Literally just build a bridge, you hyper-individualistic consumer-centric assholes.
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Submitted 1 year ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I think the idea here is people want to go out and enjoy the day. Not just walk across a bridge. Next time think before you comment. You sound rarted as fuck
Bosht@lemmy.world 1 year ago
rarted? If you’re going to insult someone at least spell check yourself, lmfao.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh no, the Groypers are here.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I do like how it has the sensibilities at the time. Being super dangerous to anyone who uses it.
rational_lib@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now I’m wondering why we don’t attach giant balloons to ships to reduce water resistance by cutting down how much of the ship needs to be underwater. Perhaps it’s because you would need more size for the balloon, and maybe the air resistance and water resistance needs to even out due to physical laws and such?
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Sounds like you’re vaguely describing a ground effect vehicle, basically a plane which coasts along the water. They’re more efficient than actually flying due to exploiting the ground effect on the lift surfaces, but ultimately it’s closer to a plane than a boat
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Any amount of water contact introduces a fair amount of drag. There may be an ideal point somewhere in the middle, but I think if you take this to it’s natural conclusion you get a zeppelin.
I did a little bit of math and I think that to lift the payload capacity (including fuel and crew) of a modern day Panama canal ship you would need about a tenth of the peak U.S. helium reserve (a cube about half a kilometer long on each edge, about 1.3x longer than the long dimension of the ship)
I don’t think you’d get the best fuel efficiency going upwind lol
Anything smaller would come with proportionally less downsides and at least proportionally less benefits. I doubt it could ever be a net positive in any useful metric.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Hydrogen for sure. Partial lift for a boat has a lot of applications. Much more cargo than an airship, with no complications in flying empty. A fairly flat triangular “balloon” can be used as a solar platform, a sail, and be put in neutral wind mode down to the deck.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The boat already floats. What is the point of making it lighter?
If it should fly then get a Zepplin
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I’m glad we got ubiquitous smartphones instead of only rich people having flying cars.
Still, I’m promoting way, way more punk in our cyberpunk.
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
The rich do have flying cars. They just call them private jets. The rich own mansions (huge houses) all over the world, private islands, mega yachts that contain smaller yachts, their own submarines, and now they even have their own rocket ships
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Yeah, but the police don’t hover over us in Spinners as in Bladerunner. They still have to chopper from helipad to airport and ride off in air traffic, so less in our faces.
Their superfluous greenhouse emissions fit the cyberpunk vibe though.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I feel ripped off yet again!
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fucking horse in the background 💀
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, it’s just a water-walking horse.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A Balloon Supported Water Walking Horse…BSWWH for short. Pronounced bsh!
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The two Jesuses in the background don’t have balloons!
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’re on a carriage that’s like pontooned at the bottom, being pulled by the horse and driver who each have their own balloons.
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Back right?
I see two in the back left and two more in the back middle without balloons. The two in the back right are the carriage passengers.
chaitae3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Deutscher Kakao” 🤡
“German cocoa”
samuelazers@lemmy.world 1 year ago
german caco gives you wings
NoXPhasma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Funny that you say that, they actually sold “Scho-Ka-Kola” (Cho-Ca-Cola) from 1935, which was chocolate with coffein.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Not sure how they are walking and not just splashing in place.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
If we had spent the time working on the real problems, this would have already been solved.
Maalus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And you don’t have an issue with the carriage, with three people on it, where the only balloon is on the horse?
Whoever made this was an artist and sucked at physics
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
The carriage could be on a barge and is just being pulled by the horse. How is the horse getting traction? And why is that man using a cane on water! The small balloons could just be artistic license for the drawing.
angrystego@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d be ok with splashing. I want this!
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 year ago
Somehow that weird paddle cycle is bouyant without a balloon.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Or what an AI in the 2020s thought people in the 1900s would think life would be like in the year 2000
j0hax@feddit.org 1 year ago
This one isn’t AI, I remember seeing this image on the internet 10 years ago.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
in that case people in the 1900s were very good at predicting what AI images would look like
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Forget the balloons. I want that water treadmill bike!
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When you have the chance to ride a water horse? Forget it.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 year ago
I’m pretty sure they actually exist
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 year ago
I’ve seen bicycle paddle boats; where can I find a unicycle paddle boat?
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
millicycle
MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 year ago
I love that the balloons are far too small. Like they didn’t understand the elements and buoyancy well enough to know the balloons have to be much larger. Not like we have negative mass particles.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I want to see how that cane works.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 year ago
That it they were positive the future would, uhm, find a way.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Superheated hydrogen in a monomolecular unbreakable balloon.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The theoretical best lift from a balloon that size is about 1 kg I would estimate
superkret@feddit.org 1 year ago
What measure of scientic accuracy do you expect from a chocolate wrapper?
MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 year ago
I did not know this was on a candy wrapper…
That does make it better.
Noobnarski@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m pretty sure scientists back then could have told you that these balloons are too small. The person(s) who drew that picture most likely wasn’t a scientist, which is why it looks how it looks.
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe they thought we’d have discovered/created new elements by now that could do this.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I like the fact that a horse and boat thing has the same size balloon as a person.
wizzor@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Obviously they were assuming balloons were filled with supervacuum. We have had 100 years and not invented even that.
Truly we have failed our ancestors.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 year ago
Super vacuum! That will do it.
sroos@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Well, I guess they figured it’d take another 100 years to calculate that correctly, so they just winged it for the picture.
Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They just thought they’d do everything they did back then, but on water?.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They just thought they’d do everything they did back then, but with balloons. They could already walk on water back then.
coffeetastesbadlikecoffee@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Fuck being able to buy a house or afford rent, people need mini blimps! (Right, it’s not just me?)
YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
There are two people water-walking without balloons behind the two women on the left. Time travelers? Aliens? The JFK assassins? We deserve the truth!
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I meam, we did get water skiing and stuff like that.
uservoid1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So, they did predict the water rising.
nectar45@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I actually went to that timeline! And its more complex than you think because well yes, there technology is far cooler and more whimsical, abd yes there world is more socialistic, has more free time, better prices and less of a late stage capitalism nightmare…
But you should just see how many racial slurs those people used just this morning and half of those women cant vote and have polio.
Also I am pretty sure left-handed people got hunted to extinction for some reason
Timeline hopping is a mixed bag
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
nectar45@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Lol yeah!
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I understand why you didn’t stay in that one, but why the hell would you come back to this timeline??
nectar45@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Well I went to a timeline where Reddit managed to organize a nuclear attack against Russia and it backfired HARD, a timeline where we never moved on from the 90s which sounds awesome and it was but the uncriticized ultra-consumption of those times eventually laid waste to the world, a world where JK Rowling succeded at making TERFs the mainstream feminism wave, a timeline where X is the ONLY major website left in the world and its as awful as it sounds, a timeline where being a CIS man was illegal, a timeline where Musk is president, a timeline where sentient sex-robots and a timeline where the soviet union defeated the United States during the cold war so “President” Putin is the most powerful man in the world.
So yeah…I think there is a problem with my dimensional hopper, it only sends me to “dark” timelines
JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee 1 year ago
We do have the technology for this… right?
Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 1 year ago
There’s an episode of Nathan For You where he uses giant balloons to help someone who weighed too much to ride a horse normally. Great show
Saltycracker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They were very into helium and balloons