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: Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
2010-07-20 13:13:00

Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
2010-07-20 13:13:00

Mood: busy

An Alien View of BP

... in a cartoon. Link courtesy of my partner Doug.

Tags: environment, humor, linguistics, politics

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fayanora

July 20 2010, 19:46:55 UTC 10 years ago

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I *am* an alien, and I can safely say my people's view of BP and the oil industry, etc, is "These primitives are still using internal combustion, burning fossil fuels? We abandoned that technology 9000 years ago!"

And ye gods, don't even get me started on coal. Did you know that coal burning produces more radiation than fission-based power plants? It does. There's uranium in coal, and no safeguards to protect against it getting loose when the coal is burnt.

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ysabetwordsmith

July 20 2010, 22:17:05 UTC 10 years ago

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I get that feeling a lot too.

>>Did you know that coal burning produces more radiation than fission-based power plants?<<

I did not know that specific contaminant, although I knew that coal is filthy and dangerous as a fuel, producing considerable toxic waste which is not well regulated. 0_o

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fayanora

July 20 2010, 23:38:32 UTC 10 years ago

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Yeah, ironically oil actually burns cleaner than coal. Especially after refinement. But even unrefined oil is less horrible to burn than coal. But at least coal doesn't spill out when a hole is poked in a deposit. Instead, it can catch fire underground and burn for potentially thousands of years with nothing to stop it.

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ysabetwordsmith

July 21 2010, 01:33:38 UTC 10 years ago

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Moss and peat fires can be nasty underground, too.

siege

July 21 2010, 08:07:21 UTC 10 years ago

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As well as radium and other actinides and near-nobles.

fayanora

July 20 2010, 19:48:24 UTC 10 years ago

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PS: I apologize to truly primitive cultures for calling the industrialized humans of Earth primitive. I have more respect for pre-industrial cultures than I do for post-industrial cultures, on Earth anyway.

siege

July 21 2010, 08:13:37 UTC 10 years ago

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I think it is two factors, primarily: the treatment of money as a source of value, when it is merely representative (and thanks to no longer having a maximum amount, not even closely representative of value); and the treatment of things which cannot love as if they were persons under the law.

Repair one error, and the other will draw it back into place until both are repaired.

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ysabetwordsmith

July 21 2010, 19:04:27 UTC 10 years ago

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I agree with you on both counts.

*ponder* You know, you just gave me a stupendous new addition to my "definitions of person" collection. It comes up in science fiction periodically, what makes a person or a human. "That which can love" would make many animals into persons, and exclude some Homo sapiens.

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siege

July 21 2010, 19:08:52 UTC 10 years ago

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When people talk about the "Lizard Conspiracy", I think of just such humans, who have lost their ability to love -- that is, they no longer express compassion, as opposed to having a romantically injured heart. To me, they are the true "lizard men".

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ysabetwordsmith

July 21 2010, 19:14:26 UTC 10 years ago

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I see what you mean. We've created a society that rewards anti-social behavior and penalizes a lot of compassionate, honest, virtuous behavior. The results are pretty ugly.

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siege

July 21 2010, 19:18:12 UTC 10 years ago

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Indeed. Humans don't need aliens to make them do wrong.

In fact, most of the lizard-like or reptilian spirits I've seen around troubled persons are trying to teach them the consequences of such behavior.

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Content notes for "The Little Shadow Across the Grass"

These are the content notes for " The Little Shadow Across the Grass." Read about the Grunge. The Ghost Dance was meant to " roll…
Setting notes for "The Little Shadow Across the Grass"

These are the setting notes for " The Little Shadow Across the Grass." Read about the Blackfeet Reservation. This map shows Glacier…
Character notes for "The Little Shadow Across the Grass"

These are the character notes for " The Little Shadow Across the Grass." Many of the character names came partly from Blackfeet…

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