Roko puts self on ice floe, saving us the trouble (www.lesswrong.com)

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[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 4 months ago

ah yes so he's up to making ~~aircraft carrier~~ ~~floating libertarian treehouse~~ rube goldberg mad max platform out of pykrete

One idea for the bottom of the iceberg is to erect a grid of airtight barriers on the bottom of the berg, with cells a few dozen meters wide and a few meters tall and blow air bubbles into them

this makes this grid having to support several tons of buoyancy force, it will have to be airtight but also its connection to ice will have to be so, and ice will probably deform over time. did all of these motherfuckers dropped out of middle school?

[-] korydg@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

Besides, it's been then tried already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk

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