>-----Original Message----- >From: Erik Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 4:42 PM >To: Killer Bs Discussion >Subject: Re: Picking apart the Matrix - spoilers > > >On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 04:24:44PM -0700, Chad Cooper wrote: > >> I am right on the whole wattage thing(IMHO and I don't want to argue >> about it). > >If you mean how much electrical power is used in the US, you are >definitely wrong. And that is not my humble opinion, it is fact.
OK, I will accept that I was wrong. http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/txt/ptb0802a.html Electricity Net Generation: Total (All Sectors), 1949-2001 They list ~3700 Billion KW/H generated in 2001. I said 3500 GW. I neglected to put /hours on GW. I can see how this could stir up some nerd rage. As far as the enzyme catalyst thing, blame my 9th grade chemistry teacher. He was the one that told me that. >I'm with Dan on the whole "act like you know a lot of science but >actually are spouting nonsense" thing. Is there disagreement here? I admitted to this as one of my fault - to the whole list. Is there some lesson you both have taught me today that you think I have not learned - that I have not yet grasped? Really! I want to know now, because I am taking this very personally. There had better be a good f'n lesson for me in all of this. Perhaps I need to preface everything I write with (ALIKALOSBAASN). At least, that's the way your >posts come off from my reading. I intended them that way. Maybe you guys can help me get my next quasi/psuedo/quack scientific paper I write, up for peer review in some new age journal for publication. If you post scientific-sounding >nonsense again, I will respond similarly. I do not like to see >scientific-sounding nonsense go unchallenged. I want to see general >scientific thinking improve in the world, and that is one way that I >will do my part. .... are you saying I am contributing to the lackadaisical decline of western scientific thought, because I bullshit on what the intent of the writers for plot the Matrix..?? and you are "just doing your part?" Please... do I really warrant such attention? Why don't you just call me Baghdad Bob of the Brin List Scientific Community! Better yet, plonk me for being bigger fool that I think I am, or for the good of the community, have me banned for a lack of common sense. Eric, Dan, Regardless of what you may say next, I consider this grudge match over and concede you the winners. I honestly cannot compete, and look forward to an honest response. Baghdad Bob of the Brin List > > > >-- >"Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ >_______________________________________________ >http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
