If you look closely at the shavings, you’d see that the drill is running backwards. Otherwise it wouldn’t have ejected the shavings, and wouldn’t have looked like it was doing anything to the wood until it popped through and spat shavings out the rear of the board.
They’re fiiiiiiiine, they’re wearing proper eye, hand and foot protection. Although they probably should be wearing hearing protection with those jackhammers and earth compactors.
What you mean yours isn’t?
Please assure me that your name is not “Philip”…
i’m afraid that the bigger risk here is the job site distraction factor.
Nope, not Phillip. Was referencing the screwdriver -specifically, just the tip…
Nope, I’m with @LDoBe: access to water itself will be the final war.
You can run for a long time on closed cycle and condensing moisture off the air.
…and you’ll need guns to keep others away from your rig. Also just an engineering problem. With enough energy, you can make a decent propellant from air itself, in several variants.
…looks like a fair kind of future where engineering skills could be enough to get one laid. Bring it on.
Geez, I hope this ends in “the Federation” (Star Trek) rather than annihilation of the planet: humans finally realizing we have to work together, rather than everyone standing over their water machines with Uzis and rocket launchers at the ready.
You’ve never played Half-Life or Deadspace? If you look through futuristic horror a lot of protagonists are engineers, and use skills necessary to engineering in order to survive.
Isaac Clarke is way more of a badass than Master Chief. The only reason the Chief keeps on ticking is because of engineers.
The latter scenario has more options for a beta-male engineer. In the utopia option, the ways to needed resources do not go so obviously through alliances with him and there’s still the social-ladder climbing bullshit game to keep losing in. The rocket launchers in this context look quite attractive in comparison.
Nope. Not enough time for videogames. 
Too high opportunity cost against reading or hacking crap… But wouldn’t mind to, in principle, except for the tendency to get lost in mazes.
…but I read too much of the wiki of Half Life. Didn’t know about Deadspace.
Nothing like an apocalypse to get the respects the techies deserve.
Cannot disagree! 
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