The World is Sick

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Meh.

Not again

Well, six weeks. This is probably the least enjoyable semester I’ve ever had. It’s just like secondary school, except that most of the teachers are bad. Some are sort of bad. Others are pretty bad. And yet others are oh, man, so bloody terrible. I’ve had a number of tests this past couple of weeks. Also a presentation. That went all right, I guess. I’m not that bad a speaker. I hope.

Anyway, I’m here, writing. That means I can’t get to sleep. Insomnia is so frustrating. Using only insomnia for writing material has left this blog really dry. Dry, like the latest Futurama episode. I don’t have a topic. I’m just rambling. How to write a thousand words of bull. Better phrased as, the use of rhetoric to obscure a lack of content. But I can’t do that. I live on content. Content is the holy grail of academia. Which is why vacuous subjects such as the principles of marketing do not belong in a fact-based course.

Perhaps it’s time I found a topic. Something that doesn’t involve complaining about my school, or my petty, paranoid feelings about my stagnating intellect.

So, everyone loves jet packs, yeah? Iron Man has them. All of my little lego men have them. They’re those cool space marine types. At least, I think they are. They have helmets with translucent visors. When someone asks me why I haven’t started learning how to drive, that’s my answer: Jet packs.

Rockets that you strap to your back have been a staple of spy movies and science fiction for as long as I can remember. Being less than two decades old, I don’t remember that much. The interesting thing is, jet packs are actually being used by astronauts for moving around in the vacuum of space. Unfortunately, that happens to be the only current practical use for jet packs. That hasn’t stopped people from tinkering with them though.

Most modern jet packs use concentrated hydrogen peroxide in their propulsion systems. It’s a pretty smart idea, seeing as that the propulsion materials are just water and oxygen. However, obtaining concentrated hydrogen peroxide is apparently not easy, seeing as how most of the companies that produced it have since closed down. Accidents and whatnot.

After doing some reading, I realise now that my dream of owning my own personal jet pack will probably never come to fruition. It is apparently extremely difficult to pilot one of these things. Hence, I shall focus my interest on personal helicopters instead. The technology has been around for a long time now, and plenty of people know how to fly them. Also, it would probably be more useful than a car in the event of a zombie apocalypse.

Then again, pretty much every chopper pilot gets killed/turned into a zombie in zombie films. Hmm.

So then. Here’s my idea which totally has nothing to do with me not wanting to drive a car! It’s like a personal subway system… that’s not a subway. It’s probably above ground. No, wait, maybe underground works better. I always imagine it on the surface for some reason. Anyway, people would still own cars, but these cars run on tracks. The entire city will be connected by a network of tracks, sort of like our own roads. When people want to get somewhere, they get into their car at a regional docking station, where it will be safely loaded onto a track. Based on input coordinates, the transportation AI… let’s say Skynet, directs the car to the main transport conduit, a more or less ring-shaped transport line with tracks leading off to specific locations. Breathe. Essentially, it’s a much more specific, personalised version of the MRT system. Mmm. Also, we can incorporate some vacuum/maglev principles to make it really sci-fi.