its actually very easy: first you establish communication protocol by going EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEpshpshpshpshspshpshKHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, exchange key pairs, then share interesting facts about Karl Freiherr von Drais inventor of the bicycle. That’ll work for like 95% of cases.
Wait I want information about the inventor of the bicycle.
I will trade you for info dump on the Atlas rocket. It was a ballistic missile for the air force, but since it used liquid oxygen fuel it wasn’t a good missile, liquid oxygen boils off from the fuel tank at ambient condition. So instead it was used as a space rocket, notably for the Mercury program.
It’s a unique rocket, because early rocket engine couldn’t be turned on in flight is used a stage and a half system, where the central engine is an efficient, long burning, engine. And then a pair of more powerful shorter life engines are mounted on a discardable skirt. All three engines share the same central fuel tank, and are turned on at takeoff. Around 2min in flight, the booster engines are discarded. This means the central fuel tank has to go all the way to orbit so it had to be very light.
Karel Bossart, the designer of the Atlas rocket came up with a solution for ultra light fuel tanks. Balloon tanks, fuel tanks that instead of being held up by steel or aluminum structure, are held up by the pressure of the fuel inside. Which was also used on the Titan family of rockets. And led to a few funny incidents where the rocket collapse on themselves comically because they can’t support themselves on the launch pad with empty fuel tanks.
yoo thats a cool rocket, gonna get it in ksp next time
So one of the first bicycles (I’m sure there was a dude in rural India or smth who did it at a similar time) was invented by this guy Karl Drais. The bicycle didn’t have any pedals you’d just push yourself with your legs, but apparently people were still freaking out they were zooming too fast and too furious on the pavement.
And that’s not the only shit he invented: he did stenography, a device that recorded piano music on paper, some neat typewriter stuff and a ton more. It was a cool time to be a well off whiteboy in Germany fr fr.
But the interesting part about Drais is that he was surprisingly and tragically based for his time: he supported antimonarchists revolution in Baden but got tarred (like, literally) by a mob because his noble conservative judge dad was doing conservative noble judge stuff.
He said f that and went to Brazil for a bit but it sucked (because no offence it was Brazil in 1830s) so he returned only to get almost murderated for being in line for the titles of his dead daddy.
While he was inventing meatgrinder (no joke) the 1840s rolled in, Baden finally had a revolution and our boi Drais was like hell yeah! drop the noble “von”, call me citizen Karl Drais, fuck the prince etc. Except the revolution got quickly crushed, Karl got most of his shit taken, his sanity questioned, and he died destitute :(
His bicycle was called Dandy Horse though isn’t it cute in a 19th century gonna-crush-my-last-two-fingers-at-the-factory-for-a-bowl-of-soup way ^^
It’s funny because you’re asking Google. You clearly should be asking Marc Zuckerberg instead.
See I truly can’t tell whether this is the trans comm or the autism comm.
…or both?
It’s both, but there’s a considerable amount of overlap.
just ask mimi <3
most definitly not by eating tuna with potatosalad.
gandalfsche mettbrötchen hehe
