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Introduce a new mobile phone service that would allow Editor’s note:
users to ‘ping’ each other and receive information as toIf mobile phones
the whereabouts, present company, or mood of their continue to become
friends when their phones are switched off, without smaller and more
actually disturbing them. Users would input the advanced at an equal
information they wished to provide in the auto response rate we may well have
virtual telepathy
407texts: ‘awake’ or ‘asleep’, ‘bored and lonely’, ‘kidnapped before this book hits a
second edition.
but unharmed’ and so on.
Dan Friedman
16 December 2002
Place a specially constructed rubber balloon in the hull
of oil tankers to be filled with crude oil, and use the
normal hull for ballast water. The ballast seawater would
not create pollution when dumped into the sea and,
should an accident occur, the rubber balloon would hold
the crude oil and prevent an oil spill.
408DrHamadAlsaad
17 December 2002