What Happened When The Mods Pulled My Post?

What happened?
Well, someone set up us the bomb?
I'm serious!
Oh, well.. looks like your post got pulled.
post puller

Augh! I spent alot of effort on that! How did it happen?!
Couldn't be because you were doing it wrong?
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What the, how'd you get that video of m-- uh.. I don't even wear that!
Right Skippy. *cough* Well, since you asked, here's how posts get removed.
First, if it is against TOS it gets seen.
Grill Owl Sees ALL!

Then it gets marked.

Okay, I have that much.
Then the mods gather:

Pictured, mods gathering.
I don't think that's how it looks, I..
Look, do you want an answer or not?
...Yes?
Right, carrying on.
Then they back their vehicle up to your post.

Whoah! What the heck is that thing?!
It's a machine, that eats other machines.
With this:
Want to play a game?

I don't see what this has to do with my post vanishing, can you tell me wha-
Watch it question boy! I have a flamethrower!

You want to vanish like your dog did?
to be fair, the dog was drunk and got lost

What the?! No, not Roozer too!
To be fair, your dog WAS drunk.
What?! Who would even... please don't point that flamethrower at me.
Right, and after they saw your post off the entire forum, they set it on fire.

Wait.. that man. His face, and fire! Oh GOD WHY?!
Oh, HIS post was all about his face, so the mods set it on fire.
After that, they used the ashes to open a gate between our world and theirs, like this:
Ia! Ia! Moderator Fhtagn!

BLECH! That's horrible!
And those tentacles! GAAAH!
If you think that's bad, you should see what happens when the mods get their hands on a bad thread.
no dishpan hands here

Pictured: Mod hands
Oh look, here comes a mod now.
Looks like they want to ask you about that thread you just posted.
Gaaah! Tell them I'm indisposed!

Pictured: Moderator, dunno which one.
Tell them yourself, they're right behind you.

Wait, don't run away!
We haven't gotten to what happens when they edit your thread title!

This concludes our sordid fictional tale.
If you liked that, we have plenty more in the book "Oh the horrible things you'll summon!" rumored to be written by IamnotaMod

" I should design the tube system for the planet."

The obvious place to start with a tube system is at places like ski resorts which are near to municipal airports and train stations. I'm surmising there are a few of those.

The idea is that if a family, for example, arrives at the town near the ski resort, but weather has closed the access routes -- (go figure!) -- then the tube system will be able to deliver them to their ski village accommodations.

Or, should the weather be unacceptably inclement, it could deliver them to town again so they can go home.

In other words, we target those areas where people might get stranded.

Now, why don't folks build projects like these already? Well, you could expect that it would be expensive. In all my projects, I use the tailings from excavation as building material somewhere else. Generally, the excavation work itself is like an archeological dig, with careful excision of stones of a certain size, and so forth. Sometimes, for special applications, a stone of a particular shape or dimension is carved out from bedrock, and labeled, (perhaps with a laser serial inscription), and dispatched backwards to find its way to its proper resting place.

Obviously, this procedure encompasses quarrying, "laying track", and electronic control devices and techniques. Using this synergistic approach, and a lot of energy, the excavation commences, and the structures that are to be built are started.

Besides economies invoked on both ends of the railhead, this type of burrowing is not overly affected by barriers. We can simply divert to any of several other directions. Most railroads, subways, light rails, and elevated trains require level tracks and slight grades. We don't care. Our spherical elevator cars can travel along the straight and boring, (boring, get it?), or swing left, right, down, or up. The "train" can become an elevator.

That, in fact, is why the "car" is a sphere, like a billiard ball being routed back to a serving tray in the innards of a pool table. The spherical elevator car will adjust its attitude, roll, and pitch to try to keep a semblance of down continuing to be down. Even while you are swinging around the flank of a mountain, or slowly climbing its steep grade, your belongings should remain relatively stable where you put them.

The next category of expansion will be small towns who wish to take advantage of a modernized transportation system, without incurring its enormous cost. Just as street cars made sense for these locations a hundred years ago, the spherical elevator car and its spaghetti-code routing system will make sense again.

Getting yourself delivered from bank to restaurant to movie house to school to church and then to home for rest so you can then be delivered to your workplace will entail no more difficulty than making strings of phone calls to each place. Simply step into the spherical elevator car and dial your location.

Such a system will save people a great deal in automotive and travel expenses. But the real advantage is the boost in efficiency of small engineering and production firms in the town. Literally anything available anywhere within the system is only minutes away. Packages can be sent about as easily as people will be able to travel.

Imagine boxing up your company report, putting it on a cart, rolling it out to the elevator, pushing a button or two, and then being done with it!

Or walking out to the hall, following instructions on your cell phone, to greet the elevator arriving with your fresh hot pizza, or that special birthday cake!

Efficiency! Something we've forgotten about.

In a future post, we'll take a look at International travel.

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