“We expected that they fly around each other and they never have physical contact,” Hristov said. “We have found, shocking to us, that bats crash into each other quite often. It’s a messy situation, but generally it’s very safe and it works very well.”
I guess walking is like humans being in a gas state, and riding a bus is humans arranging themselves into a solid. But idk what liquid humans would be lol
They can hook up little butt fans to the seats so when you fart they can whisk away your flatus rather than making everyone fester in your stank. I mean they don't but they can. Like how they do for astronaut ass
People could lay vertically in their hiding pods stacked on each other and we could put wheels on the bottom like those big baking sheet racks in commercial kitchens. But then we would need someone to push them...cue the bats!
are these american thousands or are these weird european thousands with extra zeroes like their weird millions and billions tho. they have been getting sneaky beaky with their numbers, the way they count things all discrete like.
People have cars for the same reason people like their own apartment or their own house. Other people are awful to be around. They will have no problem making loud noises, caughing at you, smelling bad... People dont care, at all.
People actually pay very much to own a car, and why do they do that? Because public transport is a horrible experience. Im addition to the things above, it takes you at least 2-3 times as long to get anywhere using public transport compared to a car.
I really hate it, no joke. Cant stand using it for more than maybe once per month if I have to.
Driving requires you to be constantly alert, and if you screw up or don't react fast enough, you can straight up die because of it. On a bus, you can be on your phone, read a book, take a nap, whatever. Driving is a much worse experience and even if public transit takes more time, that's time that can be used doing things. That's before factoring the cost (the car itself, gas, insurance), the environmental impact, parking, etc.
I guess that must be why living in Vienna gives you such a terribly low quality of life, as more trips are done by PT than by car and around half the households don't even own a car (most of them could easily afford one), compared to for example Fake London in Canada.
Travelling in a city designed for PT doesn't take any longer than travelling by car in a city designed for cars. How? Because what cars are faster, they need more space, increasing necessary distances, and at the end leading to no improvement in travel times.
I dont live in Vienna. There are actually other countries in the world and life is quite different depending on where you live. Thats why people dont have just one opinion about these things.
Lemmy is funny for downvoting an opinion about liking cars. :) But I know why. Its because many people here want others to like what they like. And its very annoying when they like things like driving, since its bad for the environment. And they wish everyone would take the bus.
That is a bit rich from someone who did not start the comment by saying, "I find public transport awful" but as a general truth "Its awful to go on public transport."
Same goes for your line about how people spend a fortune, just to avoid PT, when in fact, many don't spend a fortune on cars when they happen to live in places where PT is decent and useful. Almost as if not so much the inherent general awfulness of PT makes people choose going by car but when PT is in that specific place just not good, people do so.
As a general rule, you should always assume people write their personal opinions here since its not a scientific paper you are reading. I would never assume that you speak for the world when you write a comment here.
But you are assuming the downvote is due to people wanting everyone to have the same opinion, not because you generally called PT as awful, no qualification of any kind. Maybe next time communicate in a clearer fashion.
You think that PT is awful. We heard that already. You are also refusing to communicate clearly, even after it being pointed out to you. Keep trolling. I am out.
80 Comments
JelleWho@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 156d
Why aren't we doing this? I personally haven't found the option to turn into a bat yet
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 156d
Literally the only issue with the plan
Yondoza@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 156d
Ethicists were too preoccupied with whether or not they should, they didn't stop and think if they could.
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 156d
Have you tried becoming a vampire?
untorquer@quokk.au · 4 pts · 156d
Think of how long it would take to count that high
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 156d
One! One aeon of eternity, ah ah ah! Two! Two aeons...
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 26 pts · 156d
Source
untorquer@quokk.au · 8 pts · 156d
This implies a ideal gas law for bats, an ideal bat law, bat liquid, bat solid, and bat plasma
kunaltyagi@programming.dev · 3 pts · 156d
Cricket might know a thing or two about the bat law
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 156d
In the US, only 33 cars for 50 people is optimistic
ickplant@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 156d
I have a better question - why isn’t this posted in the !bats@lemmy.world community? We would love it here. Stealing and crossposting now.
RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 156d
I simply wasn't aware of the community, I'll remember it next time
ickplant@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 156d
It’s definitely a much smaller community than lemmyshitpost, but we love anything bat-related!
CelloMike@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 156d
MoffKalast@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 156d
I don't recall this version of Batman but I'm all for it.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 156d
What we do in the shadows tv show
FippleStone@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 155d
I didn't know Matt Berry was in that
Doom@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 156d
Vampire propaganda.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 156d
The 50 pedestrians vs 50 people in a bus is messing with my brain.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 156d
Yeah they must really be crammed in there.
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 156d
Double decker?
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org · 1 pts · 155d
A single-story coach has seats for about 50 people. Low-floor city busses a little less, but you can get 50 in there with people standing
Dicska@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 156d
50 pedestrians the way they prefer it. A bus with 50 people on board, where everyone is in each other's personal space.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d
that's gonna be one hell of a smush in the cage match
wieson@feddit.org · 1 pts · 155d
The pedestrians are just standing further apart. In the hustle and bustle of a shopping street they might be closer together.
moseschrute@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 156d
So a bus is more space efficient than pedestrians?
kapulsa@feddit.org · 18 pts · 156d
Often times, yes. Because sitting/standing requires less space than walking and that makes up for the extra space of the bus.
moseschrute@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 156d
I guess walking is like humans being in a gas state, and riding a bus is humans arranging themselves into a solid. But idk what liquid humans would be lol
Bgugi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 155d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 155d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
They can hook up little butt fans to the seats so when you fart they can whisk away your flatus rather than making everyone fester in your stank. I mean they don't but they can. Like how they do for astronaut ass
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 155d
If we ever run out of room for humans to walk around I think we're cooked busses or not.
sundray@lemmus.org · 12 pts · 156d
The nice part about riding the bus is you can kick back, relax, and smoke a ton of weed while you travel.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 156d
Just like the driver!
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 156d
Yeah, fuck busses. Bats are way more eco friendly.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 156d
you can make them eat other bugs too it's so eco friendly
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 156d
It's more efficient to stack pedestrians on top of each other.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
Wasn't there a horror movie about that?
dumbass@piefed.social · 8 pts · 156d
Imagine the amount of mosquitoes you could fit.
ickplant@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 156d
Imagine the amount of mosquitos you could fit if they were inside in the bats’ bellies! They eat like their weight in bugs every night.
dumbass@piefed.social · 3 pts · 156d
Yeah but you have that wasted space where all the bats flesh and bones are, that could be used to fill with more mosquitoes.
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 156d
This post brought to you by Corona gang
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 156d
By beer?
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 156d
Where do I invest?
hansolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 156d
Squeak at the sky after dark and some guys will show up.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 155d
You will certainly not regret having 150,000 bats.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 156d
And now the traffic report:
"I'm over Ventura Blvd., and all the vampires walking in the Valley are heading west."
JayDee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 155d
Those humans are quite large.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 155d
Much larger than bats.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 156d
What if, to save space over cars but keep the personal comfort, everyone had their own hiding place with entrance hidden by brick and rubble?
human@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 156d
People could lay vertically in their hiding pods stacked on each other and we could put wheels on the bottom like those big baking sheet racks in commercial kitchens. But then we would need someone to push them...cue the bats!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 156d
really? only 150 bats? are these fruit bats or fat american vampire bats. i would like to speak to mathematic's manager please.
myotheraccount@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 156d
That's 150 thousand bats (i am not the mathematics manager though - she was probably hit by that bus)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 156d
are these american thousands or are these weird european thousands with extra zeroes like their weird millions and billions tho. they have been getting sneaky beaky with their numbers, the way they count things all discrete like.
SNEAKY.
BEAKY.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 156d
Does it need to be a full-size bat, or can it be one of those mini replica bats? I bet you could fit at least twice as many of those bats.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d
How do I turn into a swarm of bats?
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 156d
!bats@lemmy.world
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 156d
Sponsored by The Bat!
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 156d
Love this
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 156d
Do they all want to go to the same place?
And, cannot the bats fly? Surely there could be far many more.
Speaking of flying, lets just have spaceships for everybody.
Bieren@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 156d
Replace people with bats!
zxqwas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d
The bats go dormant during winter. We got about 6 months of that.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d
And after that - all bats are off.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d
Also, replace pedestrians with buses
Or... get pedestrians way closer together... way... way closer... 😏
Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 156d
How many wolves to bats?
1984@lemmy.today · -5 pts · 156d
Its awful to go on public transport.
People have cars for the same reason people like their own apartment or their own house. Other people are awful to be around. They will have no problem making loud noises, caughing at you, smelling bad... People dont care, at all.
People actually pay very much to own a car, and why do they do that? Because public transport is a horrible experience. Im addition to the things above, it takes you at least 2-3 times as long to get anywhere using public transport compared to a car.
I really hate it, no joke. Cant stand using it for more than maybe once per month if I have to.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 156d
What if...WHAT IF public transport is funded and improved upon?
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d
Things are bad? Just make things good. That will be $7,000 consultant fee.
1984@lemmy.today · -3 pts · 156d
It will have other people.
Objection@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 156d
Driving requires you to be constantly alert, and if you screw up or don't react fast enough, you can straight up die because of it. On a bus, you can be on your phone, read a book, take a nap, whatever. Driving is a much worse experience and even if public transit takes more time, that's time that can be used doing things. That's before factoring the cost (the car itself, gas, insurance), the environmental impact, parking, etc.
1984@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 156d
Sounds like you like the bus, thats great. Good for you.
Jiral@lemmy.org · 4 pts · 156d
I guess that must be why living in Vienna gives you such a terribly low quality of life, as more trips are done by PT than by car and around half the households don't even own a car (most of them could easily afford one), compared to for example Fake London in Canada.
Travelling in a city designed for PT doesn't take any longer than travelling by car in a city designed for cars. How? Because what cars are faster, they need more space, increasing necessary distances, and at the end leading to no improvement in travel times.
1984@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 156d
I dont live in Vienna. There are actually other countries in the world and life is quite different depending on where you live. Thats why people dont have just one opinion about these things.
Lemmy is funny for downvoting an opinion about liking cars. :) But I know why. Its because many people here want others to like what they like. And its very annoying when they like things like driving, since its bad for the environment. And they wish everyone would take the bus.
Jiral@lemmy.org · 2 pts · 156d
That is a bit rich from someone who did not start the comment by saying, "I find public transport awful" but as a general truth "Its awful to go on public transport."
Same goes for your line about how people spend a fortune, just to avoid PT, when in fact, many don't spend a fortune on cars when they happen to live in places where PT is decent and useful. Almost as if not so much the inherent general awfulness of PT makes people choose going by car but when PT is in that specific place just not good, people do so.
1984@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 156d
As a general rule, you should always assume people write their personal opinions here since its not a scientific paper you are reading. I would never assume that you speak for the world when you write a comment here.
Jiral@lemmy.org · 2 pts · 156d
But you are assuming the downvote is due to people wanting everyone to have the same opinion, not because you generally called PT as awful, no qualification of any kind. Maybe next time communicate in a clearer fashion.
1984@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 156d
Naah im good with having opinions. You should try it. Thats what these things are for actually. You know, comments? Thats their purpose.
PT is awful, yes.
Jiral@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 155d
You think that PT is awful. We heard that already. You are also refusing to communicate clearly, even after it being pointed out to you. Keep trolling. I am out.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 156d
look who thinks their shit don't smell