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Sniep posted:ok what was the one that was a pair of balls in a cardboard box that were covered in some sort of explosive powder that you threw one up in the air and it landed on the other and make a loud crack sound? while back but those are rad, i should see if i can find some
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Thesoro posted:so these can you believe those so-called `engineers' haven't thought of just making maintenance free roads before? and it turns out that you can put cables underground, replacing the need for overhead and underground cables and build a narrow water conduit to channel a road length's worth of storm water i'm no road expert but this all rates high on my "if this worked people would already be doing it" scale
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so what you're saying is a two-person operation with plans to vastly improve all the world's transportation infrastructure with something they built in their shed might not know what the gently caress they're talking about
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May 25, 2014 00:36
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this one weird solar road trick big oil HATES good thing the their flex-funded campaign for will get the 800k pledged so far!
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May 25, 2014 00:40
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DID YOU KNOW: -that this bigass list of companies acknowledged our work but didn't invest in the technology? now you know
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May 25, 2014 00:52
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hm yes lets build roads out of glass, this seems like a great and sustainable idea
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May 25, 2014 00:57
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:this one weird solar road trick big oil HATES
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suffix posted:can you believe those so-called `engineers' haven't thought of just making maintenance free roads before? well its the sort of thing where it works but theres no incentive at all to actually do it, as it doesn't provide much in the way of benefit and has a lot of downsides especially in terms of road repair
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May 25, 2014 01:05
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-flexible funding -husband and wife team -feature creep:  also to replace all roads in the us will cost 15 trillion dollars in solar panels alone
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May 25, 2014 01:08
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theflyingexecutive posted:-flexible funding national security?
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prefect posted:national security?
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the solar road concept would be more useful in the form of replacing/covering the sunward sides of elevated roadways and bridges with solar panels tbh
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May 25, 2014 01:21
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Install Windows posted:the solar road concept would be more useful in the form of replacing/covering the sunward sides of elevated roadways and bridges with solar panels tbh fishmech was right
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May 25, 2014 01:23
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theflyingexecutive posted:-flexible funding your idea is a basket of fruit
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May 25, 2014 01:51
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Install Windows posted:the solar road concept would be more useful in the form of replacing/covering the sunward sides of elevated roadways and bridges with solar panels tbh b b b b but that's not ~~disruptive~~ enough
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May 25, 2014 01:51
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also it will probably only cost a few hundred million instead of the entire gdp* *electronics and labor not included
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May 25, 2014 01:54
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I want to be the first guy on the road when they open the pilot street, and do a burnout throwing shards of the road into the couple / TV news crew doing the puff piece.
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May 25, 2014 02:09
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re: solar powered roads talk i can only think of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMY63FF3Q
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May 25, 2014 02:13
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Sniep posted:re: solar powered roads talk Brandon Golway 1 year ago That's a lovely idea...
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Thesoro posted:so these how do i back them with negative money
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May 25, 2014 02:29
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why doesn't it have free wifi too? i mean given all the other bullshit on the list this should be a tiny thing
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May 25, 2014 07:29
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i too often think that roads need to be make of material that's really slippery and how much this will improve safety
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Thesoro posted:so these i'm the green colored solar cells
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wait i got another one, i'm the leds that will definitely be visible in broad daylight through two inches of textured glass
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May 25, 2014 12:50
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i'm the glass surface which is frosted and opaque 1yr later because of the action of vehicles grinding dust into me
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May 25, 2014 13:08
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that is impressively stupid. of course it has nearly a million in backing.
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May 25, 2014 14:04
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oh god i just actually watched the video that texture on the glass is going to absolutely loving destroy tyres, make the road noisier than a loving cattle grid, and definitely be completely full of oil and road poo poo in minutes
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May 25, 2014 14:50
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prefect posted:national security? phase 2 is to build a satellite constellation that directs solar energy along the roadways to maximize efficiency 
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theflyingexecutive posted:wait i got another one, i'm the leds that will definitely be visible in broad daylight through two inches of textured glass i'm the "Artist's rendition of Taco Bell with Solar Road Panels" product-placement on their indiegogo page i'm also the massive theft of billions of dollars worth of public infrastructure protected by these foolproof "security covers" 
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:i'm also the massive theft of billions of dollars worth of public infrastructure protected by these foolproof "security covers" i'm the people who die because the panels come lose/are stolen, leaving exposed studs sticking out of the road that burst my tyres and send me spinning into oncoming traffic
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May 25, 2014 18:08
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i'm the power grid that will have to cope with the inconsistent power factor of a dirty road covered by moving shadows and bad optics
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May 25, 2014 18:21
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:i'm the "Artist's rendition of Taco Bell with Solar Road Panels" product-placement on their indiegogo page quote:These panels must be valuable. What's to keep people from stealing them for home use? i'm the solar panels with backup batteries and gps transmitters
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May 25, 2014 18:40
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additionally, i'm the actual road that will have to be built as foundation under the panels that will need to be maintained
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May 25, 2014 18:44
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:why doesn't it have free wifi too? i mean given all the other bullshit on the list this should be a tiny thing giving everybody in america free wifi would be much more cost effective
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Al! posted:giving everybody in america free wifi would be much more cost effective internet access is a U.N.-defined human right e: realized that formatting was actually significant to interpretation, there duTrieux. fucked around with this message at 18:57 on May 25, 2014 |
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May 25, 2014 18:50
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finland made internet access a right but then it turned out they considered expensive 1 megabit down satellite links to qualify for internet access
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lol https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1939723822/fish-on-wheels?ref=category https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbNmL6hSNKw
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here's lol for another far more shameful reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFipODZte9I
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Yodzilla posted:lol https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1939723822/fish-on-wheels?ref=category it's like some sort of mech...for a fish
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Yodzilla posted:here's lol for another far more shameful reason is this a pua video
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