By Elliott Brack
Editor and publisher, GwinnettForum
MAY 22, 2018 | Science is amazing. It continues to develop elaborate solutions which drastically change the world.
Who would have thought that a person could find a way to propel people in something called an automobile? Or hooking small wires together to perform elaborate and complicated functions for the microchip? Or allow people to spin around the moon?
Here’s the most recent way science has astounded us. Instead of having carbon explosions here on earth to give us energy, now these explosions mostly happen in space.
Here’s how. First, a rocket is fired into outer space. Yes, this causes a little low-level pollution, but not much. Read on.
Once in space, the payload releases a bag, something like a giant, reinforced garbage plastic Baggie, and it flutters out behind this payload and expands. Then comes a small bang in space, as the payload vehicle is blown up, and the entire expansion of this explosion is captured in the Baggie. That explosion is called Brack Gas, and immediately this bag of gas starts floating around the earth.
Science has means of keeping up with this giant bag. As it floats to the sun side each 24 hours, it expands even further from the heat, making more Brack Gas, and does this regularly 24×7.
Now here is the good part.
On another level of scientific invention, somehow the modern world devises a contraption that can pull off this Brack Gas and convert it to electricity. (This unit also scrubs the Brack Gas, cleaning the debris from the upper air explosion.) This new electricity, in turn, is sent back to earth on a laser beam, temporarily stored until needed, and eventually released as simple electricity to run the Earth’s devices.
What’s gained? Lots.
No more internal combustible engines on Earth, as now our automobiles run on space electric power (SEPS). People pay their regular monthly SEPS bill like you do your water or communications bill, all done now digitally.
What was once thought of as cheap power from nuclear stations is “old technology.” After these nuclear plants were thoroughly scrubbed and cleansed, their vessels have become platforms where a new sport is played in elaborate space suits in a zero-gravity atmosphere. Spectators can only watch on what was once called, television, which now with vast gimmick improvements is known as Buffetvision (Warren saw a good investment opportunity.).
Since we pay all our personal costs electronically, we no longer use dollar bills, though some people still collect those metal worldwide coins as antique elements of money changing.
Of course, there are critics to using Brack Gas instead of natural resources. The coal and gas industries keep trying to convince the United Nations an alternate fuel is still needed, so that its many workers around the world can still find employment. But coal and even now gas is still so costly to extract that while their motley crews remain underemployed, it doesn’t affect the GNP much. And of course, rail haulers of coal have long since bankrupted, with fracking no longer viable. (Buffet eventually lost on this bet.)
Isn’t it amazing what science has done? While we formerly thought that the last several generations of our ancestors had seen mighty inventions change our world, imagine what is to come next?
That was my dream recently. You don’t dream much? That’s why I enjoy going to sleep, to see what I will be dreaming next. It’s wonderful! And there’s no telling what story may unfold.
(This column is dedicated to Jerry Ashworth of Stone Mountain, who tells me he doesn’t dream much.)
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