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# In contrast, the reason I've done maybe 45 minutes worth of work today:
(I helped save b3ta! brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 17 Jun 2022, 17:51, archived)
# I want science to invent a way we can save up the heat for later
or save the cold from winter
(I helped save b3ta! Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 17 Jun 2022, 18:37, archived)
# Some sort of house-sized thermos flask perhaps.
(I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Fri 17 Jun 2022, 19:14, archived)
# Easy.
Start with a solar collector in the summer hemisphere connected to to a salt/water heat battery array, which in turn connects to a pan-hemispheric megaplumbing network delivering hot water to taps in the winter hemisphere.
(I helped save b3ta! brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 17 Jun 2022, 19:21, archived)
# well
when you put it like that
(b0rk3d Jokes are better than technique!, Fri 17 Jun 2022, 19:37, archived)
# ...We all die from accelerated global warming.
(I helped save b3ta! brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 17 Jun 2022, 19:44, archived)
# Oh there's also the idea that we give everyone on earth a kilo of permafrost
that they can put in their fridge/freezer and save loads of electricity.

And release all the greenhouse gasses sequestered within it, and oh by the way we're strip mining the polar regions to do this.
(I helped save b3ta! brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 17 Jun 2022, 21:48, archived)
#
But it's not happening anywhere near me right?
(b0rk3d Jokes are better than technique!, Fri 17 Jun 2022, 22:02, archived)
# Science accommodates your wish
It’s called “district heating”.
Currently saves loads of gas in the Danish (and Swedish + elsewhere) towns. Particularly where seasonal heat storages are deployed.
(I work with this stuff, so had to post unfunny and factual comment. Sorry.).

Lovely cartoon up there btw.

*re-lurks*

(I helped save b3ta! pallimut Ancient Lurker, Fri 17 Jun 2022, 22:07, archived)
# Ooh that looks good
and surely makes more sense than millions of individual boilers
(I helped save b3ta! Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 17 Jun 2022, 22:11, archived)
[challenge entry] Just leaving this very important work here:
(I helped save b3ta! brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 17 Jun 2022, 20:19, archived)
# If he’s supposed to look intimidating it’s not working
Those cans just look ridiculous.
(I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Sat 18 Jun 2022, 19:39, archived)
# He's supposed to be a Pau'an
who are supposed to look like :this:.

But they hired a short dumpy guy and stuck a generic bald wig on him, glued some earphones on and made a start on the makeup, but then said fuck it.

Maybe casting Hayden Christensen (6'0") in David Prowse's (6'6") role of Darth Vader meant they had to cast short people for all the other roles. And maybe the expense of Ewan McGregor meant they had to cut the costume budget.
(I helped save b3ta! brb homonecrobatrachophile, Sat 18 Jun 2022, 21:41, archived)
# Is it actually Christensen in the suit though?
(I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Sat 18 Jun 2022, 22:54, archived)
# Probably not all the time, but yes.
(I helped save b3ta! brb homonecrobatrachophile, Sat 18 Jun 2022, 23:10, archived)
# Most likely some creative use of camera angles and boxes.
Like LOTR... and Mission Impossible.
(I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Sun 19 Jun 2022, 1:08, archived)
# RLM on 9ft Prowse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFIpmRoRAGU
(I helped save b3ta! Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sun 19 Jun 2022, 14:02, archived)
# I think they got that about right.
Super-okay.
(I helped save b3ta! brb homonecrobatrachophile, Sun 19 Jun 2022, 22:34, archived)
# That's good enough now
in this era of everything is the worst thing ever
(I helped save b3ta! Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sun 19 Jun 2022, 23:05, archived)
# Have you actually tried to watch Picard or STD?
'Worst Star Trek ever' doesn't begin to describe just how eye gaugingly terrible those shows are.
(I helped save b3ta! brb homonecrobatrachophile, Mon 20 Jun 2022, 13:48, archived)