POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : re Cassini : Re: re Cassini Server Time
6 May 2024 09:10:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: re Cassini  
From: Stephen
Date: 8 May 2017 11:51:51
Message: <59109417@news.povray.org>
On 5/8/2017 3:37 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> You only need to get about 17 seconds into:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6eOcd06kdk
>
> and then think about that itty bitty tiny pile of people somehow influencing the
> temperature of THE ENTIRE PLANET.
>
> Not buying it.
>
> Ants outnumber and outweigh us.  It's their fault.
> Politicians could "do their part" and stfu - that would cut down on plenty of
> CO2 and hot air.  Not to mention grounding Al Gore's private jet.
> We could of course stop bombing everything on the surface of the earth because
> it's scary, and different, and "is a threat to national security" - but that
> wouldn't be profitable, because War is the Health of The State.
>
> plus, this:
> https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/seasons/en/
> has implications as well.
>
> I'm calling BS and politics and dirty money.
> We may as well try to "do out part" by fighting California wildfires with a
> plastic squirt gun.
>
> Actually, some EPA "scientist" would get together with Fish and Game, Forestry,
> BLM, Dept of Parks, Dept of Interior, and Homeland Security, and issue a 50,000
> page report showing how, at the temperatures of a wildfire, the water from the
> squirt gun would react with elemental carbon and undergo the water-gas reaction
> to produce flammable CO and H2, thereby _exacerbating_ the fire....    :|
>
> Very very tired of being regulated To Death.

Especially when its done because it is their job. Not because it is the 
right thing to do. (If I'm reading you right.)


> Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_ is ever more applicable.
>
>
I've not read it but reading the Wiki page. I get the idea.

New Zeeland is looking attractive. :)




-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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