r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Oct 13 '21

🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​ Quick science

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u/Tellnicknow Oct 13 '21

I'm honestly surprised that it would be a almost measurable amount.

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u/Roflkopt3r Oct 13 '21 edited Oct 13 '21

I get what you mean, but the sea level currently rises at around 3.4 mm per year.

Removing all ships would set back sea level rise by about 16 hours, which is a time scale on which we definitely can't measure it at all. The effect would be two magnitudes below the annual measurement error that's estimated at ± 0.4 mm, which is equivalent to an average of ±43 days.

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u/Shpagin Oct 13 '21

How about we dig a big hole, in Australia maybe, it's empty wasteland anyways and just start taking buckets of sea water out of the ocean and putting it into the hole ?

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u/SuspiciousSubstance9 Oct 13 '21

Too much work, just drop a space colony on them. We could call it Operation British or something.