Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Dilemma 4/7/09

They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!

--Edward Lear

You have the magical power to stop one and only one of the following two scenarios. Which would you prevent?

1. A medical researcher working on a cure for AIDS disappears at sea.
2. An inventor working on a completely renewable, cheap energy source disappears at sea.

2 comments:

Natsthename said...

I'd have to prevent #2 from happening and hope that the mediccal researcher in #1 had a partner. Our future depends on alternate energy sources.

Theryn said...

I'll prevent #1. We have plenty of renewable energy sources already; people are just not interested in developing them because it's all about oil.