Why is it called a Strait with all those curves?!
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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Because a long, long time ago some Roman dudes though it was a good idea to make that word mean "thin".
It was easier than saying no homo after Hormuz.
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Dude just speed the ships up and skid over the land (while drifting) and slide back into the water so sick
Cybran master race
For the family.
Looking up who controlled that peninsula, I found this lovely feature:
The UAE controls a lot of that peninsula, but the tip is controlled by Oman. Halfway down the peninsula is a roughly circular region, inland, that is controlled by Oman, but surrounded by territory controlled by UAE. Inside that circular region is an even smaller circular region controlled by UAE. I wonder how that happened.
Kind of like this:
Borders are stupid.
Ah yes, the daylight savings donut. The most confusing bite of desert you'll ever have
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These are called Exclaves and there's way more of them than you might think. I think this isn't the only double Exclaves either. There are so many border fuckery things around the world, even in countries you might not expect, I want to make a YouTube video on them, I'm obsessed with finding them on google maps.
Take a look at the border of Nederland and België for an extreme example:
Wow, I knew the border wasn't a straight line, but I didn't realize quite how fractal it was. It's like they interviewed each household and decided on a case-by-case basis who was Belgian and who was Dutch.
If you look closely it's not even house by house. Much of it is just random fields or parts of fields. Maybe houses stood there decades or centuries earlier when the borders were drawn up, IDK
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Pfft. Why bother with this stupid sea travel bs? We have airplanes, just fly the oil out.
Nah. Planes are too expensive. Let's just have a giant oil canon that shoots oil in a huge fluid arc from the Middle East to markets.
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Also it should be called the Bendy of Hormuz
It also funnels all the traffic into an even narrower pass that can be easily blocked by a bad actor
Why would Carrot Top want to block traffic?
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~~Straight of Hormuz~~
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜Gay of Hormuz ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
bang bang it instead of dig dig
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
Fun little fact, several underground detonations were carried out in gas fields as an early attempt at fracking. The result was a giant cavity full of radioactively contaminated methane, that didn't even link up to the other two giant cavities full of radioactively contaminated methane.
Overall, massive failure all around. But the fun fact is that areas where those nuclear fracking tests occurred were the same areas where the first mysterious cattle mutilations were reported.
As a further note, local farmers, ranchers, and police were not told about the fracking tests, or the radioactive methane below their feet. Also, the cattle that were mutilated were missing lymph nodes, which could theoretically be tested in a lab for certain radiation based cancers.
Finally, the guy who did the initial investigations on the mutilations was best friends with a member of Air Force Office of Special Investigations who had been actively lying to a very smart yet gullible man, telling him that the strange aircraft and mysterious signals he was getting from the Air Force base across the street was in fact, aliens and not super classified aircraft and weapon systems tests.
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They said ELI5, not ELICaveman
Looks like Operation Plowshare is back on the menu
Just schedule a few meteorites to fall there and you don't have to spend so much in terrain modifications.
Don't even worry about canals and all that bs. Just go that way what are they gonna do about it?
Ahh, the Republican tactic
Why not tunnel?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stad_Ship_Tunnel
(not that this will ever make it out of bureaucratic hell)
The line he drew is 200km
Swiss: hold my beer
Just imagine the Ever Given floats into that tunnel.
a job that would be hard even in minecraft...
Two hundred thousand blocks by 150 blocks, then filled with water 20 blocks deep? It'll take a bit of time even using perimeter machines
In the scicraft server they made some scarily efficient redstone machines and computers, the certainly could pull it off.
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Ah, yes.
Let's start a major infrastructure project... in the middle of a warzone that is actively being hit by precision missile strikes on an regular basis.
While a pipeline in this location might make more sense... its still the same fundamental problem.
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