Dreams, Memes, Tears & Fears

 1. Schrodinger's Cat : An object is in two states at the same time. 2. Morton's Fork : Two different choices lead to equally bad outcomes. 3. Occam's Razor : The best answer is the one that explains all data on hand with the fewest assumptions. 4. Hanlon's Razor : Don't attribute something to malice when it can be explained by stupidity. 5. Grey's Law : An advanced enough stupidity is indistinguishable from malice. 6. Poe's Law : A parody of something extreme can be mistaken for reality, and an extreme enough reality can be mistaken for a parody. 7. Horseshoe Effect : Two ideologically opposing groups have a lot in common ideologically. 8. Liar's Paradox : The sentence: "This statement is a lie" and variations thereof. 9. Tsundere Paradox 1# : When you ask a person the question: "Are you a tsundere?" both the answers 'Yes' or 'No' can mean an affirmative. 10. Tsundere Paradox 2# : A person saying: "It's not l...

 There's this story which I've been wanting to write for so long (maybe for 3 years!) but I haven't got around to actually writing the majority of it. Only small snippets, whenever I get in the mood (which I mostly enter whenever I read another far more superior novel). It kind of goes without saying, it's because when I do try to write it, by my conscious decision, the results point to me...being something of a potato at writing. Thus, here I'll try to make clear for myself (and the readers happening to visit) what kind of world I am writing my semi-speculative fiction novel in. (updates may follow) In this novel, the world is in ruins. A worldwide war had just taken place. It's been 10 years, but the state of the Earth is still catching on. The food distribution had to be regulated or famine may occur. In some cases failure of water filters caused hospitalizing and death. People are warned of storms in advance to avoid small radioactive particles (and then som...

Note : My first post! So I'll give you this scenario : A person walks up to a gym exercise cycle (or whatever kind of cycle that stays in place) and cycles on it for half an hour; or fifteen minutes, or even ten minutes depending on our endurance. The energy exerted from the movements is stored in the same way as how energy is stored from water or wind turbines for later use. Then the person uses the energy stored to rev up their motorcycle and go for a ride. Now, how far would that person be able to go, before it putters out and dies? It's basically the same way as how water and wind turbines work. Of course, it'd most probably generate a lot less than those building-sized installations, but I wonder? Would a full crew of cyclers be able to rival a dam and power a city's worth of transportations, replacing the need for gasoline? ...I don't have the necessary knowledge on physics or engineering to begin to figure out the math on this. As an aside, though, how would ...