Star Trek Showerthought: Of the many hopeful and optimistic visions of the future presented to us by Star Trek, perhaps none is more inspirational than the knowledge that someday it’ll be possible to just randomly shout “COFFEE, BLACK!” at a wall and it will appear immediately.

The thing i associate most with this, is putting an absolute and complete end to the masses of assholes idling through the Timy Horton's drive through, every single day. Or really, drive-thru windows altogether. It's lazy and stupid. Shoudn't exist.

An average vehicle with a 3-litre engine idling for ten minutes burns 300 millilitres (over 1 cup) of fuel and this produces 690 grams of CO2. This may not sound like a lot but remember‚ millions of motorists have fallen into the trap of unnecessary idling. In fact‚ if Canadian drivers of light-duty vehicles avoided unnecessary idling for just three minutes every day of the year, we would collectively save 630 million litres of fuel, worth $630 million (assuming a fuel cost of $1 per litre)! Just as important, over the period of a year, we would prevent 1.4 million tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere. That's the equivalent of taking 320,000 cars off of the road! Clearly, individual actions, when taken by millions of Canadians, can make a difference.

Like, it's staggering stuff. But Canadians can't stop driving themselves through the Tim Horton's drive-thru every day. Because they're horrible people i guess. It needs to stop.

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