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Thailand’s $28BN Canal Across Itself Proposal
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Thai has proposed constructing a 128 kilometer long canal across the Thai isthmus, bypassing the Malacca strait. The project, which would be 450 meters wide and 25 meters deep, would cost around 28 billion dollars and take 10 years to construct. It would save 1,200 kilometers in travel distance, reducing fuel costs and C0₂ emissions. It would also invigorate Thailand’s economy and allow Chinese vessels to avoid the US military presence near Singapore. However, its excavation would displace thousands of people and harm the natural ecosystem. It would also divide Thailand, allowing Muslim insurgents in the south to expand their movement. Furthermore, it would create tension with Thailand’s regional neighbors and would need highly advanced logistics to compete with Singapore. Lastly, it would put Thailand into debt and the center of a global geopolitical rivalry between China, the US and India. Due to all these issues, the Thai canal has faced serious resistance. Despite this, the Thai government still wants to connect the two oceans and in November 2023, they announced a $36BN land bridge across the isthmus, that would include highways, railways and pipelines. Whether this or the original Thai canal will ever be built, we will just have to wait and see.
Information
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198222000847
www.seatrade-maritime.com/ports/thailand-revives-kra-canal-time-landbridge
www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/thailand-srettha-thavisin-land-bridge-project-port-malacca-strait-canal-3860941
asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Thailand-s-Landbridge-will-bring-East-and-West-closer-together
www.ismworld.org/supply-management-news-and-reports/news-publications/inside-supply-management-magazine/blog/2023/2023-11/the-strait-of-malaccas-global-supply-chain-implications/#:~:text=The%20volume%20of%20trade%20that,third%20of%20all%20worldwide%20trade
www.military.com/daily-news/2017/10/04/geopolitic-kra-canal.html
sites.tufts.edu/gis/files/2013/02/Brutlag_Daniel.pdf
www.asianconversations.com/KraCanal.php
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0:00-2:40 Context
2:40-4:20 Thai Canal
4:20-7:56 Benefits/Drawbacks
7:56-10:47 The Land Bridge
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Komentáře

  • @VictorGinzales
    @VictorGinzales Před 7 hodinami

    Me gusta

  • @about19wookiees14
    @about19wookiees14 Před 9 hodinami

    Still better than Hudson yards

  • @nobodyjustme7481
    @nobodyjustme7481 Před 11 hodinami

    If US can blockade Mallaca Strait, why US can't blockade Kra Canal? How China can projecting their military power in Andaman Sea, when Andaman Sea is literally India's territory, and 6th degree Channel is Indonesia's territory? By declaring war to this both nations??? And why Thailand would sacrifice their own lands just serve China interest? Lands is way more precious than all profits they will get, even 200 years of profit will not replace the lost lands.

  • @_starter
    @_starter Před 11 hodinami

    All the refueling missions are discussed here 3:33 thanks for covering it so comprehensively

  • @zander7283
    @zander7283 Před 18 hodinami

    Meanwhile a private company can shit on NASA for 1/10 or less of the price. Sorrows to the sweet sweet tax dollars

  • @jacob0525
    @jacob0525 Před 20 hodinami

    But in 2060 1million people gonna be on mars so

  • @yakin9940
    @yakin9940 Před 20 hodinami

    This just makes me excited Imagine living and see the great dessert turn into Green land Like i'm so exited for Egypt 🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿

  • @brendonstewartson5378
    @brendonstewartson5378 Před 20 hodinami

    Just do desalination more efficient in the long run rather than depending on upstream countries to uphold their end of the bargain just saying

  • @NASA_gov23
    @NASA_gov23 Před 23 hodinami

    All true

  • @terenceiutzi4003
    @terenceiutzi4003 Před dnem

    100 times more CO2!

  • @tedzehnder961
    @tedzehnder961 Před dnem

    Landing on the moon almost 60 years ago was a monumental thing considering it had never been done before and the computer was basicly in it`s infancy .NASA wants to do it again, but what is the ultimate goal? Is this leading up to a permanent base on the moon? Are these first couple of flights geared for that type of program? Is this just re-hashing, like doing a remake of a hit movie? If they are going to spend all this money I hope this isn`t just another PR stunt by NASA so they can keep the money pipeline open. In 1969 NASA "climbed the mountain" but for the price they want to spend today I hope they will do more than spend a couple of hundred hours there just to plant another flag.

  • @sionnachog894
    @sionnachog894 Před dnem

    Thanks for that video, the Chinese people are amazing! Three years to build a children's hospital there, in Dublin Ireland the same hospital is eight years and still not finished, and will cost three times the price. Yes, relocation was involved and yes, human rights are compromised in China but as a construction country, they are unsurpassed.

  • @Ashmodai
    @Ashmodai Před dnem

    Awesome video, probably the best on the subject. Can't wait to look back at it in a couple years just to realize that almost nothing came true...

  • @TeW33zy
    @TeW33zy Před dnem

    Sounds like a lot of talk with nothing to back it up. Anyone can throw out all these different ideas and suggestions but show me the evidence

  • @melongear5
    @melongear5 Před 2 dny

    If sls was fully reusable then the flight is more cheaper 😂

  • @Ammpermeter
    @Ammpermeter Před 2 dny

    1:50 - WTF with map Crimea?

  • @neinten
    @neinten Před 2 dny

    That will finally make the caspian a real sea

  • @ninolayla4418
    @ninolayla4418 Před 2 dny

    Yes my dad goes to 50 km it tooks about 1 hour

  • @User.ethanplays
    @User.ethanplays Před 2 dny

    What about Boom SuperSonics Overture

  • @Hamishtarah
    @Hamishtarah Před 2 dny

    Indeed it is!!

  • @theoorval5140
    @theoorval5140 Před 2 dny

    One of the distinct advantages of draining the sea (and certainly NOT mentioned) would be that the present problem for boatpeople would immediately disappear. They would certainly NOT try to settle the newly available land; they would just flood Europe "en masse"! After all, why should they bother building a new culture in a new land, when it is so much easier to sponge on what Europe's ancestors have patiently built for thousands of years.

  • @STEVELaMere-gg3ve
    @STEVELaMere-gg3ve Před 2 dny

    10 month ago morning star moved, cosmic order, Proxima Centauri , would you please et them know I love them and We are all here , reborn waiting and nervous about unseen beings acting up , chaos, Waiting on you God mom and Missiah ,to meat her and be saved . Tutankhamun messiah, ❤

  • @crazyaces4042
    @crazyaces4042 Před 2 dny

    and it never happened

  • @bobross2404
    @bobross2404 Před 3 dny

    except most of the money has *magically* disappeared or suddenly the budget is not enough to cover expenses of everything that was planned initially. as per usual

  • @pankajdhaker2293
    @pankajdhaker2293 Před 3 dny

    libya makes biggest underground whater network.

  • @VladVernygora-ug8sw

    Finally Esti people can become Finn's! 😂

  • @stickynorth
    @stickynorth Před 3 dny

    Even with its hiccups this project creates quite model for other future transit projects to follow... Automated, electric light rail of the future...

  • @user-iy8in3ll6g
    @user-iy8in3ll6g Před 3 dny

    This idea should get started from West coast to East coast asap. Rebuild transportation and get rid of airlines other than to over seas.

  • @user-iy8in3ll6g
    @user-iy8in3ll6g Před 3 dny

    Was any of this new construction due to President Biden getting money to rebuild our antiquated highways and power lines in this country. Oh and bridges too? Remember who has really done great things for our country to quickly move us into our fast moving future. Thanks President Biden!

  • @corporalsilver6981
    @corporalsilver6981 Před 4 dny

    So Civ 5 wasn't wrong...the Egyptians DO love buildings huge things and they don't know why...

  • @koruspring1519
    @koruspring1519 Před 4 dny

    Thai is smart. They just proposed this to grab China's money and run. This will never succeed.

  • @t84t748748t6
    @t84t748748t6 Před 4 dny

    if u dont give a shit about nature and stuf just damm the nile where it meats the sea and send that water back into the desert

  • @Werdnasemajjamesandrew

    Manhattan is already sinking 3/4 inch every year. Build more sounds smart.

  • @ryanbailey6900
    @ryanbailey6900 Před 5 dny

    Awful idea

  • @wjmwdead
    @wjmwdead Před 5 dny

    lol sounds like they need Kim’s approval too😂

  • @kimmoj2570
    @kimmoj2570 Před 5 dny

    I bet Starship HLS will tip over in first landing. There aint concrete pads awaiting. The engineers who build Apollo LM, the most practical and overarchieving spacecraft ever, are rolling on their graves.

  • @tomgillespie6406
    @tomgillespie6406 Před 5 dny

    Hey buddy, how come YOU were selected to go to the moon? I scored the highest, I was the best of the best...hey buddy, why were YOU selected? Cause I'm black....

  • @shina8767
    @shina8767 Před 6 dny

    Source : trust me

  • @mediaworldwide9848
    @mediaworldwide9848 Před 6 dny

    No.

  • @aaronhill9018
    @aaronhill9018 Před 7 dny

    It hasn’t worked yet what makes anyone think it will work now? Having supposedly gone to the moon is the greatest lie ever told!

  • @melongear5
    @melongear5 Před 7 dny

    Sana successful 😊

  • @TunTang-gm1jl
    @TunTang-gm1jl Před 7 dny

    Plz do Kaladan Multipurpose India-Myanmar

  • @TunTang-gm1jl
    @TunTang-gm1jl Před 7 dny

    Plz do Kaladan Multipurpose India-Myanmar

  • @Namoari941
    @Namoari941 Před 8 dny

    It can’t be done without China’s help, period.

  • @gaborbakos7058
    @gaborbakos7058 Před 8 dny

    So what about instead fo spending incredible amount of money on gigaproject that might not work, applying birth limitation rules to turn back the overpopulation.

    • @no-rk6bf
      @no-rk6bf Před 5 dny

      china tried that and now their working population is dying out

  • @tedsmith6137
    @tedsmith6137 Před 8 dny

    Inga 3 is 2km WEST of Inga 2, 6:45.

  • @maxberchtenbacher6696

    Great vid! Superbly made. For Artemis 3 the orbital refueling needs to be invented, tested and proven if I'm not mistaken.

  • @tracycapilot2002
    @tracycapilot2002 Před 9 dny

    This reminds me of the scale of NASA's vision of the Apollo era in the early 1960's. A lot was achieved, but a lot was not. Here's to a hopeful vision of the next generation of space exploration. Just no death stars, empires, transporters or holodecks please!!

  • @TheRealQuartz
    @TheRealQuartz Před 9 dny

    Honestly I really hope space exploration can finally kick start the nations to actually make world peace, but thats kinda just talking to a brick wall so i'm not sure, but at least we got the moon bases soon to come.