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All we have to do is make the global religion require bringing a rock to a specific location; after long enough we’ll have a mountain so high it extends out of
by bombcar 1y ago
All we have to do is make the global religion require bringing a rock to a specific location; after long enough we’ll have a mountain so high it extends out of the atmosphere!
- kubanczyk 1y agoThis presents a considerable risk of splitting English into several languages, none of them intelligible with the others.
- SSLy 1y agohave you ever been to Newcastle?
- ben_w 1y agoAye man, wey aye, went doon there worra bairn, didn’t ah? Cannae remember much like, was only a wee nipper at the time, knaa what ah mean? Me mam an’ da took us doon the Toon when ah was nowt but a little’un, like. Divvent really remember owt aboot it proper, but aye, been the once when ah was just a littl’ bairn, me. Proper yonks ago that was, pet! (Translation: yes, once as a kid).
- notahacker 1y agoThe deity in question would also have to smite purveyors of LLM translation. This might of course not be considered a drawback...
- rigmarole 1y agoRelated and recommended: Greg Egan “Phoresis” a sci-fi novel of two twin planets in extreme proximity to each other. (I think I read it in one of his anthologies.)
- hermitcrab 1y agoTo get to the Kármán line (100k) a mountain with a 60 degree slope would require a base of 115km. A cone with 115km diameter base has a volume of 3.5×10^5 km^3. Which is 3.5x10^14 m^3, which is about 10^15 kg of rock. So it is going to take you a while!
- bombcar 1y ago3.5x10⁵ km³ you say? 1.08321×10¹² km³ is the volume of Earth, feasibility study done! Implement!
- hermitcrab 1y agoThe molten core probably isn't going to be much use. Surface area is 5x10^8 km^2. So it it 'only' the first ~2m of the crust (~6m if you don't count ocean).