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Saturday, 18 February 2023
quote [ Some parts of northern Japan can receive a surprising amount of snow in wintertime, enough to block roads and isolate people living in mountain villages. Elderly people in particular are at risk in these areas, both from being shut-in and from trying to shovel all the snow. That's where "Yuki-taro, the friendly snowbot", comes in! ]
This is pretty neat. Maybe it could be trained to build igloos too
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Jack Blue said[4] @ 7:21pm GMT on 19th Feb
[Score:2 Underrated]
And there is one branch hidden under the snow and it all goes to shit.
Are bricks preferable to just a pile? When I was a kid we used to dig out the snowplow piles and build networks of tunnels and rooms. I know our school started telling the municipality to stop dumping snow over them when they got to intricate. They probably was afraid a kid would be buried. We were always told we should always keep one lookout on top to spot the tractor coming, but we never heeded that warning. We had a slope at the back of our yard where we dumped snow. Us siblings made a cavern under it, and a sled slope going over it. And our dad was furious when it started to melt and he fell into the cavern as the roof collapsed. Good times. |
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steele said @ 12:16am GMT on 20th Feb
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Ten years old and building intricate snow caves and insane downhill sled tracks. Those were the days.
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rylex said @ 5:03am GMT on 20th Feb
you guys are lucky. I had to endure a 5hr drive to see any kind of snow like that in CA. made a few snowmen and snowforts, but that's about it
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mechanical contrivance said @ 5:09pm GMT on 19th Feb
[Score:1 Insightful]
Neat
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