• @DragonAce@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    “Ever since 2063, we simply drop a giant ice cube into the ocean every now and then. Of course, since the greenhouse gases are still building up it takes more and more ice each time. Thus, solving the problem once and for all.”

    “But…”

    “ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!”

    • unalivejoy
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      89 months ago

      This also causes the days to be longer. Moving all that ice from Haley’s Comet increased the mass of the Earth.

  • @fluxion@lemmy.world
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    269 months ago

    The ice caps are already falling into the ocean so we basically don’t have to do anything.

  • @kyle@lemm.ee
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    99 months ago

    There are about 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water in our oceans. I found a neat little calculator to determine how many pounds of ice you’d need to cool water (okay pool water, not ocean water, good enough). The ocean surface temperature has increased about 1.5°F in the last hundred years, let’s reverse it!

    [Ocean Vol] / 1000 × [Temp] × 4.375 = 213,937,500,000,0000,000 lbs of ice

    Or 1,069,687,500,000,000 tons An enormous ice cube roughly 63 miles or 101km on each side. Super easy!

    • Vincent Adultman
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      49 months ago

      What if we just freeze a pile of ships or something that is equally bigger and then throw it in the ocean? Or we can freeze all the human waste (garbage) and use it as a giant ice cube.

    • @Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
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      29 months ago

      Let’s redirect an ice comet into the ocean! Kind of like that movie Armageddon but in reverse! I’ll take my Nobel prize now.

  • @outer_spec
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    17 months ago

    this is a Karl Pilkington ass post