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[thevestwritingintown]

"End With a Whimper" Prologue

Newly orphaned children whimper in the streets, running in the same direction as everyone else. Air vehicles, combat boots, and the sound of ammunition being loaded and fired.

That’s what the people hear as they run in fear.

A middle-aged medic runs with her teenaged daughter towards a combat bus that has people hanging off the end of it, and people pulling them inside. The girl’s mother shouts for her to run faster over her shoulder as she runs for the bus. It starts to take off, a few unfortunate souls losing their grips. The bus doesn’t go fast, but it’s filling up fast. The medic catches the hand of a young man, holding her arm behind her to her daughter. The young man pulls the medic up onto the bus, and the woman cries in protest as her daughter loses her speed to keep up with the bus. He looks around, knowing very well that there’s no room for her in here. Not unless someone jumps down.

            He jumps down to get her as her mother cries out in anguish, threatening to jump out and retrieve her herself. The young man shouts back for her not to as he runs towards the girl. He grabs her wrist gently, tugging her with him as he sprints towards the bus. Her pace slows him down, so he picks her up, running with her in his arms. He closes his eyes, gritting his jaw as he nears the bus, but he opens them to reunite the girl with her mother. The medic grabs her daughter from the young man’s grasp.

            “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”

            Her voice echoes from yards away as the bus leaves the young man behind, and he stand there in the too-quiet aftermath of destruction, wondering if what he was searching for was every on that bus. He would never know as he stands there, not knowing which way to start walking. In the end, he heads east.

[worsethanpoop]

Enter... the Velomobile

Elliot has been talking for a while about wanting to invent a 'bike car' when he grows up. This afternoon, I had to break it to him: someone has beaten him to it. I first heard about the velomobile over at resilience.org - Post Carbon Institute just posted their top ten most popular articles, and this was one of the more uplifiting. Kris de Kecker's exhaustive exploration of the velomobile lays it all out: what the velomobile is, how it works, how the electric version is 80x more efficient than an EV, why and how it's illegal in some places, and what needs to change to bring more of these fabulous machines to the world. Evonik wind explorer A little digging also took me to this article, about the benefits of cycling and velomobiles, and the cost - to society, to your checkbook, and even to your sex life - of driving. Flykly smart wheel This all makes me wonder about what might be possible if and when someone decides to combine a Velomobile with a Flykly smart wheel? (Flykly, by the way, just blew past their third stretch goal on Kickstarter, raising 5x their initial goal of $100k.) Maybe it's just me, but this all gives me hope, and makes me feel like we are a little bit closer to a poop-free future!