As a Dutch I don't understand this joke

Drive through a few underpopulated towns and tell me that there's no place for more people in America. Empty downtowns, empty houses, empty factories... There might be economic reasons why people don't want to or can't live in these places, but the one thing we absolutely have enough of in this country is space.

we get the dirt from the Moon

the Moon dirt will be even closer to the ocean when it's under it instead of over it, so the tides will work even better

Couple Dutch engineers will get that sorted for you no problem.

Maybe this was why Trump wanted to buy Greenland lol

Or https://what-if.xkcd.com/160/

It's actually not quite as crazy as it sounds. OK, it is as crazy as it sounds, but hear me out. Some inventor (Wolf Hilbertz) tried to build an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea through electrical mineral deposition on metal frames. He based the technique off of how coral plateaus accrete. There's a fascinating video essay on its attempted construction and failure on YouTube.

Edit: YT link is fixed. Thanks!

Basically every coastal city in the US has significantly added to their land by doing exactly this (obviously far less…)

Biggest stopper is we dont have trillions of tons of sand and the oil money to move it, Dubai

Why school bus? Is there a deeper joke here than just sinking a school bus? English is not my primary language...

I know there are a lot of complete morons out there, but this has to be someone fucking around, right? A little old school trolling just looking for a reaction. Right?

Interestingly, lack of land.

Just trigger an ice age. Sea levels will drop. Plus think of all the extra ice you can live on.

Superman. Superman's stopping us. The deadbeat dad version.

I mean of we just blew up the Appalachia's that oughta get us the materials required

Gonna have to put the water somewhere though, I vote right onto Texas because fuck Texas.

I mean, we probably could, but it'd be immensely expensive and also why?

Clearly never been to Boston

It would work better on the west coast, tbh. Ecological disaster, aside from practicality issues.