It's quite a good musical, as well.

https://thebeverlyartscenter.com/event/the-christmas-schooner/

Steamer named Maunaloa entered service 1899.

US had annexed Hawaii in 1898.

The Hawaiian monarchy was deposed in 1893. Not our best moment.

Turt, my dude, get yourself to Port Wing and soak up some of that sandstone laden south shore goodness.

Make a day trip and hit up the Delta Diner, best gahtdang Jalapeño Pancakes this side of Pasadena.

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The iRobot movie takes place in the near future, relevant scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAU-UyiJ8A&ab_channel=Electech

There is a myth busters episode about this

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What will they be replaced with, teleporters?

2000 years from now, "TIL people use to actually destroy themselves, killing themselves in the process, and digitally print an exact replica of themselves, just so they can buy some ice cream at the 7-11."

Once camped on a beach at Whitefish Bay where a lot of the ship wrecks are. It was sort of eerie looking out into the water and knowing underneath are tales of lost ships and people.

Ha! For sure, "millions of big metal blocks on wheels propelled by explosions... wow how did they even survive".

This article brought to my mind the exploding Android phones from a couple years back as something I'm certain will be looked at in the same way

You might like this book:

The Christmas Tree Ship

It's about the Rouse Simmons shipwreck in Lake Michigan. You can listen to a podcast interview here:

https://pca.st/episode/9c8df3c8-7440-4d33-a686-91f05d5cbd46

Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

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Cars will be one of them.

1000 years from now, “TIL people use to strap themselves to a tank of highly combustible fluid using combustion engines to get around, they would literally give licenses to drive these things to just about anybody”.

I have too, but just for fun.

I read a comment or something once from a chemical engineer who said that, of gasoline/petrol hadn't become ubiquitous a century ago, there's no way regular people would want to buy or handle it without tons of safety precautions.

It's toxic as shit and a flammable solvent.

yeah as soon as I saw your comment I reaslied what I'd done, the joy of a long day looking at a screen, haha

It's the herbicide, not the herb.

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dangit, we love to have reading comprehension don't we

>ragwort-killer coated trousers which explode

He's thinking of Eskimo kisses

It's awesome but also fairly bizarre. It's like they parked it there but they never really cleaned it up, preserved it, or made it a museum. There's 50 year old canned food in the kitchen, there's still tons of oil sludge in the bottom, and let's just say keep your kids away from the paint. But worth doing.

Things like this always make me wonder what kinds of things we're doing now which people will look back on as ridiculous and dangerous like we are now with ragwort-killer coated trousers which explode

EDIT: thank you Gwaydms for catching that!

Kinda crazy how unforgiving the Great Lakes are.