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If you’re betting against the ocean, half a million bucks seems like a piddling small amount to bring to the table. Like, so small an amount that you probably
by cushychicken 3y ago
If you’re betting against the ocean, half a million bucks seems like a piddling small amount to bring to the table.
Like, so small an amount that you probably shouldn’t be allowed to play the game.
Part of why you have table stakes is to keep small players out of the game, and the ocean is maybe the biggest, most powerful player in the largest game on earth. (Metaphorically speaking, of course.)
- EGreg 3y agoLooks like our carbon footprint actually is defeating the ocean’s ability to absorb it, via the phyoplankton and the acidification results in massive changes.
- fakedang 3y agoThe ocean isn't going to disappear due to global warming. It'll just change and rejuvenate itself long after we're gone. The ocean is the house, and the house always wins.
- yourusername 3y agoThere is a method of sand nourishment that works for much longer time, the sand engine. But you're talking about $10 million for a small one. The first one constructed was 70 million euro. $500k does seem to little to play this game.
- tialaramex 3y agoEh, the ocean is just moisture on the outside of the rock, it seems like a big deal to us because the rock itself is so enormous we just forget its there. There is so much rock that just by existing it exerts a powerful force on us all the time and we just don't even think about that. It's so enormous that we don't know for sure what's inside it. It's very hot in there, and radioactive, and generally hostile to life as we know it, but we've barely scratched the surface, we haven't really tunnelled much deeper into the rock than the thin layer of moisture you're making a big deal about, which is essentially nothing - a few kilometers. The rock is like twelve thousand kilometres across.