Grand Mal

Hell wasn't invented?

When was it not? All of society has been going to hell in a handbasket since handbaskets and hell were invented.

I don't know. Seems kinda pointless now though. In retrospect, if you called the whole exercise since the first successful landing a waste of money I'd be hard pressed to make an argument against you. Like climbing Everest, the first time was an achievement but who remembers the name of the second one to do it? No question in my mind that they did land there, though, and I'll be cheering as loud as anyone when they land on Mars.

They went to the moon several times, and the point was made. Is there more to it than that?

The defense in CFL is at a disadvantage compared to NFL. The Canadian fieldis about 50% bigger than the American field- 9810 sq.yds. versus 6360 sq.yds. That's a huge amount of ground and it gives a big advantage to the offense. That's why CFL games are higher-scoring than NFL despite the fewer downs. George Hallas, one of the founders of the NHL, said the Canadians had a better game.

Who woulda thought? The guy who'll swap out your dead battery for a recharged one, he woulda thought. Or, diesel engines will never replace steam because diesel fuel will always be expensive and unavailable.

Charge times aren't an issue for my screwgun. I just swap the dead battery for a recharged one. I don't know why you one day couldn't drive into a station and have your dead battery swapped for a recharged one. Or even have one of your own on the charger, ready to change out. Might be a difficult thing today but I'm willing to bet that it's an easily solvable problem, and if experience has taught us anything, it's that the market finds a way.

There's a better option, though it's not available to everyone. Out here in BC our electricity is hydro, which basically is solar. The sun lifts all those water droplets out of the ocean and drops them on the mountains. As they run downhill back to the ocean we make them turn turbines and generate electricity. Works so well we sell electricity to Americans. True, there's issues around disrupting the river flow and providing access for migrating fish and whatnot but they're relatively easily dealt with. Relative to nuclear waste and hydrocarbon combustion byproducts, I mean. But, as I said, it's not an option that's available to everyone yet. And, actually, I suspect that some of the schemes for using tidal flow will be more interesting for large-scale electricity generating, with no waste or byproducts.