Comment on [XKCD] Pascal's Law

mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Kayel@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still confused. They’re sinking shafts at an angle into rock, filling with water, the pressure towards the bottom breaks the rock.

  And then? How is the water drained, the shaft re- stabilised, etc

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  • mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The water isn’t drained. You sink the shaft past what you need to extract. Restabilization is why slave lives were so cheap. This was gulag work. Shafts would collapse all the time. It’s not a modern mining operation.

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    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not a modern mining operation.

      Well it’s fracking

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• glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruina_montium Non-mobile link.

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