I played this without watching the video, and am glad I did. Really excellent mod, and the ways it fucks with you are quite ingenious!

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No Netflix for me, and no luck on a quick search of torrents, but I'll keep my eye out for that show/series.

Many metrics to compare. Ecologically, that system sounds great for static locations with enough of an elevation gradient and reservoir areas to make it work. On the other hand it seems like the ecological damage done by constructing batteries, factories, and disposing of them is likely quite small compared to many other alternatives, particularly fossil fuels (which also have long-term scarcity concerns on top of plenty of other issues).

A major advantage of battery tech over hydro storage would be mobility. If the thing consuming energy doesn't sit in one place, hydro storage won't work. Another somewhat less significant advantage is the ability to install anywhere -- a battery farm recharged by mains and/or a solar/wind farm could be installed in places where hydro storage couldn't. And for one more item in favor of batteries, I'd wager that the land area footprint required for batteries is much smaller per kWH stored, although that might be wrong for extremely large reservoirs (ie. a hydroelectric dam, pretty much). But by the time you're getting to that large scale, the location requirements and ecological disruption are also much more extreme.

Anyway, I don't mean to pooh-pooh the idea of hydro storage -- it really does seem like a very good and ingenious idea where it would be applicable. But there's certainly room for improved battery tech, too. I don't think that we're going to get fully or even significantly weaned off of fossil fuels quite as fast as the video would have us hope for, either. Fossil fuels were the primary tool in our toolbox for a LONG time. And as the saying goes, since all we've had is that "hammer", we've started to think of everything as a nail.

impressive and ingenious engineering.

some ingenious strategies there.

there's another video of a bird that uses these ants to clean itself of parasites. It literally agitates the ant and puts it under its wing. Pretty ingenious.

I really wanted to know how these work. Great video.

*promote ingenious engineering

Ingenious. Now try doing it without using fossil fuels.

In regards to it not being a single take/cut, to me the video looks like someone was experimenting with what they could do. It would cost a lot to buy enough of those little magnets to pull it off in one, and it looks low budget though i say that affectionately. Some of the stuff is absolutely ingenious.

Oh I'm not upset (at least not in the traditional "oh noes, someone disagrees with me" way= ), I feel sorry for you.

You see the same thing as the rest of us, but instead of marveling at the effort the dad did to give his kid a unique experience, or thinking about how cool it would be if something like that happened when you were that age, the only thing you see is that she is too close to the screen...

I don't blame you for your mindset, we all have our mental baggage, but I feel sorry that you are incapable of seeing the wonder of an ingenious way to give a child a fantastic thrill. It's sad.

He has amazing control over his face, but the camera work is also really impressive. Moving the phone closer to 'zoom' is ingenious and he kept it perfectly framed while doing that. Nice.

And so should every video of animals devouring animals--but those get a pass somehow... I saw a video of a rat hiding from a cat in an ingenious manner, but the rat eventually was smelled out and grabbed and eaten. Broke my heart actually. Like damn it gave its all. But then I never cried for censorship, although I won't watch it again.

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@hallen

Or wait, did you incorrectly think this video was condoning or making light of animal abuse? If so what on earth gave you that misinterpretation? If the people are just abusing it for religion or such shit I say I wish it broke the man's neck. But if it was for a legitimate reason (ie., an injury, food, etc.,) then that is unknown. Either way, the video was merely about the POWER of animals, not abuse.

It's great how even something relatively pointless (in the grand scheme of things) like a foam dart gun can incorporate not only ingenious engineering, but also efficient and appropriate engineering (ie. robust enough to deal with kids who are breaking machines =)

Frickin *quality.

I love ingenious ideas like this that come to life and are as awesome or even better than imagined.

So cool.