LET'S GO!
We are looking for a new way to move from place to place; to move our belongings to a new location, and to get there faster than ever before,and to do so with the utmost comfort and as little trouble as possible.
We ought to have been satisfied by the horse years ago, perhaps, but that mode of movement but that form of travel has long ago become a matter of memory.
The very latest kind of energy usage is, I am told, using stuff called “anti-matter” or. it properties of push and pull. No one know, for sure, just what an anti-matter motor might look like. The idea is in the talk-only stage right now, but that means it is time we got ready to accept the soon to be be stated fact that we have been watching them work for centuries without knowing what they were. We have been duly warned by those fraidy-cat individuals who ooze out of the woodwork periodically to warn us that we “are messin'' with the makings”. We are, they say,”playing at being God,”- which is what they are doing in showing such absolute wisdom.
I have seen cars and trucks appear and supplant the horse and cart-wagon-carriage-van-cartridge-surrey- cabriolet etc . Notice, too, that dog sleds have disappeared in arctic climes, replaced in arctic areas by snow mobiles. Dugouts, in the tropics, are powered rather than paddled or poled. The whole world of man is on the move by some means or other and from time to time we realize we are going to run out of fuels which supply the modes of movement. Right now, the worry is that concerning supplies of coal and oil! One of these days theywillall bze spent and we will we need to find another way to move ourselves about. We have made good use of wind and water over the centuries but it is time for another look at them right now in anticipation of our future need for electrical power closely associated with most modes of movement.
In our space age times we have learned much of the values of being able to sling an object across the void . Sails and tethers have been adapted to move object into a nd through space. We are actively engaged in the making of an exotic heavy-metal glass fiber called “Zblan” which will need to be made under microgravic conditions. Their claims to future fame hold promise however. Then, we are never quite sure of what the next phase in computer technology might be, and some anticipate an acquired ability for computers to activate,manage and control objects in motion. meant. Elsewhere there are other working on Highways of Light upon which man may travel pretty much as a message does today on a beam of light.
Fusion is another possibility with special promise in thats it can use hydrogen made from common sea water .But, by that time, they all all be polluted, won't they? Or, boiling away from the greenhouse effect.
Maybe we had best go back to Dick Tracy's old idea of s powering everything with “magnetism.”
A.L.M. March 4, 2004 [c543wds]
