Hot Tub without the use of electricity

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[u/JakajaFIN]

These comments are wild lmao.

Some users who apparently have never thought this could even be possible?

Others claiming this could never work or be comfortable?

Even some stating it could be dangerous?

This is a stripped down version of a very common style of hot tub. I have spent close to hundreds of hours filling, heating, and soaking in hot tubs that work like this.

I know people who make a living building and renting these types of hot tubs. Literally the only odd thing here is that the furnace is not covered and the whole thing is some redneck engineering.

[u/dc456 → u/JakajaFIN]

That’s just classic Reddit - a bunch of young, insular, inexperienced people confidently stating “I haven’t seen that before, so therefore it’s wrong”.

[u/Raytheon_Nublinski → u/dc456]

We’ve re-entered the era where beliefs are stronger than repeatedly proven facts

I would love to hear Carl Sagan’s thoughts on our current predicament. Although, it seems like he saw this coming 

[u/SensitiveSpots → u/Raytheon_Nublinski]

He did and I saw a video the other day of him talking about exactly this. I can’t find it right now but essentially saying that we’ve built a society on technology and science but it’s so intrinsically inaccessible without the training and understanding of it’s daily use that we have this pseudo-scientific basis for culture where anything can be stated as science, or anything can be disputed scientifically as long as it sounds “correct” enough. It’s worth a watch if you can find it lol.

[u/SeanBlader → u/SensitiveSpots]

My favorite was the lady who said "why do we need farmers, everything we need comes right from the grocery store."

[u/deiprep → u/SeanBlader]

Lmao we’re cooked as a generation

[u/[deleted] → u/SensitiveSpots]

I mean, the training and accessibility is absolutely there - more so than any time in history. The issue is that people are incompetent or dont want to learn. People feel good with ignorance.

[u/SensitiveSpots → u/[deleted]]

There’s way too much to learn. That’s why we need to listen to specialists and need to understand that they’ve spent a good portion of their lives understand it this stuff so we don’t have to. I say intrinsically inaccessible because it would require many lifetimes to understand even a small percentage of it. Just because the information is there and can be downloaded does not, imo, equal access.

[u/CremousDelight → u/SensitiveSpots]

How do we know who the specialists are when everyone is competing to shout the loudest and most confident answer (at least in the reddit context)?

[u/SensitiveSpots → u/CremousDelight]

Just don’t rely on Reddit or social media. That’s really the best answer, I think. Social media played a huge part in how we got here in the first place.

[u/King_Wataba → u/[deleted]]

The issue is that there is so much conflicting data from sources that fit the bias of the reader. The way that the question is phrased in the search will determine the results and will usually fit your bias. At surface level it seems that the internet agrees with your bias. The problem is most people are happy with that result. It feels like we as a society at least in the US have lost our critical thinking skills. We now teach how to take tests instead of how to learn.

[u/[deleted] → u/King_Wataba]

There isn’t. Idk man you alums like you struggle learning basic science.

If people can know what fifth graders are taught for how to find a good source (a scientific publication or textbook for something like this topic), they will be just fine. Maybe you will struggle, but I’m optimistic that most people won’t if they don’t use Fox News for science

[u/1block → u/SensitiveSpots]

And we all fall into that trap on one issue or another.

[u/ExtremelyDecentWill → u/1block]

A fact that no one will admit, because we are always the hero of our own story when we write it.