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Drinking water accumulation in the desert has always used cisterns. Entire palaces were built basically on top of huge underground networks of them. A very old idea, indeed.
What cisterns (and these things) are not good for: nomadic existence. Even though these are more portable then a rock cistern, once filled with water they'll be going no place.
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Nomads usually traveled between known water sources (oasis, ...), but now, water becomes scarce, local aquifers are overused and the water sources are not reliable enough to sustain the nomads.
Having Wind traps like that would help both the nomads and the sedentary people.
I'd rather be phishing!
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It collects only 25 gallons of water per day, which can be used up pretty quickly in a day by a small group of people, family. Further, even though the structure only weighs 88 pounds, it's very tall and not really meant to be portable. In any case, I can see these being setup in groups and being used by both stationary and nomadic people.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I've no complaint about water being stored - every sip is valuable.
Here's a worry that's occurred to me:
These get set up, in groups, or even farms (look at me, creating jargon, already!). Control of them can (probably will) become the objects of violent strife.
Not that it'd be any different for any other source of water. I wonder if enough of these could be made and kept in place to prevent the violence?
Just musings.
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The potential for control & violence is always something to be concerned about, but that doesn't seem to be the case around the existing "watering holes", AFAIK.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Wonder how sturdy these things are... if there's high-winds, will these stay standing? ...If you continually have to rebuild something that gets you little water, wonder if people would actually use it.
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I'm going to the spartan race in Indiana on April 26th. Anyone else from here going?
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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since the Spartans traditionally exercised in the nude, I'm staying home. Not interested in seeing your junk, sorry. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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At the Edge of NGC 2174 [^]
Sometimes, words are just not required.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Freakishy cool!
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Wow!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Why does it look like there is gravity source at the bottom of the image?
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Jeez, it's because it's been faked on Fox's back-lot; just like the Apollo missions.
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Is git treating you any better today?
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Luckily I didn't reply last night.
It was working, but then I started getting an error pushing the turd commits up to the remote. I had added a jar [not needed] that exceeded the limit. I fracked about and ended up just having to rollback the change and then re-commit and push without the file.
I've seen more stability walking home at 2am...
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It's your imagination. AFAIK no one can see gravity.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I look at apod every day and have shamed myself at how jaded I've become to these things.
But THIS caused an involuntary burst of "WOW" in my office.
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Its a shame we will never see it for real.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Indeed.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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i wish they'd take off the sparkly filter, though
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This is cool!!
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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My first real programming job out of college was for the company I'm at now. I left for just over a year, and then came back.
The first "real" project I did here (in 2010), is what made them think of me as a programmer who could actually write software rather than a data processor who needed to write vba hacks. It was a website for account management to take bonus money and redeem it as gift cards, or varius other options. It just came up in a meeting today that they will no longer have a need for that "module" in their show this year.
That means I wrote a piece of software that worked as expected, and lived it's life without getting modified, until it was no longer needed for that particular problem. The fact that it never needed modified is exciting to me, but it also feels good to have a piece of software last and be no longer needed. It's like a feeling of closure.
The project that gave me developer status at this company is now being put to rest 
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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I think I have written an awful lot of code that never needed modification.
Mind you I suspect that a massive amount of all the code I have ever written was never used at all: or indeed even executed once I'd finished testing it. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I've got class libraries and whatnot that never got modified. This was an entire application and was in production.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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