Re: Relevant Thunderf00t videos
@handleoclast
Yeah, bad form to reply to your own posts. But I realized something.
Some of these schemes start out as scams. Maybe most of them. But some of them happen because few people smoke these days. I'm not arguing that nicotine improves intelligence, or anything like that. But the decline in smoking has an indirect effect on these schemes happening.
For example. You're sitting there with a glass of cold beer in your hand. You notice condensation forming on the outside of the glass. That (together with the beer already consumed) gets you thinking. Cold causes water to condense. Peltier-effect cooling devices exist. Peltier-effect devices run on electricity. Solar cells generate electricity. Maybe if you hooked up a Peltier-effect device to a solar cell you could condense water out of the air. Wow! You might be able to make a self-filling water bottle.
At this point, if you smoked, you'd reach for the fags and start jotting figures down on the back of the packet. Shortly after you'd realize that the yield would be so low, even on a bright sunny day with the solar cell angled for optimum power, it would still take weeks to fill a small bottle. So you realize your dream of a self-filling bottle with a flexible solar panel wrapped around it, slung under a bicycle frame between your legs (which shade the solar panels, and the panels weren't angled for maximum power anyway) isn't going to work. The figures on the back of your fag packet prove it won't work, so you abandon the idea. But if you don't smoke you try to get your moronic idea crowdfunded because you had nothing to do calculations on.
BTW, I didn't make that example up. The thought processes I described came from my imagination. The product itself, the bottle slung under the bike frame between your legs, was actually crowdfunded (and debunked by Thunderf00t).
The icon is not me reaching for my coat, it's me realizing I left my fags in my coat pocket.