Posts by goggyturk 208 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Apr 2008
I saw an article on this in Wired, about some Silicon Valley types trying to create some bubble-type hype over this. It all sounds really exciting until they mention that one rather large reaction tank might produce 1 bbl/day under ideal conditions and that it would take a plant the size of Chicago to produce about 25% of the USA's needs.
Just build some nuclear reactors!
Nothing illustrates the dangerously conflicted mindset of this group better than this soundbite. He manages to mention locking people up for their beliefs and democracy in the same breath. All those guilty of thoughtcrime are out of step with the rational concensous and should be prosecuted.
As for Hansen being right, did he successfully predict the global cooling of the last decade?
Nobody can deny anymore that climate change is being contributed to by man's activities, but it doesn't mean that we need to subscribe to the doomsday scenarios painted by this neo-apocalyptic doomsday cult.
Mine's the black, electric powered surveillance chopper that will be monitoring our compliance to the commandments of the death Goddess Gaia.
This whole design concept is pretty naff really. I remember from my childhood days the contempt with which the Soviet Yak-38 Forger (the only Soviet carrier borne jet from that era) was held by Westerners precisely because it used a separate lift jet that was redundant in forward flight - much less elegant, and less useful in dogfighting, than the Harrier's vectored thrust Pegasus.
Fast forward 30-40 years or so and the Western powers are reviving the same concept. The F-35B will be the aviation equivalent of a Toyota Prius - except it can't actually go forwards on one of its engines.
Yup, mine's the anorak.
The original worked in part because of the chemistry between Bob Peck and Joe Don Baker as the maverick yank. Peck was sewn up so tight, all the tension came from waiting to see him explode (although the scene with two bars of Plutonium was also quite good).
Someone will have to slip some horse tranquilisers into Mel's porridge each morning to make this work.
Not only that, but they'll 'update' it, like what they did with the Manchurian Candidate and many other substandard remakes of paranoia thrillers to have the usual stereotyped baddies. Nobody buys the idea that there's a terrorist living on every street, but everyone knew that the threat of global thermonuclear warfare was very real, which gave us all something to be really scared of back then.
Black helicopter, because the only thing we have to be scared of these days are imaginary threats. Oh, and those who protect us from them...
I hope they realise that they've stolen this symbol from another organisation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Air_Force
This could be the bloodiest trademark dispute in history...
Black helicopters, because the Argentine rebranding consultants will be landing in Oldham very, very soon
This kind of tat is sure sign of a company that lost touch with reality (or even any part of the outside world) a long, long time ago.
I last saw something like this in my previous place of work, when some colleagues decided to 'celebrate' our regional reorganisation by doing a cover of 'We are the World', with lyrics from the strategy roadmap / group business principles / whatever piece of corporate obfuscationspeak they could find.
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