Ok, I was on the “old.” skin; let’s try the standard skin.

Nope, it doesn’t work on the standard skin, either.

Hmm, weird. I notice that you’re using Firefox; maybe that’s the deal. I am too:

Aha! I think that might be it! I can’t on Firefox either.

Edit: Nope, just tried it on Boost, and that didn’t work either.

Oh, bummer. But yeah, I remember being simultaneously bummed about the Fry’s closing, and also feeling vindicated that they were going out of business after how bad they had become in their last years.

Greetings fellow Hoosier. The Castleton Best Buy is particularly awful, though I guess the website is not necessarily a reflection on that. Did you check the Micro Center to see if they have what you’re looking for?

Well, I think the word “barren” is a little bit more ambiguous, but generally “fallow” implies that it could be used, but isn’t; while “barren” means that it couldn’t be used for any productive purpose (specifically any agricultural purpose). In other words, land could be temporarily fallow but used again later, but would likely require remediation or even engineering to make productive if it’s barren.

Fertilizer does provide some help, but cover crops and crop rotation is still necessary. Anhydrous ammonia and ammonium nitrate don’t replenish everything that crops take out of the ground (really just nitrogen); and even if it did, it’s really expensive.

There’s definitely not a /fill command.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Too much effort for these stupid “ideas”. Of it were a child, explain it like you did, but I presume it isn’t. So let me explain it: No.

How profoundly arrogant to presume to tell me what to do or not to do with my own time. I’ll use my time how I like, thank you very much.

And it wasn’t wasted time. I learned things, I produced something, I had fun doing it. I may have even educated others.

Get off your high horse. What you did in posting a complaint about the effort I expended was way more useless than what I did.

I’m aware of that land use need, but actually most farmers use crop rotation to fulfill that need. You plant a crop that depletes phosphorus one year, and then one that restores it the next year. Obviously that’s oversimplified, but actually letting land lie fallow isn’t as critical anymore in a more diverse agricultural world.

Besides, letting land lie fallow is agricultural use, as you’re restoring the land for later growing seasons. That, iirc, is why the word “idle” is included on the map alongside “fallow;” true fallowing would be included in the agriculture regions.

My understanding is that they need an acre each specifically to prevent overgrazing, but I could be mistaken there.

Whoa whoa whoa! The world is already in rough enough shape without you creating pivot tables

American gumption sneers at the laws of physics!

This reminds me of when Weird Al told Canadian (or maybe Australian?) fans who wanted to watch his movie, “there’s Very Probably No way to do this. I know you probably have a TORRENT of questions, but I don’t have time to answer them right now.”

I don’t think the problem is the availability, it’s probably the adoption. But I’m not in higher ed.

I went a more math-less way when I read this originally. The moon is about a quarter the width (diameter) of the Earth, and the variances in the height of the Earth’s crust (mountains and trenches) aren’t visible in satellite images of Earth. If you cut the moon in half and put it down in the Atlantic, would it change the contour of the Earth’s crust as seen from orbit? Yeah, it’d be another eighth-again as wide on one side. You’d notice.

Doing some quick checking confirms: the Atlantic has a volume of about 355 million cubic kilometers. The moon is about 22 billion cubic kilometers. So you’d only need about 1.6% of the moon to fill up the Atlantic.

This is fun. It feels like an xkcd What-If.

Obviously this is a terrible idea, but I’m gonna answer it seriously for the sake of dunking on it.

1. The amount of work. I mean, just astronomical. That’s 1,650 miles of longitude this dude is talking about filling in; the largest earth-moving project ever was the Panama Canal, and it’s only about 50 miles long. Plus, by comparison, it’s essentially a one-dimensional line! This looks like it’s probably in the ballpark of 500-ish miles from the current shore to the new shore, and two-ish miles from the surface to the floor.

2. Where would we get the land from? It’s not like there’s a pile just sitting around. I guess we could dredge the Pacific and truck it across to pour into the Atlantic? Take down the Appalachians and the Rockies? Bring down an asteroid into the ocean? None of that would be enough. In fact, nothing I can think of that we have access to could even come close to providing enough dirt (remember, we need 1,650 x 500 x 2 cubic miles of it!), even if we could manage to do it without destroying ecosystems or killing billions of people.

3. The people who have spent a lot of money buying homes and businesses on the current Eastern seaboard of the United States would probably have something to say about this plan. (Something loud and something very angry.) Besides, it would completely upend the shipping industry, the fishing industry, the tourism industry, and more. This would legitimately destroy multiple national economies, and that’s before you even take into account the ecological disaster.

4. Sea level rise is already a major problem. So displacing a bunch of water in favor of dirt probably isn’t going to help that too terribly much.

5. …why? A lot of America is sitting unused or underused. If you were to clump all of the US’s land use into discrete blocks, it would look like this: The area labeled “LAND?” on the ocean in the OP map is, give or take, the size of the current amount of land owned by the 100 largest landowning families, private family timberland, golf, and fallow land (meaning land used for nothing). This means that the area that the person in question is asking about is already essentially or literally being used for nothing at all. Before we start undertaking an ecologically-disastrous and fundamentally impossible project, we’d probably figure out ways to use that other land.

But there’s more. The land that is being used is almost entirely being underused. For instance, take the “Cow pasture/range” section of the map; cattle account, by far, for the highest land use of any land use in the country. But the 28.2 million cows in America only need about an acre of land each; meaning that the 124.7 million acres of land they roam is about five times bigger than what they actually need. Most of the other production uses for land in the US (along with rural housing) are similarly sprawling because they can be; land is comparatively cheap, so there’s no real reason to consolidate. If that changes, land prices will rise, and the people and companies holding on to underused land will discover that it makes financial sense to sell and reconfigure their businesses to make more efficient use of the land.

So calm down, Lex Luthor. The problem isn’t that resources are actually scarce. It’s that people at the top have a financial interest in underusing their holdings so that they can keep prices artificially high.

Glad you enjoyed it! It was fun to write. And it definitely got away from me.

I mean, the Dutch are less than 1% of the world’s population, I feel like you’ve got a pretty good chance of saying that about anything.

Professor Arthur: Good news, everyone! We’re going on a quest to find the Holy Grail.

Sir Robender: I’m not going. Bite my shiny metal armor.

Sir Leelancelot: Please! I saw the Grail from outside! Show it to me!

Branniganthrax: Oh, I’ll show it to you. How would you like some… [Steps closer] peril?

Leelancelot and Kifalahad: Ugh.

Hermes the Bridge Guardian: The bureaucracy requires me to ask you these questions three, ere the other side you see.

Sir Fry-celot: Ask me the questions, bridge-keeper. I am not afraid.

Hermes: What…is your name?

Fry: Sir Fry-celot the Stupid.

Hermes: What…is your quest?

Fry: I dunno, something about a cup? I wasn’t listening.

Hermes: [sighs] What…is your favorite color?

Fry: Purple-orange.

Hermes: Good enough. Go ahead.

Robender: What?! THAT’S EASY!

Zoidbergé: Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries. Mmmm, elderberries.

Professor Arthur: Ugh. Uh, well, tell your Lord…

Zoidbergé: Now go away or I will taunt you a second time! Woo-woo-woo-woo!

Fry-thur: One…two…five!

Leelancelot: Three, Fry.

Fry-thur: What?

[Explosion]

Fry-thur: Whoa, that’s cool. What’s your name?

Enchantress: There are some who call me…Amy?

Fry-thur: Dope.

Amy: I know, right?

Narrator: Right then, the animator suffered a fatal heart attack.

Matt Groenig (live action): I’ll never die.