But to the layperson at large we’re just pedantically nitpicking.
Important to mention. The idea that the internet isn't actually on their box is already a frontier of public communications.
But, for Lemmy's sake, yeah email, straming, VOIP and video calling, whatever IOT or app protocol.
Yeah, it was always going to happen.
Ocean mine.
Many sea mines of that era are actually activated by disturbances in magnetism! They're pretty good about not going off unless something large and metal rolls up, since that's their purpose, although anything really old is suspect of not working as designed. That's why when somebody digs up (or just kind of has) an old bomb they detonate it on site instead of trying to move it.
WWII also saw acoustic mines used. Contact mines were and are around too, and I would guess if you don't crush a trigger the same answer about only going off when conditions are met applies.
Modern low-sensitivity explosives can survive an actual plane crash without going off, and will burn instead.
helmet (why not just move the whole sentence into the text, OP?)
SSTF covered everything from here on pretty much perfectly.
On the off chance your helmet does successfully take that kind of punishment, and the blast wave is absorbed enough to not hurt the soldier, there still will be a bunch of hot gases escaping in every direction which isn't great. Better than no helmet, though - the trick is just noticing the grenade, stopping, removing your helmet and gently placing it over top before it blows up, which is why that move isn't actually a thing.
TBF, something's already gone funny if you're finding pipe bombs on the street.
Oooh, something to do if I'm ever in Croatia!
That could be it.
Digging isn't free in Sweden either, right? Maybe OP thinks they're ugly, but sometimes good enough is good enough.
And yet, the US pays normal market rates for crude like everyone else.
IIRC about 20% of the cost of a new home is framing. So even if they make it free, it's a nice little cut, but not world-changing.
The technology itself is still interesting. Maybe you could use it for water works or a chemical plant - things where a large, weird-shaped container is the goal.
Roman Emperor Claudius, so the story goes. If it did happen, it might have been for show rather than because it was really practical for warfare.
No, Claudius actually boated them over to scare the locals into shape. Or reputedly so.
It'd be pretty easy to guess, honestly. Just saying "a lot like a cow, with legs like in the front" would cover it for sculptural purposes - the flattish tail being an excusable detail.
Medieval artists did a lot of this, although sometimes the results were less than perfect:
I don't know, the thing about the internet is that it does bring a ton of value, and operating it does have costs in turn. Maybe Sir Tim is right about DNS being the point where it got commercial, but it was going to happen somehow. Arxiv and Wikipedia still exist, but how do you do Amazon non-commercially? Even YouTube is a challenge.
Arguably, that's not the distinction. Technologies can be explicitly of control or of chaos. And then that relative structure or freedom can itself be used for good or for evil.
A central platform is of control, Lemmy or Linux is of chaos. And obviously we lean towards the latter a lot, but for some things, even Lemmy wants central control and monitoring, so it's not evil, exactly.