TV energy consumption
Here’s something I really did not know. I fully ASSUMED that the newer technologies reduced energy consumption by a lot. However, that’s not necessarily true. Here’s a list of TV’s with their energy consumption ranked best to last:
You have to go all the way to #41 to get the older style rear projection screen. Pretty amazing to me. Guess it pays to double check what you take for granted sometimes huh? This was brought to my attention because California is now regulating tv power usage.
The Big One
Is it me? Am I the only one that gets the impression that every single time there is an earthquake in southern California, it’s a dress rehearsal for “the big one”? I swear this has been going on my entire life.
Now, given the tectonics of southern California, there no-doubt will be a “big one”. But, I imagine there will be thousands of “not-big” ones until that happens. Yesterday’s 5.4 is a “sorta-big one”. There was basically no real serious damage done. I know an 8 would do a lot more damage, but 8’s are very rare. The problem I have with all this is the same effect of what happened in New Orleans. There were so many false-alarms that hit the Gulf Coast that when “the big one” did strike, a lot of people had ignored the warnings. Maybe it would be better if we just reported things a little more responsibly and not compare each and every decent earthquake as a precursor to “the big one” since “the big one” has never followed any of the earthquakes they have compared it to?
Then, as a seperate dialogue completely, occasionally run stories on “the big one” and what can be done to mitigate it.
Office of Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Object Preparedness
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who has possibly the longest name in Congress, and who represents California, which is a very long name as well, has taken their comfort level with very long words to the next level by proposing the Office of Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Object Preparedness, as part of the Near Earth Objects Preparedness Act. Now, in the past, I have complained about the obvious confusion created by the fact several world agencies are trying to track NEO’s. So, I am all for this concept of one single entity coordinating research activities. However, you’d think they could come up with something a little easier to print than the Office of Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Object Preparedness. Something like Asteroid Busters I would think would work just as well and not cripple the Earth’s limited resources in the process. I mean, think about it. If you were the receptionist, you’d have to answer every call with “Thank you for calling the Office of Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Object Preparedness. How may I direct your call? En Espanol, Gracias por llamar a la Oficina de potencialmente peligrosos cercanos a la Tierra de objetos de Preparación. ¿Cómo es posible dirigir su llamada? ” God forbid the caller speaks a different language. In the course of answering the call, the hazardous near-Earth object might very well have become a hazardous on-Earth object.
UFO’s just keep popping up all over the place
Well, maybe not physically. But, they might be soon. The latest round started when Leslie Kean of the Coalitio0n for Freedom of Information sued NASA regarding the crash of something in Pennsylvania in 1965. He contends it’s a cover-up. A judge made NASA give him all their documentation. This could be interesting. In what way, I don’t know. But to say the least, UFO peeps are always interesting.
Which leads us to the next headline, Dennis Kucinich claims to have seen a UFO. Now in defense of Dennis, he had a witness. That would be Shirley MacLaine. She says they saw it in her book you have to pay for to read
Now, the reason I am going this route is because there’s a circle forming here. And it looks suspicious to me. I might actually be forming my first full-blown conspiracy theory here. Follow me with this, it’s not too difficult. Kucinich is running pretty much dead last in every poll imaginable. His only real issue is pushing the button how far out there he is. Nothing is moving this guy out of dead last. Whatever he had to say was largely ignored in a hailstorm of publicity for Hillary or Barack. Now, all of a sudden, just before primary season starts sprinting to the finish line, “evidence” from NASA is compelled to be released to the public that MIGHT prove Kucinich isn’t completely off his rocker ( on this one issue anyway ). And, NASA releases THIS pic today:
What’s that look like huh?
I look for NASA to start dropping those out of the sky right before the California primaries.
