Ocean Loop xkcd.com/2935

Time for the xkcd style breakdown of how much water you’d have to pump to make it possible.

New Elon Musk megaproject just dropped.

And then rather than calculate the metacentric height of a cruise ship riding that loop, the machines decided that it was easier to simply exterminate humanity.

❤️

For the longest time I thought this depicted a dredger.

This looks like the thumbnail of another "What If" essay...

They’d let me do this Action Park!!!!

Relevant to @billchilds.bsky.social new book. Action Park: The Boat!

Wouldn’t be able to keep the fun loving pods of Cetacea out of it…

it'd speed up the boat, why would they be mad