You know something we don’t?
Because when a state secedes from the union, it becomes an indeterminate entity, basically just some land with some people on it. Unless secession is done in an orderly fashion, establishing treaties of recognition with the US, there are no rules, neighboring states might be at liberty to gobble up chunks of its territory with no offers of recourse or compensation. A state is not a state except by being part of the United States.
Which is why six states from California (or four, or three) must be negotiated with Congress.
:eek: That is extremely disturbing.
To put the water problem into context, take a look at the image on this USGS Water Science page: How much water is on Earth?
Not unless you can’t do simple math.
There is no power source on earth that has the capacity to provide 30 million people and their industries with fresh water, given all real-world limitations of implementation, except fusion.
Which is why we need to get one tokamak over the line, sweet jesus.
Just do a search on “skunkworks fusion”. Lockheed claims they have a deuterium bottle design that promises actual usable positive net power. They are saying expect a prototype about 3 years from now and deployment five years later.
100MW from a microbus-sized unit – yeah, I kind think not. But even 10 or 20 from such a device would be something. So, yeah, maybe.
Fusion has been five years from a breakthrough and twenty years from commercial implementation since about 1950. I’m not holding my breath. Then again, I don’t live in California any more, either.
Well, hear me out on this one. We split Alaska into North Alaska and South Alaska and the senators and congressmen from North Alaska all have to be bears. In suits. With briefcases full of salmon. Think of how much more interesting the television broadcasts of congress would be if there were bears involved!
I’m not looking forward to all the political debates over the right to arm bears, though.
It’s Alaska. Way too cold to bare arms.
Well, if you’re talking names for the new divisions, I daresay the way for Californ-i-a is on “Atchison”, “Topeka” and “Santa Fe.”
The State of Jefferson was proposed in 1941 and would have comprised the CA/OR border area.
But I assure you that San Diego is very different from the Inland Empire.
Draper’s plan is just all messed up.
First, we give some of the garbage counties to Nevada: Modoc, Lassen, Alpine, Mono, maybe one or two others.
The Northwest seven or nine counties, including Mendocino, maybe Lake and one or two others, form Jefferson – because the US needs a state that starts with “J”.
The Sacramento Valley counties, possibly as far down as Stockton, out to Sonoma county, can form the state of Zinfandel.
Marin to Monterrey, encroaching on the valley, can form the state of Estancia.
The San Joachin counties, including Inyo and Kern, will be the state of Yosemite.
And all the southern counties can form the state of Que.
Except Orange County. Nobody wants them. We can just kick them out of the US and let them go it alone.
Obviously, that leaves “B” and “X”. For “B”, just lop off a bunch of West Texas to form Big Bend. And X, well, we can leave that be, as an anonymous state.
X can be the corner of Idaho and Montana inhabited by the survivalists.
And then they need to line up alphabetically by height.
Oh please. They form the state of Disneyland!
No it’s not a logistical nightmare. It is an issue though. The Port Authority handles cross-state issues (and also the airports). If you want to get into NYC from NJ, you can take the Path Tubes, which are a subway or you can ride commuter trains directly into Penn Station. What you can’t do is take the NY subway directly into Hoboken, NJ. You can ride the NY subway all day between Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn though on a single fare.
To put it another way, it might have been better from a planning perspective to create a state known as “Tristate” covering NYC, Westchester and parts of Connecticut and NJ, 200 years ago. Upstate NY would have been spin off. Southern NJ could be joined with Philadelphia and maybe Delaware, etc.
Disney World is bigger, better and newer. Of course, you have to slog through the gunshine state to get to it. Why does Disneycorp put their parks in such shitholes?