Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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uper spreaders. But if you were catching it fast and taking the pill fast I feel like we're done, right? I mean I don't know when we'll all have availability of these pills and then the real question is do you just buy these pills and keep them around? All right, you know I'm sure they're prescription but wouldn't it be great if you could just get some and keep them because you don't want to have…

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e place. You say here's the problem.

The normal way that empties are taken off is with the same crane I think. Fact-check me on this. The same crane that they use at the ports to do everything else that the cranes do. So the cranes as they're built are sort of multi-purpose for the ports. But suppose you wanted to very quickly develop an engineering solution that would simply take an empty off. The first advantage is that you're only dealing with empties. So if you were to build a crane or a forklift type device whatever it would take you wouldn't have to make it very strong compared to the ones at the port because the port has to take full containers as well as empties so that has to be way way way stronger. But if you're only dealing with the empties and it's an emergency you just want to get empties off chassis, could you modify a forklift? Could you build one of those magnet things that just picks it off as long as you've disconnected it somehow from the chassis? Could you do it with a giant magnet?

How long would it take a Caterpillar for example to modify anything that they have existing? They can very quickly just grab empties and toss them off, right?

So suppose you did a, you know it's an overused concept but basically a Manhattan Project to find a temporary engineering solution for removing empties from chassis not at the port. So you know is there such a thing? Is there anybody who knows? Is there such a thing as that? Like just a badass forklift that's big enough to take an entire empty container off a truck? Is there such a thing? And could you modify some other piece of equipment or equipment that could do that?

Oh there it is. There's somebody gave me the actual picture of a forklift that's meant for exactly that. So how hard would it be to get a few forklifts in some big farmer fields? So I'm saying yes they already exist. So you don't really need to move the crane anywhere do you? Maybe just these forklifts. Yeah.

So I guess there's more questions, right? Remember I told you every time you think you can do your own research you just find out that that's not something you can do. So here

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's a perfect example. So here I am trying to do my own research but you know it's not my full-time job just like it isn't most people's full-time job to research anything and I don't know what's going on still because if there exists and I can see that they do exist these giant forklifts probably they're all being used at the ports themselves but it seems like maybe for a day or two you could at l…

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