Comment on 'Kelp Raft Carries Marine Stowaways Hundreds of Kilometers'

     Marine biologist, Ceridwen Fraser, has discovered on a New Zealand beach whole communities of invertebrates that have traveled about 250 miles hitchhiking on bull kelp. I can’t believe the 10 types of marine invertebrates didn’t use any fossil fuel to make the journey! If a life form as small and unnoticed as crustaceans and other invertebrates can travel without emitting toxic fumes, why cannot the most advanced species (i.e., humans) on the planet do the same? Even iguanas traveled from island to island with the use of natural resources. These invertebrates traveled, although unwillingly, from a Caribbean Island to another island using wind from a hurricane as a natural propellant for a mass of trees. We as humans should take notes of these finding and incorporate them into our lives. As though these happenings were hints as to how we as humans ought to alter our mindset on means of travel, I find that the natural order of things have a tendency to naturally transport invertebrate and vertebrate from land mass to land mass. Although erratic and unexpected, the resources that were utilized by nature to transport these creations without dangerous and harmful emissions into the atmosphere ought to strike cord in the minds of engineers throughout the world on how we may do the same. Indeed, there is already promising implementations of engineering feats of energy conservation, but much more most be done. Altering the mindset of every single human being and weaning them off the fuel nipple will be the ultimate challenge for sustaining a growing economy.