Wouldn’t it be better to use all that obsidian to build nether portals so we can build a public transit system on the bedrock roof?
Now that you mentioned public transportation the US will never agree to the project
The US would sooner build a gigantic obsidian orb than even think of building high speed rail anywhere.
Honestly why don’t we have a nether portal transit system already. Server is how old at this point? Smh my head.
Turns out it’d be a dissapointingly small sphere:
US annual defence budget = $800 billion
2% = $16 billion
Obsidian cost per kg = $5
Total kg in budget = 3.2 billion kg
Density of obsidian = 2.6 g/cm3 = 2600 kg/m3
Total volume of sphere = 3.2b/2600 = 1230769 m3
Volume of sphere = 4/3 π r^3
Radius = (3V/4π)^(1/3) = 66.48 m
The sphere would only stand at 133m tall, I propose we instead utilise the entire defence budget for a much more skyscraper like 490m tall orb
ignores engineering and construction cost. but we can assume that all people involved would work for free, because its a massive honour
Well that’s assuming it’s completely solid and not hollow. Hollow would probably be pretty huge, although the structural rigidity might not be great. Maybe we make a giant obsidian 3D printer and print it at like 10-15% infill.
An obsidian 3d print is less crazy than you might think. It’s essentially rapidly cooled lava.
Need something to hold the lava, then pressurize it to squeeze it through a nozzle that that has attached cooling units.
It would also crack instantly. Obsidian’s not durable.
Because Obsidian is really fragile. Maybe a bird hits it by accident, shatters the whole thing.
That is obviously nonsense. A bird hitting any large structure will not break it.
My only question is why we didn’t build the orb back in the Eisenhower administration when it was most needed.
Congress had a huge Anti-Ǒ̴̰̘̲̭̿͑̒̒͐̀̋̕͜r̷̡͍̼̹̥̻͖̤̅͑͌̋͌͗b̶̡̛͈̺̬͙̰̙͖̘͔̳̲̦̦͖̄͆̃͂͆͠ caucas after WWII. It’s a miracle we got the Ǒ̴̰̘̲̭̿͑̒̒͐̀̋̕͜r̷̡͍̼̹̥̻͖̤̅͑͌̋͌͗b̶̡̛͈̺̬͙̰̙͖̘͔̳̲̦̦͖̄͆̃͂͆͠s we did.
Would be a far better use of the ‘defense’ budget than what they’re currently spending it on.
