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Gotta blow the dust off that Day After Tomorrow DVD.

leke 1y ago
To borrow a comment from YouTube > The Day After Tomorrow was a documentary.
nandomrumber 1y ago
I’ve got two Samsung DVD-M105 players here, brand new, still in box original, never been opened, dispatched from wholesaler in September 2001 if you want to enhance the experience.
- dottjt 1y ago
  what's so special about that model?
  - SlowTao 1y ago
    I'm guessing nothing in particular other than being period correct hardware. Would want to check if the power capacitors are still in good shape.
    - mkagenius 1y ago
      Full bridge rectifier as well
      - dzhiurgis 1y ago
        What happens to them?
        pastage 1y ago
        FWIW the decade of capacitor plague destroyed at least two of my AC/DC Converters. I haven't seen magic smoke since 2010, and honestly know little about it.
- lovich 1y ago
  I have a non zero desire to take you up on that
SwtCyber 1y ago
Climate fiction's starting to feel more like a documentary with a bad CGI budget
whitehexagon 1y ago
Another heatwave here last week, and I somehow found myself watching that DVD. It as aged quite well, but I found it annoying that they spent half the movie burning books to keep warm, and yet are sourounded by wooden furniture. On that topic, the book series including 'Fifty Degrees Below' by Kim Stanley Robinson is worth a read. I think I got that reading tip from HN, or maybe it was his Mars triology, which also has some nice planetary science stuff.
- CalRobert 1y ago
  Perhaps it was an attempt at symbolism
- arethuza 1y ago
  I recommend KSR's The Ministry for the Future
ainiriand 1y ago
We've been here in Valencia (Spain) over 30C since early June: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/spain/valencia/historic?month=6&year=2025 https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/spain/valencia/historic?... It is absolutely not normal.
- walthamstow 1y ago
  In London it has barely rained since the start of May, after the sunniest and warmest spring on record. Obviously as an Englishman that sounds pretty great to me but it is not typical at all. https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2025/double-record-breaker-spring-2025-is-warmest-and-sunniest-on-uk-record https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-c...
  - smidgeon 1y ago
    As sure as eggs is eggs, there will be sightings of exotic predators (puma, leopard) by little old ladies in the next weeks ...
  - ta1243 1y ago
    Great for people sitting out on their patios and having barbecues. Not great for food production. The UK is close enough to a wealthy nation that we should be able to import our food or make enough with high energy/resource requirements. There is a general problem with a lack of resources (hence all the global conflict going on now. Trump doesn't want Greenland because he looked at a Mercator map and got size envy due to his tiny hands, the resources there will go to China, Russia, Europe or the US), but that can be overcome. The dirty secret of global warming is that Europe can't take a billion climate refugees - even the most bleeding heart liberals will baulk at the UK population increasing from 70m to 200m in a generation, its not sustainable. America has less of a problem - the population of Central and South America between about 30N and 30S is 500 million. The population of Africa and Asia in that boundary is about 4.5 billion, and as those areas become uninhabitable due to wet bulb temperatures and water scarcity, people will either die or try to move north - mainly to Europe.

leke 1y ago

To borrow a comment from YouTube > The Day After Tomorrow was a documentary.

I’ve got two Samsung DVD-M105 players here, brand new, still in box original, never been opened, dispatched from wholesaler in September 2001 if you want to enhance the experience.

dottjt 1y ago
what's so special about that model?
- SlowTao 1y ago
  I'm guessing nothing in particular other than being period correct hardware. Would want to check if the power capacitors are still in good shape.
  - mkagenius 1y ago
    Full bridge rectifier as well
    - dzhiurgis 1y ago
      What happens to them?
      - pastage 1y ago
        FWIW the decade of capacitor plague destroyed at least two of my AC/DC Converters. I haven't seen magic smoke since 2010, and honestly know little about it.
lovich 1y ago
I have a non zero desire to take you up on that

SwtCyber 1y ago

Climate fiction's starting to feel more like a documentary with a bad CGI budget

whitehexagon 1y ago

Another heatwave here last week, and I somehow found myself watching that DVD. It as aged quite well, but I found it annoying that they spent half the movie burning books to keep warm, and yet are sourounded by wooden furniture. On that topic, the book series including 'Fifty Degrees Below' by Kim Stanley Robinson is worth a read. I think I got that reading tip from HN, or maybe it was his Mars triology, which also has some nice planetary science stuff.

CalRobert 1y ago
Perhaps it was an attempt at symbolism
arethuza 1y ago
I recommend KSR's The Ministry for the Future

ainiriand 1y ago

We've been here in Valencia (Spain) over 30C since early June: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/spain/valencia/historic?month=6&year=2025 https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/spain/valencia/historic?... It is absolutely not normal.

walthamstow 1y ago
In London it has barely rained since the start of May, after the sunniest and warmest spring on record. Obviously as an Englishman that sounds pretty great to me but it is not typical at all. https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2025/double-record-breaker-spring-2025-is-warmest-and-sunniest-on-uk-record https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-c...
- smidgeon 1y ago
  As sure as eggs is eggs, there will be sightings of exotic predators (puma, leopard) by little old ladies in the next weeks ...
- ta1243 1y ago
  Great for people sitting out on their patios and having barbecues. Not great for food production. The UK is close enough to a wealthy nation that we should be able to import our food or make enough with high energy/resource requirements. There is a general problem with a lack of resources (hence all the global conflict going on now. Trump doesn't want Greenland because he looked at a Mercator map and got size envy due to his tiny hands, the resources there will go to China, Russia, Europe or the US), but that can be overcome. The dirty secret of global warming is that Europe can't take a billion climate refugees - even the most bleeding heart liberals will baulk at the UK population increasing from 70m to 200m in a generation, its not sustainable. America has less of a problem - the population of Central and South America between about 30N and 30S is 500 million. The population of Africa and Asia in that boundary is about 4.5 billion, and as those areas become uninhabitable due to wet bulb temperatures and water scarcity, people will either die or try to move north - mainly to Europe.