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Today I was asked to write an article for my English lesson. It was asked to me about a week ago but of course I wrote it this very morning during my Shell programming lesson (yeah, I love Shell programming).

The exercise

Here are the instructions of the exercise:

You see this notice in an in-flight magazine and decide to enter the competition.

What forms of transport will we be using in 50 years' time?

Where will we take our holidays?

Write us an article, giving us your views on both of these questions. Science fiction writer John T. Price will choose the most original article, which will receive a prize of $1,000 and be published in our magazine next year.

My glorious contribution

Nowadays' means of transportation are polluting, and roads are over-crowded all over the world, especially on holiday periods. Some may think the human kind will address these issues by going on holidays in local areas, or by developing more sophisticated and greener planes, boats, trains or whatever. Actually, a much better solution is to hand...

A two-meter long octopus can easily carry two people (or one ‘emph{average}’ citizen of Chicago), doesn't need any kind of oil-based fuel, and makes you look definitely more manly than your neighbour – unless you had a crush for a pink model, of course.

With an octopus, over(and under)sea transportation has never been so easy: you are now offered a much broader range of touristic destinations! In fact, it has been reported that the very first octopus parking lots are being built in American and European coasts at this time. Besides, countries such as Brittany already provide your octopodes with a vast amount of rich and nourishing green alga, which is said to strengthen the tentacles!

Finally, you may be interested in knowing about the allegedly latest R&D programs going on at Boeing and Airbus. The rumour says flying octopodes should be on their way to average consumer markets within the coming century. They're said to can use their tentacles as rotor blades, and to be able to devour all those nasty pigeons swarming in our cities, which would enable them hours of flight till the next refuelling.

If I win the prize, I'll make sure to hire an actual artist in order to achieve the redrawing of our sexy header. Long life to the Invisible Pink Licorn and the Flying Spaghetti Monster!