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Comment Re:1 to 1 delivery? (Score 3, Interesting) 86

I fail to see how one massive drone delivering one package at a time is sustainable at all, only to avoid paying humans. Also, imagine dozens of drones buzzing over the neighborhood. It would be incredibly annoying.

It’s been in literature the plan with this approach is to automate autonomous delivery trucks that serve as primary cargo transport, data hub, and recharging station. That way the van just makes periodic stops with the drones solving the last block problem. I don’t know if they will use that approach anytime soon though.

Comment Re:interesting but (Score 1) 51

Another and oft overlooked problem is that nearly all strong scents are mild to powerful drugs that affect all kinds of bodily functions commonly being anti inflammatory like aspirin or ibuprofen. People say vaping is dangerous for your health but then scent emitters are advertised as plug one in every room and two in bathrooms where you breathe them for a majority of your lifespan. It’s true the quantity is much lower per breath, but people who vape go through about the same or far less actual fluid and the mechanism for aerosolizing is identical as they both use a batting to get the oil to flow and increase surface area while a heated coil does the vaporizing. Many people have sensitivities including life threatening ones but these bio active chemicals are stuffed in everything from laundry detergent to perfume products to body products and incense likely has the strongest exposure risk. People tend think of that sensitivity as a random bizarre reaction to something inert and not an adverse reaction to being drugged against their will. At least after all the deaths and hospitalizations they are now required to put that on air fresheners.

Comment Re:Playing with things we dont understand (Score 1) 51

The half life of uranium isotopes are on the order of 10^6 to 10^9 years while the half life of radium isotopes are on the order of 10^1 to 10^3 years making radium thousands to billions of times worse, plus it’s hard to get specks of uranium or any solid into the body while you will breathe radium gas easily. Radium is so very very much worse than uranium for radiation.

Comment Re:How? (Score 2) 151

V2H still isn’t able to be commonly installed for most regions in most vehicles. However, last year we had an extended outage of two days and my EV was at about 50% charge. It has V2L (vehicle to load) standard and I just ran an extension cord to several refrigerators and a chest freezer, used it for lighting, charging phones, powering my router and modem, the gas oven/stove, and still drove it (after unplugging) and it was awesome. Saved hundreds of dollars in groceries from spoiling and kept us entertained and comfortable.

Comment Re:How? (Score 1) 151

You could mine Bitcoin, I suppose, but the obvious thing to do would be charge up your EV. Energy storage on wheels!

This is a good argument to move from a level 1 or slow level 2 charger to a high power level 2 charger. You can reasonably get a 11.5kW charger in the US, our slow chargers are usually around 1.8kW. While Europe has 2.3-3kw and go to 11 or even 22kW if your home has 3 phase power. If your vehicle can support it you will be able to get over 7x the free electricity and perhaps full charges for free.

Comment Re:The volume of ads (Score 0) 152

And turn down the volume of the ads. Last time I went to the cinema I damn near walked out because the ads were downright deafening - louder that the movie soundtrack. Paying to see a movie is one thing but I strongly object to having to pay to watch a bunch of adverts.

Maybe they can make up for it by dramatically raising prices both of the movie and concessions. /s

Comment Re:Next they will outlaw printing Disney charactor (Score 1) 139

Soon any copyrighted shape.

If not sooner any part for any intellectual property of any design of any kind. It really gets under the skins of companies when instead of being forced to buy a cheap plastic part for hundreds of dollars you can just print it for a few dollars of filament.

Comment Re:Politicians thinking they define reality (Score 1) 139

None of that refutes the argument the hardest component to make and the one most integral to a gun and the one that can’t be made on a plastic printer is the barrel. With a 3-D printed receiver that’s also stupid simple to make with hand tools you just buy a proper barrel just like about every single last 3-D design thats out there. The big mistake was to think the receiver was the hardest part to make when it never was. You can make a simple hole with a hand drill and use a simple adjustable reamer to at least get pressure which would work on a hand gun at under 10 feet, which completely negates the idea of fear mongering and trying to make plastic printing replacement parts for anything illegal.

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