• @[email protected]
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    613 months ago

    At one point, climate change was dismissed based on the same logic.

    Its worth thinking ahead and doing the math.

    • mosiacmango
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      163 months ago

      That’s a wild comparison, but okay.

      The top layer of the crust of the earth and atmosphere are also nothing compared to the molten core of the earth.

    • Diplomjodler
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      233 months ago

      No it wasn’t. At least not by scientists. The math is very clear here.

      • @[email protected]
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        93 months ago

        Also, like how we can pump the heat out…

        We can pump the heat back in too. It works both ways, and resistive heating is pretty much 100% efficient.

    • @[email protected]
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      83 months ago

      Yeah but this is just like, not understanding the scales and orders of magnitude we’re talking about here.

      • Majorllama
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        I understand the scales involved. Hence my pointing out that it probably doesn’t matter, but I would rather ask and be mocked then never ask and potentially have it fuck us over later. No harm in double checking man.

        Edit: spelling

      • @[email protected]
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        73 months ago

        No, this is a hold my beer kind of thing.

        Give me unlimited energy from the molten core of the earth and I will fuck around and find out.

      • @[email protected]
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        LOL, talk about scale…

        Look at Earth from space. The atmosphere is the paint on a marble, the rest is almost all core.

        Lemmy: But we might use it all up!!!

        And never mind how and why it’s hot.

      • @[email protected]
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        53 months ago

        I think you’re not understanding how billionaires work. If energy gets cheap enough, the next Elon Musk will probably try to desolonate an ocean or change the Earth’s rotation to get more sunlight through their favorite window in winter.

        • TomAwsm
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          23 months ago

          Like I read somewhere else on lemmy: “We have like 7 Lex Luthors and no Superman”