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[-] DragonAce@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Ever since 2063, we simply drop a giant ice cube into the ocean every now and then. Of course, since the greenhouse gases are still building up it takes more and more ice each time. Thus, solving the problem once and for all."

"But..."

"ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!"

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] BlueHarvest@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

just like Daddy puts in his drink every morning.... and then he gets mad

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 54 points 1 year ago

That's a pretty ominous name for a png file to be honest

[-] IGuessThisIsMyName@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago
[-] ziby0405@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY, GOODNIGHT.

[-] late_night@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

That line never fails to make me chuckle

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago
[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

This also causes the days to be longer. Moving all that ice from Haley's Comet increased the mass of the Earth.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

The ice caps are already falling into the ocean so we basically don't have to do anything.

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Well, great. World saved, let's continue making profits.

[-] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Thanks anon now my country is fully underwater

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

It takes heat to make ice, and ice makers aren't 100% efficient, therefore the amount of heat the ice maker is producing to make the ice will not only offset the coldness of the ice, but surpass it.

[-] Lag@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

It's simple, we import ice from outside the environment.

[-] superkret@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, dropping ice asteroids onto earth creates more heat from atmospheric friction.

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The trick is to get it through the atmosphere at a really high speed. That way the plasma around it forms a protective layer, only ablating the outer most layer of ice. It also spends a very small amount of time in the atmosphere, so it doesn't have time to heat up. Almost all the ice reaches the ground that way.

It's also easier, instead of bringing a chunk of ice from the belt to Earth and slowing it down (which takes a lot of energy). You just need to redirect it's orbit so it will land on Earth somewhere in the future. The bigger the piece the better it works, so we really need to find a big one.

To be fair, we should send several pieces of ice, timed to land on different parts of the planet. It's kinda rude to have one part of the planet be cooled down and not other parts. If we space the landings 6 hours apart we could use the rotation of the Earth to make sure everyone has access to the cold ice. We'd only need 4 big chunks of ice.

Easy! It's really just a matter of willpower to do so if you really think about it.

[-] avonarret1@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

No asteroids for you, Mr. Apocalypse.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

And after some million years future archaeologists will see a nice distinct black layer and be surprised how much it looks like the black layer that's 65 million years older.

[-] VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You guys get all attached with your science theories. This is just pratical. We get the ice from the mexicans and drop in the ocean. Badabing-Badaboom. Easy as that.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

It needs to enter the atmosphere very slowly

[-] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

the final solution.png 🤔

[-] jcs@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I really wish people would avoid using that phrase in general...

[-] jcs@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I don't understand my negative ratio here. "'The Final Solution' or 'the Final Solution to the Jewish Question' was a Nazi plan for the genocide of individuals they defined as Jews during World War II."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution

[-] kyle@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

There are about 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water in our oceans. I found a neat little calculator to determine how many pounds of ice you'd need to cool water (okay pool water, not ocean water, good enough). The ocean surface temperature has increased about 1.5°F in the last hundred years, let's reverse it!

[Ocean Vol] / 1000 × [Temp] × 4.375 = 213,937,500,000,0000,000 lbs of ice

Or 1,069,687,500,000,000 tons An enormous ice cube roughly 63 miles or 101km on each side. Super easy!

[-] VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

What if we just freeze a pile of ships or something that is equally bigger and then throw it in the ocean? Or we can freeze all the human waste (garbage) and use it as a giant ice cube.

[-] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Let's redirect an ice comet into the ocean! Kind of like that movie Armageddon but in reverse! I'll take my Nobel prize now.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That ice will just melt and increase the sea level by the tiniest amount

[-] WinterAir@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

this is a Karl Pilkington ass post

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