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[-] DragonAce@lemmy.world 91 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] BlueHarvest@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

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

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 54 points 9 months ago

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

[-] IGuessThisIsMyName@lemmy.world 45 points 9 months ago
[-] ziby0405@lemmy.ml 28 points 9 months ago

WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY, GOODNIGHT.

[-] late_night@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

That line never fails to make me chuckle

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago
[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 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@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago

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

[-] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 17 points 9 months ago

Thanks anon now my country is fully underwater

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months 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 9 months ago

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

[-] superkret@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 9 months ago

No asteroids for you, Mr. Apocalypse.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 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.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

It needs to enter the atmosphere very slowly

[-] VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 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.

[-] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

the final solution.png 🤔

[-] jcs@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] jcs@lemmy.world 0 points 9 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

[-] kyle@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months 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 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.

[-] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 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@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] WinterAir@lemmings.world 2 points 9 months ago
[-] outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

this is a Karl Pilkington ass post

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