Spaceballs

Could giant extra-geotic helio-orbital spaceballs be the key to mankind’s collective future? Find out in the next installment of…this paragraph. Really the answer is almost certainly no, however this is the Delusional Grandeur Repository so according to the iteration of reality which is this repository..the answer is yes, yes giant spaceballs will be the endothermic and ultimately exothermic jesus christ’s of energy translocation systems.

So here goes: Postulates of the Spaceballs Hypothesis:

-The sun is really hot. Like really really hot.

-energy is useful

-Our continued oxidation of the enormous amount of the terrestrial carbon fixed through photosynthesis over millions of years of life on this planet is for one thing, finite and ultimately terminal, for another thing, slowly skewing the equilibrium of the CO2 \=\ O2 +Cxx cycle, not only altering the otherwise fairly stable climate that resulted from that equilibrium but also returning the free oxygen levels (which we need to.. you know..live) back to primordial levels ( or 0).

-its not really all that hard to make energy stay where you put it

Soo..the only sane logical conclusion one could draw from the above arguments is that we should make giant space rocks and hurl them in a very near and highly elliptical orbit around the sun, and then harvest them for all the sunshine they soaked up when they get back.

Q)How would this work?

A) it wouldn’t
A2) the crux of the idea is that when you add energy to something it often stays that way till you do something else to it. If you carry a G.I. Joe with a napkin based parachute up the stairs, the energy you imparted to your GI Joe by carrying it up the stairs remains stored until you remove the impediment to the energy release by exchanging your hand for an open window. The same principle works with materials or more specifically molecules, if you add energy to certain molecules in certain ways, those molecules will rearrange themselves in a higher energy or lower entropy state and will stay in that state until some specific action is taken to release that energy(keyphrase: activation energy). This is a basic principle behind batteries, not to mention photosynthesis and respiration. The adjective for this type of chemical action is endothermic i.e. you add heat(or really any type of energy despite the latin) you get something new that’s chock full o’ energy. Because this is possible and there are a number of molecules which this process can successfully occur, one might imagine that if one made a giant spaceball consisting of this type molecules and one then hurled said giant spaceball around the sun, when it came back one would have done the equivalent of turning worthless co2 into very energetic and useful 02 and Cx; but likely with different atoms than carbon and oxygen.

If this system was earth based, it would certainly not work, however a space based facility might be able to pull this off, assuming the materials could be harvested from nearby low gravity asteroids. The best possible form of this would be to be able to simply divert an entire asteroid with the correct composition, into a near sun orbit, and just use that instead.(this just keeps getting stupider and stupider). I really have no idea what the chemical composition of something like this would look like but it totally seems like this should probably work.

Thats pretty much it…

Pasteurized Hospitals?

Problem: Hospitals are often the worst place to take a sick person with a weakened immune system because there are so many diseases floating around, a majority of them resistant to modern medicines.

Possible solution: Pasteurization: the process of heating up an airtight container to I believe 140 degrees to kill most bacteria. If a hospital could be sectioned off so that an unused portion of it could be sealed and “cooked” along with as much hospital inventory, cots etcetera, as could be fit into it, a more effectively maintained sterile environment could be *cultivated*.

This process could be moved around the hospital continually to maintain a higher level of microbial safety. Maybe.

Obviously this would be very energy intensive and wasteful but then again, people dying of incurable diseases is somewhat wasteful as well.

Braille Keyboards for All !!!!!!

There are 2 reasons why..actually there are 3..or well really there are 4 reasons why all keyboards should use braille dots. The first and most important is for my convenience. If my keyboard was written in braille, presumably I would always know which key my finger was on. The dots on f and j help but not if I am playing a video game, which we can all agree, is extremely important. Second, it would be a pretty useful tool for learning how to type, something I still don’t do all that well (lot’s of speed, not a lot of accuracy). Third, blind folks might kinda sorta appreciate being able to use any and all keyboards. And lastly, we would all know how to read braille.

The only possible downsides to this is the unknown potential for finger irritation due to repetitive minor abrasion, and the somewhat insignificant retooling costs of keyboard manufacturers(they have to retool rather regularly anyway)

Floss Rings

Yes floss rings. Make a little finger hole hoop on the back of the floss dispenser, the disk kind, and you got a floss ring. Like the kinda ring you wear on your finger.

The advantages of such a setup are numerous: you basically have a ready made solid anchor in the form of the floss dispensor with which to apply the tensional force neccessary to achieve the sublime act of rubbing your tooth sides with wierd flat string. All that is required to complete this perfect design is a means of anchoring the anchor itself to you the operator; answer: a floss ring. You really also need some sort of notch like structure to keep the floss dispensor from dispensing indefinately. This is essentially a solution to the requirement of wrapping many lengths of floss around two different fingers in order to keep the floss from slipping, a practice which wastes both a lot of floss as well as much perfectly good grumbling which could otherwise be directed at far more meaningful recipients.

This of course only fixes the problem for one finger, but its better than none, and really who the hell is gonna buy, much less use a floss ring + ancilliary notched floss retainer-ring combo?
No one.