The biggest expense was installing the mantle ducts to keep the carbonate-silicate cycle operating.
There’s no way that’s going to hold, right?
xkcd #3078: Anchor Bolts
Submitted 5 days ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to xkcd@lemmy.world
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AceBonobo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
If that picture is to scale, those bolts are ~5km thick. Put enough of them and it should hold
death_to_carrots@feddit.org 5 days ago
After a certain point, the material around the bolt is more brittle than the bolt itself.
modeler@lemmy.world 4 days 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.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 4 days ago
At geological timescales everything is a liquid
delgato@lemmy.world 4 days 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!
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Something like a Tapcon would seem more suitable for the job
MNByChoice@midwest.social 4 days ago
Problem. Plates are still moving apart. Earth is increasing in volume, but no mass.
Floats away
Brekky@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Does anti-subduction = abduction?
PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 4 days ago
No domduction
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Someone else remembers that episode of the Ghostbusters cartoon.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Who’s going inside to hold the bolt? Should have used a T-nut.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Just ask the mole people.
redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Someone make use of AI and show us some coastal scenery.
Maybe with a nuclear rocket drill to fasten it.