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xkcd #3078: Anchor Bolts (xkcd.com)

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The biggest expense was installing the mantle ducts to keep the carbonate-silicate cycle operating.

https://explainxkcd.com/3078/

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

At geological timescales everything is a liquid

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I took an atmospheric science class in college and the professor described the field as “fast geology”, I like your description though that geology is the study of slow fluids!