How long will the Great Lakes last?

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At the current rate of sediment accumulation in lake Erie, it would accumulate enough fine grained material to fill its volume in less than 70,000 years.

This assumes a lot i.e that we wouldnt dredge material, that something else doesnt wipe them out first etc.

nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Until they become the Alright Lakes.

nis@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

This is askscience. We need a standardized scale for this.

Great should obviosly be near the top. But is Ok above or below Alright?

nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Point taken. I'd suggest something along the lines of this scale:

great > good > alright > ok > adequate > meh > fair > subpar > unfortunate > abysmal

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h3mlocke@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

So you mean like if the ocean dissapears?

Last?

Are they going away?

I mean most things do eventually

AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 2y (7 replies)

slazer2au@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 2y (6 replies)

Seconds? Years? Decades? Meters? AU?

Care to give a unit?

MisterChief@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

It's a joke. It's a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where the answer to the ultimate question is 42. It's designed to not make sense.

slazer2au@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Yep. Which is why I said time and distance units.

Well woosh on me.

The unit is 42

slazer2au@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Oh, the unit is the universe.

And the number too, much more efficient