If you're abducted by aliens as often as I am, you've considered using them as a free energy source. Wind a rope around a flywheel, geared to a generator. 4 trillion miles of rope should be plenty. Tie the other end of the rope to your waist, or to the UFO if it has an attachment point. You'll generate power with each abduction, by induction.-- Amos Kito, Aug 25 2003 you're just *asking* to get your teeth drilled you are.-- po, Aug 25 2003 :-) How lucky! We have 4 trillion miles of fishing line rope left over from blackholeapult. Turns out we couldn't use it due to weight restrictions and have switched over to nanotubes.-- Worldgineer, Aug 25 2003 When those little guys figure out that you're running your stereo off their Abductotron, they're gonna make you pay in kind. And that means probing, and then some more probing.-- bungston, Aug 25 2003 The real trick is to figure out a way to cook pork chops by getting anal-probed.-- DeathNinja, Aug 25 2003 Just eat them raw beforehand.-- lostdog, Aug 25 2003 Why don't you try to purchase their wireless power?-- sartep, Aug 25 2003 Aliens. That explains our present condition.-- RayfordSteele, Aug 25 2003 Somewhere, on another distant planet, there is some sort of communication starting, "If you've abducted [Amos Kito] as often as I have, you've considered using it as a free energy source..."-- Detly, Aug 25 2003 And they said privatization of U.S. utilities was a bad idea.-- Vexxy, Aug 26 2003 Personally, I avoid the whole alien-abduction thing by wearing my aluminum foil deflector beanie. If they can't listen to my thoughts, they don't know I'm here.-- Cedar Park, Aug 26 2003 Unless they monitor the HalfBakery, then the jig is up.-- DeathNinja, Aug 26 2003 random, halfbakery