There are some things which puzzle me, which I suppose means I donSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™t fully understand them.
For example, the government forced us to switch to daylight savings time for some reason. So where does the government store all the daylight we save? We could certainly use it a little in the winter.
Earth rotates on its axis once a day and it rotates around the sun every 365.25 days. I understand that. The axis we rotate on is not at right angles to our rotation around the sun. If it did, we wouldnSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™t get shorter days in winter and longer days in summer. So why not just correct the angle of the axis? WouldnSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™t that equal out the days and nights? I am a little surprised no one has suggested this before. ItSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s only a 23-degree tilt and that shouldnSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™t be too hard to fix now that we can send space vehicles to other planets.
It may sound like science fiction, but if a couple spaceships or tugs were put into space and we attached a cable to the North Pole and the South Pole, the tugs could slowly pull the planet back to its correct position so that the axis is at right angles to its rotation plane around the sun. This should make the days and nights equal.
I know it sounds a bit far-fetched but a hundred years ago, no one would have thought cell phones or computers would work. It would certainly be interesting to see what this would do to the planetSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s climate. Maybe that is what Earth was like millions of years ago.
Here is another thing that puzzles me: if my computer and tablet can automatically change the time, why canSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™t my vehicles? The person who thought up the way to change vehicle clocks should be charged with mental cruelty because I have to dig out my ownerSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s manual every year to try and figure it out. Even my old-fashioned wristwatch is simple to change the time on but a truck clock is unfathomable. Surely, they can do better.
Speaking of which, why isnSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™t there a class action suit against the automakers for making vehicles which are so easy for people to steal? Remember when you had to have an actual key to open a vehicle or start it up? A thief either needed a key or know how to hotwire it, which takes a while. Now, the thieves can do it all with an electronic gizmo and in a few seconds, they're good to go and your vehicle is gone. Did no one in the government, which regulates the auto industry, think to correct this flaw in the system?
Did you know that Canada has an Office of Consumer Affairs-Innovation, Science and Economic Development? The government certainly likes long names but apparently no one in the office watches the news or has heard about all the vehicles being stolen and shipped around the world. Talk about free trade. It makes you wonder what the office does.
I would think the garbage dump would fall under consumer affairs. Burying garbage would be the innovation part, but humans have done that for over 100 years, so it's time for some new innovation. Not sure about the science aspect of it all but if they opened all dumps for salvaging, that certainly be economic development. Millions, perhaps billions of dollarsSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™ worth of stuff gets thrown into Canadian dumps every year. Salvaging and recycling it would certainly help and provide a number of jobs.
It really is time to rethink some of the things we do and figure out what changes are going to cause problems and how to head then off quickly and effectively. Decades ago, people warned that the amount of garbage we are creating and the problems it created and, but little was done to produce less. We could use a little Innovation, science and economic development,