• merc@sh.itjust.works
    45·
    2 months ago

    Looking up who controlled that peninsula, I found this lovely feature:

    The Oman Donut

    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.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 months ago

      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:

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          2 months ago

          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

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    26·
    2 months ago

    It also funnels all the traffic into an even narrower pass that can be easily blocked by a bad actor

    • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • nexguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    Dude just speed the ships up and skid over the land (while drifting) and slide back into the water so sick

  • kubica@fedia.io
    13·
    2 months ago

    Just schedule a few meteorites to fall there and you don’t have to spend so much in terrain modifications.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      You got me thinking, such a canal could easily be disrupted. Hell, Hormuz is only 26km at the thinnest point and Iran can dominate the whole strait. Picture a bomb hitting the Panama Canal.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I mean yeah, all fixed, exposed surface infrastucture is generally quite fragile.

        Wanna start a forever war with China?

        Blow up the Three Gorges Dam, you’ll kill like 10 million people, minimum.

        But uh yeah, if Iran can figure out some kind of way to stealthily lay out naval mines … yeah that ain’t great.

        Or they could aim for the existing oil pipelines meant to avoid the Hormuz bottleneck.

        Or maybe aim at the Saudi/UAE/Dubai’s mega vanity projects, just to fuck with their investments and ego.