The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has bought about 200 litres of fake poo to test out some state of the art third world bogs.
Gates wants the fake poo to create loos that don't need water, electricity or even connection to a sewage system.
His latest move is to improve the lives of the 2.6 billion people in the third world who do not have access to a toilet.
As a result places are exposed to deadly disease because there are no pipes in their villages to support flushing toilets and no treatment plants.
According to AP, the fake poo is made from soya bean paste and rice and behaves more or less the same way when dumped in a toilet as the Real Thing. The synthetic poo does not honk and is being supplied by toilet testing organisation Maximum Performance.
While many of us were surprised that someone came up with a business idea of making fake poo and found someone interested in buying it. But we guess that the bloke who signed off on Vista must know a lot about fake poo.
Thanks to three million in grants from Gates, eight engineers took up the challenge to reinvent the commode into a self-contained, power- and water-less system.
Apparently the whole thing is powered by the poo which it dries and burns. Anything left over is converted into fertilizer.
Gates is also looking at a a solar-powered toilet and one that converts waste into electricity with microwaves.
Gates said that to test all the gadgets he needed 50 gallons of fake poo.
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When the miracles alluded-to by Nature and The Universe only ends in Stupidity-Dumbness, it is because The Choice is being replaced by The Making of Choices, a real/absolute choice being of White & Black whereas an apparent choice, oka a gamble, is choosing from the psychedelic colours afforded by blindness - an impossibility but don't the airy-fairyness of The Righting This & That try - with seeming success. Not when the final score, oka The Ending, has yet to pass.
It would be funny should it not be sad that insanities like the headlined will never be called upon to atone for their mistakes when their projections-projectivities come to a disasterous ending other than glorifying their moment of insanity. Perhaps some law ought to be enacted and sustained such that their future generations will be fully & completely held to account for their benefactor's attempt at immortalising. That should put some limit/introspection to any insanity running amok but mostly taken as some great act of a divine human. A joke because almost all divine humans thus far, lacks self-realisation, the realisation which begins with realsiing how one is infrastructured much like getting a chimp to realise that it is one - not when the human chimp has yet to realise its true position. Hence the saying, "If you want to know what God thinks about money, look at who He gives it to" - not that God gifts wealth that is limited because Unconditonality not only has no understanding of Fame, Fortune & Immortality, He, through She, is only able to gift Love, Love/She being the expression of Truth/He. A Simplicity which will always Elude those who have yet to master the counting of their toes other than to simply throw zeroes into their problem.
Good one, Nick!
bobo, you need to stop showin' off yer 6th grade edumacation, ya brainiac!