At the Global Super Projects Conference[1] in November of 2001, a German engineer named Herman Sorgel (1885-1952)[2]once postulated that Germany could join forces with other European nations to build a dam at the Straits of Gibraltar[3]. This project named “Atlantropa”[4], has been the inspiration for Gene Roddenberry’s 1979 book version of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”[5]. In this movie Admiral (formerly Captain) Kirk stands on a huge dam near Gibraltar; the dam blocks the Atlantic Ocean from the Mediterranean and uses it to generate hydro-electric power.
This was the project that Hitler eventually vilified and replaced with the idea of Aryan Supremacy[6] and the German conquest of the European Continent. With his allies in Russia and Japan, Hitler then led the whole world into war using up many more resources than this project would have ever used and leading to the deaths of 50+million persons.[7] This idea has once again been postulated. With 21st Century technology and a world at peace, we may actually be able to achieve this goal!
A dam at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea would essentially harness the power of the entire Atlantic Ocean[8], providing cheap, renewable and carbon-free electricity to all of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
It would change our world’s petroleum coefficient and make Middle-Eastern Oil into a more affordable commodity. It would also engender the use of this precious and irreplaceable natural resource for petrochemicals and other manufacturing.[9]
What I propose is to harness the power of the world’s poorest people, in an effort to mine the sands necessary to build this project and another project that is also dear to my heart, a mid-ocean, air-traffic hub, which would necessitate the construction of an air field at the foot of the Cumbre Vieja Volcanic Ridge in the Canary Islands.[10]
For a minor capital investment this air field could be constructed by sinking concrete supports into the undersea ledge, almost like a continental shelf, which is located off the western coast of the Cumbre Vieja and then building a platform on top of these supports.
The mid-ocean, air-traffic hub on a man-made island we will call: “Atlantis” would relieve congestion in the skies over the Atlantic Ocean and provide a safe place for pilots, who are in trouble, to land their damaged aircraft. This project would at once, solve the problem of air-traffic congestion in Europe and the Americas; and also build a catch for the eventual eruption of the volcano, which scientists say would cause a mega-tsunamis that would destroy all the cities on America’s East Coast (New York City to Miami).[11]
This great world disaster could be averted by building an airport that would sit at the foot of this volcano, while also providing a place to do air-traffic control in the mid-Atlantic. Then if the mountain gives signs of erupting, we could evacuate the airfield and give the lava, ash and pyroclastic flow someplace to go. This would avert the mega-tsunami and the effluence from the volcanic eruptions would only increase the size of the airport.
All of this mega-construction would necessitate the creation of a giant workforce in North Africa. These very poor people would be positioned in the Sahara Desert, constructing a railway support system to carry away the sands for the concrete necessary to complete these two engineering projects. By first constructing the necessary housing, and then bringing in the necessary water and food supplies that the workers would need in order to mine this sand and construct this dam; these people would be taking part in the greatest public works project since the pyramids. Men from all over Africa and the Middle-East would flood into this area to get these jobs. Many of these men are currently involved with jihad! We could convince them that they were digging the foundation of a huge mosque, a mosque that could actually be seen from space.
Probably you haven’t considered this, but Osama Bin Laden[12] has actually said that he would rather build a mosque than do jihad. We could tell these people that we have had contact with extraterrestrial intelligent life forms, and that these aliens would be coming to Earth in several hundred years with the intention of choosing a religion.
Official representatives from SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)[13]could be recruited to approach certain imams with this story and they in turn would spread the word at their mosques, telling their congregants that this huge mosque would be a beacon for the extraterrestrials to follow. Of course, these people would not actually be building a mosque, but they would believe that they were digging its foundation. In the mean-time, we would have both the sand for concrete that we need for these two projects, and a preoccupied Islamic population essentially putting an end to jihad!
I actually got this idea from reading George Orwell’s “1984”, where he said that war could be replaced as a human activity with digging holes and then filling them up again. I think that we could forego filling up this hole again and leave the giant hole in the Sahara Desert to serve a later construction project in the coming centuries, perhaps, a city that would house billions of people and use the hydro-electric power of Atlantropa for its fuel.
Imagine what it would mean to have so many people gainfully employed, and their labor could be purchased very inexpensively. The women that would be left at home would construct kinder, gentler societies and have fewer babies. The men would be away from them for extended periods of time, and they would send home money, which would bring an economic boom to the Third World. If you think that I am writing to you because I believe that you have the money to finance this project, I do not and am not. But, I do believe that you have the vision and the world-connections to set this fantastic adventure in motion. I await your reply to this letter and my idea.
[1] The Global Super Projects Conference in November, 2001: http://www.wdf.org/gspc/virtual2001/
[2] Herman Sorgel (1885-1952): A German architect and philosopher who first proposed “Atlantropa”
[3] The Straits of Gibraltar: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/G/Gibraltar.Cathcart.html
[4] Atlantropa: see The World Development Federation, Virtual Global Super Projects Conference, November 2001 Project “Big Tent” SciFi Architecture: A 21st Century Saharan Tapestry by Richard Brook Cathcart, GEOGRAPHOS, 1608 East Broadway, Suite #107, Glendale, CA 91205-1524 USA (818) 246-8422, [email protected]
[5] Star Trek, The Motion Picture: http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/10/atlantropa.php
[6] Aryan Supremacy: http://www.megaessays.com/essay.search/aryan.supremacy.html
[7] Depleting many more resources, Deaths of 50+ million persons: http://www.hitler.org/ww2-deaths.html, $288,000,000,000,000 for the United States alone, the cost to Germany was everything that they had before the war.
[8] Atlantropa Project: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/?s=Atlantropa
[9] Petroleum into Petrochemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals: http://www.sriconsulting.com/CEH/Public/Reports/350,000/?Abstract.html
[10] The Cumbre Vieja Volcanic Ridge: http://www.ing.lac.es/PR/lapalma/geology.html
[11] A mega-tsunami that would destroy all of the cities on America’s East Coast (New York City to Miami): http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/lapalma/inde9606.html
[12]Osama Bin Laden http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Osama_bin_Laden_video
[13]The SETI Institute http://www.ask.com/bar?q=seti+program&page=1&qsrc=178&ab=0&u=http://www.seti.org/
This was the project that Hitler eventually vilified and replaced with the idea of Aryan Supremacy[6] and the German conquest of the European Continent. With his allies in Russia and Japan, Hitler then led the whole world into war using up many more resources than this project would have ever used and leading to the deaths of 50+million persons.[7] This idea has once again been postulated. With 21st Century technology and a world at peace, we may actually be able to achieve this goal!
A dam at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea would essentially harness the power of the entire Atlantic Ocean[8], providing cheap, renewable and carbon-free electricity to all of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
It would change our world’s petroleum coefficient and make Middle-Eastern Oil into a more affordable commodity. It would also engender the use of this precious and irreplaceable natural resource for petrochemicals and other manufacturing.[9]
What I propose is to harness the power of the world’s poorest people, in an effort to mine the sands necessary to build this project and another project that is also dear to my heart, a mid-ocean, air-traffic hub, which would necessitate the construction of an air field at the foot of the Cumbre Vieja Volcanic Ridge in the Canary Islands.[10]
For a minor capital investment this air field could be constructed by sinking concrete supports into the undersea ledge, almost like a continental shelf, which is located off the western coast of the Cumbre Vieja and then building a platform on top of these supports.
The mid-ocean, air-traffic hub on a man-made island we will call: “Atlantis” would relieve congestion in the skies over the Atlantic Ocean and provide a safe place for pilots, who are in trouble, to land their damaged aircraft. This project would at once, solve the problem of air-traffic congestion in Europe and the Americas; and also build a catch for the eventual eruption of the volcano, which scientists say would cause a mega-tsunamis that would destroy all the cities on America’s East Coast (New York City to Miami).[11]
This great world disaster could be averted by building an airport that would sit at the foot of this volcano, while also providing a place to do air-traffic control in the mid-Atlantic. Then if the mountain gives signs of erupting, we could evacuate the airfield and give the lava, ash and pyroclastic flow someplace to go. This would avert the mega-tsunami and the effluence from the volcanic eruptions would only increase the size of the airport.
All of this mega-construction would necessitate the creation of a giant workforce in North Africa. These very poor people would be positioned in the Sahara Desert, constructing a railway support system to carry away the sands for the concrete necessary to complete these two engineering projects. By first constructing the necessary housing, and then bringing in the necessary water and food supplies that the workers would need in order to mine this sand and construct this dam; these people would be taking part in the greatest public works project since the pyramids. Men from all over Africa and the Middle-East would flood into this area to get these jobs. Many of these men are currently involved with jihad! We could convince them that they were digging the foundation of a huge mosque, a mosque that could actually be seen from space.
Probably you haven’t considered this, but Osama Bin Laden[12] has actually said that he would rather build a mosque than do jihad. We could tell these people that we have had contact with extraterrestrial intelligent life forms, and that these aliens would be coming to Earth in several hundred years with the intention of choosing a religion.
Official representatives from SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)[13]could be recruited to approach certain imams with this story and they in turn would spread the word at their mosques, telling their congregants that this huge mosque would be a beacon for the extraterrestrials to follow. Of course, these people would not actually be building a mosque, but they would believe that they were digging its foundation. In the mean-time, we would have both the sand for concrete that we need for these two projects, and a preoccupied Islamic population essentially putting an end to jihad!
I actually got this idea from reading George Orwell’s “1984”, where he said that war could be replaced as a human activity with digging holes and then filling them up again. I think that we could forego filling up this hole again and leave the giant hole in the Sahara Desert to serve a later construction project in the coming centuries, perhaps, a city that would house billions of people and use the hydro-electric power of Atlantropa for its fuel.
Imagine what it would mean to have so many people gainfully employed, and their labor could be purchased very inexpensively. The women that would be left at home would construct kinder, gentler societies and have fewer babies. The men would be away from them for extended periods of time, and they would send home money, which would bring an economic boom to the Third World. If you think that I am writing to you because I believe that you have the money to finance this project, I do not and am not. But, I do believe that you have the vision and the world-connections to set this fantastic adventure in motion. I await your reply to this letter and my idea.
[1] The Global Super Projects Conference in November, 2001: http://www.wdf.org/gspc/virtual2001/
[2] Herman Sorgel (1885-1952): A German architect and philosopher who first proposed “Atlantropa”
[3] The Straits of Gibraltar: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/G/Gibraltar.Cathcart.html
[4] Atlantropa: see The World Development Federation, Virtual Global Super Projects Conference, November 2001 Project “Big Tent” SciFi Architecture: A 21st Century Saharan Tapestry by Richard Brook Cathcart, GEOGRAPHOS, 1608 East Broadway, Suite #107, Glendale, CA 91205-1524 USA (818) 246-8422, [email protected]
[5] Star Trek, The Motion Picture: http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/10/atlantropa.php
[6] Aryan Supremacy: http://www.megaessays.com/essay.search/aryan.supremacy.html
[7] Depleting many more resources, Deaths of 50+ million persons: http://www.hitler.org/ww2-deaths.html, $288,000,000,000,000 for the United States alone, the cost to Germany was everything that they had before the war.
[8] Atlantropa Project: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/?s=Atlantropa
[9] Petroleum into Petrochemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals: http://www.sriconsulting.com/CEH/Public/Reports/350,000/?Abstract.html
[10] The Cumbre Vieja Volcanic Ridge: http://www.ing.lac.es/PR/lapalma/geology.html
[11] A mega-tsunami that would destroy all of the cities on America’s East Coast (New York City to Miami): http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/lapalma/inde9606.html
[12]Osama Bin Laden http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Osama_bin_Laden_video
[13]The SETI Institute http://www.ask.com/bar?q=seti+program&page=1&qsrc=178&ab=0&u=http://www.seti.org/