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The Sturmey Archer 3 speed bicycle hub is perhaps the
finest example of human technology to date. As such,
identifying opportunities for Sturmey Archer to further
enhance the human experience is a top priority at the
global level.
Traditionally, world religions have rallied against the use
of technology. However, recent advances such as fire,
pyramids, and tax-exempt automatic electronic bank
transfers show that enthusiasm does exist in the pious
community.
Prayer wheels are an early example of the automation of
the tedious work of praying. By writing the prayer of
choice on around the circumference of a wheel and then
causing the rotation of the wheel, the prayer is sent out
into the world to perform all the usual functions. Prayer
wheels rotated by hand, water, wind or electric motors
exist, but all are somewhat limited in terms of speed.
To circumvent this issue, I propose a prayer wheel with a
nice epicyclic gearbox in its hub. Solid, reliable technology
requires only that it be anointed through the handy port
with a 30Wt oil on a biannual basis. The power source for
the wheel can be any of the aforementioned systems,
better, the bicycle-style freewheel can be included to
allow the prayer wheel to coast for a while. The 3 gears
provide coverage for 1:standard karmic coverage
2:hightened karmic output 3:enhanced karmic output for
new bright lights in the night sky/border disputes with
China.
Advanced models could perhaps use prayers on the internal
planet/sun gears to take advantage of a mix of forward
and reverse prayer output.
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You've done something really bad again, haven't you ? |
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You know you shouldn't do what The Voices tell you. It's very bad and wrong. You promised the doctors that you would take your medication every day. Have you taken your medication today ? Have you ? Now, you don't want to have to go ... back there, do you ? |
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How many this time ? Is there a lot of blood to clean up ? |
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He's a biochemist. There shouldn't be any blood, just
perfectly-preserved but very, very dead bodies. |
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Yes, that's how it was last time, thankfully. Amazing packing density he achieves, really impressive - then again if you disarticulate them first, the packing fraction is better than .85. |
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//if you disarticulate them first,// |
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Dessicate is a more appropriate word. The bulk of the
mass/mess is water and cryogenic liquids/solids are freely
available. The process also renders time of death estimation
to have ~5000yr margin of error, and to remove any volatiles
that may or may not have been present. The remaining mass
is lighter and easier to process for incineration, enzymatic
degradation etc. |
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Right, yes, we are totally in agreement with that. No argument. |
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But really, the point is that you weren't supposed to kill them at all, at least, not without the bill payer's permission. Rats, yes. Mice, yes. Euthanasia is an expected and inevitable part of the process of research. |
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But when you get to higher primates, the rules are a little more stringent - quite a lot more stringent when the higher primates are homo sapiens sapiens. You're supposed to let them "freely express natural behaviours", for example. |
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If you still haven't got over your compulsion to shut them up in tiny cramped cages without food or water, and poke them with a pointed stick while singing "Happy days are here again" or even "Singing in the rain" which has some terribly sinister overtones since A Clockwork Orange, we'll bring you [xenzag] to torment. Christmas in your lab is going to be a distinct improvement over the current prospects of being home alone where even Alexa ignores you. |
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The mechanism may be a good idea but the format is always going to let this idea down. |
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Should I perhaps Right align? |
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If you go far enough to the Right, you can probably qualify for your own crematorium ... |
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(More practice with the right arm, by the way - you're bending the elbow a bit, and the wrist is a trifle limp). |
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// Dessicate is a more appropriate word. […] // |
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You wouldn't happen to be a Trisolaran…? |
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No, he dosen't seem to have any food fads or anything like that. |
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