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    22 months ago

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

    Floats away

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      2 months ago

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

      That said, the crust probably starts crumbling somewhere else creating new mountains or islands

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        32 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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        82 months ago

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

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        72 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!