XKCD What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?

[trappedslider]

Don't get in trouble with the International Niagara Committee

 

[aco175]

TLDWatch; To force it to go through that small an area, it would need to be traveling 1/4 the speed of light and at that speed, things would blow up.

 

[MarkB]

TLDWatch; To force it to go through that small an area, it would need to be traveling 1/4 the speed of light and at that speed, things would blow up.

So, it'd be the last straw?

 

[aco175]

So, it'd be the last straw?

That broke the camel's back

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Paper or plastic straw?

 

[MoonSong]

Paper or plastic straw?

Bamboo or aluminium, we need to save the tortoises.

 

[Umbran]

Bamboo or aluminium, we need to save the tortoises.

Unobtainium, to save the planet!

 

[Umbran]

So, it'd be the last straw?

Randall generally plucks the low-hanging fruit. You gotta try a little harder to not repeat his jokes.

 

[MarkB]

Randall generally plucks the low-hanging fruit. You gotta try a little harder to not repeat his jokes.

Meh, I never actually watch the videos anyway.

 

[Baron Opal II]

Huh. I wonder how applicable this is for, say, drilling into a magma chamber for a geothermal energy plant? Aside from drilling complications, perhaps this means you won't automatically create an inconvenient volcano?