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Cup Runneth Over posted:we don't need to blow it up, we just need to crack it like an egg Wouldn't it be easier to figure out how to shove the moon into earth at that point?
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 21:59 |
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RIP Syndrome posted:Good news! What has been called the first commercial plant in the United States to use direct air capture just opened, and another plant is operating in Iceland! It can remove the exhaust from about 200 cars. It does this by heating limestone to 1,650 degrees Fahrenheit.
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 22:07 |
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FlapYoJacks posted:Wouldn't it be easier to figure out how to shove the moon into earth at that point? you're making the same mistake as the people who came before us in relying on going to space to solve our problems. we need solutions right here, right now, on Earth (for splitting the Earth asunder)
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 22:08 |
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how big is a nuke really? The Soviets drilled a pretty deep hole, if we just shoved a train of nukes, just one after another, down that hole until one of em blows up and sets of a chain reaction it'd be kinda like a wedge
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 22:26 |
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fanfic insert posted:how big is a nuke really? The Soviets drilled a pretty deep hole, if we just shoved a train of nukes, just one after another, down that hole until one of em blows up and sets of a chain reaction it'd be kinda like a wedge what if a cartoonishly mad scientist reads this
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 22:31 |
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Earth's shell is already cracked like an egg, you'll need to dig deeper.
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 22:43 |
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train? i'm in
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 22:58 |
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fanfic insert posted:how big is a nuke really? The Soviets drilled a pretty deep hole, if we just shoved a train of nukes, just one after another, down that hole until one of em blows up and sets of a chain reaction it'd be kinda like a wedge to get the most out of a subcritical mass of fissile material you need to make it critical in a very particular, very efficient way. Detonating nuke A by blowing it up with nuke B is a likely going to be a complete waste of nuke A
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 23:03 |
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Introducing the Future Earth newsletter: Get the latest climate solutions delivered to your inbox oh boy oh boy i can't wait to hear about the latest climate solutions!!
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 23:04 |
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bawfuls posted:The best guesses I could find for the efficiency of synthesizing gasoline from captured CO2 were 12-25%. At the high end of that and the low end of this carbon capture cost (and completely ignoring the cost of CO2->Octane, which is significant), this would be $7.50/gallon of gas. You can safely double that for the CO2->Octane portion, since that process also requires both high temperatures and high pressures. That's a lot of cars! Imagine how much gas we can make with all that CO2, at $15 a gallon number will go through the roof! We'll all be rich!
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Microplastics posted:Introducing the Future Earth newsletter: Get the latest climate solutions delivered to your inbox Me too! Any moment now!
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 23:55 |
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/09/microplastic-eating-plankton-worsening-crisis-oceans-plastic-pollution?CMP=share_btn_twquote:
lol forget micro we on to nanoplastics now bitch
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 00:03 |
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Scarabrae posted:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/09/microplastic-eating-plankton-worsening-crisis-oceans-plastic-pollution?CMP=share_btn_tw lmao bdowned
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 00:07 |
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bdelliod go bdrrrrrrr
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 00:10 |
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Microplastics posted:Introducing the Future Earth newsletter: Get the latest climate solutions delivered to your inbox please refer to forums user Communist Thoughts post as quoted in the op
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 00:19 |
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proud of our little rotifer buddies for making the news (again), good work lil' dudes
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 00:21 |
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fanfic insert posted:how big is a nuke really? The Soviets drilled a pretty deep hole, if we just shoved a train of nukes, just one after another, down that hole until one of em blows up and sets of a chain reaction it'd be kinda like a wedge putting aside the non-feasibility of nuclear chain reactions, earth's core is already pretty volatile and well-contained, I don't think nuking the center of the earth is gonna do much. blowing the earth up from the inside seems like a non-starter to me. we need a real planet-cracking system that will lever it open most of the way along the equator, from crust to mantle at minimum. I think if we devote our global society to this we can devise a solution to ensure nobody gets to come after us
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 00:37 |
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how long before these little guys or similar evolve to actually consume nanoplastics and derive energy from them?
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 00:41 |
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The whole internet loves rotifers, a lovely microscopic creature that eats plastic! *5 years later* We regret to inform you the rotifers make the plastic worse
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 00:51 |
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can't help but cheer on my fave little friends, rotifer and corona
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 00:54 |
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Cup Runneth Over posted:The whole internet loves rotifers, a lovely microscopic creature that eats plastic! *5 years later* We regret to inform you the rotifers make the plastic worse
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 01:01 |
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The rotifers will terraform this planet into a shiny plastic ball and for a few billion years there will be a monument saying that we were here
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 01:42 |
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Cup Runneth Over posted:The whole internet loves rotifers, a lovely microscopic creature that eats plastic! *5 years later* We regret to inform you the rotifers make the plastic worse
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 01:43 |
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quote:the state of our oceans is supported by
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 01:44 |
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lol
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 01:53 |
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 02:14 |
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All hail the new
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 02:20 |
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Cup Runneth Over posted:The whole internet loves rotifers, a lovely microscopic creature that eats plastic! *5 years later* We regret to inform you the rotifers make the plastic worse
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 02:34 |
Looks like bad times ahead for Iceland https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1723132326203326551?s=20
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 02:40 |
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look it's gonna be very convenient to the airport, think of the tourism dollars
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 03:15 |
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Cup Runneth Over posted:putting aside the non-feasibility of nuclear chain reactions, earth's core is already pretty volatile and well-contained, I don't think nuking the center of the earth is gonna do much. blowing the earth up from the inside seems like a non-starter to me. we need a real planet-cracking system that will lever it open most of the way along the equator, from crust to mantle at minimum. I think if we devote our global society to this we can devise a solution to ensure nobody gets to come after us Oh come on you're a bunch of suicidal morons!! What are you, crazy?! Plan C? "Restart the core somehow?" Oh that's a great idea! That's a brilliant idea! I can't believe I'm stuck on this floating septic tank with you lunatics! You may have nothing to lose, you may have nothing to lose, you may have nothing to lose, but I have my life to lose thank you very much while you're up! Now turn it around! He told us to go back, and we're going back! Why? You wanna be a hero? You wanna be a martyr? What do you want to be? You're out of your minds! Thank you! As for the Death Star blasting, the necessary energy to do what it did to Alderaan was on the order of 1E38J. But if you want to just crack the planet to bits, rather than vaporise it all and have it explode violently outwards at high relativistic speeds, much less is needed.
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 03:41 |
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This li'l guy is great. He reminds me of my partner's dog who passed earlier this year. I hope you give this mop a lot of treats and affection.
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 03:46 |
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I love dogs with whacked out hair. 10/10
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Cup Runneth Over posted:The whole internet loves rotifers, a lovely microscopic creature that eats plastic! *5 years later* We regret to inform you the rotifers make the plastic worse lmao
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 04:49 |
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Our little buddy has been milkshake ducked. Oh no
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 05:38 |
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Looks like bad times ahead for Iceland Sucks, I like Iceland. The good news though is that there's good times ahead for Greenland.
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 09:26 |
r u ready to WALK posted:Do we have enough nukes to overcome gravity and send chunks of earth careening into space in all directions though? I'm thinking at most we would be able to make some big dents in the surface and irradiate the planet for a long time but I don't we could actually obliterate it to the point it's no longer a planet orbiting the sun. e: Oh wait that's the realistic one. Here's the earlier one with direct applications. Short answer: nope stringless has issued a correction as of 12:24 on Nov 11, 2023 |
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 10:51 |
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Humanity has a death drive. And now that killing ourselves is finally within sight, it's not enough. The entire planet must cease to exist. That can do spirit is admirable, but physics is a harsh mistress. If we are very, very, lucky we might be able to create a run away Venus effect and sterilize the biosphere, but it's unlikely. Forget shattering the planet, we'll never even get close. Paradoxically, if we would like to experience the ultimate death of the sun becoming a red dwarf and boiling the oceans, we've got to get our poo poo together now. I'm not optimistic.
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 19:10 |
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Now think about what we did to humans.
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