Monday July 15, 2013

Elon Musk Posts Plan to Annouce Hyperloop Transit System
By Ehren Goossens - Jul 15, 2013 11:05 AM CT

 Elon Musk, chief executive officer of electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors Inc., will unveil designs for a solar-powered inter-city passenger transport system by Aug. 12.

The technology behind the system will be a “breakthrough” and Musk will be “happy to work with the right partners,” Musk said in Twitter posts today. Musk is seeking “critical feedback” on the system and will publish it as open source, according to the tweets.

Musk previously said that the so-called Hyperloop would be twice as fast as airplane travel and cheaper than high-speed rail. Musk is the chairman of SolarCity Corp. (SCTY), the rooftop power producer that’s more than quadrupled in value this year.
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Comments of Comment:

Lee Gold:  On 7/15/2013 10:36 AM, Daniel S. Goodman wrote: "Caffeine is unhealthy for canines.  Perhaps it would be bad for werewolves?  If so, they would probably avoid coffee and tea.

"Which, in a society where most people drink coffee and/or tea, might make them conspicuous.

"However, there's one large religious group who are expected to avoid decaffeinated beverages.  So in the US (and other places with relatively large Mormon populations,) werewolves might become Mormons."

Or perhaps Seventh Day Adventists.

Then again, the dog I grew up with had my father's leftover coffee (about half a cup, with cream and fake sugar) every morning and lived to be over 16 years old.  I think this dog probably weighed about thirty pounds.

[Was that fake sugar saccharin?  If so, your father was lucky enough to be among the people to whom saccharin doesn't taste bitter.  Tastes bitter to me; didn't to my mother.]

On tracing your assertion, I've found that "coffee grounds" are bad for dogs.
A webpage says "While 1-2 laps of coffee, tea or soda will not contain enough caffeine to cause poisoning in most pets, the ingestion of moderate amounts of coffee grounds, tea bags or 1-2 diet pills can easily cause death in small dogs or cats."  It sounds as if werewolves should just stay on instant coffee.

Then again, assuming that the average werewolf weighs at least a hundred pounds. there's not likely to be much problem as long as they don't snack on coffee grounds or teabags.

[Drat!  A beautiful theory slain by an ugly fact.  Thanks.]
   
7/15/13 onyxlynx replied to your Dreamwidth entry ( http://dsgood.dreamwidth.org/107178.html )
Herbal tea would be OK, though.  They're expected to avoid <i>caffeinated</i> beverages, not decaffeinated.

7/15/13 stardreamer replied to your Dreamwidth entry ( http://dsgood.dreamwidth.org/107178.html )
Don't forget Coke and Mountain Dew!
 
Perhaps more interestingly, imagine that the werewolves themselves don't realize this -- perhaps because the effects aren't lethal. What if the primary effect were sterility? Utah might then be the only part of the US where the werewolf gene doesn't get bred out of the population. How that would influence anti-Mormon prejudice in the rest of the country is left as an exercise for the writer. :-)