I remember when Popular Mechanics used to be an insightful, informative publication. Not so any more. These days, they just regurgitate the same kind of claims that worked so well to gin up public hysteria during the pandemic.
Biofouling may result in a massive marine super-spreader event if preventative measures prove inadequate.
This exposure could turn into a biological apocalypse.
And on top of all that, some species notorious for biofouling can also become parasitic to native species, which can then cause outbreaks of disease that threaten many host species and (depending on the parasite) could possibly infect humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearst_Communications
I used to like Mechanix Illustrated better, back in the day.
Woke capture.
Nothing new here. We were all going to burn in hell for looking at playboy.
I only read the articles!!
The interviews … for me … it’s the interviews. Oh! And the annual All Star band. This one from my Sophomore year in HS was particularly good.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/moodybluesattitude/1972-02-playboy-the-1972-playboy-all-star-band-t7816.html
Playboy bought you Purgatory.
Hustler got you Hell.
As for me, I liked Magnus Robot Fighter Gold Key Comics ,and got bored with a Mechano set toy.
Thankfully, along came underground comix and a long, strange trip.
We roll the way we roll.
Oh man, I remember Magnus. That badass could karate chop through steel.
Yes he could. He handled rogue robots.
We could use a man like him these days.
Yes, I always liked Magnus. “SKREEE!” went the robots when he karate-chopped their heads off….
The early issues of ‘HEAVY METAL’ illustrated mag were pretty awesome.
Maybe, could be, might, possibly….
FEAR FEAR FEAR.
Speculation isn’t FACTS
I’m old enough to remember when Gavin Newsom effectively blockaded Long Beach Port with his new Diesel Truck eco-standards … and container ships piled up in Long Beach Harbor. I saw them with my own eyes. But that was an inconvenient visual … so Gavin moved them all 20miles off the CA coast … so they couldn’t be seen.
Funny. I don’t remember a single article written by Scripps Oceanographic Institute WARNING of the buildup of “biofilms” from the ships sitting idle in the polluted CA waters. Hope. Not a word.
How do you know when you’re being LIED to? Whenever the media publishes a story about ANY Trump policy. It’s a LIE. 99-1 at least.
Can I add an addendum? When a “problem” is global, it is a lie. When the solution requires widespread coordinated global action, it is a lie.
100%
A large part of my education was based on the Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, and Mechanix Illustrated that were published from the mid 1930’s up until the late 1980’s. My Dad had subscriptions until I was able to buy my own, and it was only when the quantity and quality of the articles faded measurably in the 1990’s that I became more selective and eventually stopped buying the magazines in favor of more subject-oriented publications. Dad’s collection was sacrificed to the recycling depot, unfortunately.
I have noticed too, over the past fifty years that the quantity of home hobbyist magazines such as Wood and Fine Woodworking have grown fewer, and the thickness of the survivors is a fraction of what they once sold.
Sad. Anybody want to buy a lathe?
Every time my school held a magazine subscription fundraiser drive … my single dad who was a mechanico-techno enthusiast … let us order Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, and Scientific American.
As soon as these publications became shills for the global warming transfer of Western nations wealth … I was done. Same with the politicizing of Sports Illustrated.
Yep. I couldn’t wait for my subscription of Scientific American to arrive each month. Now I wouldn’t use it for toilet paper.
egyptian parasites 4,000 years past.
whut in H-E-hockey schticks does that have to do with technological advances?
perhaps someone beginning a career in parasitology get an introduction?
‘popular’ MECHANICS ?????
have to agree with the conclusion about alarmism. gawd that stuff is ITSELF like a ‘parasite’
Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, and Mechanix Illustrated and breathless hype? Nothing new at all. When I was young, at least every second issue had some article on the latest “new, revolutionary” engine that would transform cars and airplanes and boats, getting big horsepower and many more miles per gallon. If it wasn’t some new engine, it was a flying car that was soon to hit the market. If you Google those magazine names and get the images of the covers, you can see the hype extending back to the 1930s, flying cars and all.
Yet what do we have today? Pistons going up and down in cylinders, pushed by the expansion of flaming gases, turning a crankshaft, exactly the same as the earliest Model Ts from 1908, and in other cars 20 years before the T. More power now and they last much longer, but still work today on the same old principles. Flying cars? Numerous attempts that have gone nowhere. Any flying car is a lousy car and a lousy airplane and has an insane price tag. Cars and airplanes operate in vastly different environments and are efficient only as long as they’re designed to operate in only one of those environments. I was a commercial pilot and aircraft mechanic and know a little bit about flying and airplanes.
But none of that will stop those magazines (or online newspapers, now) from publishing articles written by journalists who have zero idea what they’re dealing with. There is money to be made via advertising revenue for any publication that grabs the attention of the public, and hyped-up fantasies presented as fact work every time.
Good point.
I remember the promises of flying cars…
still waiting.
I remember the promise of Dick Tracy styled wristwatches where you could see and talk to your friends, family, and business associates on a tiny screen on your wrist.
Oh. Nevermind.