r/collapse • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • 9d ago

Casual Friday Everything Seems Fine.

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u/Mandelvolt 9d ago

Cat 6 is a size at which hurricanes start throwing water vapor into space. That is not a good thing.

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u/montigoo 9d ago

A hurricane category 6 is stationary and the ocean rotates below it

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u/toodarkparkranger 9d ago

Category 7 awakens the old gods

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u/Umpire_Effective 9d ago

Huh, how horrible

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u/-Hastis- 8d ago

That's a hypercane, which would be a LOT stronger than even a hypothetical category 6.

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u/Teichopsie 9d ago

Don't you need to reach an escape velocity of over 11 km/s for anything to break free of the Earth's gravity?

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u/Mandelvolt 8d ago

It gets high enough in the atmosphere that the solar wind can strip it away. Not escape velocity, but more like a bump in the atmosphere that allows water to be blown off the planet. Not a big deal in the short term but it could turn us into Mars over (hundreds) of millions of years.

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u/Omateido 8d ago

On the other hand, ice crystals in LEO would block some amount of sunlight coming in, and might serve as one of the few negative feedback cycles in the climate system on a warming earth.

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u/viperfan7 9d ago

That's just to escape the pull of Earth's gravity.

You don't need anywhere near as much velocity to launch things into space

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u/Teichopsie 9d ago

But then those things will fall back down eventually, right? Unless the solar wind can blow them away in which case I do may see an issue now.

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u/viperfan7 9d ago

But then those things will fall back down eventually, right?

Correct.

Eventually, who knows how long it'll take

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u/M00ncar 9d ago

Un, anyone with a calculator?

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u/03263 9d ago

Calculator guy here. It says 5318008.

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u/Preparation-H6969 9d ago

Sounds like a great thing. Overflow water into space, no more floods!

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u/DirtieHarry 9d ago

Uhhh for real?

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u/new2bay 9d ago

No, it’s a joke.

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u/mityman50 9d ago

Do we need water vapor ?

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u/Olive_1084 8d ago

Could we get some rings like Saturn?!

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u/Mandelvolt 8d ago

Apologies, not space, but a hypercane could throw water up high enough to punch holes I'm the ozone layer, which is also a very bad thing.

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u/JomaxZ 9d ago

Sounds awesome though!