• einkorn@feddit.org
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    It is somewhat bewildering to realize that we have come all this way in technology but somewhere something is always turning water into steam to drive a piston of some sort.

    • Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world
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      All power is steam power, fossil fuels are burned to boil water. Heck nuclear reactors are also just boiling water to create steam.

      It’s all Steampunk but we grew out of our punk phase :P

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      Was an old joke.

      I invented a revolutionary new power generation!

      “is it actually new or just steam”

      “… steam”.

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    Murca: let’s use frickin lazor beams!

    Canada: magnets boil water go brrrrrrrr

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      Murica: also this was never about power, lasers have no chance of ever breaking even, it’s just a sneaky way to research nuclear weapons

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      19 hours ago

      ruzzians use pencils. That’s how every NASA joke ends. * correction to a grammatical error, ruzzians is all lower case regardless of word position. Same for putin.

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        21 hours ago

        Pencils are problematic in space and NASA didn’t spend millions developing it

        Sorry had to “ahem actually” your joke :p

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          Nah, the joke is that NASA spent millions on a positive pressure space pen…the ruzzians used a pencil. Lol, don’t be trying to fix history that doesn’t need fixing. The ruzzians also invaded Ukraine and lost.

  • rem26_art@fedia.io
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    Thats pretty cool. Using steam pistons to help compress the fuel enough for fusion, from which that heat gets used to make different steam to then make electricity.