with portals you’d be better off with gears, a very heavy flat metal gear (lol) falling and turning 2 or 4 circular gears
I would instead flood the portal chamber, and affix a turbine above/below each side of it. The pressure of this recursive water column would far exceed the gravity exerted on your fallingrack-and-pinion.
Not only would I be guaranteed the greatest possible throughput due to the use of a fluid (while a solid metal gear demands some space to avoid collision), but a water turbine also has the advantage of cooling, while your poor pinion would probably wear down or overheat.
my theory is that the britisch empire takes over the world, maeks genocide big time and eats chips and fish
Frank can suck it. There’s a reason we evolved to become the only sentient species here.
I would love to hear about that reason. Care to elaborate?
It’s cockiness like this that will be the downfall of mankind.
If you (Pyro) really think we’re the only sentient species on earth, maybe you should look up the word sentient.
Mankind has sapience, and with that, we’ve managed to overcome our other flaws like burdensome reproduction and a lack of specialization making us great at whatever we’d be doing.
What we’re doing is thinking. Other specialization would leave us vulnerable to a lack of prey, or a lack of roots to chomp, or vulnerable to some new species. But we can handle those things. In fact, we’ve been the extinction of others - - not something to be proud of, but something to take note of… we’re adept at persisting even if we can’t exercise restraint as a whole.
(It is said that Neanderthals, built for bursts of ambush and stocky confrontations, were vulnerable to our predecessors due to our narrower hips and ability to run much longer distances.)
Since our specialization is thinking up new advantages, we have the ability to be omnivores. We have the ability to cultivate land. We have the ability to climb trees or dig shelters, and in general to craft defenses. We have the ability to restrain from reproducing in times of shortage (if you ignore religious fanatics). If there is a catastrophic event in which any macroscopic life on earth survives, at least a million individuals of our species will have the proper answer to surviving it.
Yea, I think what sucks is, the majority of us will die in the upcoming wars etc, but some of us wont, and so humanity will continue but we wont be around to see it.
Its sort of frustrating, but then again to live in such a state of wealth and consumption as we do now is a luxury mankind wont have again for centuries.
We are living in the first golden age of humanity, with the second only attainable after the near extinction of our species. I really, really wish I could trap myself somewhere in stasis and observe the next few centuries, but for now I will have to be content with my imagination.
A golden age for humanity? What planet do you live on?
Compared to what could be, this is indeed a golden age.
That is not to say that the age cannot get better, of course it can. We have all read enough science fiction to know that much.
However, we must appreciate what we have right now. Humanity has never been this technologically or socially advanced, and it could all be gone in an instant.
So, to reiterate, our golden age is happening as we speak. Take a look outside. You think having all those cars on the road is sustainable? Go back to your computer. You think that amazing symphony of science in a box is an accident?
This age may continue to be golden for centuries, or it may be ground into mud and dust due to war and ignorance. Do not take it for granted.
^ above video is awesome.
Also, if you guys want to help the human race to rebuild after something shitty happens, one small but awesome thing you can do is transfer as much useful data as you can
(entire ecyclopedias, how to manuals [especially about practical things like metallurgy, building solar panels etc] research databases, and other information that might be important)
and pack it into small external hard drives, archival cdroms, flash memory, etc, and then lock it somewhere secure and fireproof, like a safe or welded insulated capsule. They still need something to read it of course, so throw in an old laptop or netbook for even greater amounts of win.
The more “backups” we have out there of human knowledge, the better chance there will be of our species bouncing back from any possible catastrophe. Just a little bit of insurance on top of the already decent chance that our science and tech will be recoverable.
Meanwhile you’re ignoring that only about 5% of the world even has access to these kinds of technology.
And socially advanced? Are you kidding me? Most of the world is distinctly unadvanced socially. The Western world (and some other parts) != the whole of humanity.
Most of the world lives in poverty and misery, and is subject to inequity and suppression. Just because we are some of the lucky few doesn’t mean humanity is in a golden age.
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