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> The whole canal is 120 miles, so an extra quarter mile they should be able to dig in a few days I would think?

Uh, what? Why would the length of the canal as a whole tell you anything about how long digging a quarter-mile section would take? If the canal as a whole was longer or shorter, would that somehow change your estimate?

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Yes it would... I know the suez canal was a once-per-century type infrastructure investment for Egypt. Doing that same investment again probbaly isn't feasible. But doing 0.2% of the work again is starting to sound pretty affordable...

> suez canal was a once-per-century type infrastructure investment for Egypt.

Once-per-century investment for France. It was, like the Eurotunnel, nominally privately funded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal_Company but with significant political cover.

Just get people who know what they are doing to sort it out.

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