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funnyBunny@ani.social to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Whoopsie, Humans Built So Many Dams That We Shifted the North Pole by 3 Feet

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Whoopsie, Humans Built So Many Dams That We Shifted the North Pole by 3 Feet

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funnyBunny@ani.social to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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Our redistribution of mass on the surface has gone a bridge—or a dam—too far.
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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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    Can we combat the rising sea level from climate change by building massive dams?

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      Only if you build them quickly, and with the wet end around the oligarchs.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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        Building a dam around Musk would be a great way to create Lake Ketamine.

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          It’d be a really relaxing lake, until your urethra fails anyway.

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      Sure, but it would have to be around the polar ice caps. And even then, I’d guess you’d need a dome to prevent the water from evaporating and going past the dam.

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        polar ice caps and a gigantic dome? Sounds a bit like the wet dream of a flat earther

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    That’s both horrifying and kind of cool.

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