xkcd #3078: Anchor Bolts

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Someone else remembers that episode of the Ghostbusters cartoon.

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• MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Problem. Plates are still moving apart. Earth is increasing in volume, but no mass.

  Floats away

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• Brekky@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does anti-subduction = abduction?

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  • PainInTheAES@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No domduction

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• Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who’s going inside to hold the bolt? Should have used a T-nut.

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  • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Someone make use of AI and show us some coastal scenery.

    Maybe with a nuclear rocket drill to fasten it.

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just ask the mole people.

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• Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Something like a Tapcon would seem more suitable for the job

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• AceBonobo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s no way that’s going to hold, right?

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  • OrganicMustard@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At geological timescales everything is a liquid

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    • delgato@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I took an atmospheric science class in college and the professor described the field as “fast geology”, I like your description though that geology is the study of slow fluids!

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If that picture is to scale, those bolts are ~5km thick. Put enough of them and it should hold

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    • modeler@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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