Booooooooooooooooooo! Booooooooooooooooooooooo!

  • Not_irony [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    There's an episode, and I'm dating myself here, of Dark Wing Duck, where he travels back in time and discovers the reason the dinosaurs went extinct was because they did everything backwards. Car phones were just phones with long cords. Roads were inflated rubber and tires were made of concrete.

    But, and here's my point, both rubber and concrete are stupid materials for wheels and vehicle support tracks. Rubber only last a couple of years and needs to be replaced all the time. Or you can get flats. A little bit of water and you hydroplane like an chump. Concrete? Freeze thaw cycle makes pot holes, shit covers the soil and blocks the rain from soaking into the ground, and even a third thing!

    Metal on metal. That's where it's at. Shit last forever. Takes up way less space, rain can fall right to the ground. Even better, no tires at all, and using magnetics to levitate.

    • QatariGuattari [any]
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      4 years ago

      and I’m dating myself here

      I spent like ten seconds trying to figure out if you were talking about some new kind of sexuality I wasn't yet aware of.

      • Abraxiel
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        4 years ago

        this is the future leftists want.

        (actually it's the future capitalists want, where there are no social bonds, even diads.)

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      How did the dinosaurs power their cars if the dinosaurs hadn't been turned into oil yet :soviet-hmm:

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Roads would inflated rubber and tires were made of concrete.

      Holy crap. Memories suddenly rushing back. 😵