I have never heard of this!! This could have upside/downside ratio even greater than that of the bidet.
I skimmed through some of Quaise’s videos, but I didn’t see any actual drilling. Might it be a scam?
Oh I thought of one possible downside. Could you set off volcanoes with this? Create new volcanoes? Or would it be impossible to drill deep enough? Or would the magma solidify before it made it up the narrow hole?
Would be quite the new x-risk category lmao. Malicious volcano actors.
Edit: this 2012 slate article explains drilling eruption risk fairly well. Basically, you only have to worry about reservoirs of magma near the surface. Simply far too much rock in the way and too narrow a hole to let much magma out otherwise.
I assume that the dirt gets warm near a magma chamber and you can detect that and stop drilling. Or maybe you can use sonar or something too.
I have no idea how common or high-pressure magma reservoirs away from volcanoes are. (I guess nobody knows.)
Anyway this idea still kicks ass.
How do you remove the dirt from the hole though?
Also, apparently “practical” microwave lasers were invented in 2012¿ I wonder what the limits of that are. Seems like a big deal for warfare potentially.
I have never heard of this!! This could have upside/downside ratio even greater than that of the bidet.
I skimmed through some of Quaise’s videos, but I didn’t see any actual drilling. Might it be a scam?
Oh I thought of one possible downside. Could you set off volcanoes with this? Create new volcanoes? Or would it be impossible to drill deep enough? Or would the magma solidify before it made it up the narrow hole?
Would be quite the new x-risk category lmao. Malicious volcano actors.
Edit: this 2012 slate article explains drilling eruption risk fairly well. Basically, you only have to worry about reservoirs of magma near the surface. Simply far too much rock in the way and too narrow a hole to let much magma out otherwise.
I assume that the dirt gets warm near a magma chamber and you can detect that and stop drilling. Or maybe you can use sonar or something too.
I have no idea how common or high-pressure magma reservoirs away from volcanoes are. (I guess nobody knows.)
Anyway this idea still kicks ass.
How do you remove the dirt from the hole though?
Also, apparently “practical” microwave lasers were invented in 2012¿ I wonder what the limits of that are. Seems like a big deal for warfare potentially.