OK so some wise guy engineers are questioning the soundness of my Bridge across the Lake(see I, ET McCrone, Jan 21). Normally I would dismiss these pencil-necked pocket-protecting geeks but since I'll probably need every vote I can get I will address their concerns in upcoming articles.
1) Nimrod Gottcha of Skimsthebottom, Reardon writes: How in the world will you generate enough wind to blow heavy objects across the ocean in a plastic tube? Normally I would tell Nimry to go blow hisself but in my new candidate decorum I will explain. You see ,Dr Gottcha, we'll have really big vacuums at one end and really big fans at the other.How will we decide which country to place the devices in? We are now studying which nation blows and which nation sucks the most...