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> The longest described so far is in Pará state in the Amazon region, with combined internal galleries some 1,500 metres long ... I'm not a Mining Engineer, to
by bell-cot 2y ago
> The longest described so far is in Pará state in the Amazon region, with combined internal galleries some 1,500 metres long ...
I'm not a Mining Engineer, to know when CO2 accumulation would become a problem (if the giant sloths were living in the tunnels). But the effort needed to manually remove the tailings from a tunnel is O(n^2) - because the working face keeps getting further from the exit.
So as the article asks - how could the effort needed possibly be worthwhile?
- cess11 2y agoHow would the animal determine that the effort is no longer worthwhile?
- bell-cot 2y agoI don't know. But pretty much every burrowing animal has to decide when the RoI has gotten too low to keep digging.
- goatlover 2y agoDo they use a spreadsheet?
- bell-cot 2y agoNeural network.
- adrianmonk 2y agoNo, a Burroughs mainframe.
- Qem 2y agoIt appears to be combined lenght for the whole tunnel complex. Not 1,500 meters to the nearest exit.
- rdtsc 2y agoDig slightly up so CO2 doesn’t accumulate in low areas and spread the tunnels around like a tree or a mesh? Work with your fellow sloth team, take turns, dilly-dally around. What else would sloths do ;-)