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Mystery, climate-saving invention to be unveiled at swanky dinner
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| November 30th 2007
| Donald Melanson
Posted on 11/30/2007 10:12:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: preacher
Good article.
I’ll let them cover my roof with it for a test!
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posted on
12/01/2007 12:26:47 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(- Attention all planets of the solar Federation--Secret plan codeword: Banana)
To: Westlander
LOL, I don’t get it. What does that accomplish other than up his drag coefficient number?
42
posted on
12/01/2007 12:31:05 AM PST
by
WildcatClan
(Duncan Hunter, the real deal, the only deal for Conservative Americans)
To: Ronin; Viking2002; SunkenCiv
Are the inventors going to ride in on Segways? More imprtantly, will Algore and his entourage be showing up in big, gas-guzzling SUV's .......again?
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posted on
12/01/2007 12:58:11 AM PST
by
uglybiker
(relaxing in a luxuriant cloud of quality, aromatic, pre-owned tobacco essence)
To: Ronin
Are the inventors going to ride in on Segways?The Segway was the first thing that sprang to mind for me. It's a pretty neat gadget, but it was way over-hyped. Its max speed of 15 mph and max range of about an hour keep it from shaking the world. As does the $5000 price point. If it sold for a few hundred, I'd own one. I'm fairly young and fairly healthy, and at five grand, with its speed and range limitations, I'd rather buy a bicycle,
What's much more interesting is the iBot. It's a wheelchair, stabilized with gyroscopes like the Segway -- when they were in development the two projects wee code-named "Fred" and Ginger" after the eponymous Astaire and Rogers. The iBot lifts its occupant up to an adult's standing height and it can climb stairs.
To: traditional1
Another "200 MPG Carbureator" invention!You old fogey. Carburetor? I haven't seen one of those in years. All the cool kids have fuel-injection, or diesel, or both.
Yes, I have pulled the choke open and sprayed ether down the throat of the carburetor to get a car to start. I've even dipped my fingers in gasoline and flicked it to prime the carb when I didn't have a can of ether handy. But not in a number of years.
To: UCANSEE2
"...Its a GIANT PATIO UMBRELLA that will be hoisted above the Earth to help keep the temperature even..." Maybe thirty years ago, I saw a Popular Science article that addressed a reflectorized mylar "web". It would be "spun up" in synchronous orbit between Sun and Earth to reduce the Sun's energy upon Earth.
I think it would work just fine; however, what temperature would the 6.2 billion of us want? The Russians want the climate warmer in Siberia, and devised a mirror in spacea space heater, as it were.
46
posted on
12/01/2007 1:13:24 AM PST
by
Does so
(...against all enemies, DOMESTIC and foreign...)
To: SunkenCiv
Sure.
Glad it turned out to be interesting enough to post.
47
posted on
12/01/2007 1:16:20 AM PST
by
Quix
(GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
To: UCANSEE2
It will revolutionize transportation. I remember hearing this about what turned out to be that:
![](http://images.picsearch.com/is?D0sis3Sblf5GDTSQxBXvE-r5VieaCCLHJmNZ04hKAto)
This new invention is going to be another Segway or Cold Fusion.
To: Jabba the Nutt
No my friend, its a rat milking machine.
49
posted on
12/01/2007 4:13:20 AM PST
by
SampleMan
(We are a free and industrious people. Socialist nannies do not become us.)
To: Constantine XIII
They’re going to divert Aquarius to wet down the Sun and cool it off.
50
posted on
12/01/2007 4:22:19 AM PST
by
trebb
("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
To: SunkenCiv
Let me guess, this “material” will run a perpetual motion machine and probably also cure baldness, give you your astrological reading, and make you a cup of coffee. The global warming fanatics will believe any gimmick.
51
posted on
12/01/2007 4:29:26 AM PST
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: ReignOfError
"You old fogey"LOL (hand raised above head here)
52
posted on
12/01/2007 4:33:43 AM PST
by
traditional1
(Thompson/Hunter '08)
To: SunkenCiv
Let’s see....Gore-Tex has already been invented. So has Gorbachev. Flash Gorden is copyrighted.
My guess is it’s a new fartless hippy gorp (trail mix).
53
posted on
12/01/2007 5:26:30 AM PST
by
sergeantdave
(The majority of Michigan voters are that stupid and the condition is incipient and growing.)
To: SunkenCiv
Ok so what was this new invention?
54
posted on
12/01/2007 5:13:34 PM PST
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Straight Vermonter
The truth is, I had a scheduling conflict, and had to be in the Far East for dinner — live monkey brain.
55
posted on
12/02/2007 5:05:04 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Profile updated Friday, November 30, 2007____________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
Kane Kramer news search:
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:06:17 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
“Mystery, climate-saving invention to be unveiled at swanky dinner”
Sounds like we’ll finally be blessed with The Segway II!!!
(/SARC!!!)
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:08:16 PM PST
by
VOA
To: SunkenCiv
It's past the "swanky dinner".
Where is the earth-shattering news of global importance?
Is Mr. Kane really a Nigerian oil ministry official?
Has Mr. Kane realized a loophole in the anti-slavery laws to facilitate an 80% cheaper means of production?
Does Captain/Admiral Kirk know about this?
58
posted on
12/02/2007 5:12:53 PM PST
by
Thumper1960
(Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
To: SunkenCiv
“Gosh everybody! We just gotta find a way to save the climate!!”
“I know! Let’s put on a show!”
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:17:04 PM PST
by
motor_racer
(Open war is upon you, whether you would risk it or not.)
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:46:10 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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