tower is an absurd engineering feat, and building those unrealistically robust capacitors would almost certainly be easier.
i liked ur idea and thought abt using airships to hoist a wire up there. those huge HVDC cables that cross oceans are capable of transmitting power in the gigawatt scale. but apparently these things are heavy as fuck at ~50 kg/m. so 5 km of this is 250 metric tons!! airships definitely can’t do that and even a tower that tall would be an engineering marvel.
i just thought of another way while typing this! you could send airships up there with giant batteries and just bring them back to earth when theyre fully charged
Do orbital skyhooks that support a cable that comes within a few dozen meters of the earth
Sure, there's some material science problems but the room temperature superconductor is going to fix all thaty!
me, after another long and fulfilling day of getting bombarded with the full force of the heavens for the betterment of humanity
The Culture.
Ban lawns. Like, completely. No more lawns. Having one is a punishable offense. I want children to report their parents on this matter. Merciless enforcement. EVERYONE with ground space MUST have a garden.
One of my not-crank i will actually do this if you fools let me wield power projects is evacuating the suburbs in to high density city cores, mining the burbs for useful materials, the bulldozing them for use as crop lands, light industry, and whatever else is acceptable to have near cities.
get this every street by law must have a sign saying its street name
also in the same vein as getting rid of the French influences from English I would make the way people in Norfolk speak the official correct way of pronouncing English that or the west country accent so we all sound like pirates
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