mazdatweaker
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ROFLOL Andrew.
If I had my way, LOTS of us would be ON boats, UNDER water.
Maybe someday.
In the meantime, if I M "on" marijuana, I will be the first to tell you.
And if I M "on" an airplane, I won't be able to.
I know what I M discussing here has problems that have to be dealt with. When Kennedy promised the moon within a decade, there was an astonishment and a marvel. . . .WE had NEVER done this. . .
Before someone ran a 4 minute mile, no-one thought it was possible.
Before a train was ever built, there were LOTS of discussions about how impossible and even WRONG it was.
The idea of the Hoover dam was criticized.
Electricity.
Can you imagine going back 200 years with a toaster? Pretend you had a stainless steel, bright shiny two slot. And you got shot back in time with it.
So you are standing there when the crowd walks up and sees it and you. What are you going to say?
Where are you going to plug it in?
What do you think the crowd would do to you, after about 90 seconds?
Remember Star Trek?
Remember the communicators?
Flip open cell phones did not exist.
Remember the phasers?
Tasers did not exist.
Before we experience technology in real time, we envision it in actuality, in a place inside our head.
You knew you could ride a bicycle before you ever did it successfully.