Crossposted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29870566
Grassy trams are better than dead asphalt, but monoculture lawns are still not the best. I'm not sure what the best translation of the official name would be, but I guess meadowy tram would fit. Much lower maintenance and increased resilience to heat and dryness are nice bonuses.
This is a 1km stretch of tramline 13 running through a park in Helsinki, Finland.
Nice! Altocumulus stratiformis undulatus, but with two intersecting systems of undulations. Think of them like cross waves at sea.
This one turned out a bit more blurry, but the aurora itself is too good not to post here.
These guys danced accross the sky, reaching quite far into the southern sky as well. Picture taken on 4.4.. I'm just mad that while I had hauled my tripod with me, I had left the camera mount back home :))). I stuck a bench into the snow and steadied my hand against that. A couple of these turned out surprisingly well.
G definitely points to a jet. A private jet to be more specific.
Skynet theories aside, the whole "AI will solve trafic" thing is just dumb. Sure, I suppose we could one day perfect a system of cars working as a hivemind to optimize the flow of trafic, but that just makes it impossible for anyone not part in that hivemind (cyclists etc.) to use the road.
I suppose the "just one more lane bro" joke sort of applies here in that the problem caused by cars would be "solved" by doubling down on cars.
Grass would be more of a hassle. Once the plants have properly rooted down, the tracks shouldn't need any watering or routine cutting. I'm guessing that the trams themselves prevent most of the plants from growing too long. As can be seen in the first picture there, the plants between the rails are shorter than those between and outside the two tracks.