The Tube

My brain wanted to come up with something profound for an entry for this photo, but I got nothin'. Life is awesome. It feels like a subway train gone off its tracks.

Which, in a round-about way, reminds me of a dream I always had as a kid. Not a dream while I was sleeping, something I wanted really badly. I always wanted a car with a big drill on the front. One of the badguys in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had one of those and I wanted one so badly. I remember being 9 or 10 years old and being soooo pissed that I couldn't have one. And, in my mind, the reason I couldn't have one is because I couldn't figure out a good way to get the dirt from in front of me to behind me. I already understood the basic principle of conservation of drill-debris. When you drill something, it doesn't disappear and you can't just compress it in front of your little drill car forever.

For those of you unfamiliar with the TMNT or this particular vehicle, I found this image online to share with you what I'm talking about.



I WANTED THAT SOOOOOO BAD!!! But I was forever tormented by the fact that those little treads on the outside would run into dirt because there was nothing in front of them removing the dirt. So awesome, but poorly designed.

Anyway, I thought of that because a subway train couldn't go very far off the tracks if it didn't have one of those attached to the front of it. One of those and an automatic track-layer. Or a drill on the front and emergency tires that would inflate around all the wheels so that when it wasn't on steel rails, it could drive off-road.

In fact, my guess would be, the sole reason subway trains don't have one of those drills on the front and emergency auto-inflate off-road tires, is for safety; it decreases the chances of running off the rails.

Man, I still want one. Maybe I can go down to the Mercedes dealership and test drive one.