Hey! There’s other resources to extract!

But yeah, thats a big pressure away form it and a reason its still daydreams

Yeah! Geomag, tomography, and dating are all really important tools, and magma dynamics is a whole encyclopedia waiting to be written. So cool!

This is just another study confirming what has been known for years. MLE is the multicultural expansion of cockney. Much of the accent survives, but has been modified by exposure to many cultures. Its been identified as the dominant native london accent foresomething like a decade.

Mountain bases can support a lot. Everest is not terribly tall from its base, true, but Denali is 5500 meters from base to top and Mauna Kea rises to 10000 meters over base.

Its also a bit of an incorrect picure to think of the interior magma as a liquid. It can flow, but it can also sieze up or crack. Its an in-between, like corn starch and water.

What we see now are the ancient roots. Before the continental colision, there was a sea and subduction zone. This gave us sandstones, diorite, and granite… All of which were crushed at incredible pressure and temperature by the continental collision. At the deep roots of the mountains, this transformed the rock into gneiss, marble, and other extremely hard rock. Additionally, the forces were so great that the very bottom melted and became fresh granite.

All of these stones are very hard and resistant to erosion, and are what we see todayas the Appalachians

Its indirectly gravity. The taller the mountain, the more eroding force can be pleced on it. Water travels faster and therefore cuts deeper.

Everest is still uplifting fairly quickly at 1mm a year, but its also eroding at roughly the same pace and won’t get significantly taller than it is now. The same is true for the rest of the Himalaya as well, the whole range is eroding at a very high pace.

The Himalaya are home to some very spectacular canyons, including the largest canyon above water. The geology there is on full display and incredible.

I have started daydreaming of a career change to geology. There are just so many unanswered questions and its not like space or physics were these questions are tinyor super far away. You can just walk upto a geologic puzzle and hit it with a hammer.

Ok yeah this was good

One nit, pangea wasn’t the first supercontinent, we know of at least two, maybe three before it. The stone of the Adirondak mountains was formed as part of the Grenville mountains, which were built by a suprecontinent 1.5 billion years ago (the adirondaks got tall be’ause of a much more recent, unrelated thing, but their stone is very old). The Grenville runs from Hudson Bay to Texas

Completely unrelated. North and south america wern’t attached when the appalachians were tall. The Andes are formed by an ocean plate (the Nazca plate) dragging as it is sucked under south america. They are tall, and still growing taller.

This is because thats basically the upper limit for how tall a mountain can be on this planet.

Small? The Appalachians today are the resting skeleton of a mountain range so tall and enduring that the mud and sand that washed off them piled miles high and formed the Catskill mountains. The Appalachians were so mighty that their garbage formed mountains

Lenin ordered the Red Terror. The main difference between him and Stalin when it comes to willingness to use state violence was the size of the state. His solution to political decent was mass executions. While it was announced as a class war on the bourgeoisie, it began with a massacreof sociallists. In addition to kulaks and white army afficers, it targeted the former bolshenik allies Left Socialists, anarchists, and striking workers. The Red Terror featured the creation of the gulags and concentration camps, hostage taking, and torture.

I generally use ‘USican’, pronounced yoo-ess-ican. Every seemseto understand me.

Edit: this may be the most controversial thing i’ve said on lemmy.

Yeah! Its a package manager, with its own repos. It needs its own becauseof all those guarentees above. Its designed to be installed on any linux distro, and also has windows, mac, and docker versions.

If you want it to be all nix all the time, thereis also a distro NixOS thats uses nix from front to back.

And, in a confusing failure of naming, the language you use to configure nix is also called nix, just to be cool.

Ok, heres my run down:

Nix is a package manager with the goal of making it so that when you install a package at a version, you always get the same thing.

But isn’t that how all package managers work? Not at all. Most software requires other software to work (dependancies). Those dependencies also have dependencies, and so on. If a version of the dependency changes between installs, your package works differently. So Nix forces the package to specify what version of the dependency to use.

But version numbers are pretty wishy-washy, so nix actually requires git commits. This is good, since it turns out, the compiler and libraries used to build the software are dependencies, too. Building with a different compiler can change the way the package works. So Nix forces the package to specify how to build it also.

So Nix is a package manager where each version of a package is built against a known compiler, and comes bundled with a known set of dependencies.

This allows some cool things, like generations. Change your list of installed packages (or configuratian, it handles that too), nix can save the old config and instantly go back to it. No more bricked linux install (if it can get past the bootloader). Also lets you do os-level per-directory installs. Have two projects that each need a different version of c compiler or postgres? Nix makes that easy. Want to make sure all dev machines in your project have the same python version? Just check in the config.

exactly this. If I need to do development, i’ll use a jetbrains product. If i’m in a pure text editing situation, I want the most powerful thing for manipulating text, and I want it to be available.

Vim can have some IDE-like qualities, if you bolt enough plugins in to it, but by default it affords buttinx text in a file and manipulating it.

I woudn’t classify it as an ide though.

‘legitimate government’ isn’t really a thing. Many recognized countries are ruled by hereditary governments, or by autocrats who gained power in a coup. The legitimacy of such governments, andthe nationhood of the states, is recognized by other countries based on the foreign policy (mostly self interest) of those other countries. So, if you want to guess who would recognize a Gaza nation with Hamas as the ruling clique, ask yourself what governments would benifit from doing that.

I literally cannot believe we are arguing about this bullshit when Ohio exists