Solar Pioneer Mugs

Today, a special retro segment of The Fad Herald. It's the Fad Herald. Off the hook! Hey jive turkeys, here's what's not cool: Fossil fuels, dependence on Mideast oil, long gas lines. Here's what's groovy: Solar power, alternative fuels, energy independence. Can you dig? The world is changing, baby! Instead of solar panels, I'm buying a sweet 8-track player. Next week, a look ahead to 2040. What's out: Waiting in long lines to fill up the spacecraft with gas.

'I've decided to centralize my operations. Everything will be in my ipad.'

"The Ice Age must've caught him by surprise..."

"No, you're in the Milky Way galaxy."

"We needn't have a fancy home, just a place to rest when we no longer roam."

"OK team, we need innovative solutions and we need 'em fast!"

"You know if we market it right, this thing could spread like the wheel."

'It's better than we expected. Now the sheep produce wool in the winter and cotton in the summer.'

'Wheel.'

Castaway harnessing electricity.

'Never mind the delicate balance of nature - what about the delicate balance of business and finance?'

'And that's how we discovered curly genes, or, as Dr. Crick insists on calling them, 'DNA'.'

"Sadie, they found a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. That makes way over 1,000 planets we've discovered in my lifetime." "It must be exciting for you, discovering there are 1,000 worlds full of people who can't possibly know what a doofus you are." "...Unless they've got telescopes." "It is exciting. Now I know how you must've felt when Oog the Caveman discovered Venus." "I see you're bringing what passes for your 'A-game' today."

Life Discovered on Mars

Only in the newspapers.

Man cold-calling on phone from igloo

Solo North pole expedition - 'Bugger!'

"Yes, I believe I was one of the first dentists to use computers!"

Chasing the one big idea

Steve Jobs

'I don't know what it is. It showed up right after I invented agriculture.'

"Back from hunting with nothing again?"

"I present to you the new steam-powered, electricity-generating windmill! Fueled by grass clippings, wind and cow doo-doo. I think we can safely say that green just got greener!"

"Alrighty, we've got three Tofu Pad Thais, four Green Curry Lunch Specials, side of Veggie Dumplings, and three Summer Rolls with Peanut Dipping Sauce."

Chelsea flower show sewage

"Damn! - Someone's beaten me to it..!"

"Watch for innovation."

"When you said you were experimenting with renewable ways to charge your smartphone I thought you meant solar!"

'I earned these from my alternative energy initiative...they're solar panels.'

Rocket

1910: It looked like Scott would have to find his own way to the pole.

'Caruthers ever since we lost all our food your voice sounds husky.'

Spaceman

Moon Landing

"Thanks to our wonderful research team we can now offer you gender choice at birth and puberty."