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Ladies and Gentlemen Allow Me to Introduce the Cat Car
Kelmar writes "CNN is running a story about how a German inventor has found a way to power a car using dead cats. Yes you read that right. According to the inventor he can produce the biodiesel fuel at the cost of about $0.30 (US) per liter. Needless to say many animal rights activists are upset by this development, and some are saying that it is illegal to use animals for this purpose in Germany."
While it may not be such a good idea to find stray cats to fill up your car, I think the development is certainly interesting.
If you take BSE for instance, where tens of thousands of cows are slaughtered 'just in case' and are unfit for consumption - what if we could use those animals for fuel? Or maybe even insects or Republicans. Ridding your house of pests may fill your car up at the same time. Africa may be able sell its grasshopper plague with enough profit to buy more food.
'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' II Corinthians 5:7
Wasn't there a story on /. about a year or so ago about running all manner of organic waste through a refinery? IIRC, it's possible to generate everything from axle grease to alcohol by cooking up turkey carcasses.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Pfft, we've been using dead animals to run cars for years and they've never complained before. This is nothing new ;)
Also, pets are killed on a daily basis in the hundreds, at least this way we're putting them to good use.
Bild and Sun
The Bild is Germanys largest tabloid and is well known for not always reporting overly accurate, to put it mildly.
I quote: "Flying Saucer Shot Down Over Russia"
Yes, what's probably the most popular publication in Germany is seriously trying to tell us that the Russians have taken down an UFO.
The BILD's "articles" (which usually take up about as much space as the headlines) are varying in quality between grotesque oversimplification, blunt populism, sheer nonsense lacking any kind of relation to the real world and a mix of the above.
I'd recommend only using it as toilet paper but that'd probably make your ass dumber.
The scary thing about the BILD is that many people are actually relying on it for their daily news. I don't even want to think about how the upcoming elections will be affected by people making their decisions based on the bullshit written in this rag. (Note: I don't want to insult actual bovine excrements by comparing them to BILD articles.)
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
Anybody else remember that old, slightly disturbing book?
Probably came out about 20 years ago.
I guess it's outdated, now.
102 Uses for a Dead Cat?
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......