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the big advantage of kites over sails is that you wouldn't need to have masts on the ship still a dumb loving idea though, for a hundred different reasons
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Jul 3, 2023 20:22
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Going back to sail cargo ship to move the few goods that really have any need to cross the ocean seems reasonable tbh. idk maybe im loving stupid but I dont think we really need to be moving as much garbage back and forth as we do.
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Jul 3, 2023 20:23
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maybe we should put sails on cars
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Jul 3, 2023 20:26
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SKULL.GIF posted:There's about 7 million millionaires in the USA. Let's say 1 in 40 have yachts of moderate size. That's 175,000 American yachts alone, all burning 100+ gallons/hour. Lol ah but like guns, your population based estimates will be off because people can have more than one yacht! quote:https://www.yatco.com/how-many-yachts-are-there-in-the-world/
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Jul 3, 2023 20:27
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Conscientious individual looking sadly at a partially-rotten bell pepper, considering the wasted effort and fuel going into growing and transporting this food, before placing it into the compost bin, while there are 592,000 yachts vrooming around this summer burning 100 to 250 gallons (or more) of gasoline fuel per hour
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Jul 3, 2023 20:31
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maybe we should put sails on bullets
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Jul 3, 2023 20:32
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sails are a great idea and there’s definitely nothing going wrong with the AMOC and stable trade winds lol
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Jul 3, 2023 20:37
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Stereotype posted:maybe we should put sails on cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ASeTHdlxn4
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Jul 3, 2023 20:44
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Stereotype posted:maybe we should put sails on cars has anyone considered the noble horse instead
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Jul 3, 2023 20:56
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cash crab posted:has anyone considered the noble horse instead despite what the name waterpolo implies, i dont think horses are good at swimming
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Jul 3, 2023 20:56
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celadon posted:despite what the name waterpolo implies, i dont think horses are good at swimming well why is there seahorses then
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Jul 3, 2023 21:07
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celadon posted:Arguably this makes coal more economical by allowing its co2 output to be sold lol jevons paradox strikes again
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Jul 3, 2023 21:09
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cash crab posted:well why is there seahorses then im somewhat convinced that theres a whole paraphyletic set of animals that were made by various fallen angels rather than god, seahorses/seadragons being part of that group
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Jul 3, 2023 21:12
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cash crab posted:has anyone considered the noble horse instead horse with sails
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Jul 3, 2023 21:14
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*thinking really hard* what if I chain up some slaves in my car and have them push the car along with oars that they stick out of the window
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Jul 3, 2023 21:18
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Perry Mason Jar posted:You can't avoid the flip flop bullshit, you fool! We arbitrarily divided some eras. The 1st century CE? That's 0-100AD. Simple. The 1st century BCE? Why, that's 100-1BCE, of course! We avoid this by going the mathematics route. The year 0 is neither CE nor BCE. It is 0 NCENBCE.
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Jul 3, 2023 21:26
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another reminder for everyone who hasn't  ed in this yetMicroplastics posted:Hello, can I interest you in a survey? So far I've got half as many responses as last time. C'mon people the sea is on fire <  >
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Jul 3, 2023 21:26
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Microplastics posted:another reminder for everyone who hasn't Microplastics posted:Good. I'm against growth
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Jul 3, 2023 21:34
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Just watched Lex Fridman, was blown away by his charisma, intellect, and vast knowledge on this topic. He said climate change will easily be conquered with human spirit and compassion, that we will continue making the world a better place and that we shall venture out and voyage the stars and expand our civilization for millions of years. What a charming and handsome young man. You guys should watch him and learn a thing or two
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Jul 3, 2023 21:35
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WaPo has a good article on the insane decline in firefly populations across the world: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/firefly-summer-extinction/
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Jul 3, 2023 21:35
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Soggy Muffin posted:Just watched Lex Fridman, was blown away by his charisma, intellect, and vast knowledge on this topic. He said climate change will easily be conquered with human spirit and compassion, that we will continue making the world a better place and that we shall venture out and voyage the stars and expand our civilization for millions of years. What a charming and handsome young man. You guys should watch him and learn a thing or two 
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Jul 3, 2023 21:37
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joe biden looking great
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Jul 3, 2023 21:38
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Soggy Muffin posted:Just watched Lex Fridman, was blown away by his charisma, intellect, and vast knowledge on this topic. He said climate change will easily be conquered with human spirit and compassion, that we will continue making the world a better place and that we shall venture out and voyage the stars and expand our civilization for millions of years. What a charming and handsome young man. You guys should watch him and learn a thing or two You're lying because you didn't say AI even once in this. The real Lex would explain how a vague synthetic intelligence would save us all through the power of technology. For your sins, Roko's Basilisk is coming to haunt you into being sectioned. Deus vult!
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Jul 3, 2023 21:39
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:joe biden looking great 
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Jul 3, 2023 21:41
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Soggy Muffin posted:Just watched Lex Fridman, was blown away by his charisma, intellect, and vast knowledge on this topic. He said climate change will easily be conquered with human spirit and compassion, that we will continue making the world a better place and that we shall venture out and voyage the stars and expand our civilization for millions of years. What a charming and handsome young man. You guys should watch him and learn a thing or two He should guest on Joe Rogan
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Jul 3, 2023 21:52
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fosborb posted:like, 500 year flood have a 0.2% chance of flooding on a given year. the 1 in 3 billion flood plane is... Pangaea, i guess? i think this may have to do with the three-sigma rule, whereby nearly all (99.7%) of observations in normal will fall within three standard deviations of the mean. so 6 siggies is even nearlier all
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Jul 3, 2023 21:54
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Stereotype posted:maybe we should put sails on cars you can even go faster than the wind!   
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Jul 3, 2023 22:03
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https://m.youtube.com/shorts/848oTyWj03s
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Jul 3, 2023 22:33
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maybe we should put sails on the forums???
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Jul 3, 2023 22:33
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where are we sailing
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Jul 3, 2023 22:46
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:where are we sailing Let's find one of those bars you can pull your boat up to
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Jul 3, 2023 22:50
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we're going to go get in the way of those oceancleanup plastic harvesting ships like greenpeace loving with whalers
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Jul 3, 2023 22:52
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okay, who told the billionaires that their reward in heaven for omnicide would be 27 new territories to ravage?
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Jul 3, 2023 22:58
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYNKW_w95lA An interesting video on how compatible sails are with modern freight shipping. tl;dr they work and can save 5-10% of fuel costs, but deck space is at a super premium and retrofit costs would fall on the ship's owner, not the people who charter the vessel. so, uptake's limited, because everyone just charters the ships that didn't install a big rotor or fin or whatever on their deck. Some of the tech he talks about we've had for literally 100 years already!
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Jul 3, 2023 23:15
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You fuckos didn't read the article i posted. The kite style sails can fit into a telephone booth sized area! They're going to revolutionize modern shipping! (You still need fuel but somewhat less, slightly!)
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Jul 3, 2023 23:39
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Perry Mason Jar posted:You fuckos didn't read the article i posted. The kite style sails can fit into a telephone booth sized area! They're going to revolutionize modern shipping! (You still need fuel but somewhat less, slightly!) 👏 use 👏 ponies
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Jul 3, 2023 23:58
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Perry Mason Jar posted:You fuckos didn't read the article i posted. The kite style sails can fit into a telephone booth sized area! They're going to revolutionize modern shipping! (You still need fuel but somewhat less, slightly!) I didn’t read the article. My favorite part was where they acknowledged that jevon’s paradox in this case would mean that ships just go faster instead of using less fuel. iirc, tankers could save a huge amount of fuel if they/ their customers were willing to reduce their speeds even slightly. fakeedit: “did” autocorrected to “didn’t,” lol
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Jul 4, 2023 00:59
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:Let's find one of those bars you can pull your boat up to look out for that sandbar!!!
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Jul 4, 2023 01:02
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Wow, you loving idiot doomers. You can't even read articles, can you? Here's another inspirational article for you to skim over: 'Wind Challenger': World's first partially wind-powered cargo ship successfully sailed - It is the first coal carrier to be powered by hard sail wind power propulsion technology (October 28, 2022) The company behind this idea has even predicted that this innovative new approach will help ships consume 5 percent less fuel (!) traveling between Australia and Japan with its full loads of coal.
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Jul 4, 2023 01:05
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We're saved!
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