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I'm passionate about

Space, the future, music, and thought. I am most passionate when I am working but I play just as much.

An idea worth spreading

Any invention must fit right the socioeconomic and technological conditions to become a success. I will save my idea for the right time because it is not now.

Talk to me about

Anything except conspiracy theories.

My TED Story

Is just beginning.

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• TEDCred score: +6.20 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

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  A comment on Conversation: If you could warn your past self about anything only using two words, what would you say?

  Feb 3 2013: Apple Stocks.

• A comment on Talk: Michael Anti: Behind the Great Firewall of China

  Jul 30 2012: That was a great talk. Chinese politics is a tool that has been sharpened for thousands of years. I hope we keep an eye on these Bad Cats.
• +3

  A comment on Conversation: What advice would you give a younger you?

  Jul 10 2012: To my 4th grade self,
  
  Listen up kid, you're not always right. Your parents know what life is like. They are there for you. Take their advice once and awhile, trust me they are right 99% of the time. They have been where you are now. Learn from their mistakes. I'm going to give you a bit of advice from the future now. Convince Dad to buy stock in Google not Yahoo, trust me. Learn how to use computers. I don't mean play games and surf the internet, build software. You'll figure it out if you want to be surrounded by intelligent driven people. Lastly, drop out of high school freshman year and begin college immediately. I don't have much time because the portal is closing but heed these words!
  
  From the future you,
  
  p.s. The first time you ever go snowboarding watch out for the ski lift, it's an ankle breaker.

• A reply on Conversation: A conversation with Shell: How can the smarter use of energy and other resources unlock the true potential of cities?

  Jul 6 2012: First, install turbines at every drainage choke point. These would be used for power during monsoon season and heavy rainfall. Second, build a "flood system". This would be a centralized and elevated reservoir to be used as a cipher point. During flooding conditions turbines power pumps to begin a static flow of water out of the city. Once the process is begun it does the work itself. NY uses this same system to bring water IN to the city, I suggest using it to pump water out.
  
  As for stress put on to the system I know that this system is capable.
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  A comment on Conversation: A conversation with Shell: How can the smarter use of energy and other resources unlock the true potential of cities?

  Jul 6 2012: There are two major issues in a city. Water and Water. Clean water must be brought in at a constant high volume rate for use in plumbing, cleaning, and drinking. On the other side of the coin is drainage. These two aspects of civil engineering will make or break a city.
  
  If you harness the kinetic power of water flowing into and out of a city would the amount of energy harnessed be worth the initial investment?

• A reply on Conversation: What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

  Jun 27 2012: Nice I'm changing my goal to this one. Mars it is!

• A reply on Conversation: Why have people (Atheists) Chosen not to believe in God? Does this give freedom to live life without becoming answerable to anyone?

  Jun 27 2012: Recognize that good cannot exist without evil, and visa versa. Dark cannot exist without light. Cold cannot exist without heat (nor does it exist). Now address the question "Does God want you to be good because He commands it, or does he want you to be good for the sake of others?"

• A reply on Conversation: What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

  Jun 27 2012: Can you prove anything? I want proof of proof. Do you think you can prove anything at all? I think we believe we are real because we have faith in reality. I am not arguing for/against religion. I address a philosophical question. What is truth? Is it universal?

• A reply on Conversation: What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

  Jun 27 2012: Derek that is what became of Eastern Europe after the Soviet Union abolished religion.
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  A reply on Conversation: Why have people (Atheists) Chosen not to believe in God? Does this give freedom to live life without becoming answerable to anyone?

  Jun 26 2012: Anytime Mitch. I'm off to scour the web for more satisfying crumpets of delicious and sometimes useless knowledge.