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We just need long pipe from Earth to Mars to pump out CO2 there. It has to be long in case it gets entangled with the Sun. The best is to fund it from crypto to
by mirekrusin 5y ago
We just need long pipe from Earth to Mars to pump out CO2 there. It has to be long in case it gets entangled with the Sun. The best is to fund it from crypto tokens. Winning Elon's XPrize should buy few km of McDonald's straws to kick it off.
- selimthegrim 5y agoHey, it could happen.
- xondono 5y agoDon’t give Musk more ridiculous ideas, he might just get them funded!
- jerf 5y agoFor giggles: A 3 square-foot pipe from here to Mars at Mars' closest point of approach would hold about 31.7 million metric tons of CO2 at atmospheric pressure [1], which looks to be about 2 day's worth of US emissions. [1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=38.6+million+miles+*+3+feet%5E2+*+0.001836+g%2Fcc+in+metric+tons&hl=en&sxsrf=AOaemvIuGj8tL1x6xQDm3YTQ5lb5fDkDpg%3A1632509242217&ei=Oh1OYdjNDMO5tAaz24GgDw&oq=38.6+million+miles+*+3+feet%5E2+*+0.001836+g%2Fcc+in+metric+tons https://www.google.com/search?q=38.6+million+miles+*+3+feet%...
- diarrhea 5y agoI had trouble believing that (astronomic scales always seem so much more vast), but it checks out (SI units): p = 1e5 l = 38.6e9 * 1.61 A = 0.27871 R_m = 8.3141 M_CO2 = 12 + 16 * 2 R = R_m / (M_CO2 / 1000) T = 273.15 V = l * A m = p * V / (R * T) f"{m:_}" '33_558_455_134.769554'