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[Quasar]

H***o became the glue that holds this place together.

[Jubbers]

Teenage Mutant Cherry Blossoms... from Space!

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

That's a pretty misleading headline.

[Dalty]

My mutant cherry blossomed when I was a teenager. It smelt funny.

[neglet]

H***o became the glue that holds this place together.

Hopefully because it was shot and made into glue? Which episode was that?

[Quasar]

They were all that episode.

[Dalty]

Except the one where the cat food factory was involved.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

That was "H***o y la noche de los mil gatos" (s16e10).

[Quasar]

Isn't that the one where the cat food factory was closed down so all the cats ate H***o instead?

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

No.

[Quasar]

It was a rhetorical question.

[Space Tycoon]

Ikaros: First Successful Solar Sail

http://www.space.com/25800-ikaros-solar-sail.html

[Dalty]

Ooooooooooh!

Shiny!!!!!!!

[neglet]

Coooool.

[Dalty]

Do you have to, like, tack and gib on the solar winds? Can we get this bad boy over on its side with its keel nearly out of the...... erm...... space ocean?

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Dooku would know.

[Space Tycoon]

Do you have to, like, tack and gib on the solar winds? Can we get this bad boy over on its side with its keel nearly out of the...... erm...... space ocean?

There have actually been some scientific scenarios regarding solar sails in which tacking and so forth are part of the overall plan.

Myself, personally... I'm all about solar power in all of its forms. Terrrestrial or otherwise. Anytime you have energy given to you for free.... why the heck not? Of course the petro-cons have their own agenda.

But more about that later.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

So I guess that means you're all for solar FREAKIN' roadways.

[Dalty]

Except for, you know, replacing every road...... ever!

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

It does kinda seem like a pipe dream, doesn't it?

[Dalty]

Although they make a good point about starting with driveways and maybe public sector car parks, roadways in airports etc. etc. Then if it pays for itself, who knows? It would be amazing if they could make it happen.

[Space Tycoon]

Well, the rightwingers here are committed to burning as much carbon as is humanly possible, forever, so it would be a tough sell for them.

The lefties believe in spending as much money as possible, but at least they have pushed investment in alternative energy projects. I could see it happening in some small capacity at first.

[Dalty]

You would think the oilies would want to take all those huge profits and find a plan B, therefore ensuring the future of their huge profits.

[Space Tycoon]

Yeah, I would imagine the more forward-thinking companies do. As much for the PR value as anything else.

I seem to recall BP had some commercials where they proudly announced their commitment to alternative fuels. Even had some scenes with this hippy-type guy, going into cornfields, playing with beakers an' shit, telling the executives about making fuel from corn, etc. This was before they dumped a billion shit-tonnes of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

[Dalty]

They didn't, the Americans did and blamed BP.