Solutions(?)

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A thread dedicated towards possible solutions rather than the rather pessimistic fare we engage in with much of our other communication.

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The Ptolemaniacs in the House have doubled down (actually it is tripled down) on Privatizing Ryan's previous plan.  Gotta wonder if he ever actually listened to their lyrics.

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Woman in Bolivia has been building homes for the poor out of plastic bottles

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Not sure where to put this one - eco-sex group Fuck for Forest 

Nice to know there are still some idealistic hippies out there.

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Completed most excellent 7.5 mile bike course acclimatizing to NuVinci planetary hub.  Before outset this guy was dithering on disstraction tv about balance between peg (maybe) and featherbedding.

there's the hype and the rumors. One solution is the Slipraft business plan.  First a buncha papers.  Then in to the permaculture summer.  Hope to visit Ecospeed in your neighborhood BO.  Hope ya lots of good things to eat. 

[BO]

Whatever your heart desires, man.

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Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities

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Revolights for Slipcraft?

[waldopaper]

This is cool.  But it's still a bike (two wheels) and not a quad.  Found recumbent trike to be at least 2x the fun and utility of a bicycle... and the quad was the same kind of leap from the trike. 

Imagine the Slipcraft could easily do 40-60mph but such shenanigans are illegal and probably should be.  

 

[BO]

Fuck me. This is cool. The ultimate Slipcraft...

http://www.ruppert-composite.ch/en/flugzeug/portrait.html

Scoll down to bottom of the page for video.

My old man had a glider. A Schweitzer I think. But this new one...so small, so fucking well-designed. Even though I'm too old and fat to think about trying one out, it still gives me huge boner.

[Mouse]

once lived on a Royal Air Force camp in lovely hilly country where darling pigs wandered in the fields where were their pens, and watercress beds made ripple the afternoon in soft ringing bells of water falling through stones of little streams

and in the summer sky the gliders glid

[Mouse]

lay on the cold slabs in the church by the cloisters there, gazing through the bars beneath the tomb of Chaucer's countess

where lay her carved stone likeness as Death had left her

[BO]

Beautiful, Mouse.

I wish 'Time Team' was producing new episodes.

I love this stuff...

Perfectly preserved bronze age wheel unearthed in Cambridgeshire

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/19/archaeologists-exca...