I’m from Québec. We spit on Minnesota’s piddly shoreline. We fart in Minnesota’s general direction. Our saltwater shoreline alone is 9,447 miles, more than California, Hawaii and Florida combined (by roughly twice).
Québec: land of lakes and rivers
There are 430 major watersheds in Quebec; 100 of them cover a catchment area of more than 4,000 km². The province includes more than half a million lakes, of which 30 have an area greater than 250 km². There are also 4,500 rivers in the province(2) for a total of 355,315 km² of land covered with water(3), which can be compared to the total area of Germany
The St. Lawrence River is an important part of Quebec’s hydrographical landscape. Its watershed makes up 40% of the province’s renewable fresh water(4).
Québec: land of fresh water
Almost 10% of the Québec territory is covered with fresh water. Québec’s 990 km³ per year of renewable water represents 3% of the planet’s renewable fresh water.
Also, the important underground water reserves of the province are evaluated at 2,000 km³.(5)
Wanna bet that the total shoreline is more than Minnesota, California, Hawaii and Florida combined?
So, are you saying that repeatedly heating up rocks to a higher temperature than the surface of the sun and subjecting them to enough concussive force to cause minor earthquakes will eventually cause severe structural damage to those rocks? And that the cavern you are doing this in will eventually collapse as a result?
I have no words to describe how shocked I am at this result.
And that somebody was probably saying something like, “I don’t care about your damn prediction models! It has to get done, and it will get done, so if you still want to call yourself a fucking scientist you better change that attitude and get the next series of tests ready! I cannot believe how negative and unpatriotic you’re being!”
I don’t know. I think the first and third sentences would be said to one scientist, who would then be taken away, and then the second sentence would be said to the remainder of the team.
And also didn’t North Korea announce recently it had ‘no more need’ to conduct nuclear tests? No more ability or uncontaminated land available, more like.
