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@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months ago

xkcd #3078: Anchor Bolts

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@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months ago
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The biggest expense was installing the mantle ducts to keep the carbonate-silicate cycle operating.

https://explainxkcd.com/3078/

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  • @AceBonobo@lemmy.world
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    5•3 months ago

    There’s no way that’s going to hold, right?

    • @OrganicMustard@lemmy.world
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      10•3 months ago

      At geological timescales everything is a liquid

      • @delgato@lemmy.world
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        7•3 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!

    • @hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 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

      • @death_to_carrots@feddit.org
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        8•3 months ago

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

        • @hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          6•3 months ago

          Often is, but you can alleviate this with large washers like in the picture, and also by adding more bolts closer to eachothers

          • @death_to_carrots@feddit.org
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            Would you say tectonic plates are more like wood or metal? There are different standards for both.

            • @hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              7•3 months ago

              I’d think they’re more like cookies, but idk I’m not really a geologist 😅

          • @anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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            3•3 months ago

            Too many bolts too close and you’ve just got a perforation.

          • @usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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            2•3 months ago

            I think double-sided tape would be better. Or maybe we sew the plates together?

            • @hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              1•3 months ago

              Drill holes and zip tie the tectonic plates together

              • @usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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                2•3 months ago

                Tectonic drift stitches. We’d have so much street cred in the galactic neighbourhood

      • @modeler@lemmy.world
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        3•3 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.

  • @Brekky@lemmy.world
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    0•3 months ago

    Does anti-subduction = abduction?

    • @PainInTheAES@lemmy.world
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      1•3 months ago

      No domduction

  • @RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    2•3 months ago

    Someone else remembers that episode of the Ghostbusters cartoon.

  • @MNByChoice@midwest.social
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    2•3 months ago

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

    Floats away

  • @Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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    16•3 months ago

    Who’s going inside to hold the bolt? Should have used a T-nut.

    • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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      4•3 months ago

      Just ask the mole people.

    • @redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2•3 months ago

      Someone make use of AI and show us some coastal scenery.

      Maybe with a nuclear rocket drill to fasten it.

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