And now for my more controversial ideas from today:
Mechanical humanoids should always poop, it's just good design.
Freight cars, should be designed so that hitch-hikers can easily get on and off at low speed.
I should get a little rangefinder and mount it on my vehicle, so I have a more precise measure of how far behind a vehicle I am.
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Lubricant, coolant, and any number of other fluids need to be changed in any complex heavy machinery. Designing in a way to store the used-up waste as it generates, and then flush it into a containment vessel, seems like a no-brainer.
Otherwise you get time-consuming shit like weekly mechanics visits just to keep cycling your fluids!
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@rockario if we can make an entire fukn android surely we can make a specialized equivalent of a kidney that can purify the important fluids at runtime and dump what can't be re-used
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@efi and as a bonus, we can also catch if any internal components start to break down, because there will be evidence in the waste!
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@rockario honestly, I think it's easier to do that through sensors in the components, but it could be a forensic tool
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@efi That might require lots of sensors or be totally infeasible. For example, a way we use to notice that a gearbox is close to failure is by looking for metal chips in the lubricating oil (if the gears are steel we place a magnet and some sort of sensor in the flow downstream of the gearbox). Similarly, people claim that smell is a very useful tool for finding abnormalities in e.g. powerplants early (e.g. finding things that will become a full-blown fire within hours). @rockario
