xkcd #3078: Anchor Bolts
xkcd #3078: Anchor Bolts
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Anchor Bolts
The biggest expense was installing the mantle ducts to keep the carbonate-silicate cycle operating.
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Someone else remembers that episode of the Ghostbusters cartoon.
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Who's going inside to hold the bolt? Should have used a T-nut.
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Someone make use of AI and show us some coastal scenery.
Maybe with a nuclear rocket drill to fasten it.
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Just ask the mole people.
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There's no way that's going to hold, right?
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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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After a certain point, the material around the bolt is more brittle than the bolt itself.
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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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At geological timescales everything is a liquid
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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!
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Something like a Tapcon would seem more suitable for the job
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Problem. Plates are still moving apart. Earth is increasing in volume, but no mass.
Floats away
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Does anti-subduction = abduction?
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No domduction
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