I read that as "US puts Italy-sized chunk of Mexico up for auction"

That's just wind energy with extra steps

They were "gifted" by Greece

How incredibly generous of them. The Vatican being the shining beacon of goodness as always

What about your heroes?

Virtue signaling? How? Seems like you're the one with the hurt feelings here

Rock festival?

Considering the cultural and historical significance of the Mona Lisa, I can't imagine you would be allowed to keep it out in the open, even if you did somehow manage to buy it from the state.

Besides, you wouldn't want anything to happen to it considering how much you would've paid for it. Plus you would forever be known as the dickhead that destroyed the Mona Lisa, like Miles.

As for the wood thing, you're right, but after hundreds of years that poplar might be able to go up like canvas. But I can also imagine The Louvre giving Miles a fake. After all, Mus- I mean Miles is an idiot.

Not trying to be. You said you enjoy conversations about engineering and technology, so I thought you would've easily come to the same conclusion

Then you should've been able to figure out how it works, no?

That seems like the most logical reason, yes. That and other sensors to determine active threats like heat, etc.

There is probably an initial dB sensor. If a sound occurs over a certain threshold, the barrier closes as a precaution. Then after say 10 seconds, if no further threats are detected, it opens back up.

In reality the painting would be enclosed at all times. But the opening/closing is clearly a thematic device that doesn't need so much thought put into the technicalities of how/why it works the way it does

And they said you can hear it retract, as in open again

Yeah, how dare I bitch about being without power for 6-8 hours a day, every day.

Some people just have to tell others to get over situations they have no clue about.

Seven to twelve months? Cool, can't wait to hear how "it's almost done" six years from now

They're massively in debt, they can't keep any power stations functioning, it takes them 10 years to build new power stations that end up basically exploding the moment they turn them on.

South Africans don't want new batteries, they want a functioning electrical grid

Um... what? I'd expect this level of stupid from America, but Canada? Come on, Canada, you're better than this

Those damn libs and their storm making machines!

I think you meant the colour created when combined