NASA images LA wildfires NASA has released an image captured on 16 November by its Aqua satellite, showing the extent of the California wildfires which, the BBC estimates, had by yesterday destroyed a total of 800 homes and razed roughly 22,000 acres (8,900 hectares): NASA satellite images of California wildfires NASA explains: "This image from the …
So, in the grand scheme of things, these fires are tiny litle minuscule insignificant specks, and human beings are even tinier and more speck-like. Is a mote smaller than a speck? It would have been interesting to have the same views again, but taken at night, to see how bright the fires appear from space.
If you watch NASA TV, they showed a view of the fires from the Shuttle. Tiny little bright specks. Except for New York & Miami, whole cities are just tiny little bright specks.
Why do you think the Moon-walkers came back so shook up? They could hold up a thumb and blot out the entire planet and everyone they knew.
What exactly does L.A. produce? Crap TV, crap movies and crap music. And, of course it produces the L.A. & California media promotion machine. Every year, year on year, we get this ultimate example of the city's self absorption blasted across the media worldwide - I can't even avoid it on CBC: "L.A. is threatened by wildfires! The sky is falling!"
L.A. exists to justify it's own existence and for little other reason. In milder cases this is called navel gazing. In L.A.'s case I think it is more like coprophilia.
Maybe one of these years the whole city *will* burn down. I'd welcome it. I'd even skip CNN - I'd tune in to Fox to watch.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
