Re: [Vo]:The Twinkle in Clarke's sk(eye)

2008-03-29 Thread OrionWorks
Hi Terry, and Harry, For Terry: Thanks for the U-Tube video Clip. I shall pass this along to my Science Fiction friends in Madison. For everyone else: Here's what I previously said: I suspect that if anyone were to be so foolish as to conduct a seance and attempt to communicate with the

Re: [Vo]:The Twinkle in Clarke's sk(eye)

2008-03-29 Thread OrionWorks
Errata I meant to say: ...one of the last things I WOULDN'T do after I died would be to hang around seedy séance chambers in the hopes of getting a message back to the living that I was still alive. * * * On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:14 PM, OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Terry, and

[Vo]:Earth Hour...yeah....

2008-03-29 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Howdy, Unfortunately, as my good friend John Schnurer is no longer of this world, he can't do this with me, so I'll have to do his share of it. He loved mischeif, even towards the end when his Parkinson's made it almost impossible for him to type (and sometimes communicate at all) effectively, so

[Vo]:TIME Magazine's: The Clean Energy Myth

2008-03-29 Thread OrionWorks
TIME Magazine's latest issue, April 7, 2008, has a great front cover article titled The Clean Energy Myth. It's nice to many of the comments that have been bandied about in this forum finally hit the mainstream. One aspect of the debacle, one that I must confess that I was not as aware as I

Re: [Vo]:Earth Hour...yeah....

2008-03-29 Thread OrionWorks
From Kyle, ... Electric bill this month: $37, rounded up. Gas bill this month: $79, rounded up. Gasoline used: 1 tanks-worth, or 15 U.S. gallons, or about $50 worth. ... I'm impressed! Knock yourself out tonight! Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.orionWorks.com'

Re: [Vo]:Earth Hour...yeah....

2008-03-29 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm impressed! Knock yourself out tonight! Heh, thanks Steven. I /probably/ was being mostly sarcastic in my evil plan statement of action, as I'll probably be making Hartley oscillators all night, as well as chasing down the rumors I hear from a

Re: [Vo]:Earth Hour...yeah....

2008-03-29 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Kyle Mcallister's message of Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:53:36 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] I'm opposed to more taxes on gasoline, because I know it will not be used to solve the problem. [snip] The point of the extra taxes isn't to raise money to solve the problem, it's to raise the price so

Re: [Vo]:Earth Hour...yeah....

2008-03-29 Thread PHILIP WINESTONE
One thing I don't get is why solar costs so much more than nuclear or coal fired. There's almost no moving parts, and much less to break down, it seems to me. There's got to be some politics in this somewhere, but I don't know exactly where. A broad subject... One factor is that the amount of