Sea Rise Simulator (2023)

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The Sea Rise Simulator is an interactive 3D map showing the effects of sea level rise on coastal areas, sparking discussions on climate change and data visualization.

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mostlysimilar

3 months ago

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> The daily access limit has been reached. Please try again after midnight Pacific Time (PT) tomorrow.

uptown

3 months ago

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Seems like we flooded the server.

the_sleaze_

3 months ago

Hacker News never fails to rise to the occasion

CalRobert

3 months ago

Which will get even harder as the Pacific grows.

ksherlock

3 months ago

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"Simulator"? Given the ungodly CPU usage this needs, I'd say it's directly responsible for the sea rise.

AndrewKemendo

3 months ago

That’s legitimately funny, but it’s kinda expected for that robust of a sim in browser.

ash_091

3 months ago

It's a "paperclips" situation.

Someone vibe coded this with the prompt "write a webapp which shows the effects of rising sea level as accurately as possible". The AI decided that the way to determine the outcome as accurately as possible was to simply cause the rising sea level and observe the result.

Razengan

3 months ago

The best simulator, showing it to you for real. What more do you want?

xela79

3 months ago

> Given the ungodly CPU usage this needs, I'd say it's directly responsible for the sea rise.

ah yes, the classical "the CPU usage the higher the sea level" saying...

AndrewKemendo

3 months ago

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For reference: Worst case estimates for 74 years from now (2100) is about 6 feet of rise for the US.

Average case is like 3 feet of rise.

https://earth.gov/sealevel/us/resources/2022-sea-level-rise-...

kridsdale1

3 months ago

So 1 to 1.5m

Gravityloss

3 months ago

Average might not be a good metric for these.

There can be glacier collapses in the Antarctic and each one could raise sea level significantly, and we don't know how long those take. West Antarctica for example would be 3 meters alone.

Someone should provide some summaries, as this is an important subject, I feel the communication is buried in a lot of technicalities.

https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/2013/01/antarcticas-contri...

elheffe80

3 months ago

This project does have the developers (nagix) API key in the code but you could clone it yourself:

https://github.com/nagix/sea-level-rise-3d-map

ge96

3 months ago

It's fun watching the render fidelity go up

sublinear

3 months ago

Gives an error toast: "The daily access limit has been reached. Please try again after midnight Pacific Time (PT) tomorrow."

alistairSH

3 months ago

Hug of death... was there something interesting to see there? 2023 - are the estimates hopelessly out of date (and not in the direction we'd want)?

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