Desoapifying planet Earth
Most of the big problems of the world cannot be solved because they are far too complicated.
There are, however, some big problems that potentially can be solved, simply because they are
uncomplicated. One such problem is soap. The problem with soap is easily
defined because we
have all experienced it and will continue to experience it unless something drastic is done
to prevent an ecological disaster. And what is this time-bomb threatening the environment?
It is that tiny piece of soap that never quite gets used up! There must be tens of thousands
of tons of slippery, slidery scraps of soap cluttering up the bathrooms of the world. The
ingenuity of Man has been unable to solve this irritating problem, until now that is. But now
things are about to change for I have solved, or rather, dissolved the problem.
But before I tell you what I have done, spend a moment or two thinking about that pesky piece
of slippery residue. What is it really? It is the very middle of a cake of soap, every cake
of soap. So, is not the solution obvious? Apparently not, for surprisingly nobody before me
has ever thought out what to do about that middle bit of soap. And what have I done? I have
made soap without a middle. I have invented hollow soap. With hollow soap, when it is half
used, it is all used. There is nothing left. No longer is there that annoying piece of soap
lying in the bottom of the bathtub for you to slip on. No longer are there any slithers that
slide over the plughole and block the flow of dirty bathwater down the drain.
And you always know where your soap is because, being hollow, it floats and so you can always
see it. This soap never submerges below the suds, to secrete itself like a submarine, but
always stays swimming on the surface.
So, that is my contribution to Mankind, the desoapification of planet Earth.