• StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    23 hours ago

    Well think about it, an asteroid just a mile wide hits a planet, the impact plume would reach about 20,000k, or 35,000 F, but on a planet wide scale even those numbers are meaningless, a statewide scale? Forget about it. We may think we’re hot shit when we can raise our ovens up to 500⁰ or melt steel, but, in the grand scheme of things we’re playing with grains of sand on the beach of energy manipulation

    • silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      I’d say the amount of energy manipulation we do makes perfect sense for beings about the size of a human. We still have a long ways to go regarding efficiency but no need to heat a planet when heating your room or your food is enough.

      I think your fascination with this just boils down to a fascination with the scale of the universe in general.