From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 00:00:49 MDT
--- spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> wrote:
> Time Magazine wrote:
> > Eliminating Hassles
> > by Gregory Heisler for TIME
> >
> > While he has yet to reveal the device to the public, rumors
> > are circulating about the latest brainchild of Dean Kamen,
> > the iconoclastic inventor of the iBot wheelchair and the
> > Segway personal transporter...
> >
> > Kamen will only say that the project--codenamed "Basil"--
> > is a high-tech human waste disposal system that, in his
> > words, "will be to the typical American flush toilet what
> > the toilet was to the outhouse."...
>
> This will never catch on. You cannot race them,
> you cannot have contestants with their bikinis
> tied together doing a tug-of-war over a gak pit
> filled with geeks, none of that good fun stuff.
> Kamen might as well fuggeddaboutit.
On the contrary, it would have a complementary place at eating
contests. Imagine that little Japanese guy who ate 50 hotdogs in 5
minutes. He is gonna need a hard core human waste disposal unit to
handle his post-contest ejecta.
On a serious note, I do think it will catch on in any jurisdiction that
has water supply problems. California, for instance, which is
confiscating water from as far away as Colorado these days, would
certainly pass laws mandating use of toilets that use far less water.
Any island country/state with similar water management issues.
The technology might also be used in agriculture to treat farm animal
waste before it reaches the watershed. Agriwaste is the biggest
pollution problem in the world, currently. It is the cause of the
pfisteria infestation in the Chesapeake, and is blamed for birth
defects and health problems with marine mammals around the world.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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