Rewatching the episode The Expanse
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It's possible they repurposed the cut for something else (perhaps production facilities, or something else).
But, its the 22nd century. Earth should have molecular synthesizer technology which would allow them to produce high grade synthetic soil that would refill the cut and act just as well as natural soil does (after all, even today we have the ability to convert trash and plastics into food for soil to repair it.
There are huge amounts of asteroids in SOL after all. I wouldn't be surprised if they used them for raw material - or, the technical efficiency (the ability to do more with less) was increased to such a degree where Earth could take a very small portion of land from elsewhere on Earth and use that to generate massive abundance.
After all, for a civilization in that stage of development, they'd have to have some seriously advanced technology... but as usual, Trek writers don't really evolve tech all that well in Trek... or at least, their efforts to do so ceased with Discovery and 32nd century.
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We’re assuming that they didn’t just build a series of canals and bridges afterwards.
Given the sheer size of the cut, it's unlikely they were able to repair all of it completely. But it probably varied by location... heavily populated areas became memorial sites, desolate areas were either left, or they just planted trees or something. Moderately populated areas could have been either filled in or bridged.
I recall a fan theory in 2009 that the quarry Kirk drove his dad's car into was part of what the Xindi carved into the Earth
Honestly that "7 million" thing always bothered me. It doesn't look so wide as to cause that much damage when Trip and Malcolm are at ground zero.
Honestly that "7 million" thing always bothered me. It doesn't look so wide as to cause that much damage when Trip and Malcolm are at ground zero.
Considering how long it was, I bought it.
We didn't learn if it was aimed at anything particular. But considering that it managed to kill the relative of a Starfleet officer (which is 100% of the statistics we get on the topic), it might
a) have been an attempt to draw an optimal line of destruction between key Starfleet assets in Florida, key Starfleet assets in Cuba, and key Starfleet assets in Panama/Venezuela, with the giant anti-starship cannons in the Galapagos Islands being next, and
b) have caught a large number of Starfleet camp followers, including Trip's sister, whereas the rest of Earth's population would have been living in a less concentrated fashion now that it could afford to.
Timo Saloniemi
a) have been an attempt to draw an optimal line of destruction between key Starfleet assets in Florida, key Starfleet assets in Cuba, and key Starfleet assets in Panama/Venezuela, with the giant anti-starship cannons in the Galapagos Islands being next, and
b) have caught a large number of Starfleet camp followers, including Trip's sister, whereas the rest of Earth's population would have been living in a less concentrated fashion now that it could afford to.
Timo Saloniemi
Honestly, given the geography of Florida, that swath should have been flooded. I cringed when I first saw that scene with Trip looking at the shaft and talking about his sister. Was Florida even visible in any of the 23rd and 24th Centuries, when Earth was visited (not counting time travel)??
Maybe disaster relief pumped the water out? Even in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, water was pumped out of parts of New Orleans within a month and a half. No reason it doesn’t happen faster with 22nd century tech with an area as big as Florida.
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