Scientists in Darwin Australia Build Fish Powered Boat

[Lamboinee]

Ok, so maybe they aren't from Darwin. But they are Australian.

https://jalopnik.com/horsepower-is-dead-australians-have-fish-powered-boats-1851715378

[SirVantes]

They stole the idea from China Mieville's The Scar.

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[El Presidente]

6 hours ago, Lamboinee said:

Ok, so maybe they aren't from Darwin. But they are Australian.

https://jalopnik.com/horsepower-is-dead-australians-have-fish-powered-boats-1851715378

Sounds fishy to me 

The Chinese would have copied it. 

If they were from Darwin, they would have been granted "keys to the city" or 2 cartons of Darwin stubbies. They would have chosen the stubbies.

 

[riderpride]

More plastic and enslaving fish?

I'm curious what Aquaman has to say 🤔 

Cheers!

[Ken Gargett]

13 hours ago, SirVantes said:

They stole the idea from China Mieville's The Scar.

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big fan of china mieville. perdido st station is especially brilliant. he could have avoided that collaboration with Keanu. 

[SirVantes]

1 hour ago, Ken Gargett said:

big fan of china mieville. perdido st station is especially brilliant. he could have avoided that collaboration with Keanu. 

I just finished it yesterday, and it wasn't one of his best. He said that he felt like he had been given permission to play with Keanu's toy; to me, it wasn't a particularly interesting or original toy, and he also didn't pack in the extra bits of weirdness that his other novels are often filled with.  

[Ken Gargett]

1 hour ago, SirVantes said:

I just finished it yesterday, and it wasn't one of his best. He said that he felt like he had been given permission to play with Keanu's toy; to me, it wasn't a particularly interesting or original toy, and he also didn't pack in the extra bits of weirdness that his other novels are often filled with.  

i hate giving up on books but i gave up on that one. a few friends did the same. 

[SirVantes]

1 hour ago, Ken Gargett said:

i hate giving up on books but i gave up on that one. a few friends did the same. 

With books, I follow the Mastermind rule. Although I was sorely tempted to put the new Murakami down. Another eagerly anticipated one that disappointed.