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re: Air conditioning is the greatest invention in the world
Posted on 7/14/25 at 8:45 am to fr33manator
Posted on 7/14/25 at 8:45 am to fr33manator
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The fact that I, a poor man, lives in greater comfort than the richest men of a hundred or so odd years ago, blows my mind.
Cool clean water, with ice, at my fingertips.
Cold air in the dead of summer. Heat without fire in winter.
I'm lucky.
Yet there are people who will claim that wealth disparity is worse today than ever, yet even the poorest people in America have air conditioning.
I can have the same/similar phone, television and household appliances as Bill Gates.
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Posted on 7/14/25 at 9:07 am to Turnblad85
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I don't know how people lived in the south for hundreds of years without it
People native to hot regions learned through trial and error how to survive the worst times. Taking it easy is a major strategy. Northern European colonizers had a hard few centuries and headed for the nearest cool hill every chance they had.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 10:20 am to Smeg
Yes Carrier developed the first practical A/C but he stood on the shoulders of James Watt . The refrigerant has to be compressed in order to remove the heat . This is done with a compressor similar to Watt's steam engine.
Replace steam with a refrigerant and add an electric motor-
Replace steam with a refrigerant and add an electric motor-
Posted on 7/14/25 at 10:45 am to TideSaint
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Air conditioning is the greatest invention in the world
Correct. Not sure why you are getting downvoted.
I encourage all that have not used them to try them. Toilet paper is not sufficient. You will find out how much shite is missed.
If shite got on your hand, would you just wipe it off with a paper towel and go about your day?
Posted on 7/14/25 at 10:55 am to Smeg
Amen brother. Many will extoll the virtues of fire or the wheel but without AC neither is worth messing with.
I do not know how people had marital relations from April through November in most of the south without AC. They certainly did because a lot of babies were born that were conceived during those months. I guess where there is a will there is a way but it is truly too hot too frick at least 7 months of the year in most of the south.....
I do not know how people had marital relations from April through November in most of the south without AC. They certainly did because a lot of babies were born that were conceived during those months. I guess where there is a will there is a way but it is truly too hot too frick at least 7 months of the year in most of the south.....
Posted on 7/14/25 at 10:56 am to thejudge
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Yep.
Im college they made us write about a life changing invention. A lot of students picked shite like heart transplant, peacemakers, etc.
I picked AC. None of that shite is possible if surgeons are sweating in the patient with bacteria growing like wildfire.
AC is amazing.
Who would want to have a heart transplant and live longer in a world with no AC???? Bad enough to have to struggle through the 35 or so summers you'd be stuck with, prolonging that would be cruel.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 10:59 am to fr33manator
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The fact that I, a poor man, lives in greater comfort than the richest men of a hundred or so odd years ago, blows my mind.
Cool clean water, with ice, at my fingertips.
Cold air in the dead of summer. Heat without fire in winter.
I'm lucky.
We all are. You'd think we are living in some dystopian hell scape the way people bitch and moan but the poorest American lives a life European royalty could not imagine 100 years ago. Just having clean water at the twist of a tap is almost unheard of in the existence of mankind....
Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:02 am to Smeg
But what have we forgotten?
Go back to 1800's towns. Houses were built and trees were planted for shade and cooler temperatures. Houses were built to take advantage of weather conditions (and to avoid same).
We've forgotten that shutters on windows could keep heat and cold out. Awnings had the same function.
The phrase "cross ventilation" had a meaning.
Towns were safer when late afternoons were a time for visiting, and seeing what was going on on streets.
Forget the tar covered roads. If a town needed to replace water and sewer lines, they'd take up the cobblestones that made up the road surface, replace the lines, the soil and then put the cobblestones back until access was needed again.
Air Conditioning has helped us forget a lot and to retreat from a sense of community.
Go back to 1800's towns. Houses were built and trees were planted for shade and cooler temperatures. Houses were built to take advantage of weather conditions (and to avoid same).
We've forgotten that shutters on windows could keep heat and cold out. Awnings had the same function.
The phrase "cross ventilation" had a meaning.
Towns were safer when late afternoons were a time for visiting, and seeing what was going on on streets.
Forget the tar covered roads. If a town needed to replace water and sewer lines, they'd take up the cobblestones that made up the road surface, replace the lines, the soil and then put the cobblestones back until access was needed again.
Air Conditioning has helped us forget a lot and to retreat from a sense of community.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:02 am to Furious
First off you are just awful at quoting posters
Secondly agreeing with TideSaint is the sign of a sociopath
Lastly, and most importantly, if you think wet wipes are anywhere near AC as an innovation you must have serious butthole problems at the least and early onset dementia at the worst
Secondly agreeing with TideSaint is the sign of a sociopath
Lastly, and most importantly, if you think wet wipes are anywhere near AC as an innovation you must have serious butthole problems at the least and early onset dementia at the worst
Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:03 am to fallguy_1978
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You can live without it in some climates
Did without it for 3 years in Wyoming back in 2000-2003. My truck I bought there didn't even have AC.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:11 am to olemc999
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Statues of Willis Carrier should be all over the south.
Being from Buffalo he should know something about it being cold.
Fun Fact: He is buried in the same cemetery as Rick James!
Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:16 am to real turf fan
Didnt have AC when I was in middle and HS.
Dont have it now. Many people of my cultural and ethnic traditions are of northern European origins.
Living in cool climates...
Dont have it now. Many people of my cultural and ethnic traditions are of northern European origins.
Living in cool climates...
Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:18 am to RogerTheShrubber
I’d like to see a theoretical map of real estate prices if AC would’ve never been invented
Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:18 am to Smeg
You guys can live with your humidity, I'll take the dry summer heat instead.
"In western Arizona, the average humidity is quite low, typically around 35% annually for the desert regions, according to Quora. Monthly averages can range from 19% in June to 58% in January, according to climate websites. Higher elevation areas in Arizona, like mountainous regions, tend to have slightly higher humidity, averaging around 50%"
"In western Arizona, the average humidity is quite low, typically around 35% annually for the desert regions, according to Quora. Monthly averages can range from 19% in June to 58% in January, according to climate websites. Higher elevation areas in Arizona, like mountainous regions, tend to have slightly higher humidity, averaging around 50%"
Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:45 am to Sun God
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I’d like to see a theoretical map of real estate prices if AC would’ve never been invented
Very. Migration patterns in the late 20th century would have been very different.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 12:43 pm to Smeg
But like anything good it has been abused to the point of absurdity, what folks crank their AC's down to now is almost criminal and those that do this, they can't walk 5 steps in the summer heat without passing out because of it.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 12:49 pm to Smeg
We take a guy's fishing trip to a camp that doesn't have AC, usually go when it's cooler. Early December or late November and we just light a fire. A couple years ago we went in October, it was mid 90's the whole trip. The house was built for it, big fans pulling air through the house, it honestly wasn't terrible.
The way houses are built today would be brutal with no AC.
The way houses are built today would be brutal with no AC.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:07 pm to Smeg
Soap is one of the greatest inventions as well
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:14 pm to Tiger Ugly
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what folks crank their AC's down to now is almost criminal
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:15 pm to holdmuh keystonelite
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I didn't have AC until I was 22. Now it would be hard to live without.
My family didn't have AC except for a window unit in my parents bedroom until the early 90's. I don't how my brother and I ever slept at night.
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