• @[email protected]
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    3716 hours ago

    There’s a movie called Steamboy whose premise is the creation of a device that can store steam at nearly infinite pressure

    So with a device like that, you might not need coal for your flying machine =)

    • @AdrianTheFrog
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      1111 hours ago

      I feel like storing steam at nearly infinite pressure is easier than getting steam to nearly infinite pressure

      • @[email protected]
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        1011 hours ago

        That’s actually covered in the movie as well! They needed to find special water to make infinitely-pressurizable steam =)

      • @abbotsbury
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        611 hours ago

        I think It’s, like, a Bag of Holding, but for steam.

    • Phuntis
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      412 hours ago

      where do you think you get the steam from in the first place

      • @[email protected]
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        311 hours ago

        Coal, but the fantastical flying contraption in this thought exercise uses a container of pre-pressurized steam, so it wouldn’t “run out of coal” like the one in the post. It’d just run out of steam

    • @Atrichum
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      413 hours ago

      Ah, I loved that movie but had forgotten the name.