We've been able to grow skin in a lab for years. Why not put those creepy seal-clubbing Canadians out of business and make the fur ourselves? We could save millions, maybe billions of tons of CO2 and methane by making leather in a warehouse without a single cow involved. And think of the profits going back into science!
How are these guys missing this opportunity??
And yes, this was one of those half-conscious ideas that came to me at 3 am this morning. Actually it involved self-assembling tailored suits, but I can't seem to remember how they worked so I posted this instead.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Self-healing windshields.
I don't think this one even needs explaining. You know it would be awesome.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
A better bike lane
I love bicycles. I don't have one but I have many fond memories riding one through my neighborhood when I was a kid - racing them with the neighbor boy, riding them in the rain and getting covered in mud, falling off them (still have the scars!) and of course, riding a wheelie all the way to church. (Just kidding my parents are Pagan.) But somewhere along the way that joy associated with bicycles has turned into horror.
In some cities (*cough*San Francisco*cough*) it doesn't matter if you have the right of way as a pedestrian, or if you look both ways, or even if you're a blind grandma in a crosswalk with plenty of little chirping signals left to go before you make it to the other side - those bicyclists will run you over in cold blood. And when I finally got a car, they would pop out of the pitch black night just as I let my foot off the brake at a green light, as if they were actually trying giving me a heart attack.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all about zero emissions transportation, but something needs to be done about these hooligans. And I have a proposal.
Re-pave the roads with grooves just the width of a bicycle tire. Cars will go over them just fine, but the bicyclists will finally be foiled!
Of course we can keep a nice flat bike lane for them on the side. I wouldn't want to force them onto unsuspecting, law-abiding pedestrians on the sidewalk.
In some cities (*cough*San Francisco*cough*) it doesn't matter if you have the right of way as a pedestrian, or if you look both ways, or even if you're a blind grandma in a crosswalk with plenty of little chirping signals left to go before you make it to the other side - those bicyclists will run you over in cold blood. And when I finally got a car, they would pop out of the pitch black night just as I let my foot off the brake at a green light, as if they were actually trying giving me a heart attack.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all about zero emissions transportation, but something needs to be done about these hooligans. And I have a proposal.
Re-pave the roads with grooves just the width of a bicycle tire. Cars will go over them just fine, but the bicyclists will finally be foiled!
Of course we can keep a nice flat bike lane for them on the side. I wouldn't want to force them onto unsuspecting, law-abiding pedestrians on the sidewalk.
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