Askjesse @ MindSay

There are two proposals in energy technology that are fascinating me right now. One is a technology to collect solar energy in space and beam it to earth in a wireless fashion. The other is the proposal to make roads solar energy collectors.

But if we develop the ability to store and deliver energy without wires, then why don't we just fit our cars to collect all the energy they are absorbing and creating (both solar and kinetic) and beam them to collectors in the road as well? Makes sense to me.

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/solar-panels-built-roads-could-be-future-energy

I've been gone a... while. I just needed some time away from all this. Mindsay is not the place it used to be, and I'm only here because my roots are deep. I don't have a reason to transplant myself to another spot. Yet, there is a lot of trivial bickering here, perhaps more than ever. What does any of that matter, anyway?

And this post relates to that. I came back here to ask some questions. It would really help me to hear other's perspectives on these things, so if you could, please pass this on to others so we can all hear their responses.

Imagine that for some reason (impending doom) that the entire world is absolutely convinced that there is only 100 days left.The questions are...

What would you do if knew the world was going to end in 100 days?

How do you think the world would be different if it was going to end in 100 days?

Assuming you would, how would you live out the rest of your days?

1) Your darling isn't ahead in popular vote.

Clinton can't be ahead in the popular vote by honest math. She wants to count Florida and Michigan in her totals now that she is close enough by some measure that including them can put her ahead, but prior to that she said they didn't count. Fine. But if you want to take the votes that people gave to you in Michigan, you are going to have to give the rest to Obama, which means you are no longer ahead.

2) Still, what counts is delegates.

And Hillary can't win more than Obama at this point at the rate she has been going.

3)Rev. Jeremiah Wright doesn't make Hillary look like a better choice for the Democratic nomination.

I'm not sure that anything can at this point.

4) Williams Ayers doesn't concern as many people as Hannity thinks it does.

And why are you watching Fox News now? Don't you think it is awfully convenient that Republican lapdogs are pulling for Clinton?

Apparently nothing is safe in West Africa, where "reports of... penis snatching are not uncommon".

I felt it was my duty to warn you of penis stealing sorcerers. We've got to be vigilant, and take the offensive. We've got to head off the enemy over there so they don't come over here and shrink our penises. This is something I think men and women alike can get behind.

I propose a preventative attack on penis stealing sorcerers now, lest sales of Hummers, Obscenely large trucks, and imported sports cars skyrocket. These terrorists are threatening everything we hold dear.