Kwiatkowski

Kwiatkowski t1_je9jq1c wrote

Reply to comment by Nachtzug79 in Melting Antarctic ice predicted to cause rapid slowdown of deep ocean current by 2050 by Lakerlion

It IS getting warmer, but the thing is as the globe as a whole heats up big climatological shifts are bound to happen. The northern part of western europe relies on a large subsurface current in the atlantic to keep it abnormally mild compared to the climate you would expect based on its latitude. However as the globe, and specifically the oceans, warm up we are going to see a lot of shifts in the norm as the currents change. Don’t think it just means everything gets cooler then too, the ocean will still be carrying around more heat and will find somewhere to dump it, so likely other areas all along it’s route will see proportional spikes in heat if the current ever stops.

All in all we’re in for a bad time.

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Kwiatkowski t1_je84jlx wrote

Reply to comment by Vv4nd in Melting Antarctic ice predicted to cause rapid slowdown of deep ocean current by 2050 by Lakerlion

a decade back in one of my sustainable fuels courses the professor really went on a tangent and deep dive about how the deep ocean currents in the atlantic make most of western europe a habitable place, and how it might be disrupted by the rapid melt of the global ice stores. Also went on about how there were essentially large pools of methane deep in the gulf that were stable now, but if the deep water got just a few degrees higher would permit them to change state to a gas and then bad news bears fire greenhouse gas emissions. Really makes you look forward to the coming apocalypse doesn’t it?

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Kwiatkowski t1_jalbktv wrote

Reply to comment by 12edDawn in NASA’s DART data validates kinetic impact as planetary defense method | DART altered the orbit of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos by 33 minutes by mepper

someone else probably will do the maths better but I’d bet because if the squishiness it transferred more of its kinetic energy into the target instead of converting it into more heat which would be the result of a more solid hit. Don’t trust me tho, just my thought on how it works

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Kwiatkowski t1_iulwfbx wrote

Reply to Meteor or space debris entry by Kirsah

Absolutely a meteor. The speed is the big tell, nearly all man made space junk is gonna enter around the speed (to the eye) that the ISS moves at. Sure some junk may move faster if it’s like a booster from a GTO orbit but that’s rare.

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