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[–] DragonAce 94 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

"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!!!"

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] BlueHarvest 25 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago

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

[–] IGuessThisIsMyName 53 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY, GOODNIGHT.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That line never fails to make me chuckle

[–] someguy3 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

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

[–] fluxion 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Thanks anon now my country is fully underwater

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

No asteroids for you, Mr. Apocalypse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months 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 4 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It needs to enter the atmosphere very slowly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I hear asteroids have ice, perhaps we should just mine it from space?

[–] ettyblatant 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the final solution.png 🤔

[–] jcs -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] jcs 0 points 8 months 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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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 4 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months 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 4 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

this is a Karl Pilkington ass post