• Khanzarate@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

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

    Its worth thinking ahead and doing the math.

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      22 hours 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.

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        23 hours 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.

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      23 hours ago

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

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        23 hours ago

        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

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        23 hours 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.

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        21 hours ago

        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.

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        22 hours 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.

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          13 hours ago

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