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Re:The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas by mcv on Monday August 07, 2017 @09:10AM (#14947207)
My comment was in jest, but if you want to take it seriously, it's not the tensile strength of water that matters, but that of the tube it's being pumped through. That would need to be the magically stronger than nanotubes material that we also need for a space elevator.

If you make the tube narrow enough, you might even take advantage of capillary action in some way.

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Re:The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas by jacquesm on Monday August 07, 2017 @09:23AM (#14947258)
Ah, I imagined you were going to run a pipe up the side of a mountain and shoot it out at very high velocity. (Never mind that most of it would flash to steam instantly on escaping the nozzle, and that the whole thing would have to be ridiculously strong.) Fun project though!
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Re:The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas by striking on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:44AM (#14947808)
Instead of using the Hyperloop for transportation, let's point it at the sky and fire water from it.
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Re:The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas by nealabq on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:59AM (#14948501)
Call it the Hyperloo. Say "have one on me!" with each flush.
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