On Tue, May 6, 2008 11:03 am, Bob La Quey wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Doug LaRue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ** Reply to message from Legatus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 6 May >> 2008 >> 11:27:05 -0500 >>> >> If indeed the water drops are more show than go, then we are wasting >> billions >> on these fire fighting mechanisms and it is wide spread. After all, air >> drop >> equipment gets called in from all over the state and country from/to >> many >> different firefighting organizations. That's one heck of a conspiracy >> theory >> but I am open to data listing the lack of effectiveness. >> > > No need for conspiracy. The simple momentum of stupidity, a lack of > comprehension of modern technology, bureaucratic tendencies to do > more of the same old thing for ever larger budgets, and you get the > SoCal fire mess. I think that many of these folks are well intentioned > but then I suspect most lemmings are "good guys" as well. > > See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle > > So it goes, > > BobLQ >
I prefer data to innuendo (none of your citations refer to air drops of water to fight fires): http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200106/000020010600A0983862.php http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pasa/is_199607/ai_3253442270 (pending) http://ipp.nasa.gov/innovation/Innovation45/fires.htm This last is 1997 but I can't for the life of me find results. Ask me how I feel about self-appointed "quack busters" sometime, but do it on the kooler. I swear, you haven't come _close_ to seeing the depths of my vitriol until you ask that question. Quack buster in 1906: "Do you _believe_ that Einstein guy? How full of shit is _he_!" -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
