The lost technology of awnings. Technology Connections strikes again!
Everytime
Submitted 12 hours ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to memes@sopuli.xyz
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BurgerBaron@piefed.social 11 hours ago
spizzat2@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Since no one has provided the Technology Connections link yet… Enjoy losing the next 20 minutes to learning about awnings!
cattywampas@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Wait, he did a video on awnings? That sounds like a fascinating half hour I never knew I needed.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Don’t need to look to know it’s at least an hour.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Not dedicated to awnings, I think it was part of one of his home heating/cooling videos. Been awhile.
Nastybutler@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I strongly believe the “Death” and cartoon characters should be swapped for this
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
German has a word for it: Markise
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Markiisi in Finnish
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Finnish truly has a word for everything…
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It either breaks your fall or you leave a hole that is a perfect silhouette of your prone figure.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Happens in real life, too:
Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Huh… I would have imagined a falling person would rip the rivets right out of the fabric and have part of the frame go up their ass, killing them even harder.
sga@piefed.social 1 hour ago
basically any amount of energy conversion is lossy - a loose fabric stretching and pulling on frame in a “wider fashion”, and any deformation of frame will require a lot energy - all subracting from your fall. and fame up in your tushie is at worst a life long pain in sitting or in bowel moments, a direct fall is iinsta death from basically anything above, lets say, 10th floor (pulled number out of thin air, but assuming a roughly flat contact, and human not falling like a diver reducing the direct load o spine(by crushing their arms))
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Everytime
Not a word.
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
pedant
A word.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 hours ago
Obviously. It’s a Britney Spears song.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Hey it’s not just cartoon characters, an awning also saved Indiana Jones’ life!
Sprinks@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
SunSetter retractable awning.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 11 hours ago
banazir@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
A stunt so nice he filmed it twice.
Jackie is a crazy mofo.
catharso@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
marquee
mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
and/or marquise
Captain_Baka@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Unless you are someone like Wile E. Coyote.
Rooskie91@discuss.online 11 hours ago
Awning. They’re a great way to reduce the need for AC by providing shade in treeless regions.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Image
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
80% of the flats where I live have one above their balcony - and we are not even close to treeless.
I was really bewildered by the idea that someone might not know what these are…
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
In some places where air conditioning is omnipresent they’re uncommon. There’s a technology connections video about them that touches on it
Gonzako@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I just don’t know how its named in English, where I’m from they’re toldos
Rooskie91@discuss.online 5 hours ago
I mean you have trees, so they’re mostly on the balcony. I live in a large city (not many trees) of mostly row homes, and they’re on like every window of the side of the houses that face the sun. Not just patios.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Thank you Alec from Technology Connection.
deacon@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
But he’s right though.
Also heat pumps!
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Basically an energy shield protecting against the giant uncontrollable fusion reactor in the sky.