“We expected that they fly around each other and they never have physical contact,” Hristov said. “We have found, shocking to us, that bats crash into each other quite often. It’s a messy situation, but generally it’s very safe and it works very well.”
Why aren't we doing this
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WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 months ago
untorquer@quokk.au 2 months ago
This implies a ideal gas law for bats, an ideal bat law, bat liquid, bat solid, and bat plasma
kunaltyagi@programming.dev 2 months ago
Cricket might know a thing or two about the bat law
brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
In the US, only 33 cars for 50 people is optimistic
Doom@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Vampire propaganda.
CelloMike@lemmy.world 2 months ago
MoffKalast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t recall this version of Batman but I’m all for it.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
What we do in the shadows tv show
ickplant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have a better question - why isn’t this posted in the !bats@lemmy.world community? We would love it here. Stealing and crossposting now.
RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 2 months ago
I simply wasn’t aware of the community, I’ll remember it next time
ickplant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s definitely a much smaller community than lemmyshitpost, but we love anything bat-related!
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The 50 pedestrians vs 50 people in a bus is messing with my brain.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Yeah they must really be crammed in there.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Double decker?
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 2 months ago
A single-story coach has seats for about 50 people. Low-floor city busses a little less, but you can get 50 in there with people standing
Dicska@lemmy.world 2 months ago
50 pedestrians the way they prefer it. A bus with 50 people on board, where everyone is in each other’s personal space.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
that’s gonna be one hell of a smush in the cage match
wieson@feddit.org 2 months ago
The pedestrians are just standing further apart. In the hustle and bustle of a shopping street they might be closer together.
moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So a bus is more space efficient than pedestrians?
kapulsa@feddit.org 2 months ago
Often times, yes. Because sitting/standing requires less space than walking and that makes up for the extra space of the bus.
moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I guess walking is like humans being in a gas state, and riding a bus is humans arranging themselves into a solid. But idk what liquid humans would be lol
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They can hook up little butt fans to the seats so when you fart they can whisk away your flatus rather than making everyone fester in your stank. I mean they don’t but they can. Like how they do for astronaut ass
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
If we ever run out of room for humans to walk around I think we’re cooked busses or not.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yeah, fuck busses. Bats are way more eco friendly.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
you can make them eat other bugs too it’s so eco friendly
sundray@lemmus.org 2 months ago
The nice part about riding the bus is you can kick back, relax, and smoke a ton of weed while you travel.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Just like the driver!
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’s more efficient to stack pedestrians on top of each other.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wasn’t there a horror movie about that?
baatliwala@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This post brought to you by Corona gang
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
By beer?
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Where do I invest?
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Squeak at the sky after dark and some guys will show up.
dumbass@piefed.social 2 months ago
Imagine the amount of mosquitoes you could fit.
ickplant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine the amount of mosquitos you could fit if they were inside in the bats’ bellies! They eat like their weight in bugs every night.
dumbass@piefed.social 2 months ago
Yeah but you have that wasted space where all the bats flesh and bones are, that could be used to fill with more mosquitoes.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What if, to save space over cars but keep the personal comfort, everyone had their own hiding place with entrance hidden by brick and rubble?
human@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
People could lay vertically in there hiding pods stacked on each other and we could put wheels on the bottom like those big baking sheet racks in commercial kitchens. But then we would need someone to push them…cue the bats.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You will certainly not regret having 150,000 bats.
1984@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Because its awful to go on public transport. Are you kidding me? You dont understand why people like cars?
For the same reason people like their own apartment or their own house. Other people are awful to be around.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What if…WHAT IF public transport is funded and improved upon?
1984@lemmy.today 2 months ago
It will have other people.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Things are bad? Just make things good. Taht
Objection@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Driving requires you to be constantly alert, and if you screw up or don’t react fast enough, you can straight up die because of it. On a bus, you can be on your phone, read a book, take a nap, whatever. Driving is a much worse experience and even if public transit takes more time, that’s time that can be used doing things. That’s before factoring the cost (the car itself, gas, insurance), the environmental impact, parking, etc.
1984@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Sounds like you like the bus, thats great. Good for you.
Jiral@lemmy.org 2 months ago
I guess that must be why living in Vienna gives you such a terribly low quality of life, as more trips are done by PT than by car and half the people don’t even own a car (most of them could easily afford one), compared to for example Fake London in Canada.
1984@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I dont live in Vienna. There are actually other countries in the world and life is quite different depending on where you live. Thats why people dont have just one opinion about there things.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
smelling bad
look who thinks their shit don’t smell
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And now the traffic report:
“I’m over Ventura Blvd., and all the vampires walking in the Valley are heading west.”
JayDee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those humans are quite large.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Much larger than bats.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
really? only 150 bats? are these fruit bats or fat american vampire bats. i would like to speak to mathematic’s manager please.
myotheraccount@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s 150 thousand bats
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
are these american thousands or are these weird european thousands with extra zeroes like their weird millions and billions tho. they have been getting sneaky beaky with their numbers, the way they count things all discrete like.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How do I turn into a swarm of bats?
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Love this
Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
Do they all want to go to the same place?
And, cannot the bats fly? Surely there could be far many more.
Speaking of flying, lets just have spaceships for everybody.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Does it need to be a full-size bat, or can it be one of those mini replica bats? I bet you could fit at least twice as many of those bats.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also, replace pedestrians with buses
Or… get way closer together… way… way closer… 😏
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
zxqwas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The bats go dormant during winter. We got about 6 months of that.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And after that - all bats are off.
Bieren@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Replace people with bats!
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com 2 months ago
How many wolves to bats?
JelleWho@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why aren’t we doing this? I personally haven’t found the option to turn into a bat yet
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Literally the only issue with the plan
Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ethicists was too preoccupied with whether or not they should, they didn’t stop and think if they could.
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Have you tried becoming a vampire?
untorquer@quokk.au 2 months ago
Think of how long it would take to count that high