[Sean Schuff]

What Gui and Dave said.

If technology didn't make our lives safer/better/more comfortable we wouldn't focus so much on new technologies and innovative uses for existing technologies. Consider this quote from the March, 1904 issue of Popular Science regarding aircraft: "...The machines will eventually be fast, they will be used in sport, but they are not to be thought of as commercial carriers." A word to the wise - be careful not to limit your vision of the future based on the setbacks of the past or on your own personal paradigm. When you tell an innovator "it won't work", they'll find a way to prove you wrong.

Of course, I also agree that with the price of gas likely to speed rignt on by $4.00 per gallon, we'd (all of you future engineers in the FIRST community) better come up with a realistic alternative pretty quick!

My 4 cents worth...double or nothing.

Sean