draculamilktoast t1_j6m7e55 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 8:57 AM

Reply to comment by Dwarfdeaths in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69

A drone flying a package home to you doesn't require expensive infrastructure and can theoretically carry a package of any size. The real advantage to a tube system might be in speed and maybe requiring less energy per delivery but plumbers are not rich for no reason.

Dwarfdeaths t1_j6mh5th wrote on January 31, 2023 at 11:15 AM

I'd think plumbing is way more complicated than a package system. Plumbing deals with a variety of pipe sizes, terminal devices, hydrodynamics, chemistry, etc. all meticulously integrated into your building. A package system just has to get a single type of object to the general vicinity of your building, and that object won't deposit limescale or grease over time. I think a better analogy is internet infrastructure.