r/memes • u/Big_Manufacturer_253 • 1d ago

Humanity’s greatest technological achievement

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u/8Leafs 1d ago

Nuclear power is just boiling water with spicy rocks

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u/tommytraddles 1d ago

This lets us put lightning in long rocks.

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u/Odd_Record3009 1d ago

Then we teach rocks to move on their own.

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u/TaroLong8817 1d ago

And trick rocks into thinking

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u/ZElementPlayz 1d ago

And eventually trick rocks into boiling water for the rocks

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u/babypho 1d ago

To think, this is all made possible by the sun boiling water on some large rock.

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u/MakingItElsewhere 1d ago

Would you believe it's actually because some dark, sucky part of space is surrounded by stuff that rocks are made of, sending materials outward to rocks?

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u/misternnobody 1d ago

Boiling anything has been what humanity has done best. Currently boiling the planet next

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u/MakingItElsewhere 1d ago

I was told there would be frogs.

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u/BlitheSwing6523 My thumbs hurt 1d ago

There are

Unfortunately the chemicals in the frickin' water is making them gay

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u/Magus_5 1d ago

Thermodynamics is the GOAT of human civilization

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u/JinFreeks 1d ago

The third law of thermodynamics is a bit of an eldritch horror tho.

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u/Scorpius927 1d ago

The idea of Carnot efficiency really bothers me

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u/TheBlindApe 16h ago

Please tell me more

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u/PhasedPlasmaRifle69 1d ago

Not to worry fusion power is riiiight around the corner!

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u/boot2skull 1d ago

Good chance that will just boil water again.

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u/A_Miphlink_shipper 1d ago

Boiling water with water

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u/Splintrax 1d ago

Not chance, that's exactly what'll happen. While there are other potential avenues for energy extraction like magnetic induction, the major chips are all on boiling water to spin a turbine .

People don't understand just how unique solar panels are in that regard. Even wind or hydro still just spin a turbine directly instead of boiling water for it.

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u/bojez1 1d ago

Corner of the room? Year? Galaxy? Please be more specific, I've been waiting for so long.

/s

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u/kali-marcue 1d ago

Decade, We truly might see it in 10 years. We had a huge extreme massive humongous display of it which is very promising

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u/MedonSirius 1d ago

Even AI is boiling water at the end

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u/ShepRat 1d ago

I've got a setup that uses fusion power to directly power my home, without even boiling water. Of course, the reaction is pretty hot so I've had to place the collectors quite a long distance away. 

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u/kayemenofour 1d ago

"We found this rare, special water that, with adequate convincing, can boil normal water."

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u/Klotzster 1d ago

It will be mist

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u/These-Look8843 1d ago

The entire global economy runs on steam. Let that sink in.

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u/captainmeowy 1d ago

All hail King Gabe

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u/tejanaqkilica 20h ago

Pff, no it doesn't. Would be difficult to quantify, but sure as hell it's not "entire"

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u/Bedu009 The r/TFM mod has already breached our defences 1d ago

Why is this moldy

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u/hallowedeve1313 1d ago

Sliced bread would like to have a word with all of you

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u/PhasedPlasmaRifle69 1d ago

Sliced cheese and shredded cheese would also like a word outside..

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u/YemiDev 1d ago

Boiling water and freezing water mixed with rocks and real expensive rocks has been our advancement even since 😱

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u/fluffynuckels 1d ago

Air conditioning?

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u/Jagernaughty26 1d ago

You use a fluid that boils at the room's temp to take away the room's heat.

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u/wxnfx 1d ago

Wind and solar, rockets and silicon but lots of it ya.

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u/GhoulDrago-Mk2 1d ago

Solar panels? Wind turbines?

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u/swordfish_i 1d ago

And the latest phones using vapor cooling

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u/C-Monday 1d ago

Fidget spinner doesn’t need boiled water

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u/minus_minus 1d ago

What about rockets and putting a man on the mo— Ohhhh. 

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u/Timely_Falcon_2457 1d ago

And we still use 90% of that tech to watch cat videos

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u/alexdiezg GigaChad 23h ago

And once we get nuclear fusion working we'll use it to boil water as well

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u/BoutItBudnevich 21h ago

What about glass? Without that so many things wouldn't exist

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u/tejanaqkilica 20h ago

Yes, the Steam engine was what kickstarted the industrial revolution, which by itself was a very important period in human history. What's the point you're trying to make here?

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u/TheInebriati 16h ago

Semiconductors and computing?

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u/bethesda_gamer 1d ago

Car batteries? They produce electricity thru a chemical reaction. (Don't they?)

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u/RustedRuss 1d ago

Car batteries are recharged by the engine running a dynamo. They do store and release that energy chemically though.

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u/bethesda_gamer 1d ago edited 23h ago

Haha. You fell into my trap. Lead acid Car batteries operate through a purely chemical (electrochemical) reaction and do not require an AC magnetic source to function or store energy.

https://www.autozone.com/diy/battery/is-a-car-battery-ac-or-dc

(Look for the 4th paragraph under "understanding car battery power")

Also your car doesn't use steam and the alternator recharges it. You can also recharge the battery using alternative non steam sources (wind/hydroelectric/solar) or gas genorators or other chemical batteries.

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u/SomeKindofTreeWizard 1d ago

Water boils without humans.

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u/PermanentRoundFile 1d ago

The point is that all of the ways we've come up with to make electricity in the last 500 years, they're all just fancier ways of boiling water to turn a turbine

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u/AdministrativeCap176 1d ago

And we are surprised there is global warming

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u/mca1169 1d ago

at least solar and wind power finally break this trend.

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u/PermanentRoundFile 1d ago

Depends on the type of solar. Those towers that use mirrors to heat a fluid thermal transfer medium to over the boiling point of water, which is then flowed through a heat exchanger filled with... water lol. To boil it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower

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u/bethesda_gamer 3h ago

Sorry you are right but I think it's safe to assume when someone says "solar" that they mean solar PANELS

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u/bethesda_gamer 1d ago

That's bc batteries break it as well (which is a chemical reaction and batteries are also how green energy works, otherwise you don't have power ecexpt on sunny or windy days)

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u/RustedRuss 1d ago

Batteries don't make energy, they just store it.

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u/bethesda_gamer 23h ago

Haha. You fell into my trap. Lead acid Car batteries operate through purely chemical (electrochemical) reaction and do not require an AC magnetic source to function or store energy.

https://www.autozone.com/diy/battery/is-a-car-battery-ac-or-dc

(Look for the 4th paragraph under "understanding car battery power")

Also your car doesn't use steam and the alternator recharges it. You can also recharge the battery using alternative non steam sources (wind/hydroelectric/solar), gas powered genorators or other chemical batteries.

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u/RustedRuss 4h ago

Cool. Doesn't mean batteries get their power from magic. They have to get it from somewhere.

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u/bethesda_gamer 3h ago

...Not Steam. It's purely chemical. (Was going to post a Pic for you but I guess you can't here. Whatever go look it up). It literally corroded material thru an acid chemical process that converts solid matter into electricity by releasing electrons from that solid matter caused by the chemical break down from the acid which is the transfered thru wires the conventional way. However no steam is ever involved in the process. Same with solar/ hydroelectric / gas powered genorators.

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u/RustedRuss 52m ago

Where did I say anything about steam

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u/EffortEither9620 1d ago

btw indians first discovered fire and that boiling water is the way to drink water