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World ocean area is 361 million km2. We need 1467 feet or 447 meters of sea level rise, right? So a total of 1.6e20 liters or 161 million km3. The volume of the Moon is 21 billion km3, so too big. Rhea is about 233 million km3 (I think) so that would be more reasonable.

Rhea is only 1.272 billion km from Earth, totally doable I think. Anyone else want to go grab a rocket and put out a coal fire? I feel like it'd be eminently doable with some kind of Project Orion-style tactical blasts behind Rhea.

I see absolutely no way this could go wrong.




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