Why do we assume it's the fire truck that made the little old lady fall over? An equally plausible explanation is that Google's face-blurring technology temporarily disoriented her, causing her to lose control of her bike. #googlestreetview
What's more important, one old lady on a bike, or potentially your computer (and the implied collection of porn and torrented movies therein) that's currently at risk in a serious structure fire?
@Arnold Qin: Exactly! It was a trick question. She has all of your HDDs in the saddlebags of her bicycle. So, there goes all your porn. Thanks a lot, fire department, you ruined that woman's life, and my weekend! Nice job. #googlestreetview
@Gundem: You liberals always find out a way to cheap shot Fox News don't you? Shouldn't you be in Greenland with Al Gore to see all the Ice caps "melting"?
@Gundem: Yea that person hasn't even entered the intersection yet and are at the same spot they were in the previous screen. It's like they just tipped over like one of those goats that freeze up when they're scared.
I don't see any evidence that would indicate that any person on truck contact took place. #googlestreetview
@Gundem: Agreed. As someone who drives a fire truck, I can tell you that bike was not hit by one. Even a glancing tap with the front bumper would have bent the front wheel pretty much in half. Anything more serious and she'd be a grease spot. #googlestreetview
@EBone: Well, considering it's a real world problem, I don't even know how to reply to your ignorance, except to tell you to go to San Francisco in the summer time, when they used to have a cooling wind coming down from the mountains.
You know we can't get energy for free, right? Hydroelectric power reduces water flow and causes the destruction of wildlife both upstream and downstream. Solar power has local heating problems that CANNOT be fixed, and massive wind farms destroy the natural heat transfer created by wind patterns. #gizmodoremainders
@exoren22: You really believe that the turbine blades take the wind "away"? That the wind doesn't turn the blades and keep on blowing past, over, and around the blades?
@EBone: I think he's actually right, but he's blowing it way out of proportion. It's more on the same scale of dumping a bottle of filtered water into a lake to change the pH. #gizmodoremainders
@EBone: exoren22 is right though I don't know to what degree. Conservation of energy means there is no free ride and no perpetual motion machines. Just like a hydroelectric dam can slow a river to a trickle, wind farms use the wind to do work, thus depleting some of the kinetic energy in that wind. But once again, I have no idea of the total energy of the wind or how much energy is extracted so I could not testify to the effect.
@runamok1001: Do yourself a favor and look at an isobar map of the United States. They measure pressure gradients. Wind is generated when air moves from high pressure areas to low pressure areas.
Isobar front lines are hundreds to thousands of miles long. Wind projects don't even show up on the scale we're talking about here. It would be the equivalent of trying to stop the Mississippi River with a 2x4. #gizmodoremainders
Grandpa bikes excluded (upright riding), a bike seat needs only provide support to the bony part of your bottom while minimizing interference and chaffing with your thighs. This is why racing seats look so terrible, but are actually quite comfortable. This seat seems to give you a choice of supporting your weight on your anus or testicles. #gizmodoremainders
@92BuickLeSabre: Mmm... Gotta love those post-windfarm mornings, with the surreal pink mist of pigeon guts over Manhattan, and little feet and feathers falling to the streets below... #gizmodoremainders
@92BuickLeSabre: a wind turbine of the vertical axis variety, about the size of a water tower, would probably do very well at both generating electricity and getting rid of pesky pigeons. And properly designed it could also have a receptacle for the remains so that they could be put to good use. Then we'd have cheap electricity and we wouldn't have to make soylent green out of people anymore.
@The Lab: yeah, the first pic looks like it makes some sense, but then you realize there's almost no leg extension (which means no power). Cool look though. #gizmodoremainders
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That's what I thought.... #googlestreetview
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She simply panicked as she saw the big truck, couldn't control herself and ended up on the ground.
Gizmodo busting a fox news i see. #googlestreetview
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I don't see any evidence that would indicate that any person on truck contact took place. #googlestreetview
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I "love" "putting" verbs in quotes. #googlestreetview
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You know we can't get energy for free, right? Hydroelectric power reduces water flow and causes the destruction of wildlife both upstream and downstream. Solar power has local heating problems that CANNOT be fixed, and massive wind farms destroy the natural heat transfer created by wind patterns. #gizmodoremainders
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Isobar front lines are hundreds to thousands of miles long. Wind projects don't even show up on the scale we're talking about here. It would be the equivalent of trying to stop the Mississippi River with a 2x4. #gizmodoremainders
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Here's the google results for that.
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PS I'm trademarking the term "squabchoppers" #gizmodoremainders
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@Toastie: Oh no, it's on a mission to grind that man's genitals into a fine powder. #gizmodoremainders
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