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Old 10-04-2005, 01:21 PM   #16
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1. Welcome.

2. There's no need to shout.

3. Do you have a favorite thing with which to replace the internal combustion engine?
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Old 10-04-2005, 01:35 PM   #17
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There will be no replacement for the internal combustion engine until every last drop of oil/blood/money has been wrung from the Earth/Humanity/The Global Economy.

Sorry, but juggernauts don't just voluntarily step aside. They die when brought down by either a bigger juggernaut or a very clever David. So far, there's an awful lot of squished flat Davids on the sandals of the Big Oil/Middle East juggernaut.
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Old 10-04-2005, 01:41 PM   #18
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3. Do you have a favorite thing with which to replace the internal combustion engine?
Ooh! Ooh! Organic material! We should invent a bionic car, like the Cylon battleships.
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Old 10-04-2005, 01:48 PM   #19
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I don't think the Cylon ships are organic - they are a metal ship filled with a pilot creature.

Now, Vorlons, Shadows, Moya, and Lexx were organic.
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Old 10-04-2005, 04:13 PM   #20
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Do you have a favorite thing with which to replace the internal combustion engine?
The bicycle. Solve two problems with one bike, eating too much fat food and moving too little.

Or maybe even a little electric powered scooter.....you know.....the Segway.
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Old 10-04-2005, 08:08 PM   #21
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yeah, I'll just BIKE to Cherry hill everyday. yeah. and then monkeys will fly out of my butt.

how about magnets? i like magnets. do you like magnets?
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Old 10-04-2005, 09:27 PM   #22
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No, lumberjim, you're supposed to move to a 400 sq ft / person high rise apartment in the city right near your job and other necessities, so you can walk (or bike) to everything you need. It's the New Urbanist ideal.

Anyway, possible replacements for the internal combustion engine abound. Their common characteristic is they all have problems much greater than that of the internal combustion engine.
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Old 10-04-2005, 10:13 PM   #23
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and then monkeys will fly out of my butt.
flying butt monkeys would be a good replacement for the i.c.e. ... the bigger the butt, the more monkeys would fit in it... the more monkeys it would take to haul. wide ass = more monkeys. it's a win win win for everybody but the butt monkeys. and as(s) long as we build them to fly and not talk...
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Old 10-05-2005, 06:12 PM   #24
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No, lumberjim, you're supposed to move to a 400 sq ft / person high rise apartment in the city right near your job and other necessities, so you can walk (or bike) to everything you need. It's the New Urbanist ideal.
Yeah! Warehouse the workforce and only let them out when either you need them or they have to get some necessity of survival! A secondary bonus would be that much more land would become available for the Ruling Class to enjoy!
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