Pairing an automated process with something that costs money without error checking is like putting a credit card on file with a hooker. You're definitely running the risk of waking up broke.
Naked Space, a.k.a. The Creature Wasn't Nice. A terrible Leslie Nielson spoof movie from 1981 that looks like it was shot in a weekend for $500, but it's funny to a point and has some good lines.
What a nice wholesome interaction with the masked paramilitary kidnap force.
Imagine, if this really happened, this guy didn't know who they were and didn't know anything about ice and was like "I really appreciate you guys who are you guys anyway?"
"We're ice"
"Oh I don't know who that is. What brings you to town?"
"We're here to kidnap men, women and children and put them in cages"
"Uh.."
"Yeah, you hear about that guy who got held down and shot in the back of the head execution style?"
"I did hear something about that. We're you there to help him...?"
"Haha. No, we're the ones that shot him. That's why we wear these masks"
"Oh I thought you had those because it's cold"
"Haha no no no no. It's because we don't want people to be able to identify us and hold us accountable for our crimes."
"Uh...I really gotta go"
"Sure thing buddy. Hey, before you go. You don't happen to know any brown people do you?"
I used to watch a lot of British comedy but never really watched any that aren't highly rated. The only two that come to mind are Man Stroke Woman and Green Wing
I like some of the stories in the Bible but it's still pretty hard to read. I don't know why, I don't have that problem with other, even older writings. There is nothing confusing about the Enuma Elish, for example. I think the Epic of Gilgamesh is freaking great.
But when the Bible steals a story told in the Epic of Gilgamesh and makes it Noah's flood, it loses all meaning. The original wasn't all that exciting to begin with but there was a deep meaning to it being in the Epic. But in the Bible, what is the meaning? What's the moral to the story? It just doesn't work.
I found this which confirms it's for adjusting the controls before getting in. I think this one in particular didn't have people with disabilities in mind and is a poor execution all around.
I don't doubt this may be the purpose but the execution looks bad. It may be an illusion but it seems a little far away from the water controls, you'd have to go past elbow deep. The toilet is definitely in the way. You can't get to it with a wheelchair or while standing, you have to be sitting on the toilet.
I've been fooling around with Meshtastic for a couple years and haven't come up with a real world use for it yet, other than scenarios like you mentioned.
What would be really cool is if cell phone makers could incorporate a mesh into their phones as a local public channel when the tower goes out. It would probably just be used by drug dealers or something, but it's the only cool and functional idea I can come up with.
He entered the ark when he was 600 years, 2 months and 17 days old and came out of the ark when he was 601 years 2 months and 27 days old.
Genesis 7:11-13
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 12 The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On the very same day Noah with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons entered the ark,
Genesis 8:13-16
13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and saw that the face of the ground was drying. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
It's funny because the Epic of Gilgamesh, which the ark story is stolen from, the flood only lasts about a week, and everybody knows that's a fictional story. The outrageous version is the story that people believe is real.
Any time I think of Noah's flood I think of livestock transport ships. The largest, which are larger than Noah's ark, can carry 20-30k animals and even with state of the art automated ventilation, feeding and waste removal systems, they have animals die like crazy even on short voyages. On longer voyages or if something malfunctions, it can be hundreds or even thousands of dead animals.
Noah's ark had one window and they were on it for about a year.
Also, scanners don't "send as well as receive."