I realized today at work, that there is a rude flaw with the expected visualization of the future of transportation. Many visuals and descriptions of future transportation, space flight, depict the freedom we have now with the automobile except travelling between worlds rather than cities. I am not to say this is not possible, but perhaps further away than expected. My Girlfriend, an avid science fiction reader often dreams aloud of these visuals, the new human and their different daily lives then ours. I’ve come across a problem with the idealistic expectation of traveling at free will in 3 dimensions. Changing direction takes up quite a lot of energy, our current vehicles use a dramatic amount of resources to create these movement changes, I struggle to imagine the results of adding a 3rd dimension of controlled movement. With strong difficulties in creating batteries and alternative power sources to that of a liquid fuel, vehicles are great consumers. Space travel is becoming ever so realistic, though it most likely will need to be a commercial success before it becomes a personal freedom. The difficulty of moving people and resources to other planets, is the loss of resources on ours. The volume of oil, fuel, on our planet does not increase, it only decreases. As we travel outside our planet, we are spending resources from our planet that will not return to it. Fuel burnt off outside of the planet is gone forever, as with any metals or other resources taken. This poses a problem, as commercial success increases, hopefully it will bring new resources to replace the old, however, often in place of spent resources is the idea of resource, money. The alternative, or more viable in a sense of time, urgency into space, will be manned, but non-self-propulsion capsules. Whether using the rotation of the earth to literally throw the capsule, or a strange type of magnetic rail gun, these capsules will float on a projected path with hopes of an accurate trajectory. Fuel concern increases with time, as although time in many cases equals money, in these case, it equals population. The populous of earth will be much greater than it is now, consuming fuel at a greater rate than now.
Rap Battle
Y’all know what it’s about.
2012, doing more for less than ever before
This year I want to go bigger: Bigger than before. I’ve done some wild and silly stuff, through shear enthusiasm people have followed me to the brink. I’ve been trying to shy away from this trend, but I realize it’s my natural calling: Doing fun things for as near free as possible. It’s time to accept my natural talent as a purpose and run with it. Let’s Go 2012.
#1 on the list? Teach my self solidworks. I’ve been wanting to learn for years now. When idea hit me it’s so nice to be able to whip them up into a visual frenzy, both to check if my dimensional dreams are physically possible, and to have a nice proof of concept. I’ve been playing for a few days and today, in a 20 minute session I managed to accomplish 2 very long term and put off goals:
-Create something of my own design in solidworks, has been a goal of mine for 5? or more years now. I tried learning it a long time ago when I was much younger and gave up. No longer
-The day I moved to Victoria I wrote a note and taped it to a wall “Knuckle/RCA combo”. It sat there for about a year until I got mad at my lack of progress and scrapped the paper. 2 years now and I finally ‘penned’ it out. A universal Toyota shortened knuckle RCA combo. It fits multiple toyotas, is shorter than stock knuckles, corrects the lower control arm angle and reduces ackerman all in one single piece. Fits left and right as well! I’m excited. Time to get it whipped out for some prototypes
#2, Speed hero hats should be on the way soon. I’ll be posting more about a preorder shortly.
2012, Year of the Alternative Drift Chassis.
Look, I called E7 Corollas last year, they blew up. Not sure if it was me, but I was just noticing a trend is all. This year the tides have rolled back in with some fresh info: 2012 will be the year of the alternative drift chassis. Corollas, S chassis, hell even Miatas are all played out. Not just on a style basis, but rather a financial basis.
The Beginnings of something renewed.
Working hard, slaving away making someone else’s dream a reality is a constant reminder I have my own. I like cars, just a whole heck of a lot. Stashing cash like a squirrel with nuts, hogging away washing cars like a kid saving for summer camp, I managed to scrape enough together to buy a Lexus. A big boat of a car, 1UZFE powered SC400, it was a hope of an upgrade in social status. The plans? To build a ‘Big Corolla’.
I am several llamas
We all have cute butts.
☆ ☆ ☆ I ♥ Garuchan ☆ ☆ ☆
You Forgot
Big Scary Monster
Decision. Indecision, the ability to make choices, even the simplest, the most basic of choices all stem from the ability to make an initial decision. Deciding who you are is by far the most-second difficult decision you can make. The most difficult is the decision whether or not things, stuff, ideas and concepts, actually have meaning. Once you’ve made the decision on the level of meaning the thought of an idea, how much of a meaning it might have, then you can decide on what, which ideas and concepts have the most meaning to you. From here you run into the Dichotomy paradox of making decisions. The first is always the biggest, and each afterwards is half of the original. The size of these decisions is really the importance and specificness of each. Whether or not you want peanut butter or cheezewhiz on your toast in the morning is fairly deep decision into the process, you’ve made a core decision about the basics of life and idealism, many decisions have followed post this initial decision and sliced the importance of the initial major decision so thin that what you butter your burnt bread with really has little affect on the number of further divided decisions following.
You will observe people in life who have made, and stuck to these core decisions, whether wrong or not. They are dividers of the world, the kings and queens of society, leading followers of similar beliefs while offending or disagreeing with the rest. Consider for a volume of the population who have not been so decisive. The general public has a wide range of decisiveness, but their inability to be whole heartedly convinced of their initial decisions, the most basic of life, results in their in ability to lead. Worker bees most of us, not just from a sense of duty, but rather a need for direction, someone being decisive on their behalves. For some, like myself, it’s incredibly difficult to make an initial decision on the meaning of life, ones purpose to live. Efforts to live, and continue to live come into question, with no purpose comes no real reward. What’s this got to do with cars?
Recently I was asked why I don’t post on the blog anymore. People enjoyed it, a passion, with expression. Recently though my initial decisions, core values have come into question. The passion I built up for cars, the decision I made to love them, although a decision close to that of my core values, is a smaller slice in comparison to those it is based on. Purpose, reality, are all shattered, and it’s proving extremely difficult to choose again. Until then, I’m not sure what to do with myself or with my love for cars.
