It has even weighed installing metal detectors in railway stations -- an idea that has been dismissed as impractical by the German government.
Mark Johnston, the president of Van Wagner, said in a telephone interview that turning phone booths into recharging stations is "an idea that's been explored for years, and it's one of many possible uses".
In a speech last month, Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican and the chairman of the space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee, called the prospect of privatizing the space station a "numbskull" idea, adding, "I hope that those reports prove as unfounded as Bigfoot".
Eventually, he came across an abandoned gas station and had an idea: he would turn the space into "Another Planet".
Actually, it hasn't, and that's exactly why the "adopt-a-station" idea is dangerous.
Discharge changes over time are represented by a hydrograph of each station analyzed and provide an idea of the temporal variability of annual periodicities of dry and rainy seasons, as shown in Fig. 2.
You scan each crime scene for clues, snap them to earn the approval of the officer in attendance, line up the shots at the station and piece together an idea of what happened.
One day in 1975, when he was out of work, he happened to hear a Motown special on a local ra- dio station, and it gave him an idea: he would produce and package similar features for national syndication, saving stations the production costs and reaching a larger advertising audience.
The 21-year-old from Chingford runs the sauce section at the Club at the Ivy in London's West End, and on the first morning of service after the August bank holiday, having an idea her station would be empty of its chutneys and purées, its stocks and salsa verdes, she got up early – 4am – to bus in from Essex.
To give you an idea, the station, in a typical week, usually has around 300,000 people tuning in.
