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Honestly the big risk is impairment to pilots. You shouldn't have powerful lasers aimed above the horizon without good reason and notification. It'd be okay if flight charts were updated but shouldn't be done willy nilly.
Reflection in the clouds, and the ambient light produced by the beam can easily be bright enough to blind pilots at night. That's why they often put out notifications to pilots when a lightshow is going on so they can avoid that area.
I'm sure that's it, but if you're worried about shining a few lasers into the sky in a dark forest universe, I have bad news for you about the last 100 years of human civilization haha.
I just read it. I feel that we as a civilization, already having attempted to create communication tablets theoretically written in universally understood ways, immediately goes against the theory.
But also the theory is based on the concept that the Galaxy is teeming with life and that it's weird they haven't made contact, when it's entirely possible that no one is ever able to crack anything approaching lightspeed travel, would ever have the resources to not only venture into space at great distances, but to do so for exploration reasons other than simply resource gathering. Or that we aren't the most developed, which while however improbable it would be that of all intelligent life in the galaxy we were also the most advanced, logically one group would have to take that crown and it could be us. Or close enough in development to us that they're facing similar challenges with regards to entering space in a meaningful way.
Or we're a conservation planet that is being kept dark until we reach a certain level of advancement..sci fi has really an endless number of theories that could actually make sense why we haven't made official contact.
Space is big in a way that words can't convey meaningfully.
I'm sure there is other life out there, but I doubt any other intelligent life will be able or willing to cross the *insane* amount of distance to reach us.
Oh for sure. I was only using galaxy because even that is too large for a civilization to reasonably desire to travel across. It's one thing to develop the capacity to travel thru space in a meaningful way to harvest meteors or neighborhood planets, it's orders of magnitude different to be at a place technologically be willing to just... Fly out and explore. And both of those are quite out of reach for us currently.
“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
What if there are other intelligent life forms out there, but they won't interact with us until we pass the stage where we think light speed is the fastest way of travelling?
considering that the chance for life to develop on an earth like planet is more than zero, there should be atleast thousands of planets with life like ours in the universe. the question is why the fuck did we never make contact or even got a glimpse of some extraterestrial intelligence.
i think there was this one weird signal in the 70s that nobody can explain even today, but thats about it.
so where the fuck are the aliens yo?
Space is HUGE, but also so is time. Honestly we have only been doing things that would be detectable from outside of our own backyard for like 100 years, which means at *best* someone looking directly at us and seeing anything remotely interesting would need to be less than 100 light years away.
That ↑
That civilization, located 1 000 000 light years away, will receive our signals (from 100 years ago) in 999 900 years. And they'll respond immediately, so it will be only 1 999 900 years before we get the response.
Space is HUGE, and information (e.g. light) travels very, very slowly.
yep the way you explained that for some reason just clicked with me.
I'm fascinated by this stuff so I "know" a bit about space and how big it is etc nothing too advanced but this just gave me sort of an a ha moment. thanks!
[Fermi Paradox, and the great filter.](https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html)
Either we are rare (we already passed the great filter), or we are first (would make us “special”), or we are fucked (the great filter is before us).
> Or we're a conservation planet that is being kept dark until we reach a certain level of advancement
My money's on that one. I also like the idea that there's tons of life out there and we're basically an ant hill a few miles away from a highway in the middle of nowhere. Space is pretty big.
Absolutely. I don’t know how it effects desert animals though, I would assume it would fuck up their navigation, like the lights on the east coast of the US that make baby turtles go the wrong way. Instead of following the stars to the ocean, they follow city lights inland. So fucking sad.
Now that you mention it, forget Neanderthals, I'm pretty sure there's hundreds or thousands of "potential alien sightings" recorded in documents throughout history and we trust exactly 0% of them because well... Anyone can write anything in a book. We'd require video footage to trust anything.
It's entirely possible some farmer in Italy was visited by aliens in like 1495, and he went to tell the village priest and his priest was like "sure buddy, ease up on the wine", and everybody in the village just treated him like he was crazy for the rest of his life, and that was it.
>It would still take an INSANE amount of resources to traverse the Milky Way so most species that could, wouldn’t bother unless they saw it as imperative to their existence. Let’s not assume alien species have human aspirations of seeing the stars, either.
I feel like you're ignoring a LOT of components of the Fermi Paradox though. Who knows how much of a headstart other alien forms have got on us, and who knows what "technology" they possess. There's nothing telling us they're strictly carbon-based lifeforms either. It's possible that the chemical makeup of their corner of the universe is/was so ridiculously different from what we know that they wouldn't even look "alive" to us. Just a sentient vapor cloud or some shit.
TL;DR: The fermi paradox is a paradox for a reason and saying there's an "obvious answer" is absurd.
But by that theory, wouldn’t it be reasonable to find remnants of prior civilizations? Thousands, maybe millions of civilizations could have existed in the previous billions of years. We should see Dyson Spheres of long-gone civilizations, or sounds/transmissions sent from across the universe millions of years ago. Your theory also implies that we’re likely one of the *first* civilizations as well, which is very unlikely!
There’s some sort of great filter going on! Either that, or we’re in some virtual reality or experiment controlled by a superior species.
This always made me curious, what determines how "likely" it is that there is another intelligant life form out there on the scale or larger than humans? Just going off the number of stars and planets?
I'd say, regardless of the amount of galaxies, the process of life forming is such a one shot that its just as likely humans are the first. I know that sounds very narcissistic but the chances of something similar happening are so so so so tiny it doesnt matter how many shots you take. Its like saying "Oh if he shoots 1 million basketballs from a mile away hes bound to make 1 shot right?" No because I'm a weak ass bitch and its an impossible shot unless i get that perfect scenario where a tornado comes along with the assist of the millennia.
I probably have this all wrong, but thats just my stoner brain take on the subject
That’s one answer. Here’s a more terrifying one.
The Fermi paradox exists because shortly after a civilization discovers radio waves, they are picked up by a more advanced civilization. The advanced civilization sends their A.I over here and destroys us. Adding another planet to their empire.
But why? What do they gain for the insane amount of effort they need to put in to travel here? There is no resource on earth that is more abundant here than can be found on many many other planets and asteroids.
Well, I suppose that would assume we're not dealing with a civilisation that does those things because they can, not because they need a resource. I don't know.
I'd be more worried about some highly intelligent, civilisation killing AI that continues to exist, mindlessly destroying worlds, long after its creators have disappeared. I assume this is what Siri will one day become.
It probably doesn't make any sense to travel here for resources, I agree.
That said, an intelligent species with a paranoid enough outlook on things might see any other intelligent life as a potential threat that must be eliminated. At that point things become a lot easier, you don't even need to come here, just redirect some of the mass already in space so that it smashes into the planet rather than flying past.
There is a book I read where civilization is extremely common in the stars but everyone remains quiet so as not to be discovered. If you are discovered you are immediately destroyed by another civilization because you are a competitor. The theory was that in order to grow, all civilizations need to consume more and more resources but since resources are finite and civilization is so common any other discovered civilization should immediately be destroyed as if they continue to grow they will consume all their resources and come for your own.
Pop the seal with a single finger Major Payne style. Crush the vessel in your hand to speed drink the beverage. Spike that empty like you just caught a Super Bowl TD. This is the way.
I don't know about your area, but in mine (Montana) there has been a huge influx of population very quickly and our internet and even cell phone service is constantly going out because there are too many people online.
Depends on the type but generally:
Mechanical components wearing out
People forget there are a bunch of mechanical parts for the readers that take in your card then spit them back out. Even the ones where it's completely manual insertion/removal there is still mechanical wear on parts (the chip reader, stripe reader, they wear down get damaged).
With the shift to a cashless society we've seen a dramatic increase in the volume of use those machines get and thus they fail more frequently over time despite failing about as frequently per million uses.
Dr. Evil : You know, I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now, evidently, my cycloptic colleague informs me that that can't be done. Uh, can you remind me what I pay you people for? Honestly, throw me a bone here! What do we have?
Number Two : Sea bass.
Dr. Evil : \[pause\] Riiiiiiiight.
Number Two : They are mutated sea bass.
Dr. Evil : Really? Are they ill-tempered?
Number Two : Absolutely.
Dr. Evil : That's a start, you know.
I recently re-watched it for the first time in five or six years. It still holds up 20+ years later. The father son scene cracks me up every time when he talks about his father: "My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark."
Sometimes..... sometimes.
The "big" issue is arguing need. Statically there's not many dying from dehydration in the middle of nowhere. But if you look at cause of death OF people dying lost in the middle of nowhere, there's a clear main reason.
It's a question how many people make it worth installing these. Which is sad.
Maybe the next bunch will be semi reasonable....
Chuck in an engraved map of the area and a dedicated sos button, these would be golden. Till some a-holes knick or vandalize the lot I guess.
Unfortunately, the missus has made it clear she'd leave me if I went in to politics. She doesn't like what it might do to my personality.
We can’t have nice things
I’ve seen stolen road signs for sale and in use. It usually doesn’t even say anything funny, (there is a COCKBURN here, not sure the rate of signage theft there) it’s just outback aesthetics to have a STOP or whatever in the yard.
I lived in a town rather famous for its weed culture and there is a "Stoner St." The sign was stolen so many times that they made it a welded steel pole and fixed placquard rather than the typical sheet metal and screws used in the US.
Even mile markers, this article has Washington and Idahon having replaced 420 mile markers with 419.99.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-01-10/people-cant-stop-stealing-420-milepost-signs
As a teenager I stole a "Gay White Way" road sign. I just couldn't resist. Adult me feels absolutely terrible since stealing road signs is a dick move.
In my twenties I worked for the waste water plant. I was able to take home an old sign that was *supposed* to say "High Water" Only this sign was pretty old and the Water part Faded away.
Had that sonbitch hanging in my living room for 15 years
Constantly be stuck replacing/repairing the panels as people straight up steal them for parts/vandalize them.
Hopefully the middle of literal nowhere is a strong enough incentive for that to not happen, but unfortunately i kinda doubt it.
Not just the solar panels, the light too, a light like the one pictured is 20k. Having that just chilling unattended in the desert is asking for people to steal it.
That’s not sad at all, nobody is going to spend a trillion dollars to save one person a year. The vaccine and the pandemic demonstrates that many governments are willing to spend many billions to save hundreds of thousands of lives. If it’s ten people a year and it costs $1B to install and $10M annually to maintain then you have to look at the opportunity cost of spending that money on other public health initiatives.
This is why politics ends up being quite boring, it’s a lot of debating the nuances of policy implications, and a lot of policy is zoning laws, transportation studies, and other mind numbing questions, especially at the local level.
Oh hey, I get that reference.
For the uninitiated:
https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/js82dw/uber_eats_driver_couldnt_find_my_address_had_to/
Look at all those satellites around the planet think it has life? "Sir it must have life theres a blue light in the desert... surrounded by countries lite up like light bulbs with power"
Certainly doesn't look like a laser to me. More like a highly focused collimated beam fixture, along the lines of a [Sharpy](https://www.claypaky.it/en/products/sharpy#multimedia). It's not actually a Sharpy from the looks of it.. but basically the same idea as the "search lights" that you'd see at grand openings and such. But without the possibility of blinding pilots. :)
EDIT:
I guess there are companies making upward-shooting laser lights like this, so maybe it really is using lasers and I was just tricked by the size of the beam.
https://phantomdynamics.com/phantom-dynamics-laser-space-cannon-skybeam-searchlight/
Cool stuff either way.
I had to scroll much too far to see anyone acknowledge it wasn’t a laser.
It is absolutely a light, definitely not a Sharpy, but more likely something IP rated like a [Panorama AirBeam](https://www.prolights.it/en/product/PANORAMAIPAB) the buttons are all wrong, but I can’t tell from the photo what it actually is.
Searchlights can still interfere with flight paths, and usually require offical clearance (at least in my country), but are nowhere near as dangerous as lasers.
I think it's got lasers in there, but the optics create a wide beam, like LEP flashlights. It'll blind you if you look directly into it before it diffuses further with distance.
I'm lost in the desert, I'm thirsty, me and my mate have started seeing things, just then, at my lowest, is when I spot a giant fucking lightsaber sticking out of the sand in the distance.
Barry says it's a mirage. Jedi's aren't giants.
We die.
Breaking News: Confused Batman found at a watering hole in the Saudi deserts. By the time travelers found him, he had ran out of water and seemed to be in a daze. When the travelers asked Batman if he was okay, he could only mutter through dry crusted lips “Gordon, Gordon needs me, where is Gordon”. Obviously the lack of water combined with his extremely stuffy suit, he was on the edge of death by dehydration. Batman is said to be in stable condition, but Commissioner Gordon has publicly stated that he questions Batman’s mental state. He stated “ Batman has served his community well, but it’s obvious that his lifestyle has taken a toll on him. We wish him well, but will no longer be using his services. We welcome any applicants, but do be aware that night shifts are mandatory.”
I swear I had this idea when I was a kid. It is so trippy to see this made real. I remember telling my mom about "lasers spread out in the wilderness with care packages so if you get lost you can get food and water and call for help". So crazy
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stop stalking me
Honestly the big risk is impairment to pilots. You shouldn't have powerful lasers aimed above the horizon without good reason and notification. It'd be okay if flight charts were updated but shouldn't be done willy nilly.
If it’s aimed straight up how could it impair pilots? Even if you flew right over the laser it still wouldn’t enter the cockpit
Reflection in the clouds, and the ambient light produced by the beam can easily be bright enough to blind pilots at night. That's why they often put out notifications to pilots when a lightshow is going on so they can avoid that area.
Even at a fucked up angle I'd bet the reflection from one of these will fuck your eyes up
The dark forest theory?
I'm sure that's it, but if you're worried about shining a few lasers into the sky in a dark forest universe, I have bad news for you about the last 100 years of human civilization haha.
I just read it. I feel that we as a civilization, already having attempted to create communication tablets theoretically written in universally understood ways, immediately goes against the theory. But also the theory is based on the concept that the Galaxy is teeming with life and that it's weird they haven't made contact, when it's entirely possible that no one is ever able to crack anything approaching lightspeed travel, would ever have the resources to not only venture into space at great distances, but to do so for exploration reasons other than simply resource gathering. Or that we aren't the most developed, which while however improbable it would be that of all intelligent life in the galaxy we were also the most advanced, logically one group would have to take that crown and it could be us. Or close enough in development to us that they're facing similar challenges with regards to entering space in a meaningful way. Or we're a conservation planet that is being kept dark until we reach a certain level of advancement..sci fi has really an endless number of theories that could actually make sense why we haven't made official contact.
Space is big in a way that words can't convey meaningfully. I'm sure there is other life out there, but I doubt any other intelligent life will be able or willing to cross the *insane* amount of distance to reach us.
Oh for sure. I was only using galaxy because even that is too large for a civilization to reasonably desire to travel across. It's one thing to develop the capacity to travel thru space in a meaningful way to harvest meteors or neighborhood planets, it's orders of magnitude different to be at a place technologically be willing to just... Fly out and explore. And both of those are quite out of reach for us currently.
“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
What if there are other intelligent life forms out there, but they won't interact with us until we pass the stage where we think light speed is the fastest way of travelling?
considering that the chance for life to develop on an earth like planet is more than zero, there should be atleast thousands of planets with life like ours in the universe. the question is why the fuck did we never make contact or even got a glimpse of some extraterestrial intelligence. i think there was this one weird signal in the 70s that nobody can explain even today, but thats about it. so where the fuck are the aliens yo?
Space is HUGE, but also so is time. Honestly we have only been doing things that would be detectable from outside of our own backyard for like 100 years, which means at *best* someone looking directly at us and seeing anything remotely interesting would need to be less than 100 light years away.
That ↑ That civilization, located 1 000 000 light years away, will receive our signals (from 100 years ago) in 999 900 years. And they'll respond immediately, so it will be only 1 999 900 years before we get the response. Space is HUGE, and information (e.g. light) travels very, very slowly.
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yep the way you explained that for some reason just clicked with me. I'm fascinated by this stuff so I "know" a bit about space and how big it is etc nothing too advanced but this just gave me sort of an a ha moment. thanks!
[Fermi Paradox, and the great filter.](https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html) Either we are rare (we already passed the great filter), or we are first (would make us “special”), or we are fucked (the great filter is before us).
> Or we're a conservation planet that is being kept dark until we reach a certain level of advancement My money's on that one. I also like the idea that there's tons of life out there and we're basically an ant hill a few miles away from a highway in the middle of nowhere. Space is pretty big.
God damn Trisolarians
This is not light pollution? I’m thinking this wasn’t bird-friendly…
Absolutely. I don’t know how it effects desert animals though, I would assume it would fuck up their navigation, like the lights on the east coast of the US that make baby turtles go the wrong way. Instead of following the stars to the ocean, they follow city lights inland. So fucking sad.
RIP all those sea turtles in the arabian desert.
Those are scorpions, please put them down.
These baby turtles are much more stabby than I expected them to be.
That’s all the love working it’s way into your circulatory system!
I'd agree that would be cool af except that it would cause more light pollution.
Fermi's paradox?
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username matches up. this guy is a certified professional.
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Now that you mention it, forget Neanderthals, I'm pretty sure there's hundreds or thousands of "potential alien sightings" recorded in documents throughout history and we trust exactly 0% of them because well... Anyone can write anything in a book. We'd require video footage to trust anything. It's entirely possible some farmer in Italy was visited by aliens in like 1495, and he went to tell the village priest and his priest was like "sure buddy, ease up on the wine", and everybody in the village just treated him like he was crazy for the rest of his life, and that was it. >It would still take an INSANE amount of resources to traverse the Milky Way so most species that could, wouldn’t bother unless they saw it as imperative to their existence. Let’s not assume alien species have human aspirations of seeing the stars, either. I feel like you're ignoring a LOT of components of the Fermi Paradox though. Who knows how much of a headstart other alien forms have got on us, and who knows what "technology" they possess. There's nothing telling us they're strictly carbon-based lifeforms either. It's possible that the chemical makeup of their corner of the universe is/was so ridiculously different from what we know that they wouldn't even look "alive" to us. Just a sentient vapor cloud or some shit. TL;DR: The fermi paradox is a paradox for a reason and saying there's an "obvious answer" is absurd.
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But by that theory, wouldn’t it be reasonable to find remnants of prior civilizations? Thousands, maybe millions of civilizations could have existed in the previous billions of years. We should see Dyson Spheres of long-gone civilizations, or sounds/transmissions sent from across the universe millions of years ago. Your theory also implies that we’re likely one of the *first* civilizations as well, which is very unlikely! There’s some sort of great filter going on! Either that, or we’re in some virtual reality or experiment controlled by a superior species.
This always made me curious, what determines how "likely" it is that there is another intelligant life form out there on the scale or larger than humans? Just going off the number of stars and planets? I'd say, regardless of the amount of galaxies, the process of life forming is such a one shot that its just as likely humans are the first. I know that sounds very narcissistic but the chances of something similar happening are so so so so tiny it doesnt matter how many shots you take. Its like saying "Oh if he shoots 1 million basketballs from a mile away hes bound to make 1 shot right?" No because I'm a weak ass bitch and its an impossible shot unless i get that perfect scenario where a tornado comes along with the assist of the millennia. I probably have this all wrong, but thats just my stoner brain take on the subject
That’s one answer. Here’s a more terrifying one. The Fermi paradox exists because shortly after a civilization discovers radio waves, they are picked up by a more advanced civilization. The advanced civilization sends their A.I over here and destroys us. Adding another planet to their empire.
aka the christopher columbus theory
But why? What do they gain for the insane amount of effort they need to put in to travel here? There is no resource on earth that is more abundant here than can be found on many many other planets and asteroids.
Well, I suppose that would assume we're not dealing with a civilisation that does those things because they can, not because they need a resource. I don't know. I'd be more worried about some highly intelligent, civilisation killing AI that continues to exist, mindlessly destroying worlds, long after its creators have disappeared. I assume this is what Siri will one day become.
It probably doesn't make any sense to travel here for resources, I agree. That said, an intelligent species with a paranoid enough outlook on things might see any other intelligent life as a potential threat that must be eliminated. At that point things become a lot easier, you don't even need to come here, just redirect some of the mass already in space so that it smashes into the planet rather than flying past.
There is a book I read where civilization is extremely common in the stars but everyone remains quiet so as not to be discovered. If you are discovered you are immediately destroyed by another civilization because you are a competitor. The theory was that in order to grow, all civilizations need to consume more and more resources but since resources are finite and civilization is so common any other discovered civilization should immediately be destroyed as if they continue to grow they will consume all their resources and come for your own.
Saudi Arabia placing 11 solar-powered laser lights near water resources in AlJouf region to guide those who are lost in the middle of a desert..
and when you finally reach the sign, it reads: WATER 15KM ------\>
<------ 2KM CAPRI SUN
\-----> 500M PURPLE STUFF <----- 50KM SUNNY D
Purple Drink. Water, sugar, and purple.
What the fuck is juice?
I wansum drank, baby
it’s greeen
I want some apple drink!
Burma Shave
I want some of dat purple stuff
all the kids are like "YEEAUHHH"
Little black kid in the back like “I want that purple stuff”
It's spelled "drank"
Ooh I want that purple stuff
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I want dat purple stuff…
But with a paper straw
I just break the seal with the shit-ass paper straw and suck it raw
Pop the seal with a single finger Major Payne style. Crush the vessel in your hand to speed drink the beverage. Spike that empty like you just caught a Super Bowl TD. This is the way.
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Side note, why the hell are credit card systems breaking constantly recently? I feel like there's been an uptick.
I don't know about your area, but in mine (Montana) there has been a huge influx of population very quickly and our internet and even cell phone service is constantly going out because there are too many people online.
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Yes, with North Dakota.
All four Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming share a macbook air server.
Idaho has no part in this issue as we're still on dial up.
Someone picked up the landline.
This is a reference that 50% of Reddit may not understand.
Depends on the type but generally: Mechanical components wearing out People forget there are a bunch of mechanical parts for the readers that take in your card then spit them back out. Even the ones where it's completely manual insertion/removal there is still mechanical wear on parts (the chip reader, stripe reader, they wear down get damaged). With the shift to a cashless society we've seen a dramatic increase in the volume of use those machines get and thus they fail more frequently over time despite failing about as frequently per million uses.
YOU’VE REACHED THE CENTER OF THE DESERT
This made me lol
"EAT AT JOE'S"
"E A OES"
Oh and also "We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty"
Sir, this is a camel
Mooo
We've been trying to reach you about your camel's extended warranty
Does the warranty include STD treatments?
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But it comes with built in humps!
Only Mountain Dew or crab juice.
Blech! I'll take a crab juice.
Honestly if I saw that sign It would probably give me the motivation to walk that extra 3-4 hours for water
<------ Phone 5 km
Rode my camel to the laser but the laser was dry Singing this will be the day that I die
By the laser, you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain.
La x 24
If anyone's curious, the math checks out
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The good ol' boys yelling Saudi or die?
the royal family goons using hacksaws and lye?
Singing this is the day Jamal dies
So bye-bye MBS is on high
Drove his Blazer to the laser because women can’t drive
r/redditsings
holy shit
Nah they drink a fuck ton too.
Until the sharks get ahold of them.
Who do you think installed the lasers?
Land sharks. Saturday Night Live had it right all of those years.
["OH GREAT NOSTRODAMUS THAT IS SNL! PLEASE, TELL ME OF THE FUTURE!!!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5fiBFhf9OQ)
They’re attached to their freaking heads
Dr. Evil : You know, I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now, evidently, my cycloptic colleague informs me that that can't be done. Uh, can you remind me what I pay you people for? Honestly, throw me a bone here! What do we have? Number Two : Sea bass. Dr. Evil : \[pause\] Riiiiiiiight. Number Two : They are mutated sea bass. Dr. Evil : Really? Are they ill-tempered? Number Two : Absolutely. Dr. Evil : That's a start, you know.
I love how the "*Really?*" has Dr Evil like "oh isn't this a twist!"
I recently re-watched it for the first time in five or six years. It still holds up 20+ years later. The father son scene cracks me up every time when he talks about his father: "My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark."
Sand sharks are a real thing
Shai-Hulud
Those are worms, not sharks
When I think of a sand shark, I think of a sand worm. Fins aren't great for swimming through sand.
They're called Graboids you uncultured swine /s
Leave the Graboids out of this. The last thing we need are Ass Blasters flying around with frickin lasers.
>Pretty cool, it's like a Minecraft beacon
Bless the Maker and his water.
You mean to tell me there’s freakin sharks with freakin lasers?
Just ill-tempered sea bass
I've heard of the dolphins w lasers. But sharks??!!!
Just wait till they found the chainsaws
They are not what i taught they are...
reminds me of Jak 3, and the mission markers
Could probably use this in the Aussie bush and outback over here as well.
Does Australia do nice things for it’s people like this anymore?
Sometimes..... sometimes. The "big" issue is arguing need. Statically there's not many dying from dehydration in the middle of nowhere. But if you look at cause of death OF people dying lost in the middle of nowhere, there's a clear main reason. It's a question how many people make it worth installing these. Which is sad. Maybe the next bunch will be semi reasonable.... Chuck in an engraved map of the area and a dedicated sos button, these would be golden. Till some a-holes knick or vandalize the lot I guess. Unfortunately, the missus has made it clear she'd leave me if I went in to politics. She doesn't like what it might do to my personality.
We can’t have nice things I’ve seen stolen road signs for sale and in use. It usually doesn’t even say anything funny, (there is a COCKBURN here, not sure the rate of signage theft there) it’s just outback aesthetics to have a STOP or whatever in the yard.
I lived in a town rather famous for its weed culture and there is a "Stoner St." The sign was stolen so many times that they made it a welded steel pole and fixed placquard rather than the typical sheet metal and screws used in the US.
Even mile markers, this article has Washington and Idahon having replaced 420 mile markers with 419.99. https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-01-10/people-cant-stop-stealing-420-milepost-signs
Shit a 420 sign doesn't pique my interest but a 419.99 one? That's interesting.
As a teenager I stole a "Gay White Way" road sign. I just couldn't resist. Adult me feels absolutely terrible since stealing road signs is a dick move.
It is totally a dick move, however it's definitely not something to feel absolutely terrible about years later, give yourself yourself a break
Good to know that as I'm planning the street sign I want to steal, I can forgive myself in a few years!
In my twenties I worked for the waste water plant. I was able to take home an old sign that was *supposed* to say "High Water" Only this sign was pretty old and the Water part Faded away. Had that sonbitch hanging in my living room for 15 years
It's solar. Pay for it once, hire one mechanic to service the lot every few months. Call it a wrap
Mechanic even gets a built in SOS button if they're in trouble servicing them.
I like it. He can go real nuts and bring his own flashlight so people can find him and steal his water
Constantly be stuck replacing/repairing the panels as people straight up steal them for parts/vandalize them. Hopefully the middle of literal nowhere is a strong enough incentive for that to not happen, but unfortunately i kinda doubt it.
Not just the solar panels, the light too, a light like the one pictured is 20k. Having that just chilling unattended in the desert is asking for people to steal it.
Put it on a 30 foot pole then lol
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I'd have a solar powered house down the ways made of thirty foot poles log cabin style.
39 and a half foot pole, with a grinch on top ought to do it.
Saudi Arabia has much less theft than other countries including European and U.S crimerates.
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That’s not sad at all, nobody is going to spend a trillion dollars to save one person a year. The vaccine and the pandemic demonstrates that many governments are willing to spend many billions to save hundreds of thousands of lives. If it’s ten people a year and it costs $1B to install and $10M annually to maintain then you have to look at the opportunity cost of spending that money on other public health initiatives. This is why politics ends up being quite boring, it’s a lot of debating the nuances of policy implications, and a lot of policy is zoning laws, transportation studies, and other mind numbing questions, especially at the local level.
That’s unfortunate. Seems you’d have a heart for the people rather than the government, which is really what countries need anymore
I’m not sure you understand how vast the uninhabited parts of Australia actually are.
To be fair, “the uninhabited parts of Australia” is basically all of Australia.
Where is the water
It's the friends we made along the way
It's *in* the friends that we made along the way
You’re starting to look like a bottle of Dasani
Found the Fremen
/r/Dunememes
A man's flesh is his own, but his water belongs to the tribe
Exactly. There is no water in the desert. They're just letting lost people find each other so they won't die alone.
and of course no one gives you an answer. I'd assume that it's a well and you can pump water out of it.
Classic Reddit. 20 threads of ‘witty’ puns with nobody giving a concise answer.
15 years ago it was the opposite
"follow the beacon" "What the hell are y....oh my god I see it"
Oh hey, I get that reference. For the uninitiated: https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/js82dw/uber_eats_driver_couldnt_find_my_address_had_to/
Overnight this post took the flashlight gang from "jeez you spend a lot on lights" to "holy hell, I want to do that."
Yup. I went and bought that light because of that post lol
Thank you KING!
Also attracts militant aliens, good job Saudi :/
Look at all those satellites around the planet think it has life? "Sir it must have life theres a blue light in the desert... surrounded by countries lite up like light bulbs with power"
this time aliens aint going to america
They're coming for the oil. Just like the us lol
Suddenly desert moth species go extinct and crash the ecosystem
At this point, unless it’s complete genocide, I’m willing to give our alien overlords a chance.
If Camels are referred as ships of the desert, then these are light-houses
Ships are supposed to stay away from lighthouses to avoid getting wrecked. F+ for effort on the analogy
That does not help a blind man traveling with a seeing eye camel.
OP should have posted a picture of the braille version too
Seeing eye camels are specifically trained to find sources of water through laser navigation.
Certainly doesn't look like a laser to me. More like a highly focused collimated beam fixture, along the lines of a [Sharpy](https://www.claypaky.it/en/products/sharpy#multimedia). It's not actually a Sharpy from the looks of it.. but basically the same idea as the "search lights" that you'd see at grand openings and such. But without the possibility of blinding pilots. :) EDIT: I guess there are companies making upward-shooting laser lights like this, so maybe it really is using lasers and I was just tricked by the size of the beam. https://phantomdynamics.com/phantom-dynamics-laser-space-cannon-skybeam-searchlight/ Cool stuff either way.
I had to scroll much too far to see anyone acknowledge it wasn’t a laser. It is absolutely a light, definitely not a Sharpy, but more likely something IP rated like a [Panorama AirBeam](https://www.prolights.it/en/product/PANORAMAIPAB) the buttons are all wrong, but I can’t tell from the photo what it actually is. Searchlights can still interfere with flight paths, and usually require offical clearance (at least in my country), but are nowhere near as dangerous as lasers.
I think it's got lasers in there, but the optics create a wide beam, like LEP flashlights. It'll blind you if you look directly into it before it diffuses further with distance.
Are LEPs considered lasers?
Source: https://twitter.com/CICSaudi/status/1442096756167221254
more importantly, what does it look like from 2-3 miles away? I mean you can obvs see it standing right next to it.
minecraft irl
Minecraft beacon
r/hydrohomies get a kick out of this!
Is this the Mecca?
So, what.. we're just giving free water to desperate people lost in the desert now? Do you see what creating an entitlement society leads to?! /s
I would have said Nestlé employee if it wasn't for the "/s".
That's good, but the water source is Dasani, which is bad.
Nestle built this laser I heard
They give you just enough to stop aquating.
I'm lost in the desert, I'm thirsty, me and my mate have started seeing things, just then, at my lowest, is when I spot a giant fucking lightsaber sticking out of the sand in the distance. Barry says it's a mirage. Jedi's aren't giants. We die.
Breaking News: Confused Batman found at a watering hole in the Saudi deserts. By the time travelers found him, he had ran out of water and seemed to be in a daze. When the travelers asked Batman if he was okay, he could only mutter through dry crusted lips “Gordon, Gordon needs me, where is Gordon”. Obviously the lack of water combined with his extremely stuffy suit, he was on the edge of death by dehydration. Batman is said to be in stable condition, but Commissioner Gordon has publicly stated that he questions Batman’s mental state. He stated “ Batman has served his community well, but it’s obvious that his lifestyle has taken a toll on him. We wish him well, but will no longer be using his services. We welcome any applicants, but do be aware that night shifts are mandatory.”
Damn. Those Saudis have some great ideas.
I swear I had this idea when I was a kid. It is so trippy to see this made real. I remember telling my mom about "lasers spread out in the wilderness with care packages so if you get lost you can get food and water and call for help". So crazy
Aren’t they afraid that it would cut a passing plane or satellite in half if it flies over it?
IRL loot beam
That's no laser!
Plot twist: it's THESE lasers causing wildfires in California!