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checkmate, big geology!! (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)
  • cement: mostly not rocks and mortar mix or whatever the fuck
  • concrete: mostly rocks, mortar mix, and significantly stronger than cement.
  • lava: literally actually just fucking molten rock
  • also lava: buried thousands of feet deeper below millions, possibly billions of pounds of more rock
  • concrete: weights about the same

shitposting aside this would just spray incredibly small chunks of solidified lava everywhere, for miles.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cement is the chemical that cements. Mix it with sand and you get mortar, add aggregate and you get concrete. Concrete is not only made with cement, if you swap it for bitumen, you get asphalt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

there we go. This is someone that cements.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Right? Finally a concrete answer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

do love myself a good rocky foundation to base things on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's like expecting the pipe of a pipe bomb to contain the explosion

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Build a bigger pipe. Concrete on the out side of the mountains. Lots of it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

i think we should build a giant lava canal and store the lava in a pool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

i mean, it does contain it, so uh.

It just won't contain it forever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Okay, but what if you push it down with both your hands? Lava couldn't get out then. Checkmate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

damn, you got me there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hey I am sorry I gotta go to the bathroom can you hold it I know it’s my turn but I’ll be right back I swear

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's how they got Pompeii.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks Kyle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

sorry man im busy right now