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To: SARMAN who wrote (273862)	2/2/2010 3:05:41 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What's the "United" in United Arab Emirates? And how come Jordan [or others] won't accept all the Palestinians as being part of Greater Jordania? Why didn't Saddam and Iran just agree to amalgamate into one happy family? <they never been allowed to unite. If they were united, they would have been a force to reckon with. > They are squabbling murderous nomads with oil loot. Look at the lovey-dovey Europeans forming one big happy family, leaving the internecine warfare of a bygone era behind. "And the English shall cook dinner and the Germans be the romantics and the Italians shall run the government and the French shall make cars". No wait... Okay, there are some issues to deal with. But Iran, Iraq would hardly have to change their names to amalgamate. They could split the difference and go with Irap which is a pretty cool cybersphere name. They could make it iRap to be totally with it. They could run cyberspace from Mesopotamia which with the incipient ice age could become the centre of civilization once again. Fibre and super fast 1000km vacuum maglev "rail" could spread across the continents. Aviation doesn't need to be 10km high - it's a ridiculous idea to send 100 tons of people, metal and fuel into the sky. It's better to fly through tubes in little vehicles with superconductors lifting and pushing. Airliners can't get away from drag because they need air to hold them up. So they have an optimum altitude. At ground level, little vehicles could fly through tubes with adjustable wings using linear motors like a particle accelerator. It's true that the speeds the large hadron collider gets up to would be interesting for people to experience, but it could be fun to arrive in New York from Baghdad two days before leaving. Okay, that's literary licence and there isn't that much time to be saved, but a day could be saved. Meanwhile, the chance of the Arabs coming up with anything like that is zero. They are still in the opening scene of 2001 A Space Odyssey, beating each other with bones. Mqurice