Imagine a government so cartoonishly evil and/or stupid that it would develop nuclear technology, then use it to extract fossil fuels more profitably. No need, the USA tried.
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Ok, but in their defense the other idea was putting small nuclear reactors in everyone's car. Fallout didn't pluck that idea from the aether.
Nuclear Fracking has a ring to it though.
Isn’t fission just atom fracking?
At least that would've made the traffic interesting. Fender bender directly followed by nuclear contamination of an entire city block.
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You know I just realized I need to get a quick deployment and dedeployment windsurfing parachute to propel my bicycle when the wind is, well, normal here.
quick deployment
Trivial
and dedeployment
Physically impossible
So it averages out to being about average in difficulty then.
Mid diff
You could attach the parachute lines to electric motors that could quickly reel the parachute back in.
And make the parachute semi-rigid like an umbrella so that it folds in a predictable and reversible way.
And make the anchor point where the lines attach to the motorcycle moveable. When it's deployed, the anchor point sits at the front of the bike so the chute and lines can pull the bike forward from the front. As the chute is getting close to being fully reeled in, the anchor point swings out on an arm a couple feet to the side of the bike and it gets several feet higher so that the lines and the chute are coming in from directly overhead rather than blocking the riders view.
These are just my preliminary ideas. Of course the engineering team at GM or Toyota or whoever buys this idea off me will likely want to tighten it up a bit to take into account various locale specific regulations and practical manufacturing considerations.
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I can imagine power lines being a problem.
not my biggest one tho
shit it looks like i've got all the hardware except the sail (my trike has a vertical(ish) post about the same angle we could totally pop a sail mount in or on. and i'm kind of turning my bike into a papier mache pirate frigate for halloween 2026, so this would just, uh, yeah it'd be great.
my wife blames you. i haven't told her yet, but she blames you.
I can take it. Good luck!
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fantasy setting has magic and flying creatures
still using nuclear energy as a main energy source
There's a reason we don't have flying cars yet, and it's not because we don't have the technology.
You can only lose so many stable boys before giving up on your riding griffins.
I'm amazed how in fantasy settings with houndreds of humanized species, all being like horse, oxes, cows, pigs, parrots and what not... but acts like humans and have similar social status as humans.. still, meat is being pushed as the core diet in these worlds. It's so importantt to push this narrative that not even fantasy worlds are safe, even though it just gets weird (and prob really dark) with how that world otherwise works.
still, meat is being pushed as the core diet in these worlds
The natural tension between herbavoires and carnavoires is a major plot point of Beastars. It's primarily used as a metaphor for the tension between age cohorts and genders, but vegans and anprims ahem eat it up, regardless.
Similarly, Attack On Titan is all about humans turning into giant cannibal monsters, then justifying it to themselves.
Also, a very popular trope in Vampire / Werewolf / Zombie settings. "How does cannibalism become socially appropriate?" has become a popular subject of modern fiction, particularly in the horror genre.
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