I somehow doubt they would have less particles from friction. They usually use a cushion which touches the ground.
The imagination of a busy intersection with common people driving hovercrafts is funny, though. Or imagine driving on slopes.
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Oof, there are a few things you might wanna learn:
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People have different tastes. What I find funny, you may not like it and vise versa.
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Some people consider some things too serious to joke about. Some people don't. I am one of those people that say that there is nothing in this world, that cannot be joked about.
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It is absolutely possible to take something serious and at the same time laugh about it.
People won't like it, but 2°C is dying somewhere remote and the ambulance hasn't been called yet. Even if doctors were around now, it's unsure if it could be saved.
As John Schellnhuber, one of the biggest European climate scientists that has been part of the majority of IPCCs, said last year about COP:
"Wenn die Länder die Klimaziele nicht umsetzen, sind diese Konferenzen nur Jahrmärkte der Eitelkeit."
Translation by Google:
"If countries do not implement the climate targets, these conferences will be nothing more than vanity fairs."
Interview, where he said it, and also said that 3 degrees above pre industrial would mean the end of ~~modern~~ human civilization (in German):
Wait, wtf? Mouth dry! Mouth dry!
She's probably shredding cemetary gates or something.
I actually watched that episode last night, so that post was kinda jumping at me. What are the odds...
Sagan, a real teacher. Not only smart, there are quite a few smart people. But also able to make something complicated easily understood. To make something abstract sound straight. To make something minds can't grasp comprehensible. A beautiful ability!
One of those articles that make you feel disgusted about the world we live in.
Thank you to all those scientists trying to throw the rudder around, that get bullied, while trying to save fellow humans.
Ah, this is probably the right community to ask.
What are those stripes leading to the crater, here in the upper left?
I've noticed them before, but when I try looking it up, I usually only find results for Saturn's moon.
Beautiful picture, op!
As far as I understood, it'll leak into the atmosphere, where it'll cause 80 or 100 times more warming than CO² for a decade or so, before breaking down into good, old CO², causing further warming for centuries / millennia.
Not sure, but I think I've also read that in the process of breaking down into CO², the ozone layer gets damaged.
Polluting - I don't think so, except they're 2 stroke engines, which are rare, nowadays. These days you see even more and more electric bikes.
Inefficient - People often go 2, 3, 4 people on a bike that uses maybe 3 l/100km (78 MPG) or pull trailers wich stuff loaded, while using less space than a car.
Unsafe - totally less safe for the people on the vehicle. I don't know about pedestrians. However, a lot of the accidents happen, because poor education to get the license, if any; hardly any law enforcement and poor vehicle maintenance.
Noisy - not more than a ICE car. Some motorbikes here have broken exhausts, which make them noisy, but that again is a lacking law enforcement and maintenance issue.
I am aware, however, that driving 2 wheel vehicles in ice and snow is not a wise idea, so while it works in SEA, it would be different in colder climates.