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Call me when Silicon Valley reinvents sailing

• jrflowers 3y ago
  Amazon could fly hundreds of their more commonly sold items into a typhoon and distribute them over long distances while using very little energy
  • agilob 3y ago
    Maybe we could also solve some problem of garbage dumps? Build all the garbage dumps on a route of frequent cyclones and the trash just disappears the next Tuesday!
    • AnimalMuppet 3y ago
      I don't want a cyclone every Tuesday. Not even to get rid of the trash.
      • FredPret 3y ago
        Progress doesn't wait for anyone!
      • jrflowers 3y ago
        The cyclone supply will be fixed and unresponsive to demand
    • jrflowers 3y ago
      We could build ramps near common cyclone routes in order to launch the trash into space at escape velocity or at the very least into low earth orbit
  • _jal 3y ago
    ...And it probably have odds of reaching the intended recipient similar to their "leave packages on urban sidewalks" program.
  • astrea 3y ago
    Nothing more regularly scheduled and reliable than a typhoon
• foota 3y ago
  Um, theyre putting (nontraditional) sails on cargo ships now, does that count?
  • CE02 3y ago
    I was about to mention this...
    • mrcode007 3y ago
      The original cargo ships looked like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Kolumbus-Santa-Maria.jpg/1280px-Kolumbus-Santa-Maria.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Ko...
      • foota 3y ago
        There are apparently also green shipping company using newly built "actual" sailboats. We live in strange times.
• Cthulhu_ 3y ago
  We're calling it... Sailr, the revolutionary green sea travel technology, it uses the power of our app to capture the wind to drive a turbine to generate electricity that charges your phone which you can then plug into our cybertwirl that propels your boat. Only $14,99 per month, in the App Store and Play Store.