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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    tbf peak engineering usually survives without too much needed design changes. For instance, pencils and paper have looked the same for quite a while now. And the Dyson hand dryer's engineering is even peakier than those. It's so refined that I think it's reasonable that it'd keep the same form through the year 2255.

    edit: I didn't think I needed this because I was comparing the invention of the Dyson hand dryer to the invention of the pencil... but uhhhhh... /s

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I thought most hand dryers were bacteria traps? Unless they've made some changes since.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Oh, they are. It'd be cleaner to lick the general toilet seat than to lick your finger after using one of these. I don't use them at all.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Your hands are supposed to be clean from washing with soap and water. The dryer is just there to make your hands dry because moving around with wet hands isn't very comfortable.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    But they rapidly suck air in from the surrounding area which means if someone flushes the poo partials are in the air and being blown on your hands.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And then you have to touch the doorknob/push plate/etc. to leave.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's possible that the Dyson driers do a miny Baryon sweep of your hands....except it doesn't ablate your hands off.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Disclaimer: "Minor ablation may occur."

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    This needs to be a Lower Decks episode.

    Mariner: Why don't you use the Dyson dryer?

    Boimler: Because they don't really get your hands dry. I end up using a paper towel anyway. Besides, I don't want to accidentally slice my hands off.

    Mariner: Quit being a baby. I just finished tuning it. Give it a try.

    Boimler: sigh fine. The Dyson dryer cuts his hands clean off.

    Beat

    They both start screaming

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It was pointed out to me once that the engine room scenes were filmed in a brewery and now I can't unsee it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Which one? The first one they used the "create a sun" fusion experiment in Livermore Labs, not a brewery.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    You're misremembering. The first one was the brewery. Into Darkness was the labs. The first one had the scene with Simon Pegg in the pipes between brewery tanks. Into Darkness has Pine go into the fusion lab to realign the warp core.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    24th century sonic urinal. What's weird is that there's a camera right above it. Do restrooms not have privacy in the future? 🤔

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    We're one step closer to the future!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Guy on the right looks like he is drunkenly telling a story to his sober friend (never saw the movie so maybe Im right?)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you post attention you can see the coolest forklift ever in one scene. It's able to drive sideways (useful for very wide objects).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    That’s a urinal

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I hated this fucking movie in the theater

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