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The biggest expense was installing the mantle ducts to keep the carbonate-silicate cycle operating. https://explainxkcd.com/3078/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•2 months agoAfter a certain point, the material around the bolt is more brittle than the bolt itself.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoOften is, but you can alleviate this with large washers like in the picture, and also by adding more bolts closer to eachothers
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoI think double-sided tape would be better. Or maybe we sew the plates together?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoDrill holes and zip tie the tectonic plates together
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoTectonic drift stitches. We’d have so much street cred in the galactic neighbourhood
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-22 months agoWould you say tectonic plates are more like wood or metal? There are different standards for both.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 months agoI’d think they’re more like cookies, but idk I’m not really a geologist 😅
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoToo many bolts too close and you’ve just got a perforation.
After a certain point, the material around the bolt is more brittle than the bolt itself.
Often is, but you can alleviate this with large washers like in the picture, and also by adding more bolts closer to eachothers
I think double-sided tape would be better. Or maybe we sew the plates together?
Drill holes and zip tie the tectonic plates together
Tectonic drift stitches. We’d have so much street cred in the galactic neighbourhood
Would you say tectonic plates are more like wood or metal? There are different standards for both.
I’d think they’re more like cookies, but idk I’m not really a geologist 😅
Too many bolts too close and you’ve just got a perforation.