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Lately, we have been having a lot of meetings. A lot of ALL DAY meetings. They have really taken their toll on my already-short attention span. In today's extremely boring meeting, I was contemplating some things and I would like to pose these contemplations here. You may think they are dumb. If you do, you are an idiot. The only thing I hate more than an idiot is a person who is judgemental.

Do you think that the car & plane were to people who lived shortly after their invention what the space shuttle is to us now? Were they a means for exploring places where the common man could never before go? Will the shuttle become commercial like the car? When it does, will its development accelerate like it did for the car? Does the danger of the space shuttle play a part in why it is not commercialized?

I personally think that the car and plane probably were somewhat like the space shuttle is. Instead of being something you had to have a hell of a lot of intelligence and work for NASA to drive, you had to be rich. Filthy rich. But once rich people where able to buy them, companies tried to make them affordable for other people too. Maybe someday people will try to make airplanes affordable to the common man and then there will be an explosion in airplane technology as well. Technology is, afterall, a consumer driven effort. All of our greatest technology only exists because people will buy it.

I have to wonder whether it would ever be allowed that airplanes be cheap enough for everyone to fly because of the dangers. Automobiles are fucking dangerous too, but yet we let hundreds of thousands of morons drive those and kill themselves or other people. If there weren't such strict laws against allowing morons to fly, I bet there would be a lot more people who would try to buy a plane. And boeing and airbus would probably be delighted to dump the energy into building affordable planes for them to use.

In a sense, I think that the space shuttle could be similar. There is already talk of people buying their own, making their own flights to the moon, etc. If the space shuttle market is allowed to open up to the common, but filthy fucking rich, man, then I think the advances in space shuttle technology will be faster. In these areas, I think the big problem is fuel. The limiting factor is fuel. In other situations, I think this consumer-driven technology theory would be much more easily seen. Lets take GPS for example. As the government loosens restrictions on GPS usage, the technology improves as fast as they change the restrictions. I'm trying to think of anything else that may also fit this theory. Maybe there isn't really anything else because it is already blatantly obvious that the best things come by not restricting them.

Which is why I think automobile manufacturers are probably very hard at work fucking themselves in the ass. I wonder how much technological improvement they stifle every year so they can make more money without actually improving anything. I bet it is surprising.

The lack of other intelligent people (who speak english) around here is driving me up the wall. Please comment so that we might have something of a discussion. I need to argue/debate something with someone to keep my brain sharp.

I also feel very uncool lately, so for no reason, go to hell.

I didn't really mean it, I just need to talk that way every once in a while.

Also, Happy Homecoming RHIT.