Space Forum / Shuttle / November 2006

As long as we dont have to hear from him again, it really doesn't matter.

Nope...everyone knows transporters won't work across that distance.

With earplugs and goggles might last a while. The pressure dif. might
be a tad high though (approx. 0.3 atm). However he would pass wind
something ferocious :-)))

Great question!  I can't answer for space, but here's a starter list for us
Earth-lubbers:

1. My sister's town could have paved alleyways instead of dirt and mud,
after a hundred years of existence.

2. The flying automobile could be finally be perfected for series
production with the infusion of a couple billion $.  Robert Cummings owned
one.  Wouldn't you love too?

3.  A government-run radio-set factory could be built in my town to employ
all the kids who graduate high school, run loose and get in trouble with
the law.  Yes, we can compete with Hong Kong radio-set factories; we've
been sold a bill of goods that we can't.

4. A universal house design could be put into factory production to house
the masses.  This cheap house would have the best features compiled from
dwellings all over the world plus new thinking to make it the very best
house in the whole wide world.  These houses could be sold to the people at
actual cost.  Think of a $15,000 house.

5. Free laptop computers to all high school students with instructions not
to surf the bawdy newsgroups.  Not to worry, they'll take good care of
them; its a fallacy to think that because something is free, it won't be
respected.

6. Public restrooms in all the urban areas.  This will greatly improve
personal comfort and stop the arrests of intoxicated people who must
respond to the call of nature while in public.  Its no big deal overseas,
but a crime in America to just urinate anywhere.

YOU extend this list.  It takes pages and pages to address our social and
technical problems.  There would be plenty of money to solve every one of
these problems if it were not for needless, deadly and astronomicly
expensive wars that drain the Treasury dry.