Comment on xkcd #3078: Anchor Bolts

• modeler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  the crust … starts crumbling somewhere else creating new mountains or islands

  Exactly. The oceanic crust will (in geologic time) crack in front of the bolts and be dragged down parallel to the bit that was bolted, stacking the oceanic crust with the newer bit under the older one.

  The cracking and stacking happens naturally and this creates stacks of many oceanic crust sections moving to the left of the picture.

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• death_to_carrots@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  After a certain point, the material around the bolt is more brittle than the bolt itself.

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Often is, but you can alleviate this with large washers like in the picture, and also by adding more bolts closer to eachothers

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Too many bolts too close and you’ve just got a perforation.

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    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think double-sided tape would be better. Or maybe we sew the plates together?

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      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Drill holes and zip tie the tectonic plates together

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    • death_to_carrots@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Would you say tectonic plates are more like wood vor metal? There are different standards for both.

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      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’d think they’re more like cookies, but idk I’m not really a geologist 😅

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