Whaaaaaat?! Capitalism isn't compatible with conservationism!?

O.M.G.

Shocked.

I dunno, why not lean into and become clearly comic book villains that are doing a bit? Would it work? I don't know but it would be hilarious.

Wait this is a genius science outreach idea!

Are these engineers the wolf in the three little pigs story?

houses

It's not a home, that'd be cruel. Those are not cruel and reckless scientists. :D

Here's the damn image.

Lazy arsed journalist.

Oh fucking LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO!!!

(looks inside article)

And the can't be arsed to even reprint the image? Just NDVI?

FWIW,

wp:Rotor ship

once this technology becomes mature and extremely safe this might actually be a very practical method of

...crossing the strait of Georgia in a timely fashion. It's only like 40km but the mercenary ferry service is just unreliable and flaky.

I'll do this every day if it gets me there today.

Well, that is about getting a medic to a patient and not transporting a patient. So a completely different usecase.

(And getting a quadcopter like in the OP reliable enough to make it suitable for anything other that emergency transport of a patient that might otherwise die would be challenging).

Lmao you started it - you want to dismiss an argument go ahead, but maybe don't use slop to do it in the future. Idk if this is helpful advice tho; if this is what you consider "fragile" you're going to have a terrible time on lemmy.

And fwiw you misunderstood; while 1/7 is not very small, the population within the relevant area of the us (not just the 5 pacific states) is a very small amount under 1/2.

I appreciate that's literally the first site that comes up when you DDG "why are us houses made of wood" but it's credibility is... lacking (and I'll confess, I'm quite content having an answer that differs from the one given on an AI generated slop site.)

You really don’t take a disagreement well. Don’t worry, it won’t happen from me again because I block anybody so fragile they respond like you did. But first:

~1/7 the population

Is that not smaller than 6/7?

~1/5 the landmass

Is that not smaller than 4/5?

I disagree on the subjective meaning of a very small portion but I guess we’ll just have to disagree.

Situations where a medic can reach a patient but then the patient needs to be transported by air lift for less than 15km

I don't necessarily agree but all the same, luckily people are already one step ahead of both of us!!

Maybe if you use it to transport the medic to the site first to have them stabilize and prepare the patient for transport and then do a second flight to pic the medic up again.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2026/august/13/north-carolina-flights-marked-new-chapter-in-ems

One of the first two calls she responded to was a cardiac emergency, a response where seconds shaved off the response time can matter, more so minutes. In one study on the topic (retrieved from the National Library of Medicine), researchers analyzed years of data on EMS responses to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest events in Taipei City, Taiwan, and quantified a rapid decline in survival probability when ALS care is delayed. "For every minute of delayed ALS response time, the likelihood of survival to hospital discharge would reduce by 7 [percent]," the paper reports. "Further, for every minute of delayed ALS response time, there was a reduction of 9 [percent] … chance of favorable neurologic outcome … at discharge."

While other, similar studies have failed to prove comparable fast-response advantages, the premise that ALS response time matters to a significant degree in certain types of emergencies—particularly cardiac events and trauma—has shaped paramedic training and practice for decades. It generally takes more than two years to qualify as an emergency medical technician—paramedic, including 1,800 hours or more of classroom and clinical rotations, in-service training on basic life support and ALS ambulances, and passing a series of exams. On a ground ambulance, a paramedic has most of the same tools used in a hospital emergency room at their disposal, but the strict payload limits of a multirotor electric aircraft prompted Reece to pare that down to the absolute essentials. The Philips Tempus ALS cardiac monitor and defibrillator is a lightweight version of the crucial device that trades off some diagnostic capability for size and weight, administers electric shocks via pads rather than paddles, and "fits perfectly in this aircraft." Reece also filled a primary care bag with all the tools needed to control bleeding and restore an airway, various medications, a suction device, and an oxygen bottle. "In all, I think my gear weighed around 30, 32 pounds."

Medical helicopter pilots rarely, if ever, get involved in patient care, but Reece had to learn to wear two hats, and develop an aeronautical skill set and knowledge base. She recalled learning when to think like a pilot and not like a paramedic

Situations where a medic can reach a patient but then the patient needs to be transported by air lift for less than 15km seem rather rare outside combat situations. Maybe if you use it to transport the medic to the site first to have them stabilize and prepare the patient for transport and then do a second flight to pic the medic up again.

I appreciate that's literally the first site that comes up when you DDG "why are us houses made of wood" but it's credibility is... lacking (and I'll confess, I'm quite content having an answer that differs from the one given on an AI generated slop site.)

Anyways: I can't exactly agree with the idea that the entire US west coast is a "very small portion" of the country (being the 5 pacific states alone account for ~1/7 the population and ~1/5 the land mass, and the geologic "hot zone" that's relevant here extends much further east than those 5 alone). I recommend reading ASCE-7's section on seismic design (IEBC codes are much easier to obtain, but unfortunately also much less helpful) if you ever are having problems falling asleep / for further specific information about this topic and the performance of unreinforced and seismic retrofitted unreinforced masonry vs. wood construction in an earthquake. The prevalence of unreinforced masonry buildings in the east coast vs. west is without a doubt in no small part down to the availability of materials, but as is usual, treating the US as homogeneous is generally a recipe for unhelpful statistics. To illustrate some of the historical reasons as to why there are differences in building materials between the western and eastern US:

This image (source) is a charting of every 4.0+ earthquake in the lower 48 (4.0 being the general threshold at which seismically unreinforced (old) masonry buildings begin to sustain damage) for the past 125 years. You may be able to notice the little section labeled "Milwaukee" that is completely devoid of any big gray circle - I suggest that just perhaps this is a factor in the initial adoption and subsequent length of popularity of brick construction in that region, which from what I am reading appears to have continued a full 50-60 years after similar construction went out of popularity (or was outright not permitted) on the west coast. Certainly the availability of timber over brick in the regions was an important factor, but there the motivation for moving away from brick and stone was much more of an economic one, as there were few more complex motivating factors (like "the ground is trying to kill me" (instead the air frequently tries to kill you - an event that brick and stone are far more useful in combating)). There was ample unreinforced masonry construction in the west in the 1800s - 1900s, but for some unknowable reason there are very few examples of that construction remaining in the modern era...

I'm not saying economic pressures aren't a factor, but "will the building will fall down and smoosh me" (or sink into the swamp, or have it's foundation eroded away, or...) is similarly critical factor to consider.

But we need all that electricity for the data centers! /s

Stone, famous for it's thermal isolation properties and energy efficiency.

They just need to put them in a field here in the fall. I've seen the wind blow down cinder-block silos.

And inflation is like 200% because twice the house was worth the same amount of money.

But it's basically a fridge! Everyone knows how bad fridges are for the grid... wait.

Wood frames are also easier to insulate. Even brick houses made last 100 years are brick veneer, the brick offers no strength.

Solid stone houses are damp and cold, fine for European climates, but when you go into Scandinavia, wood makes more sense.

2000 was 26 years ago.

the big factor for most of the country is that stone houses fall down in earthquakes and are very sensitive to soil erosion, floods, etc.

I think you’re overstating it a bit. Those are considerations for a very small portion of the country, and in fact changes in building code to be less strict on materials made brick/stone no longer a requirement.

It’s primarily material availability. Milwaukee is a great example of the early availability of brick and its prevalence in construction until availability and cost, among other factors, drove the change to wood frame construction.

The east cost cities are good examples too. Boston, Philadelphia, New York all have a lot of brick due to the brickworks and availability but the farther west you go the less you see. This is, in a large part, because it’s expensive to transport brick/stone, especially when there’s an abundance of building material to harvest and use in the form of wood.

I would agree in modern times though it’s largely cost and climate that drive building material in the US and wood is not only suitable and cheaper, it’s also more flexible to build with.

Mine is humming away gently, keeping me nice and warm. Also provides hot water from the same unit.

Or it would be keeping me warm if my heating would turn on, its still warm enough inside that it has barely turned on at all. Getting enough heating just from the dehumidifier, which also uses the refrigeration cycle. Technology connections would love my house. Thinking of getting another one to regulate the temperature of my axolotl tank.

What? Sounds perfect for infinite revenue generation...