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Monday 27 August 2012

Warring Brothers

Brothers fighting is a prominent story in the Torah and in life of which the Torah is a record of history and of life itself.  It is too good that anyone should make it up.  Now Cain killed Abel and Abel was just trying to please God just like Abraham some generations later.  At the beginning of the 20th Century, it is rumoured that some brothers were fighting even if they did not realise it; the Germanic saxons vs some other saxons elsewhere like in England who were Anglo saxons. What happened? Well, there was one called Diesel who was really studious and loved efficiency and built an engine that ran better than a steam engine that ran on coal I suppose. The diesel engine was to run on vegetable oil which would have pushed up food and corn prices.   Ultimately,  Dr. Diesel was on his way to the United Kingdom in 1911 by ship to open a diesel engine factory but went missing on the ship and was found dead a few days later floating in the water.  He was killed or maybe he jumped in. The following year in 1912, the Titanic sunk but interestingly reports in the press about the Captain were quite telling in that the Captain was not expected to succeed and questioned his experience and abilities.  Today, we have satellite navigation instead of unreliable maps that could misplace an immovable iceberg. We also have steam engines.  We also have Dr. Diesel's engine that runs on fossil fuels in addition to vegetable oils right from the factory floor following modifications after his death to accommodate the fossil fuel variants.

A few years later, a war broke out in Europe following the assassination of a German Colonel.  If you do not recall the facts indicating that it was a colonel, then just google it or read a book which is usually as reliable and copied verbatim (TM)  to the internet. It was a big war but at least we have Dr. Diesel's engine today named after him to commemorate his design and his efficiency and a fossil fuel of the same name to celebrate his engine and its utmost success in efficiency.  While, you can always sell a mop for spills and many mops for big big spills of a true accidental nature or spills that are created, peace also has its dividends in the long term future with compound interest. 

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