Re: I just love envirowhiners
From: The Ghost In The Machine (ewill_at_aurigae.athghost7038suus.net)
Date: 07/10/04
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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 20:01:03 GMT
In sci.physics, Michael Varney
<varney@colorado_no_spam.edu>
wrote
on Sat, 10 Jul 2004 01:41:48 -0600
<15NHc.717$w25.53793@news.uswest.net>:
> http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/07/09/wildfires.endangered.ap/index.html
>
> "Over and over and over, the university astronomers were asked to please not
> build this facility in a volatile, fragile forest system," said Dr. Robin
> Silver, a physician and environmentalist who fought the project. "Those of
> us who warned them, who begged them and who pleaded with them are not going
> to feel sympathetic to whatever fate they might suffer."
>
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>
> What is it with idiots like this? This dolt uses the wrong words to
> describe things.
>
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=volatile
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> The idiot is whining about the observatory, but lightning strikes regardless
> and I guarantee that more resources are being put forth to fight this fire
> because of the observatory than would be if it were not there.
>
Which could lead to bigger problems later on. Of course
were we serious enough about this we'd simply envelop the
forest in a protective grid of lightning rods, sticking
well above the crowns.
The long-term wisdom of such schemes is questionable, of course.
-- #191, ewill3@earthlink.net It's still legal to go .sigless.
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