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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>This is an example of what I mentioned a few days ago about being a way bigger threat to society than is global warming, this bigger threat is feral humans:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/07/station.videotaped.incident/index.html?hpt=T2">http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/07/station.videotaped.incident/index.html?hpt=T2</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Last week it was this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.bradenton.com/2010/12/27/2837235/manatee-sheriff-couple-attacked.html">http://www.bradenton.com/2010/12/27/2837235/manatee-sheriff-couple-attacked.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is a reason why I think most public transit notions are a dead end. Individual cars serve as suits of armor, providing a defensive barrier. The challenge is to invent a form of public transit which somehow protects the unarmed prole from other proles. If we build the infrastructure correctly, the ferals will devour each other, and the rest of us can go about our business.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the long run I am thinking something like the old tech ski lift technology is the way to move proles in the big city: moving cable, with the option of riding alone in an individual car or with as many as four riders per car. I don’t know the exact mechanism, but it should be at least possible to create a car that individually transfers from one moving cable to another, so that one need only enter the coordinates of the city block where one wants to end, and the rest is mechanized. This does away with most parking lots, or rather moves them out where there is plenty of room and the theoretical possibility of making the parking lots safe.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It could be that I am overly focused on the feral humans thing. Damien’s book Transcension has Dr. Malik being slain by ferals in a most memorable and disturbing passage. Fortunately he was frozen and we eventually saved by that technology. I propose avoiding all possible contact with them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>