8 ms·
From the article :"So, the next time you’re about to crumple up a piece of paper and pitch it into the trashcan, you might want to think twice. You could very w
by martyvis 6y ago
From the article :"So, the next time you’re about to crumple up a piece of paper and pitch it into the trashcan, you might want to think twice. You could very well be tossing out an important piece of technology"
Why do reporters still persist with these silly signoffs, that are actually wrong. ( They do it on the evening news as well as these pop science things). The paper you throw in the bin today is actually of no further use to anyone. Just like the glass of water you are drinking isn't going to be used to make hydrogen gas for a car, nor sandcastle you just built for silicon in the latest integrated circuit.
- Angostura 6y agoI believe it is called "humour"
- traverseda 6y agoYou know now that you mention it I think you might be right.
- notassigned 6y agoWhat is the equation for this again?
- sfgweilr4f 6y agoPi.Z.Z=A For a circular area of Humor with radius Z. Best served fresh.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- msla 6y agoIt would be nice if journalists were better at it. It would be even nicer if they were better at reporting facts.
- TaylorAlexander 6y agoJournalists are great at reporting facts but it seems management doesn’t like them.
- mlang23 6y agoHave you been interviewed once? And also read what they finally wrote? Nope, sorry, they are not particularily great at reporting facts. All they do is fill a page with text.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoHumor crafted for the demographic that still subscribe to magazines.
- pacamara619 6y agoDoesn't that involve funny things?
- Uberphallus 6y agoOnly if you're knowledgable in the field of the joke.
- thealienthing 6y agoHahaha
- sevencolors 6y agoI feel like it's a device to leave an impression on the reader/viewer that doesn't make them feel dumb if they didn't fully understand how it works
- sfgweilr4f 6y agoWell technically, given enough time and a suitable pathway through the water cycle, the water you drink today could likely end up in a Hydrogen fuel cell. Or end up on Mars for all we know.
- CameronNemo 6y agoCannot believe I am saying this, but please do not export freshwater to Mars.
- cgriswald 6y agoI’m now imagining the colonization of Mars happening by sending dehydrated humans and just adding water when they get there.
- fiblye 6y agoWater from Fiji is shipped all around the globe just because it says it's from Fiji. If humans ever get around to colonizing Mars, you can bet someone will be selling $50000 bottles of pure nectar bottled at the Hudson River.
- ClikeX 6y agoOn the other hand, we'd also be shipping water from Mars to earth. Get yer bottle of Red2o for $50000 shipped to earth.
- iratewizard 6y agoThanks to hyperinflation, that's a reasonable price.
- manigandham 6y agoPeople read news for entertainment, not education, and that's what journalists are selected, trained, and optimized for. Most articles can be summed up in 3 or less factual sentences but nobody would read that.
- espadrine 6y ago> The paper you throw in the bin today is actually of no further use to anyone. I believe the journalist is actually making a damning, albeit poorly introduced, argument against the device as confronted to cultural expectations. If these keyboards become widespread, it could become easy to mistakenly bin them, because “it is just paper” and it is not obvious that there is a potentially expensive coating and invisible circuit printed on it. It is a similar argument to the one made against Bitcoin, in which it is all too easy to lose access to money because we hold a cultural habit to discard old hard drives – but now suddenly, they are also wallets containing potentially large sums.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoYou say that, but "just" paper is actually becoming pretty rare nowadays in a lot of households and offices.