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  • JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We do have the technology for this… right?

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hot air balloon pilot here: We do, indeed.

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      • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        This is the coolest shit I’ve seen all month. Just when you think the world is running out of interesting ideas, you come across something like this and realize you will never see it all.

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Already nightmare fuel even with just the basket. But THAT is just foolishness. Pardon my language.

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      • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The pilot straps a propane tank to his back

        And if you’re willing to do that you’re sent to nearest psychiatrist, right?

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    • Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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    • tux7350@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Windsurfing? 🏄‍♀️

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      • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Or kitesurfing

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fucking horse in the background 💀

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    • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No, it’s just a water-walking horse.

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      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        A Balloon Supported Water Walking Horse…BSWWH for short. Pronounced bsh!

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  • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Forget the balloons. I want that water treadmill bike!

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      millicycle

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    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      When you have the chance to ride a water horse? Forget it.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure they actually exist

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’ve seen bicycle paddle boats; where can I find a unicycle paddle boat?

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The two Jesuses in the background don’t have balloons!

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • wizzor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Super vacuum! That will do it.

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    • sroos@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, I guess they figured it’d take another 100 years to calculate that correctly, so they just winged it for the picture.

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    • Noobnarski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Maybe they thought we’d have discovered/created new elements by now that could do this.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I want to see how that cane works.

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    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Superheated hydrogen in a monomolecular unbreakable balloon.

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      • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The theoretical best lift from a balloon that size is about 1 kg I would estimate

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    • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What measure of scientic accuracy do you expect from a chocolate wrapper?

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      • MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I did not know this was on a candy wrapper…

        That does make it better.

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    • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I like the fact that a horse and boat thing has the same size balloon as a person.

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That it they were positive the future would, uhm, find a way.

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  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not sure how they are walking and not just splashing in place.

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    • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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      • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If we had spent the time working on the real problems, this would have already been solved.

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’d be ok with splashing. I want this!

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      • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Somehow that weird paddle cycle is bouyant without a balloon.

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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      • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • frog_brawler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I feel ripped off yet again!

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  • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They just thought they’d do everything they did back then, but on water?.

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    • coffeetastesbadlikecoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fuck being able to buy a house or afford rent, people need mini blimps! (Right, it’s not just me?)

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They just thought they’d do everything they did back then, but with balloons. They could already walk on water back then.

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  • YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!

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  • nectar45@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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    • salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I understand why you didn’t stay in that one, but why the hell would you come back to this timeline??

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      • nectar45@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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      • match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Back? They’re just passing through

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      1000019110

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      • nectar45@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Lol yeah!

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  • chaitae3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Deutscher Kakao” 🤡

    “German cocoa”

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    • samuelazers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      german caco gives you wings

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      • NoXPhasma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Funny that you say that, they actually sold “Scho-Ka-Kola” (Cho-Ca-Cola) from 1935, which was chocolate with coffein.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Literally just build a bridge, you hyper-individualistic consumer-centric assholes.

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    • Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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      • Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        rarted? If you’re going to insult someone at least spell check yourself, lmfao.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh no, the Groypers are here.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We got much better things though.

    Image

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    • wonderfulvoltaire@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Requires disposable income :(

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Balloons and watercycles wouldn’t?

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  • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I do like how it has the sensibilities at the time. Being super dangerous to anyone who uses it.

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  • Saltycracker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They were very into helium and balloons

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or what an AI in the 2020s thought people in the 1900s would think life would be like in the year 2000

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    • j0hax@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This one isn’t AI, I remember seeing this image on the internet 10 years ago.

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      • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        in that case people in the 1900s were very good at predicting what AI images would look like

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    • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I doubt AI can replicate that German calligraphy

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      • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        could’ve been added later

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  • rational_lib@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?

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    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The boat already floats. What is the point of making it lighter?

      If it should fly then get a Zepplin

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    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I meam, we did get water skiing and stuff like that.

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  • uservoid1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So, they did predict the water rising.

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