Arthur C. Clarke's Idea: How to FIX Global Warming: The book called "Sunstorm" is science fiction about how we defend ourselves from an extreme period of sunspot activity. In this story, scientists build a giant parasol to shade the Earth from the incoming rays... Like an umbrella, but designed to keep a planet cool...
They erect a lens in space that directs the rays away from the Earth and into space... The lens could be very thin glass that is scored on one side to make a "Fresnel" lens to focus the heat elsewhere... As anyone knows, it is cooler in the shade than it direct sunlight, so why not just create a shady Earth ? Yes, the shade would have to be thousands of MILES in diameter but he explains how to do it. A worthy space construction project... It would take decades to build but we HAVE the time and the technology already. In the story, astronauts melt sand on the moon to make the glass. The advantage of the 1/6 gravity makes lifting tons of payload easier.
Quite a fantastic idea but... The communications satellite was just as fantastic when he proposed that... Now, it's common...
Since it's unlikely that we will stop driving cars... or reduce pollution causing global warming... Maybe we should investigat a technological solution. Why NOT do something about global warming? It's not enough to just make a film. "An Inconvenient Truth" does not actually change temperature... It's just talk, not ACTION! 
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WE COULD BUILD CARS THAT GET 100 MPG. June Moxon and Ken Biedleman built the one shown above. Official website: http://www.kineticsculpturelab.com/
and now for something completely different: Zen Tales:
written by Tom Robbins in the book "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas"
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In the eighth century there lived Joshu, a great patriarch of Zen. One day a monk asked the Master Joshu, "Does a dog have the Buddha-nature?" Joshu replied "Wu".
In the Chineese language the word "Wu" is a negative response... like "No" in the English language. However, the word has many shades of meaning depending on the inflection and subtle nuances in pronounciation. Wu could mean 'absolutely not', 'probably not', 'possibly not' or 'I am inclined to doubt it'... So, for twelve hundred years, Zen scholars have debated EXACTLY what did Joshu mean when he said "Wu". For twelve hundred years they argued and argued. However, there has recently been discovered an ancient manuscript that show that there was a spelling error when the scribes copied the original text. When asked about the possibility of a dog having the Buddha-nature, the Master actually replied... "Wuf"... or as English dogs say, "Woof"... "Woof, woof, woof, woof, ooooooOOWWWwwwwwww"
WOOFSTOCK: big party for dogs in Eureka, California...
and now for something completely different:
 Hydrogen Fuel Cell invented at Humboldt State University stores electricity from solar power station to be used at night. Read MORE: http://gregvanderlaan.com/ecofair.aspx
We should cut spending by the Federal Government on the Failed War on Drugs. Use the money we currently waste on education. An educated person voluntarily selects to not use heroin, cocaine, meth... Why not try something that has the silghtest chance of actually working? Using Cooked Spaghetti as a Hammer.
When you do something and it does not work... Maybe it's time to do something different. I tried using cooked spaghetti to drive a nail into a board and it didn't work. Should I try cooked spaghetti again? and again? and again? and AGAIN?
"The war on drugs has failed. And it's high time to replace an ineffective strategy with more humane and efficient drug policies." Wall Street Journal. 
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