Geohydtotypography

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• cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is that why trans-Atlantic flights are so much more expensive these days?

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  • odium@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    On the other hand, cis-Atlantic flights are cheaper than ever before.

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    • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Flying New York to London via Russia-adjacent Artic?

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    • Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, wouldn’t those just be intra-continental flights?

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The price of ink is through the roof.

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    • PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My wallet is not that deep!

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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

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  • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Climate change is fucking a lot up.

    Hotter air is less dense, requiring more lift generate from the engines.

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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• FederatedSaint@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know this is meant to sound like the expansion is fast, but it is in fact really, REALLY slow.

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  • PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well yeah it’s slow. No one would hire the Atlantic work only 100 wps typing skill.

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• MudMan@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We can work this out in reverse.

    The Atlantic widens about 1cm per year. Words contain about 6 characters on average.

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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?

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He just used Papyrus

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Depends on the projection.

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tectonic plates are about as fast as the growth of finger and toe nails

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  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I feel like that would be much much faster than 100 words per minute… But scale is hard

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    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      100 words per minute Post says words per second.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I started to lety fingernails grow around the time of Pangea, I’d have some pickass fingernails that would be a bitch while programming.

    I’d also have a nail fungus from the pkanet hell.

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    • dave@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I do not like the sound of pickass finger nails. But it could explain the fungus.

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• match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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?

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• Jakylla@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here’s the sauce: xkcd/2803

  And here is another lemmy post about this commic: sh.itjust.works/post/1694738 (on !xkcd@lemmy.world)

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• Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And how much by sea level rise?

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  • propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Grant proposal bit

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