Tannishblog

The NY Times has a too-short blurb (see: Go Speed Racer!) on a Silicon Valley start-up named Tesla Motors, which is producing the first ever all-electric sports car. Great Name!

According to the web site, the Tesla Roadster can do 0 to 60 in four seconds and run 250 miles per charge. Yes, its expensive, as is all new technologies. The company is marketing it as a must-have status symbol With it’s looks, it will be. After all, what’s a mere 75,000 to the average pro quarterback or to a multi-platinum rapper? Chump change.

All new technologies must become commercially viable before they’re adapted by the public, first as a niche then going mainstream as competition and other market forces demand affordability. The rapid advances in computer tech is a great example of this paradigm. I’m waiting eagerly for space travel to follow the same pattern. This little guy is a good start, though.

This is one hot-looking car! A geek’s dream. I might have a tough time choosing between Racing Green or Thunder Gray Metallic finishes (Electric Blue is cool, too.) Hey, a guy can dream, can’t he?

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed concern yesterday that the Israel-Lebanon conflict will become "a major humanitarian disaster." Talk about stating the obvious!

What makes this war different from any other? I don’t recall him saying this about the US forces in Iraq, even though America all but wiped its ass with the Geneva Conventions. Over 100,000 Iraqi citizens die and not a peep out of him. Did he say the same when Russia was in Chechnia? Or when anyone was in Afghanistan?

All war is a "humanitarian disaster." All. Not some wars and not others, not some wars more than others. All.

Unless war itself is outlawed in the human consciousness, then we are all in grave danger. With more nations obtaining the Pandora’s Box that is atomic weaponry (thanks again, USA,) all mankind is threatened. Now that the box is open, we need to rethink the tried-and-true method of gun-barrel diplomacy. Until we do, the future has only one resolution: mutual annihilation.

As Albert Einstein noted: "If we don’t eliminate war, war will eliminate us."