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Hubble, just a couple years ago, observing Europa, saw plumes of water spraying from the cracks in the southern hemisphere, just exactly like Enceladus.
There were no cracks or edges to hold on to, just small ripples of texture up a slightly less than vertical wall.
And it’s not just big breaks that count: tiny cracks can be just as dangerous.
In this concrete, even small cracks can channel water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide that corrode the steel and lead to disastrous collapse.
When water enters these tiny cracks, it hydrates the concrete’s calcium oxide.
Unfortunately, these crystals can only do so much, healing cracks that are less than 0.3mm wide.
Material scientists have figured out how to heal cracks up to twice that size by adding hidden glue into the concrete mix.
But adhesive chemicals often behave very differently from concrete, and over time, these adhesives can lead to even worse cracks.
So perhaps the best way to heal large cracks is to give concrete the tools to help itself.
When cracks finally appear and water trickles into the concrete, the spores germinate, grow, and consume the nutrient soup that surrounds them, modifying their local environment to create the perfect conditions for calcium carbonate to grow.
These crystals gradually fill the gaps, and after roughly three weeks, the hard-working microbes can completely repair cracks up to almost 1mm wide.
When the cracks seal, the bacteria or fungi will make spores and go dormant once more— ready to start a new cycle of self-healing when cracks form again.
Without frames that allow us to see how social problems impact all the members of a targeted group, many will fall through the cracks of our movements, left to suffer in virtual isolation.
For me, the challenge that I faced was trying to figure out whether there was an alternative narrative, a prism that would allow us to see Emma's dilemma, a prism that would allow us to rescue her from the cracks in the law, that would allow judges to see her story.
And when that happens, things slow down, fall through the cracks and inefficiencies flourish.
It's so heavy, in fact, that when you breathe it in, whatever words you speak are kind of literally heavy as well, so they dribble down your chin and drop to the floor and soak into the cracks.
It screeches and cracks and pops and groans, as it collides and rubs when temperature or currents or winds change.
Like Leonard Cohen said, "There are cracks in everything, and that's how the light gets in."
Now all the cracks in my day were filled with phone time.
What if we reclaimed those cracks in our day?
You can imagine that the plants growing up like kelp through cracks in the ice, growing on the surface.
As it flows around bends, it deforms and cracks.
When cracks fill with water, the weight of the water forces them deeper and deeper.
Well, we recently discovered that there are cracks available in the Greenland ice sheet near this glacier aquifer.
You can fly over most of the Greenland ice sheet and see nothing, no cracks, no features on the surface, but as this helicopter flies towards the coast, the path that water would take on its quest to flow downhill, one crack appears, then another and another.
Are these cracks filled with liquid water?
In our case, what are the equations for how ice cracks?
Now, we can intervene to prevent divorce at two points: later, once the cracks begin to appear in an established relationship; or earlier, before we commit, before we have children.
Every given project, for me, is an opportunity to create more green cracks through this concrete jungle by using landscape architecture as a solution, like turning this concrete roof into an urban farm, which can help absorb rain; reduce urban heat island and grow food in the middle of the city; reuse the abandoned concrete structure to become a green pedestrian bridge; and another flood-proof park at Thammasat University, which nearly completes the biggest green roof on an academic campus yet in Southeast Asia.
And then we had some hint that these things existed all along the axis of it, because if you've got volcanism, water's going to get down from the sea into cracks in the sea floor, come in contact with magma, and come shooting out hot.
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