Recent content by LandoftheGiants

Soon we won't need to leave the house/apartment to cycle, we can just sit on a trainer and enjoy endless rides on roads in far flung paradises. Imagine competing alongside ll Falco in the tour de france :D

Or always just buy the same brand. Call me a brandWhore but I have about 10 bicycles and all are Giants, they just make great bikes and have never dropped the ball, unlike Scott and a few others. My latest, a Stance, is an entry level MTB I bought solely for the suspension and dropper. As a...

Funny to read all the praise and hopium in the early posts, then to read this. It really pays to be a skeptic when it comes to technological products now, the days of buying any old scientific calculator and you'll be fine are gone, long gone. I think I woke up to it in the early 00's with a...

Yes, I'm afraid we lie in the era of all talk and no action. But on another level what we see is massive over investment/ malinvestment, across nearly all sectors. It was the same in the 1920's with autos and radio etc. The coming Greater Depression will clear it all away and we can...

What a killer of a trail, not even a trail really, just a cross country hack. I'm glad it was you and not me C-ride, I'd have turned back at the first sign of trouble and there'd be no cool video. I saved it out too, as much for the scenic effects as the ride. I can't believe those narrow...

An auto-shifter derailleur, that's trippy, I'd like to see a vid of it in operation on the road like. Must have had issues though since it never took off.

Radiation naturally implies large 'radiators'. The International Space Station manages heat using internal water loops, external ammonia loops, and massive exterior radiators. And when pumps fail they have to be replaced. Also when electronic memory fails, it needs replacing too. What's the...

Some interesting debate on the topic of cooling https://www.linkedin.com/posts/novakkm_space-is-cold-but-its-terrible-at-cooling-activity-7402456722256408576-ktCC

Total offgrid systems are Great! If you have $50,000 to pay for them and another equivalent inflation adjusted amount in 20 years time. 10 years for the battery no doubt. It's like Dental implant bridges, they cost $50,000 too and are a hell of a lot better than old loose dentures, better...

Well they are driving lots of ships around the arctic sea now so that's one thing. Gone are the days of a solid ice pack. Pesky thing that was. Arctic shipping for ordinary, open-water vessels became technically possible after 2004, when decreasing summer sea ice allowed full navigability...

Those Lazyboi recumbents are great. If I ever get a big fat guts and weak legs I'll be out shopping for one.

Tesla 18650s are supposed to last over a decade, or so elon says. Just buy those. Update: Some say they last 20 years now, we're saved ;)

Food is often the trigger for dieoff, for societal collapse, and unlike past civilizations, 80% of the food reaching most of our tables comes directly from the application of fossil fuels. Fertilizers, Pesticides, herbicides, farm machinery, truck transport, refrigeration. You can see it in...

Chinese junk! I have -and many of us do- an old trailer outback. The cable that connects to the car is like 30 years old, flexes back and forward all the time and sits in the full sun half the day naturally. So yes, they can make good insulation, and high quality multi strand copper wire...