If the Australian government suddenly decided to massive channels

>>7958150
Hey buddy do you see any blue areas there? Australia is all above sea level.

>>7958159
Not OP, but channels are when you dig dirt out, get it? That means you can bring seawater in. Check out the Suez and Panama canals.

OP:
It would make the interior green by allowing evaporation and rainfall I imagine. I also imagine it would fuck up aquifers by salting them.

I'm all for it though. Fuck it. Give it a go. Can't make the area shittier.

>>7958169
Said Canals connect two fairly close segments of water, inland australia is like 600+km away from a coast. Also it won't fill into any non-dug areas because, as mentioned, all of the inland regions are above sea level.

>>7958169
Yeah. I'm not entirely sure what it would do to the aquifers

>Australian soil already suffers from high salinity
>introduce sea water

hurrr

>>7958430
Just purify the sea :^)

It would drain all of the water out of said lakes, as the interior of the country is a fair distance above sea level.

>>7958150
>>7958169
>>7958437
>desecrating stolen Aboriginal land

>>7958487

Aboriginals had no concept of land ownership

Hence, it could not be stolen from them

>>7958507
Well. They did have area's that tribes stuck to.

There's a map somewhere of all the different tribes, it gets bigger in the dry parts and smaller in the forest.

>>7958150
The plan to flood the sahara was a better idea.

Still awful though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Eyre

For the amount of energy expended digging canals full of saltwater through the desert you could probably run nuclear-bomb powered terrawatt immersion heaters on the coast to boil the ocean off and force it to rain water inland.

>>7959651
I wouldn't say that.

Considering the amount of mining effort goes into creating theses massive mines.

That effort could be directed into creating massive rivers.

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This would fix your weather problem, I'm not entirely sure about the roaming bandits.

>>7958150
Would what doing what op said have any effects on global sea levels?

>>7959722
unless these channels were thousands of miles deep and all the removed dirt was piled somewhere on land, nothing

>pumping salty water uphill for reasons

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>>7959651
Wouldn't it be better to dig a canal with the nuclear bombs instead?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare

Certainly it makes more sense to dig a canal once, rather than carry out continuous nuclear explosions for years on end.

>>7959770
I think I read that it was considered infeasible because the blast would either send fall-out everywhere if they were intended to create craters. You could detonate them underground would just shatter the rock into radioactive debris you'd need to shovel out. I suppose if you did it right and shattered enough earth that the tides could sweep it out to sea for you after a few thousand years or something?

>>7959706
Probably be more efficient to build a big dumb tidal power plant, use it to power a desalination system and pipe the water uphill into the desert. To grow melons or whatever OP is thinking they need water in the outback for.