Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

[Soen Eber]

Trippy and beautiful. Full Screen mode recommended.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Electric-vehicle fires have burned down homes after Hurricane Ian saltwater damage. Florida officials want answers (msn.com)

Test results specific to saltwater submersion show that salt bridges can form within the battery pack and provide a path for short circuit and self-heating. This can lead to fire ignition. As with other forms of battery degradation, the time period for this transition from self-heating to fire ignition can vary greatly.

It may be helpful for persons who are not involved in immediate lifesaving missions to identify flooded vehicles with lithium-ion batteries and move them at least 50 feet from any structures, vehicles, or combustibles.

 

[Govi]

Trippy and beautiful. Full Screen mode recommended.

A lot of people who would be living under those suckers are gonna be very unhappy about their loss of sunlight for large parts of the day.

 

[Beebo Brink]

A lot of people who would be living under those suckers are gonna be very unhappy about their loss of sunlight for large parts of the day.

That's the least of the problems. It's gorgeous, no argument there, but it's astoundingly impractical.

First off, no one is going to spend the tremendous costs of building these areas just to set up a park. Even after the initial construction, the energy expenditure to haul up that much sod, or even just to pump water up that high, would be mind-blowing. In fact, it's hard to think of ANY use case that would justify the cost and effort to build this, no matter how lovely the concept.

But once you get beyond that hurdle, what could possibly go wrong? Well, the energy cost of getting people up to that height -- presumably just to wander around in a park -- is also staggering. That's an ongoing cost. You'll need a security force too, otherwise you're just creating an elevated platform for muggings and rape. Oh, and some really messy suicides. You're going to need serious security fencing to keep people from jumping off.... or dropping a penny "just to see what happens."

Restrooms? Restaurants? More overhead cost for construction. The price of a sandwich would be prohibitive, as would the cost of taking a pee.

Everything seems so placid and calm, but aren't winds pretty strong up at that elevation? How well would it weather a thunderstorm? Or a tornado? Or an earthquake? Or what if there's a fire due to arson or a lightning strike? Who is going to fight it? How do they fight that fire when water has to be pumped that high and the fire itself has short circuited the power station?

If the power goes out, or the elevators breakdown, now what? Will there be parachutes available for people to get back to the ground?

 

[Free]

You'll need a security force too, otherwise you're just creating an elevated platform for muggings and rape. Oh, and some really messy suicides.

Movie concept: The Purge - Futurescape!

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I'm worried about the mechanical strength of materials in tension when they're supported at one end in a petal that reaches over multiple city blocks.

 

[Beebo Brink]

I'm worried about the mechanical strength of materials in tension when they're supported at one end in a petal that reaches over multiple city blocks.

How would you even build such a feature? It's not like you have cranes that could lift pieces into place. How would you get the individual sections up that high, then place them? And what holds the structures together before they're joined to the others?

And if there was any failure during construction, they would be raining down heavy materials on the people and buildings below.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

How would you even build such a feature? It's not like you have cranes that could lift pieces into place. How would you get the individual sections up that high, then place them? And what holds the structures together before they're joined to the others?

They'd probably have to use similar techniques to skyscrapers with cranes attached to the building and moving up as they go. And everything else you said would have to be taken into account. Water systems in regular skyscrapers are themselves special considerations, I can't even imagine what they'd have to do for these things. I don't see any water collection systems, tanks, or even helipads for copters. And they'd need cargo elevators during AND after building just to ferry up supplies.

And if there was any failure during construction, they would be raining down heavy materials on the people and buildings below.

Or raining people if there were construction accidents involving people. It would be MUCH better to build these at ground level and incorporate them into a really fancy World's Fair type park. But considering how long it's been since the last World's Fair....

 

[Spirits Rising]

Welcome to Midgar ....

 

[Monica Dream]

I have 64G in both of my towers (Mac and Wintendo).

Open a hundred Chrome windows, you'll hit swap pretty soon.

but then I'd be using Chrome...

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

People see the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and don't notice that it's built across three hefty towers and only one end is cantilevered and at least half of that is open space with no structures or gardens.

Also, it wasn't built over an operating city. They owned all the land below.

Also, we haven't invented tractor beams yet.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

A lot of people who would be living under those suckers are gonna be very unhappy about their loss of sunlight for large parts of the day.

Welcome to Midgar ....

That's what I was thinking, that Pizza blocking all the sun from below in Sector 7. ;-)

 

[Soen Eber]

It is still utterly beautiful, even if totally unfeasible. Which was my point

 

[Knutz Scorpio]

Stuff of science fiction

 

[Noodles]

You know how they say you can never have enough RAM?
I put 40gb of ram in my new computer; I have no idea W.T.F. to even do with 40gb

My other hobby is virtualization; I guess make a couple of computers the size of my old pc?

/vent

I have 40 as well.

24gb in one computer, and 16 in another.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Free]

Someone just paid over $39,000 for a 15-year-old iPhone—more than 50 times its original price

Bidding started at $2,500, but five figure offers for the factory-sealed iPhone soon followed.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Noodles]

Before I had a Smartphone I had a Palm LifeDrive and its big selling point was it had a small 4GB hard drive in it.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Oh please.