Nuke the climate
We all know that climate change is dangerous, which means it can be tempting to take drastic measures to tackle it. Such as building a nuclear bomb order of the order greater than any time and putting it deeply below the seabed.
News Reporter Alex Wilkins drew Feedback’s attention to this little scheme. It is the brain child of Andrew Haversly, who described his idea in a paper -uuding on January 11 at Arxiv, an online restitor without a peer review.
Gardens Plan is based on an existing approach called Enhanced Rock Weathing. Cliffs like basalt react with carbon dioxide in the air, slowly remove the greenhouse gas and catch it in mineral form. By crushing such cliffs for powder we can speed up this chemical weathering and speed up co2 Removal. However, even under optimistic estimates, this will only associate a small fraction of our greenhouse gas emission.
This is where Nuke comes in. A decent atomic explosion could reduce a large volume of basalt to power, enabling a huge spurt of improved stone witle. HAVERLY proposes to bury a nuclear bomb at least 3 kilometers below the seabed in southern Ocean. The surrounding rocks would limit the explosion and radiation and minimize the risk of life. But the explosion would pulverize enough rock to absorb 30 years value of co2 Emissions.
The first obstacle identified is the extent of the required bomb. The great nuclear exploration was Tsar Bomba, detonated by the USSR in 1961: It had a dividend equal to 50 megatons tnt. HAVERLY wants a larger explosion, a unit with a yield of 81 gigatons, over 1600 times for Tsar Bomba. Such a bomb, he writes solemnly, “should not be taken easily”.
Completely how to build this thing, then transport it to the notorious windy southern ocean, probably lower it safely to the seabed and then send it several km below the said seabed, is very much left as an exercise for the reader. HAVERLY estimates that this endeavor would cost “about $ 10 billion”, which would actually be a lot of bang for your money considering the huge costs of climate change. However, feedback has no idea how he came up with that number.
Still, no one tells Elon Musk.
Afterlife Sneak Peak
Each time, feedback experiences a revelation through the medium of social media. Our latest came with the permission of an X user called @palnandi, an occupational therapist and “impartial travel”, which on January 12 published: “Leaked photo of the sky becomes viral on social media. No wonder Christians are so determined to get there! “” “
The accompanying image shows a city cut out of white stone, with architecture that looks like a cross between Hagia Sophia -Moske Lord of the Rings. The hundreds of windows all glow the same shade of golden yellow. Above the city is a dark, starry sky, with what looks like the Milky Way that extends over it.
Therefore, Feedback’s Revelation: That if you were long enough, a long -fucked silly claim will circulate once again.
This one goes back to at least 1994 when the foreign Weekly world news Published a story entitled “Heaven Photographer by Hubble Telescope”. It includes a blurred black-and-see image of a Starfield with a huge glow in the middle that contained a collection of Posh-looking buildings. Anyone who remembers what Asgard, home to Norse’s estate, looked like in Thor Movies want the right idea.
It should not need to say that this picture was from Hubble or even NASA, and is false. But it was viral as late as February 2024 after being highlighted in videos on Instagram and Tiktok.
It’s not even a year later, and a new image with a similar tagline has become viral. Several reports have tilted the picture AI-Genoud: The Milky Way especially has glitch-like patterns in it.
Feedback’s real problem with it, though, is that it looks like a terrible place. For starters, the stars are crystal clear, which involves a clear lack of air. It looks freezing cold and the structures are like something designed by Adam Driver’s Monomaniacal Architect character in the film Megalopolis. Sci-Fi author Naomi Alderman wriggled on Bluesky: “Right so no animal or plants or trees or rivers or lake-bare cold marble-dark sky and no sunbathing can see no people.” She likes it to output from “a scary neighborhood committee that analyzes absolutely rigid uniformity”.
Maybe one day we get an iteration of this where the sky here actually looks like a nice place to spend eternity. But feedback does not recommend to pause for it.
A fishing final
A press release warns us of the new book Into the Great Wide Sea: Life in the least known habitat on Earthby Sönke Johnsen. In it, the author explains what we know about life in the large volume of water under the sea surface, isolated from the air, the seabed and continental shelves. How is it that feedback wonders to spend your whole life in a place where only gravity and a little variation in light levels can tell you that that way is up and that it is down?
We know, but we know that illustrator of this Fishy Tome is a Marlin Peterson.
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