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exerci.vts[s85,jmc]	Exercises and assignments for vts course

1. An early essay on
the prospects for nuclear energy
relevant considerations in the prospects for nuclear energy

2. Exercises aimed at using references and arithmetic
How long before the U.S. is covered with cars?
Logistics of the birthday party.
Criticize the "technology" and arithmetic of the artists in Corn.
Can cars jump over freeways?

3. Doctor's dilemma machine.

4. Who would survive how long if the sun went out?

5. Criticism of Science Fiction
Broken symmetries - compared with 1940.
Lucifer's Hammer.

6. Criticism of futurological fantasies.

References:
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

7. What shall we do about CO2; get control of climate.  But how?

8. Is remote baby care feasible?  Requirement: The baby should be
safer than when its mother is sleeping in the next room of the
same house.
1. a monitor
2. automatic phone call if problem noted
3. receives phone calls for status
4. is remote video required
5. remote manipulator
6. fire resistant baby safe.  They exist for papers; why not for babies?
7. Plastic bag breathing device.

Guest lecturer for vts: civil engineer to tell about costs of construction,
perhaps after the class holds an uninformed discussion.
Elisabeth Pate-Cornell

Maybe improved child care will mitigate the problem of the failure of
the intellectual classes to reproduce.