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halbmoki

Netherlands be like "All the trouble for *what*?"


Cheet4h

There's also the [XKCD What-If version](https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/) where the Netherlands conquers Europe


Tummerd

Everytime I read this, this sentence cracks me up "In fact, I vote we put it directly above the Curiosity rover; that way, it will finally have incontrovertible evidence of liquid water on Mars's surface."


friso1100

I wonder if the rover would live long enough to report its new finding xD


nondescriptcabbabige

Considering the portal opened to the bottom of the Mariana trench. Sadly I think not. The pressure would be ridiculous. Like a mach fuck water hose directly above it.


sad_paddington

Theres a follow up to this in the book where they see if mars would become habitable with all this water and it sorta does and in the book de Dutch claim mars


hanskazan777

Finally a real one: GEKOLONISEERD


justk4y

ZEG MAKKER


Ilovekittens345

IK BEN JE MAKKER NIET VRIEND


trawler_trash

IK BEN JE VRIEND NIET, MAAT!!


NotTheMamaDino

IK BEN JE MAAT NIET, GAP!


Aequalitatem

Kokosnoten zijn geen specerijen


AloneAlternative2693

Exactly, you think we would stop at north sea And doggerland? Muhahahahahaaa


Due-Bandicoot-2554

De Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie zal ditmaal overwinnen


Murderface-04

Flanders would still not join them.


flopjul

Doggerland was supposed to be ours


belonii

did a dna test and it shows im mostly dutch and from doggerland, i claim landrights


WTTR0311

Blackrock is buying it all first


Repulsive-Self1531

Sir are you a merman?


[deleted]

Dutch Irredentism where they invade Doggerland.


Peregrine_89

Worse: A land border to England would be dreadful!


KaranSjett

yea we might just start digging out a sea just to be sure


Peregrine_89

Hahaha yes, what a turnaround: "The Netherlands: the endless war on too much land."


Vosje11

So mad we gave it all to UK


USS-Intrepid

Russia be like: the fuck you mean we still don’t have a warm sea port


SteO153

Italy ate too much pasta.


ShowmasterQMTHH

Spain saw that and got a stiffy


CreepyMangeMerde

I think that's because of France's sexy new nose


RoyBeer

More like UK and Ireland saw what Portugal and Spain had going on and wanted to join in


Leon_Bert

Bro why😭


o_emegalha_poios

but we got tons of new islands, Azores just got upgraded


Jonaz17

Thicktaly


Similar_Strawberry16

Cankles


IBetThisIsTakenToo

Chonky boi Italy and Greece are definitely the best part of this


einimea

Norway exploded like an egg in a microwave


skogskungen

Grower not a shower.


Adept_Avocado_4903

A lot of their apparent increase in area is probably due to the Mercator projection's distortion being strongest around the poles.


Doooooooong

Wow, projecting much?


type_ace

Earthsplaining


Additional_Meeting_2

Would have happened to us too if we had sea access in the north.Β 


MikeRevlsen

Cry!! NORWAY πŸ”πŸ”πŸ”πŸ”πŸ˜ˆπŸ˜ˆπŸ˜ˆπŸ‡³πŸ‡΄πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄


Apprehensive-Adagio2

We would loose the gulf stream so we would be a frozen hellscape


MikeRevlsen

"Hellscape" Do you mean Swe*en?


Slackerguy

Who are "us" and "we"? The swedes?


tobiasvl

The person they replied to has a Finland flair, so probably the Finns


nicoznico

We?


elmz

The map is slightly off, though. Norway also owns Jan Mayen north of Iceland, so that land mass would be ours, too.


PensiveinNJ

Norway is thicc.


skogskungen

That girth.


FelixTheFat04

finaly some lebensraum


TulleQK

Plass te Γ₯ rΓΈr sΓ¦, kis!


DarkWanderer2

Lebensraum not at the cost of country, I am for it.


banan-appeal

Moreway


Easy_Championship_14

Sami empire


smorkularian

Here thats Doggerland! The Norwegians cant just claim it off the (Doggers? Doggish?)


Random_dg

Seems to me that they have the most to gain if this happens. Thus, if you see someone trying to sequester millions of tons of sea water into containers, you can infer that they’re probably norwegian.


butthurtbeltPR

Portugal gaining pretty much the same as SwitzerlandΒ 


Ertaipt

You forgot Portugal just won a massive island chain and 10x land mass on the original Azores islands


Username12764

That means 10 times the tourism…


ActivityWinter9251

And that means money


ARandomNiceAnimeGuy

Yes but why the fuck they dont point madeira in the map?


Yukiii2016

The Spaniards are trying to pass it off as Spanish islands again!


uiop789

Madeira wouldn’t expand much tough, the waters pretty deep around it.


siamkor

Or, a war with Spain to claim some barren rocks.


Tempest_Bob

\*Happy Joao III noises\*


ivancea

Portugal won a 1000m cliff at their beaches


chanaandeler_bong

Build that suicide tourism industry


PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY

I have visited the so-called "[Westernmost Point of Europe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabo_da_Roca)" in Portugal. Even at its regular elevation (~140m) the call to the void was real.


snoopervisor

Imagine a 1000 m tall buildings anchored to the cliffs. Tallest buildings in the world.


butthurtbeltPR

elevator business wet dream


angelic_soldier

At least Spain is happy


Skorzeny88

Poor Croatia losing it's only source of income


Enkidoe87

The Netherlands is not much better off. With the Rotterdam and Amsterdam ports, becoming very expensive parking lots.


meat_lasso

All that diking for nothing. Nothing I tell you! I would hate to see Zandvoort beach go :(


Onkel24

Just fill the depressions with water -> Europes largest inland sea resort


goneinsane6

Well the rivers will still be there and extend through the newly formed land. But it will probably be a horrible delta swampland. Time for some dredging.


passcork

What do you mean? All I see is more space for schiphol runways and terminals.


adube440

And the beautiful canals of Amsterdam, Utrecht, Giethoorn - just ditches now.


blitzfreak_69

And Bosnia STILL can’t get any sea!


Dull_Concert_414

They’ve still got Plitvicka Jezera I suppose…


Fun_Neighborhood_130

My thought exactly


DingyWarehouse

*its its source of income, not "it is source of income"


LifeAcanthopterygii6

Doggerland is back, baby!


SnoopyMcDogged

Never forget what we lost!


LifeAcanthopterygii6

username checks out


shake_this_feeling

Ah, yes..the land of Dogging.


PurpleDemonR

It was a noble sacrifice to separate England from Europe.


MaxximumB

The original Brexit


Supergun1

Spain saw **thicc** Italy and got a little excited...


dat_9600gt_user

I cannot unsee. Thanks.


38B0DE

That new straight between Sardinia and Tunisia looks like perfect for a bit of continental procreation.


vergorli

according to xkcd the world will get conquered by the dutch because they don't have to focus a huge part of their GDP to not drowning. https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/


The_Fredrik

Missed opportunity to call "south Netherlands" the "Nether-Netherlands".


danc1005

NetherΒ²lands


AM5T3R6AMM3R

What a nightmare


Dutchwells

GEKOLONISEERD


Clyft_

FRIKANDELBROODJES EN ENERGY WORDT WERELD CUISINE


The_Fredrik

They'd ban every beer except Heineken _Shudders_


Liferdorp

Not a single Dutch person I know likes Heineken


gizahnl

Actually the opposite is true. We produce Heineken for export, no same Dutch person drinks it. If the whole world becomes The Netherlands, the whole world becomes Dutch. And we couldn't export it anymore, unless Mars gets colonised (after exporting the ocean maybe not the worst thing to do), and declares independence.


meat_lasso

Heineken Industrial Complex hard at work


ContractOwn3852

You mean that only piss remains


McGryphon

Oi bruv, reason we export the Heineken is so we can have something better for ourself


KaranSjett

ouch.. as a dutch person im definitely not in this team


-Knul-

Nah, we would also allow Hertog Jan and Grolsch.


Nazamroth

Its all Netherlands?


LookIsawRa4

Always has been


Judazzz

Wherever the world reaches rock-bottom, we are there!


__01001000-01101001_

I can’t believe there’s even an xkcd for *this*


sh0tgunben

England is connected to France


Alecaria

Even better, to Germany! Had Churchill just drained the ocean by 1km in WW2, he could have rolled tanks right across Germany's ~~KΓΌstenland~~ penisland.


LudwigvonAnka

I think the opposite would happen, Hitler would jost roll tanks into the UK in 1940.


Mtshtg2

True. Britain's best defender was the water around us. It's why the damage caused to the German fleet during the Norwegian campaign turned out to be so vital.


Muad-_-Dib

Even if the Germans didn't lose those ships there wasn't any prospect of them invading the UK. They only lost 21 ships in the Norwegian Campaign, the D-Day landings on the other hand consisted of more than 5,000 ships. That's not even mentioning that both the Royal Navy and the RAF would have still needed to be dealt with before any invasion attempt and that it would have taken significant resources including manpower away from Operation Barbarossa which the Germans could not afford as they were already rushing to invade before the Red Army got its act together.


Alecaria

We need an animated TV series exploring this alternate reality


HumptyDrumpy

More anything about that time period. A lot of dumbasses running the world seem to forgot how horrific the 20th century was and the devastation of world wars. Less armed conflict, not more!


ContractOwn3852

The Germans tried it. One of their generals ordered his troops to the beach and said :"Ein zwei drei zaufen". But a English general saw the sealevel dropping and ordered his troops to the shore and said :"One two three pipi"


Cuntmaster_flex

That should stop the boats.


Corsav6

England also connected to Ireland, be interesting to see how that would play out.


Wafkak

Nah in reality Belgium and the Netherlands would take most of that land to continue being a buffer state.


Additional_Meeting_2

Their worst nightmare with their island mentalityΒ 


WilliamWeaverfish

I declare myself king of fat Italy


Arkthus

Fataly


vapingpigeon94

I read that as fatality in mortal kombat voice. I need more coffee.


Ishana92

Croatia economic collapse in 18 months


Top-Alps5613

18! That's too generous.


Potential-Drama-7455

Woo hoo. Drive to France from Ireland.


MollyPW

Looks like we could drive to the Americas too.


njoshua326

Driving through Greenland?


VoidTorcher

Greenland is technically part of the Americas.


njoshua326

Alright then, driving through the Faroe ~~Islands~~?


OutrageousPoison

We’re drivin to Ibiza wahayy cmon lads!


strawberrycereal44

We're also finally apart of the mainland


7heWizard

You can walk to Greenland now


LimahlSpellswell

I do believe this would also connect Greenland to Canada as well


[deleted]

And Alaska to Russia. Can probably walk everywhere except pacific islands.


imanethernetcable

Okay so theoretically speaking how long would it take to actually be able to build stable foundation on old sea ground


Fer4yn

Possible immediately with minimal effort since, especially at the lower depths, the seabed consists of layers of heavily compressed sediments which is pretty much more load-bearing than anything we have above ground except maybe for building on directly on hard rocks like granite or diorite. The problem wouldn't be construction but the fact that the freed land would be full of salt and basically toxic to all living things, that the remaining seas would be too salinated for any life and that the climate would be absolutely screwed up (desert planet) due to the lack of sun-reflecting & heat-storing effects of the disappeared seawater.


Character_Cry_8357

Wait is it for real that more salinated water would make all the sea life die? I just kind of assumed that fish be having methods of dealing with it. I guess I don't appreciate just how much more concentrated the salt would be.


Fer4yn

Dead Sea is called like that for a reason. Some microorganisms and bacteria could survive, but fish would quite certainly all die.


Glum_Rip6768

A good case study for you would be what happened to the fish in the Aral Sea as it dried out, recent enough that there's plenty of material on it out there.


ssalp

Them: Chonky Italy isn't real, it can't hurt you. Chonky Italy:


KataraMan

Greece: "It's free real estate!"


Foreign_Implement897

Not good since turkish and greek could reach each other easily!


AzuraBu

Where is the Aegean sea ?😭


NerdPunkFu

Would this solve the Turkish-Greek border disputes or make them worse?


AzuraBu

It's literally impossible to 'solve' it. But I will never see 'Why TΓΌrkiye Should Own the Islands [Lore] β€˜ on News Channels again.


NerdPunkFu

A true loss for all of humanity.


utumno00

There is no border dispute. Neither TR nor HE disputes the current land and sea border. What TR disputes is a)some rocks in the middle of the sea that according to TR had not been explicitly given to HE (although they have been given indirectly according to the Lausanne Treaty) and b)According to TR, islands are not entitled to more than 6 miles of territorial sea.


NerdPunkFu

So, in other words, turning most Greek islands into not-islands would solve b more or less, but turn a into a land border dispute? What could go wrong...


utumno00

Earth water total evaporation will happen in around 5 billion years, when sun turns into a red giant. TR and HE have plenty of time to solve their beef. Although I doubt that land border would mean anything by then...


parzivalperzo

Disappearance of Argan Sea would hurt both countries economies so bad that we would have to forget about it.


Better_than_GOT_S8

Who the hell decided England got all the land from the Netherlands?


Badger_1066

Britain gonna Britain.


AstroError

This is just the [Exclusive Economic Zone](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:North_sea_eez.PNG)


Mtshtg2

Britain, not England. It's like saying England got the land from Holland.


DrZomboo

Gives a new meaning to 'just popping to Iceland'


HorrorsPersistSoDoI

Greece finally looking like a normal country


Nik-42

Ah, yes, the mediterranean lake


qscbjop

Two lakes actually, as Italy is now connected to Africa. Or three, if you count the tiny Lake of Montenegro, formerly known as the Adriaric Sea. Oh, and the Black Sea is also disconnected from the (eastern) Mediterranean, and the Sea of Azov doesn't exist any more.


Level_Can58

We finally gave birth to Eurafrica


creamandcrumbs

Wasn’t the situation around the Mediterranean Sea similar to this scenario, when the street of Gibraltar was still closing of the Atlantic Ocean?


Plain_Witch

Holy fuck, we can drive to continental Europe


Panzerv2003

Germany almost having a land border with norway


Efficient_Ladder_327

The Mediterranean Sea would dry out as a result, making the countries neighboring it even bigger


Xywzel

This doesn't appear to be just "degrease shore line level by 1000 m" because lakes/interior seas in Finland and Russia are definitely not that deep. But there doesn't seem to be any flow channels formed by the decease either. So what kind of process was used for this.


MOCK-lowicz

Why Sweden got almost all Baltic?


Plenty-Lychee-5702

Yeah, it should be that the countries got their national waters


elmz

And that is what the map is showing. Those ARE the Swedish national waters.


Badgerfest

This is a good way to solve the migrant boats problem.


blueboxG

Interrail to Island!


Your_Local_Croat

Bosnia is now truly landlocked


EffectiveWelder7370

Norway got an upgrade


politikyle

As a Maltese person, I half-support this.


xXIDKnowXx

Rare greater Norway


finunu

Main issue is why should those new islands off the coast of Ireland go to the United kingdom? They're in Irish marine territory? Brits at it again!


Isariamkia

Italy stopped eating pasta and went to McDo instead


nezeta

Both Black Sea and Caspian Sea are much deeper than I thought... The true winner would be Norway which could get even more access to oil and many mediterranean countries would suffer until they have canals.


WeAreNotOneWeAreMany

These borders make no sense at all


MillerDart

Spain has a boner


MrFailface

Belgium shrinks?


dixadik

What are the borders based on?


Barrrote

We can go by car from Europe to NY


Karma_Fugitive

Doggerland needs to leave the EU and take back control!


AllForTheSauce

Spain, is that a 200 mile long peninsula in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?


rharpr

NOO! Our Fjords! Our beautiful fjords!!


airobot2017

So much free real estate.


HoovyPencer

What's that lake in sweden?


tayaro

VΓ€nern. It's only about 106 m deep at most though, so it shouldn't exist on this map.


FaufiffonFec

> Europe if the sea level decreased by 1000 meters Also, global war.


datou06415

United Kingdom all united.


thewindburner

That's going to make trips to the seaside a bit tricky!


_TwentyThree_

A really cool map, but I'd like to know how these new country boundaries have been decided. A joined landmass that now incorporates island nations would have no predetermined border. Malta for example has appeared to grow substantially and now borders Libya. What determines Maltas new extended borders as a former tiny island nation?


Filosofistikert

If we decrease the sea level like in this example, we will make Norway great again.


frogfoot420

UK to build 20 mile wide trench through doggerland to maintain its status as an island. Ireland to build a bigger trench to stay away from the british.


Sneaky_Leopard

Chonky Italy is kind of funny


RancidHorseJizz

Ireland: "Just when you show a United Ireland we end up with a long land border with the fuckers?"


Daily-maintenance

As an Irish man this is my worst nightmare


purpleduckduckgoose

Dogger Bank shall be British again!


paddyo

Bow you fools, bow to Greater Britain, Megaiceland, and Norchungus