Dumb things being crowdfunded.
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@boomzilla said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
But the deluxe version comes with a titanium straw, great for use in California!
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@JBert @boomzilla because the production of titanium is so eco-friendly. It's like lithium. No environmental damage there, no sirree!
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@Benjamin-Hall using chopsticks is ridiculous enough. At least the disposable wooden ones give you some friction to help you out. I've used metal chopsticks in restaurants (stainless steel, presumably) and they are much more difficult to use.
Anyways: IT'S THE 21ST CENTURY. USE A FORK.
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@boomzilla Chopsticks (held slightly apart) actually work great for beating eggs. Strange, but true.
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@boomzilla said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
But do they have lightning or USB?
https://www.easyacc.com/media-center/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/how-to-charge-apple-pencil-7.jpg
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
actually work great for beating eggs
Yes, officer, this is the child abuser right here...
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@boomzilla said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Benjamin-Hall using chopsticks is ridiculous enough. At least the disposable wooden ones give you some friction to help you out. I've used metal chopsticks in restaurants (stainless steel, presumably) and they are much more difficult to use.
Anyways: IT'S THE 21ST CENTURY. USE A FORK.
Was it a Korean restaurant? Korean chopsticks are metal, smooth, and flat for extra difficulty points. No friction, tiny grip surface, plus a good chance of just slicing through the morsel you're trying to pick up.
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@boomzilla said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Benjamin-Hall using chopsticks is ridiculous enough. At least the disposable wooden ones give you some friction to help you out. I've used metal chopsticks in restaurants (stainless steel, presumably) and they are much more difficult to use.
Or plastic, yes. Give me wood or bamboo.
Anyways: IT'S THE 21ST CENTURY. USE A FORK.
No.
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@MZH said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@boomzilla said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Benjamin-Hall using chopsticks is ridiculous enough. At least the disposable wooden ones give you some friction to help you out. I've used metal chopsticks in restaurants (stainless steel, presumably) and they are much more difficult to use.
Anyways: IT'S THE 21ST CENTURY. USE A FORK.
Was it a Korean restaurant? Korean chopsticks are metal, smooth, and flat for extra difficulty points. No friction, tiny grip surface, plus a good chance of just slicing through the morsel you're trying to pick up.
It was.
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@boomzilla If you use them frequently enough, it stops being an issue. It's kind of awful if you aren't used to it, though.
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@Magus sure, but why?
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@boomzilla Because you went to a Korean restaurant?
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@remi Exactly. The Koreans prefer to use metal for chopsticks, the Japanese are very keen on wood, and the Chinese would rather use ivory but will switch to plastic or (ugh!) wood at a pinch.
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@Magus said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@boomzilla If you use them frequently enough, it stops being an issue.
Like Git.
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@dkf said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@remi Exactly. The Koreans prefer to use metal for chopsticks, the Japanese are very keen on wood, and the Chinese would rather use ivory but will switch to plastic or (ugh!) wood at a pinch.
Please don't tell that to the Unicode Consortium.
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@remi said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@boomzilla Because you went to a Korean restaurant?
They wear suits and ties. They could use forks, too.
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@boomzilla Yeah, and also why don't they cook proper food like burgers and stuff, instead of their weird foreigner's things?
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@remi I now see that you are the enemy of progress.
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@Gąska
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@Gąska Unlike git, 3 weeks down the line there won't suddenly be something you have to spend 3 days through documentation to figure out to be able to keep doing a simple task like picking up rice.
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@Magus that's exactly what happens to me with Git. Except the reason isn't a new update, but Git having been broken all the time from the beginning, but it's only now that I need this particular function.
Edit: for some reason, I thought you were talking about Windows 10 updates, not Git. That's what I get for not checking the OP and relying on memory.
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@Jaloopa A lot of smoke and
mirrorslasers, but they never show even a hint of working mechanism.
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@Jaloopa Certainly looks slick.
Reminds me of those nvidia founder's edition cards or whatever.
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@Jaloopa said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chrislarosa/kirby-the-worlds-first-true-hoverbike/
The video showed a shitt-ily constructed frame that so happened to have a seat and handlebars on the top.
Fact. It's a frame for not-a-bike.
Fun fact: This project is in obvious violation of Kickstarter rule 2:
They do not have a prototype, and they only have renderings of not-a-hoverbike.
In fact...
Fuck this noise.
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Also, they apparently need less than the price of a single bike to go from an iron frame to production ready devices. The highest level of reward doesn't include a bike but it does have the opportunity to sit on the shitty prototype.
The bike starts hovering at 80mph, so you have to be speeding in most of the world to get to hovering. And they didn't even make it 88
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@Jaloopa said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chrislarosa/kirby-the-worlds-first-true-hoverbike/
Their FAQ contains an amazing amount of bullshit.
How does the vehicle hover?
Our superbike contains several flight engines and flight control surfaces alongside a traditional wheeled drivetrain.
Let's look at these "flight" engines and "flight" surfaces.
The only kinds of engines that make sense here are jets or ducted fans, both of which have intakes blocked by the rider's legs (or the turbine blades themselves could be blocked in the event of a slipped foot).
As for the flight surfaces, here's a picture of Yves Rossy, who built an actual jetpack system.
Notice the 8-foot-span wings on his back? He's got 360 pounds of force from his jet engines. Are the little flaps on the front of the "hover" bike going to do any lifting? Hell no.We expect the top speed to be between 300 and 500 miles per hour.
Because any normal human being can hold on to the bike with oncoming EF-5 tornado wind speeds.
For landing, the drivetrain will electronically sense the speed of the vehicle and 'prime' the wheels for landing.
Landing speed will also be at 300-500 mph, since there is no way that stubby flap of a wing is going to allow gliding at any reasonable speed.
Tangential question: what happens when the engine fails midflight?
Ooh, look! Physics!
In the future, we hope to add a 'levitation system' on its undercarriage which is fueled by cheap and reliable cryogenics. this will interact with our proprietary ground infrastructure, Broadway, when at a 'stop point' such stoplights or toll booths. This will fill in the support gaps when the vehicle is not moving and its body therefore cannot produce lift - to enable full hover. This is defined by no wheels needed at all from origin to destination.
So ... they're going to replace all roads with permanent magnets, and then have cryogenically cooled superconductors to hover via the Meissner effect? These people need to be stopped before they give the Solar Roadways people more ideas.
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Can I drive the vehicle off-road?
Yes! Not only does the vehicle incorporate a wheeled electric drivetrain, but it also contains several hover engines. These engines allow for flight anywhere there is air and are not affected by terrain.
Offroading at 80+ mph, what could possibly go wrong?
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@HardwareGeek said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Jaloopa A lot of smoke and
mirrorslasers, but they never show even a hint of working mechanism.What are you, a hater? They'll figure it out because technology is amazing and science is cool. Just give them the money!
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@blek obviously you get up to 80 on the road then fly to the off road location
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@Jaloopa said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@blek obviously you get up to 80 on the road then fly to the off road location
The HyperWelfare thread is
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@blek said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
Offroading at 80+ mph, what could possibly go wrong?
What do you mean 80mph? According to MZH it will be more along the line of offroading at 500mph.
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@cvi Yeah, that's supposed to be the top speed, but they're saying it lifts off at 80.
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@Jaloopa said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
The bike starts hovering at 80mph
That's not hovering.
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@blek said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@cvi Yeah, that's supposed to be the top speed, but they're saying it lifts off at 80.
The lift off at 80 is necessary so the flux capacitor can kick in at 88 with less energy spent differentiating the vehicle from the road, this requiring only 1.17 jiggawatts.
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@MZH said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
Are the little flaps on the front of the "hover" bike going to do any lifting? Hell no.
They might lift the front (i.e., steering) wheel enough to lose traction and control.
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Oh yeah, and how exactly is it supposed to steer with no contact to the ground? Are you supposed to lean out at 500 mph?
Actually never mind, I think I figured it out. None of the rewards will actually get you a working hoverbike, just plush toys, a "mysterious gift bag", and a chance to sit on the "prototype". So if they get the 20k, they'll mail out a few toys and t-shirts and pocket the rest, and if anyone asks where the bike is, they'll say it's "still in development" or "it didn't work out" or something, and Kickstarter can't do shit because they did technically fulfill their obligations towards backers.
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@blek said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
Oh yeah, and how exactly is it supposed to steer with no contact to the ground? Are you supposed to lean out at 500 mph?
Actually never mind, I think I figured it out. None of the rewards will actually get you a working hoverbike, just plush toys, a "mysterious gift bag", and a chance to sit on the "prototype". So if they get the 20k, they'll mail out a few toys and t-shirts and pocket the rest, and if anyone asks where the bike is, they'll say it's "still in development" or "it didn't work out" or something, and Kickstarter can't do shit because they did technically fulfill their obligations towards backers.
Bikes turn with lean angle, but the tricky part is getting the bike to lean without the front wheel.
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@Carnage Seems to me that getting it to stay upright might be even harder.
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@HardwareGeek it's surprisingly easy as long as you're accelerating, though it does get noticeably harder once the front wheel stops turning.
On a normal bike that is. That ugly and heavy aerodynamic disaster can only be worse.
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@Carnage said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
That ugly and heavy aerodynamic disaster can only be worse.
That was kinda my point.
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@HardwareGeek said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Carnage said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
That ugly and heavy aerodynamic disaster can only be worse.
That was kinda my point.
Yeah, people still wheelie the BMW K1 though. 😝
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@HardwareGeek said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Carnage Seems to me that getting it to stay upright might be even harder.
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@Jaloopa said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
The world's first true Hoverbike
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@boomzilla clearly that's no true
Scotsmanhoverbike
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
In fact...
Fuck this noise.
Speaking of...
"we did something, but we can't tell you what. Nya!"
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@Tsaukpaetra They don't seem to have done much, because the project is still up.
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@Polygeekery said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Tsaukpaetra They don't seem to have done much, because the project is still
uphovering.FTFY
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@Polygeekery
They advised the project that in order to remain online, they needed to upgrade to Kickstarter Platinum, now with an even larger cut going to Kickstarter
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@izzion well, at least it won't cost them much as an absolute cost: