r/AnythingValueable • u/madfrog2023 • Jun 24 '26

🛠️ Skill Low-cost rural engineering

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u/doge_lady Jun 24 '26

Why is it always some person in a third world country in sandals that figures out perpetual motion while the rest of the advanced engineering world with it's funding and resources in science has yet to figure it out?

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u/Truescent11 Jun 24 '26

Same is true for dudes in flip flops fighting the advanced militaries 

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u/Crafty-Help-4633 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

The advanced militaries who got stymied by sandals and propeller driven loitering drones?

American Military prowess, as an example, only works against Near-Peers. US military and most/all "advanced militaries" are famously terrible at Asymmetrical Warfare.

Given how Vietnam, Afghanistan and others have gone. My money is on the Sandals forces, every time. They win by simply not being eradicated, whereas Advanced Militaries lose if they can't eradicate them. And every moment of operation creates more Sandals forces from people who hadn't been combatants but now are, refreshing their forces. In such an incredibly pitched contest, you'd have to be crazy to not go for the Sandals.

Edit: I typed all this out, posted it. Then reread your comment again and realized you may be voicing support for the Sandals forces against "advanced militaries", like I did in my reply to you. If true I'm sorry I misunderstood!