• Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
    24·
    2 days ago

    Fuuuuuck the flat earthers were correct and the earth looks delicious.

    I want some of that sweet sweet magma…

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    I’ve been thinking a bit about this lately: creative use of everyday items to demonstrate natural phenomena might be an indicator of high intelligence.

  • Hjalmar@feddit.nuEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    I feel like the best analogy for this type of geology is a frozen lake. The ice moves and creates mountains and… um cracks. Lucky we don’t get that on earth but it’s still a nice analogy

    • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      We do get cracks. They’re the divergent plate boundaries. Water and ice just flow on time scales far too dissimilar to make an appropriate rate model at the cracks.

      • CommissarVulpin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I wonder if you could make a decent model of plate tectonics with wax. Have a pan of wax heated from below, deep enough that the top is cool enough to be solid.

        • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Ooh, interesting! Perhaps if you cooled the top and heated the bottom quickly enough? The biggest problem is that the convective drag needs to be high enough to cause actual subduction. In my Earth Science class, I just add mica powder to water, heat it from below, and show them Rayleigh-Benard convection cells.

  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I did this a lot with poptarts as a kid. I’m sure I would still do it, but I hate poptarts now.

  • logicbomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    It’s a little difficult to see the oreo cookie wafer on the dark background. I think it would work better with a white background. Something like milk.