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Anon finds a plot hole (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] Kenny2999@lemmy.world 131 points 2 months ago
[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 39 points 2 months ago
[-] xkbx@startrek.website 24 points 2 months ago
[-] petersr@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Is this the hyperloop they talk about?

[-] wabasso@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago

I’m laughing at both the mental images of the horses being shunted through the hyper loop at high speed, or them being the motive force to pull passengers through.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

That's at least 18 horsepower!

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago

So basically these planes run on horsepower, where as hamster power runs the on-prem machines at work.

Starting to make sense.

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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 92 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

> setting has bikes and trains

> still using cars as main form of transportation

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 months ago

Cars are much more advanced tech than bikes. Hell we have partly self driving electric cars now. That's some sci-fi shit

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

huh, now i want to slap some sensors on my ebike so it can do ACC

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[-] jaykrown@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago

It takes time to come to the realization that a lot of what we do is inefficient because that's just what people are used to doing. Some towns survive solely due to coal mining, and they see it as an existential threat if it were shut down. Nuclear power also takes very knowledgeable individuals, years of planning, and many resources to get started. Coal is cheap, dirty, and primitive.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago
[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Use hydrogen for that (using coal creates 1.5 tons CO² per ton steel). Green steel needs no phosphor and sulfur too, making it stronger.

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[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 42 points 2 months ago

I feel like it would be much more effort to tame a flying creature or magic, with the latter often being displayed as a life-long commitment.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

At the very least, building a fence to keep in a Pegasus seems like MUCH more work

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Except high-magitech worlds of course.

[-] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

And it would be especially hard to feed those things. Can you imagine how much a magical creature eats? They use a lot of energy. Much more than a horse would normally

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[-] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yahtzee's book Will Save the Galaxy for Food actually covers this, in a sci-fi way. In the future, all transportation is done via Quantum Tunnelling, so guess what job suddenly became obsolete? Space pilots. Space pilots now only exist because people have nostalgia for the old days, reducing pilots to little more than tour guides and adventure holidays.

It's like in those MMOs where you can teleport basically anywhere, but you still have mounts and yes you can travel from one end of the map to the other on your horse, admiring the scenery, or you could just click the coordinates someone pasted into the chat to get to the world boss you're supposed to kill for the most optimum play... Lookin' at you, Guild Wars 2!

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[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Imagine a government so cartoonishly evil and/or stupid that it would develop nuclear technology, then use it to extract fossil fuels more profitably. No need, the USA tried.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ok, but in their defense the other idea was putting small nuclear reactors in everyone's car. Fallout didn't pluck that idea from the aether.

Nuclear Fracking has a ring to it though.

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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

You know I just realized I need to get a quick deployment and dedeployment windsurfing parachute to propel my bicycle when the wind is, well, normal here.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

quick deployment

Trivial

and dedeployment

Physically impossible

[-] Famko@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

So it averages out to being about average in difficulty then.

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[-] renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 months ago

has anon considered, that maybe, horses are just extremely fucking cool, and that is why?

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

World that has nuclear coal energy, but rides magical horses as the main transport.

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