If we can do this.....

I just heard this piece of equipment, Explorer I, just left the solar system last week. I also heard the computer system used to launch and run this baby in 1971 had less computer power than my cell phone. Scientist who did this used slide rules. For those of you that don't know what that is, when you look it up, the first thought you could have is WTF??

Now, here's a question, If we can send something like this across our known space, using gravity from planets to slingshot its way until it hit the edge of the block and then keep going, why do we struggle, even after all these years, with some other issues, such as-

• Couldn't we find a way to keep us from losing socks in the dryer? We put in two, get back one.

• This satellite was build when D cell batteries were in. Its traveled a gazzilion miles and its still running yet we can't build a battery for that computer size phone that fits in our pocket to last past noon.

• Along those same lines, can't we build a car that can go from here to our rental in San Diego on one battery charge?

• We still have floods and weather that wipe out cities and towns in low areas---then we build them back up in the same low areas----to get washed away again.

• They still haven't made an ice cream cone that doesn't leak from the bottom.

• A weed killer for that weed in your yard that has the little burr on it, which won't kill the other grass. The burr gets in  your socks and the bare feet of your dog.

• A washing machine that will wash the burr out without getting it stuck to your under dainties and the next time you put them on, the dog's foot is not what the burr is stuck to.

• We've all but done away with monkey bars on play grounds, the steel ones that leave a mark on an Arizona summer day. We need to bring those back.

• Tuna fish in a can WITH mayonnaise all mixed in.

•  A good fifty cent beer.

There are a few things that have been discovered or overused since 1971 that we really could do without.

• The Point after Touchdown.

• Men's make up. We are suppose to look like we've been in a bar fight with the ugly stick.

• Anything from Carl's Jr. $6 menu.

• And my top of the list item-Country Rap songs.