I used to collect ticks for study in a Southern California county. Hot and dry as it was, we consistently found Ixodes species winter and summer. Plenty of other types, too. Maybe even drier climates would have less ticks, but work on finding something that keeps them off you - that you will actually, habitually do.…

“creates water”......no, COLLECTS water and condenses it. Takes water from one place to another. Refer to California’s Owens Lake for how that worked out.  Anything humans can overdo...they will. 

Why not just use fingerprints? Real question. 

I was raised by my great grandmother, and I figured that my mother was a person who should never have had a child. She loved me but was not good at the parenting part. I could understand that, even when I was young, and never held it against her. However, it left me with a firm belief that there are MANY people in the…

You and I are not their target audience. 

You’ve never been to Las Vegas, have you? Or Comic-Con? People throwing their money at anything that might give amusement for a little while. Humans don't act according to logic most of the time. Full disclosure, I spent waay too much at every Con I've attended. Logic: out the car window as we entered the parking…

Duct tape over the cameras. Even with gas powered cars on their way out (maybe), this will spur a higher demand for older vehicles without screens. 

I’ve been told that in general, freight rails aren’t maintained to the smoothness standards required for the passenger rail the US has now. I can only imagine that bullet train tracks need to be smoother than existing freight tracks can ever be. Also, the freight rail companies will fight tooth and nail to keep…

Yeah, that woman who quit dating this prize after only three dates. How unreasonable. 

She probably just lifted a gun her Mom inherited after Dad passed, or swiped her boyfriend's gun from a drawer. Sadly many gun owners don’t take the trouble to safely secure weapons kept in their house.

Also: have municipalities set up laws about towing cars of laggards who don’t come get their charged cars - and set up these laws ahead of installing the actual chargers. I believe this will be a bigger problem than is now appreciated. Stiff fines, with some sort of system for appeals. Tow yards will need to be up on…

Wyoming and Idaho would probably secede if this was attempted. 

This is where we make Elon pay for a nice observatory base on the Moon.

This. Solar panels must be clean and clear to work; canal water is not very clean. Minerals, algae, mud, bird droppings, flotsam, and in some cases hail, can all stop this concept. Not to mention the delicate electrical connections that would be constantly flexing and bouncing. And humans; how would these expensive…

Don’t use propane. Propane go boom.

I admit I’m too lazy to learn something like Minecraft. But this seems like an opportunity to teach city kids that the grocery store doesn’t somehow fabricate the food in trays/bags/boxes in the back of the store. I hope they have some straight talk about slaughterhouses in there. I eat meat but hope that slaughter…

Not seeing wide adoption of electric vehicles without swappable batteries. They really need to work on this. Former gas stations could become swap-out centers. Of course,  there would need to be a LOT of cooperation between manufacturers on standardization,  which would be novel. But haven't the recharging connectors…

Two, unless that one was preggers.

In Wyoming we buy firewood made from beetle killed lumber - we can see the blue stains and see beetle tracks where the bugs bored underneath the bark. Has anyone seen a statistic on how much pellet production might have come from trees attacked by bark beetles?

True story. Our family had rented a houseboat at a lake, shall I say, in the Northwestern United States. We had pulled onto a crowded beach while one person made a fast supply stop. We saw, and heard, as a little kid of about 7 or 8 went up to his mom on their boat’s roof, and whispered something. She pointed at the…