The Med took at most two years to flood--Gibraltar is a bathtub spigot

[Cecil]

How deep is it at the straights anyway?

[Fireblade]

Do we have any significant valleys that are currently below sea level?  Building a canal from the shore to those valleys could be a cheap and easy way to deal with rising sea levels from global warming.

there's the dead sea, the qattara depression, the Turfan Depression, the Netherlands, .... :p

START DIGGING!

[Martinus]

No fucking way. All the German tourists would have to start going to my favourite Canaries' spot instead. 

[HisMajestyBOB]

That is a lot of water! if only the rest of the middeleast had been flooded away.

You have no idea how troublesome the people living in what is now the bottom of the Med would have been. 

They'd be a cross between Italians, Greeks, and Arabs. *shudder*

[citizen k]

That is a lot of water! if only the rest of the middeleast had been flooded away.

You have no idea how troublesome the people living in what is now the bottom of the Med would have been. 

They'd be a cross between Italians, Greeks, and Arabs. *shudder*

In other words, Sicilian.

[Duque de Bragança]

Africa-Europe tunnel project

?

The Gunnel? Oh my God it's full of fail!

Atlantropa then?