Where's the Love?

"The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
                         Pierre Tielhard de Chardin (early 20th century mystic and scientist)

Although I have not actively practiced science in 8 or 9 years, I am still a scientist at heart. It is impossible for me to look at a situation and not try to "figure it out", to employ logic and scientific method in an often vain attempt to get to the truth of the matter. Most of the time, there is no one truth, but I dig on, in a sometimes endearing, but mostly irritating, manner.

How I love today's quote by de Chardin. The ultimate science orgasm- discovering the etiology of love. The folks at the Nobel office would have a heck of a time deciding which category to place this discovery.

If love were a harnassable energy, here a few things I would do, off the top of my head:

-plug it into the gym where my 5th grade daughter, LB, is having her science fair today.

-Air drop it over all public events, including the Boston marathon.

-Incorporate it into the HVAC systems of all government buildings. Wait, no, that would require harnessing the energy of intelligence.

-send it by radio waves into all cars stuck in rush hour traffic.

-put it in cigarettes. Bad guys wouldn't know what to do with themselves ( Edward G. Robinson inspired that one, seeee?)

-incorporate it into the building materials for all middle schools.

-use it as a subliminal message in the elevator of the hotel hosting the next Annual Dictator's Convention.  Kim Jong Un and Omar Al-Bashir might become besties and pinkie swear to shower their oppressed people with food and hope. Real food, not fake. That Omar can be quite the kidder.