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Is that why trans-Atlantic flights are so much more expensive these days?
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!
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?
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.
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.
As my stat mech professor said, “what’s a few orders of magnitude between friends?”
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
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?
Here’s the sauce: xkcd/2803
And here is another lemmy post about this commic: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1694738 (on !xkcd@lemmy.world)
