Here's the sauce: xkcd/2803
And here is another lemmy post about this commic: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1694738 (on [email protected])
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But, would we expect the words to evenly increase, or would we see nothing for a month and then 4 billion additional words pop in all at once?
Tectonic plates are about as fast as the growth of finger and toe nails
I feel like that would be much much faster than 100 words per minute... But scale is hard
Taken from below, the Atlantic Ocean expands 1 cm per year, this is much slower than my finger nails grow
100 words per minute
Post says words per second.
Sheit, right, units.
It's also not the exact speed but the order of magnitude. Both plates and nails vary in speed individually but the order of magnitude is the same
As my stat mech professor said, "what's a few orders of magnitude between friends?"
If I started to let my fingernails grow around the time of Pangea, I'd have some kickass fingernails that would be a bitch while programming.
I'd also have a nail fungus from the planet hell.
Edit: auto correct is a bitch
I do not like the sound of pickass finger nails. But it could explain the fungus.
I know this is meant to sound like the expansion is fast, but it is in fact really, REALLY slow.
Well yeah it's slow. No one would hire the Atlantic with only 100 wps typing skill.
And how much by sea level rise?
Grant proposal bit idea
Hold on, over how many lines? How was this estimate made? I demand to know what latitude gets the first line change for a given text. Also how much text you'd need and whether we have a single source that would fit.
Companion trivia: Can the whole of text of the internet cover the entire Atlantic in 12 point type, and if not yet, when based on how fast it grows?
Secondary question: What font would be best, besides Papyrus?
We can work this out in reverse.
The Atlantic widens about 1cm per year. Words contain about 6 characters on average. At 12 points, or 4mm tall, that comes to about 2x6=12mm for an average word, make it 15mm for ease and spaces,
If the ocean gains 15x100=1500mm (150cm) of word-width per second, thats 150x60x60x24x365 ~ 4.7 billion centimeters of word-space per year.
Given that it only moves about 1cm, that's a quick and dirty 4.7 billion lines of text.
At 5mm tall (4mm of text, 1mm whitespace between lines), that comes to 23 million meters. Since the earth is about 40.000km or 40 million meters in circumference, and adding in rounding numbers and suffering tectonic drift numbers, 4.7 billion lines seems about the right order of magnitude.
Edit: nope, it works out!
Depends on the projection.
Is that why trans-Atlantic flights are so much more expensive these days?
Nah, that's just airliners abusing their monopolies to squees every last dime out of your pocket, the poor shareholders need to survive too, you know.
Its not just trans Atlantic either, it's everywhere. I just booked Mexico Canada and I got the luxury premium of being allowed to take one free carry-on
Climate change is fucking a lot up.
Hotter air is less dense, requiring more lift generated from the engines.
To be clear, 2°C is not going to significantly affect lift. Planes won't to falling put of the sky on sunny days. Rather, airports and weight limits were designed around historic temperature maximums, and much higher maximum temperatures are showing up much more commonly. Adjusting these limits isn't hard, but airlines are going to cry every step of the way and pass the cost ditectly to passengers.
Increased turbulence and higher winds are also a concern, increasing maintenance costs and travel times, as well as extreme weather shutting down airports more often.
pass the cost ditectly to passengers.
That's the rub, no?
On the other hand, cis-Atlantic flights are cheaper than ever before.
Flying New York to London via Russia-adjacent Artic?
I mean, wouldn't those just be intra-continental flights?
You can change continent without crossing the Atlantic.
The price of ink is through the roof.
My wallet is not that deep!