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The restaurant kitchen serves thousands of people every day. It would take hundreds of deliveries by electric trucks to keep the refrigerators and deep freezers of the kitchen full. So the supplies are piped to it each day.
Whatever is needed in the restaurant is packed in special wrappers at a depot in the town. Everything is then placed in the pipe, which is filled with a special liquid, and pumped to the restaurant on the roof. The liquid allows packages of different weights to float. Otherwise small packages would float while large packages would sink and bang against the bottom of the pipe. When the packages reach the restaurant they are taken from the pipe, unwrapped, and put into the right containers.
The food is cooked the same way it is at home and sent along the conveyor belts to the customers.
Note: OK, there’s plenty I could say here, but I’ll simply say this isn’t the last you’ll see of these liquid filled pipes.
The main thing I want to say is this: Let’s find Geoffrey Hoyle. Really! His Wikipedia entry has him still alive. Various other threads here and there that I’ve followed have him in England, possibly in London. His father was a knighted astrophysicist, Sir Fred Hoyle. If we all take to our vision phones and our vision desks, I am convinced that we can track him down.
Why find Geoffrey Hoyle? Because his vision is so unique and parts of it so spot-on, that I think it would be wonderful in the literal sense of the word (full of wonder) to find out what he’s doing now, and how he thinks the real 2010 stacks up to his 2010.
To facilitate group discussion and information sharing, I have set up a Facebook Group called Get out your vision phones: Let’s find Geoffrey Hoyle. Clearly, we want to approach this in as respectful a way as possible. But I believe we can find him, and I believe he would be touched that we did.
Update: Geoffrey Hoyle has been found. The Facebook group set up to aide in the search still exists, and will be updated when there’s news.
