some good stuff, some cabin-fever induced crackpot theories

Today I learned that:

• The guy who told the world that the Mars rovers would have to start taking extended naps to save money spoke too soon, so theses will be saved.
• Pima County (the land of desert-grown cotton) (it's where Tucson is) is going to exceed ozone limits now that they've been lowered, so the county is encouraging people to avoid driving. I suggest that we use existing technology to achieve toilet-to-tap water recycling* to increase the supply of chemicals in the water, thereby increasing the chemically sensitive population, and then more people will stay home and whine about the air quality. With fewer drivers and more public concern, it'll surely improve.
• You can train fish to come when they're called, so there is some interest in training little fish, turning them loose, and then calling them when it's time to kill them and eat them. If you attribute any intelligence to fish at all, that plan starts to sound like the plot of one of those a diabolical short stories that gives you nightmares. From another point of view, I'd rather get to swim around in the ocean for a while before being killed and eaten instead of being confined to a standard aquaculture sea cage.
• Fish farming is done in standard aquaculture sea cages.
• In Los Angeles, people make bullet-proof buildings.
• You can make jerky using a box fan and paper air conditioner filters. Right after paper air-conditioner filters are made out of food-grade organic paper ingredients (wood pulp? recycled paper towels? dryer lint?), I will consider trying that recipe.

*No one I am aware of wants to use existing technology for potable recycled water. They all want to use future technology, which, based on the government's assessment of what is safe, I'm sure will be perfectly safe. I only have a ten-stage water filter under my kitchen sink because I like the way it looks. Really. Ok, not really.