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Have you ever tried drinking sea water? It tastes salty. The short of it being: It makes you thirstier; drinking it is worse than drinking nothing. Desalinatio
by SolarNet 9y ago
Have you ever tried drinking sea water? It tastes salty. The short of it being: It makes you thirstier; drinking it is worse than drinking nothing.
Desalination is expensive in many ways. If it was a viable way of acquiring water (which it is in some places, like literal deserts) then these places would have already done it. Hence rising sea levels provide no additional access drinkable water.
- 20after4 9y agoBut it has what plants crave.
- croon 9y agoNot sure if you're being facetious, but saltwater kills most plants, with a few exceptions.
- chowells 9y agoAnd just yesterday, I was thinking no one here would need to explain who Mike Judge is to the general audience. "It's got what plants crave" is a line from his movie Idiocracy. It is directly relevant the discussion at hand, but it's also a zero-effort joke that contributes nothing new.
- phaemon 9y agoWell, Idiocracy was release over 11 years ago, so young adults might not have heard of it. Hope I haven't made you feel old :)
- SideburnsOfDoom 9y agoI for one got the reference. but HN comment style strongly discourages low-effort jokes. It doesn't add information. I'm not surprised that it was downvoted, whether people "got it" or not. This is fine, HN is not reddit.
- nukeop 9y agoGod forbid somebody makes a joke! This is a professional website, grim attitude is required.
- SideburnsOfDoom 9y ago> a zero-effort joke that contributes nothing new > low-effort jokes. It doesn't add information. And then > God forbid somebody makes a joke! You're misreading what is being said.
- croon 9y agoYour presumption was half correct, but that movie might be my only blind spot in his oeuvre. Nonetheless I thank you for the clarification.