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Its coal fire day on Hacker News! (there was another post about a possible coal fire on the Titanic)
by ape4 8y ago
Its coal fire day on Hacker News! (there was another post about a possible coal fire on the Titanic)
- dmix 8y agoThat’s not a conicidence
- Johnny555 8y agoI think it's safe to say that that one has been extinguished!
- Skunkleton 8y agoThis one will sort itself out. Once sea levels rise high enough, the mine will be submerged and the fire will go out.
- nostrademons 8y agoSea level rise if all ice melts: 230 ft. Sea level rise to historical maximum: 660 ft. (100m years ago; the difference is largely because of thermal expansion of water and changing shape of ocean basins.) Elevation of Centralia, PA: 1467 ft.
- Skunkleton 8y agoOk fine, I guess we have to do something about this.
- nostrademons 8y agoNuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago"We got ourselves a pretty big fire. Gonna need a huge bang." https://youtu.be/U8Vh3h9i2Uk?t=37 https://youtu.be/U8Vh3h9i2Uk?t=37
- owenversteeg 8y agoWorld ocean area is 361 million km2. We need 1467 feet or 447 meters of sea level rise, right? So a total of 1.6e20 liters or 161 million km3. The volume of the Moon is 21 billion km3, so too big. Rhea is about 233 million km3 (I think) so that would be more reasonable. Rhea is only 1.272 billion km from Earth, totally doable I think. Anyone else want to go grab a rocket and put out a coal fire? I feel like it'd be eminently doable with some kind of Project Orion-style tactical blasts behind Rhea. I see absolutely no way this could go wrong.