What does the general public believe? What catches their attention? What do they get swept up in? And we have to try to explain the complexity of energy to them? No wonder it was a hard year. Read on…
What does the general public believe? What catches their attention? What do they get swept up in? And we have to try to explain the complexity of energy to them? No wonder it was a hard year. Read on…
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stupidest? I don’t know about that…
FROM THE COMMENTS:
“Her mama should have WAPped her upside the head more often!”
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Love your faith in humanity Terry, but if history is any sort of a guide I’d say we’ll all be walking to work in the fields in our bare feet before the facts of the matter settle in with the majority of Canadians. That’s me being optimistic. Haha.
Merry Christmas everyone.
I think you’re being a tad harsh. I read the Reuters article several times and I really don’t think the author of the article meant what Mr.Etam thinks he meant. And Peter Szekely, the writer goes on to point out that the two planets are “hundreds of millions of miles apart” so he’s at least cognizant of that fact. I don’t think for a moment he thought the planets were in close proximity to each other, if that’s what Terry was implying.
At best he’s guilty misusing “conjunction” and “convergence” – and if he’s arguing from the point of an observer on Earth, he may not be guilty at all. Using the word “appearance” as opposed to “convergence” may have been better.
As far as being “once in a lifetime” is concerned – the next time a conjunction of the two planets occurs with a less than .1 degree of separation will be a while – I think Terry is a little more optimistic than I am of ever seeing it again.
Astrologers will consider the event very important. Millions of suckers will be searching horoscopes to learn the upcoming impact on their lives. You know they will!
In the same vein, solar and wind can’t smelt metal and hydrogen has no power. It burns and explodes but not with enough to power anything without using tremendous quantities. Combine it with carbon then you have a viable fuel. The more carbon,the less volume of fuel needed Solar,wind and hydrogen are energy sources but a million miles away from hydrocarbons,water power and atomic energy.
Hydrogen has plenty of power in a nuclear fusion scenario..
As for the conjunction, I’m sure there were people that thought the two planets might come close enough together to crash into each other, or the gravitational pull would send their moons into disarray.. Do they even teach the solar system in school anymore?
Most people hear it on the news and knowing no more, believe it! It’s the bane of astronomers everywhere: “The news man said the super moon will be as big as a garbage can lid!” Ugh, it’s because objects rising above the horizon have a reference point (the horizon, trees, etc) whereas something in the middle of the sky, does not! Make your own repeatable, fixed reference point (Take a quarter held at arms length and hold it up to the moon) you’ll find That the moon size does not vary much, but can definitely see the effect at the horizon..
Jupiter and Saturn are well separated, it’s almost 80 light minutes (time at the speed of light) from the sun to Saturn and Only 43 to Jupiter! But it’s the depth of field illusion, like was pointed out here in the Fauxtography article.. People just don’t seem to know about science basics, just learn on the fly (google) and then promptly forget.
Glad my family members used to give me college level astronomy/science books when I was in primary school and it’s interesting to re read them and see how much the science has changed, even since then!
It burns and explodes but not with enough to power anything without using tremendous quantities.
Actually, hydrogen burns cleanly and steadily.
Many people have the impression of its apparent explosive instability from the Hindenburg mishap. If I’m not mistaken, the paint for the outer skin used aluminium, and, I believe, its airframe was made form it as well. That was what burned so spectacularly.
And, yes, aluminium can burn–I’ve seen that happen first hand.
Magnesium even better, gives off a bright white light, heavy on the UV spectrum! Throwing those old chainsaw cases on the fire is quite spectacular! (Just Don’t look directly at the light!).
That’s nowhere near the stupidest energy story of the year. There are hundreds of examples like 2% of citizens caring about climate change, with Canada unable “to move to dial,” with carbon taxes that only hurt poor Canadians who can’t afford trucks.
Energy education is best done through blackouts.
If the general public hold misconceptions on the energy file its cuz they are being fed crap coming from the top. As usual Etam gets it ass backwards. Terry , an inconvenient truth. Your oil boys are in on the Green Scam and just as much part of the misinformation campaign.
Does Terry find the Star of Bethlehem amusing? Or proof of mankind’s irredeemability?
Because some of us still view Jesus as proof that God still considers at least some of His children worth saving.
Happy Christmas.
ghosty, Heysous has been coming back tomorrow for about 2000 years now, when are you going to quit pushing fake news, try reading some historians accounts of religious mewlings. They read like climate changes mewlings, always making predictions that never pan out!
Yeah, we get it. Like many of us, you’re an atheist.
Some reason their way there, and some, like you, just choose it because it feels clever and might fool people into thinking you’re an educated person. I can always tell the dumb ones because they shriek about it constantly and need to disrespect people.
In the spirit of Christmas, let me remind you of something you already know.
You’re easily the stupidest, most offensive poster on this site.
However unlikely, Christ returning is more probable than you breaking 90 on an IQ test.
I’m pretty sure the stupidest energy solution I’ve heard so far is Geothermal Energy plants to replace the Nuclear plants we have now…
I get the feeling that the sole purpose of the article was to point out how stupid people are. Every article i saw was very clear that the stars were not near each other but that the effect if them being aligned would be spectacular.