a) try to board at the first sign of boarding despite repeated attempts by the attendants to seat by row number b) try to force your way through the first/business class line despite being an economy passenger c) try to bring on enormous bags as hand luggage d) stands up at the first instant after the plane has taxied to a stop, despite there being at least a 5 minute wait for the doors to open. e) blames the attendants and gets angry/abusive when you get called on any of the above.
The passenger is to blame because if they hadn't tried to do b) above, this whole thing wouldn't even be on/.
Like I said, yes the airline overreacted - but this whole thing was caused by the passenger, not the airline.
The point I was trying to make was that you seemed to be trivialising the amount of carbon released with a rocket launch. I was trying to say that if you are going to trivialise this, then you can just as easily do the same for car trips.
You shouldn't trivialise one source over another. One rocket launch is as insignificant as one car trip in the grand scheme of things - but thousands of rocket launches isn't, just as a billion car trips isn't.
And I have a challenge for you.
Using Google, or your other favorite index-search tool, find out how much carbon dioxide is released by a single car during a single trip. Then, look up how much carbon dioxide is put into the atmosphere per year by fossil fuel burning AND a Delta rocket launch. Compare these three numbers. Do they differ by orders of magnitude? How many orders of magnitude?
Based on your findings, do you think that a car trip has a significant impact on global carbon dioxide levels? Do you think it has a measurable impact?
Now think about how we get bitched at constantly about using your car, and apply the same principle to rocket launches.
3 years ago we had an earthquake in Christchurch (New Zealand, for those not in the know...).
As a result, one of the malls in the outskirts of the city was damaged and closed for a time, including the cinema.
When it reopened, the cinema encouraged people to come back with cheaper movie tickets ($10, instead of the $20 normally charged).
Wonders upon wonders, they realized pretty quickly that by charging LESS money, they got MORE punters through the doors and considering that they make less money from the movie and more money from the snacks, they make MORE profit.
2 years later, the cinema still charges $10 for a movie, the cinema is always packed and they are making shitloads of profit. Go figure.
maybe its because there are a heap of legitimate excuses for having a guests card in your pocket (found it in the hall/room when cleaning/restaurant/etc) but not many (if any) for having a notepad in your pocket full of guests credit card details...
Nice. Attack the messenger, not the message.
You could argue that you are doing exactly what you are attacking TMM for... Are you are homo too? After all, you replied...
I know what you mean. The key to my ski racks also open my garage door... I discovered this by accident when The keys happened to be lying next to each other and I noticed that they looked identical. Tried them out, bingo. One less key on my keyring, and 2 extra spares for garage/ski rack. Makes me onder who else can open both my ski racks and garage though...
I don't know about in the US, but down here in little 'ol New Zealand, academics are funded partially based on the sheer number (and to a lesser degree, quality) of papers published. A university with a higher number of "quality" academics gets more of the government funding.
Maybe this pressure to produce fuels some of the quality issues?
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Ahhh, so you are one of the douchebags who:
a) try to board at the first sign of boarding despite repeated attempts by the attendants to seat by row number
b) try to force your way through the first/business class line despite being an economy passenger
c) try to bring on enormous bags as hand luggage
d) stands up at the first instant after the plane has taxied to a stop, despite there being at least a 5 minute wait for the doors to open.
e) blames the attendants and gets angry/abusive when you get called on any of the above.
The passenger is to blame because if they hadn't tried to do b) above, this whole thing wouldn't even be on /.
Like I said, yes the airline overreacted - but this whole thing was caused by the passenger, not the airline.
Why do people with kids assume that they can do anything they want?
Sure, Southwest overreacted to criticism, but the fault lies with the passenger, not the airline.
All Hail our Gopher Overlords!
According to Wikipedia, there are multiple rocket launch sites that have made several thousand rocket launches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
The point I was trying to make was that you seemed to be trivialising the amount of carbon released with a rocket launch. I was trying to say that if you are going to trivialise this, then you can just as easily do the same for car trips. You shouldn't trivialise one source over another. One rocket launch is as insignificant as one car trip in the grand scheme of things - but thousands of rocket launches isn't, just as a billion car trips isn't.
And I have a challenge for you. Using Google, or your other favorite index-search tool, find out how much carbon dioxide is released by a single car during a single trip. Then, look up how much carbon dioxide is put into the atmosphere per year by fossil fuel burning AND a Delta rocket launch. Compare these three numbers. Do they differ by orders of magnitude? How many orders of magnitude? Based on your findings, do you think that a car trip has a significant impact on global carbon dioxide levels? Do you think it has a measurable impact? Now think about how we get bitched at constantly about using your car, and apply the same principle to rocket launches.
Are you sure? He may have been testing using his neighbors Wifi.
3 years ago we had an earthquake in Christchurch (New Zealand, for those not in the know...). As a result, one of the malls in the outskirts of the city was damaged and closed for a time, including the cinema. When it reopened, the cinema encouraged people to come back with cheaper movie tickets ($10, instead of the $20 normally charged). Wonders upon wonders, they realized pretty quickly that by charging LESS money, they got MORE punters through the doors and considering that they make less money from the movie and more money from the snacks, they make MORE profit. 2 years later, the cinema still charges $10 for a movie, the cinema is always packed and they are making shitloads of profit. Go figure.
maybe its because there are a heap of legitimate excuses for having a guests card in your pocket (found it in the hall/room when cleaning/restaurant/etc) but not many (if any) for having a notepad in your pocket full of guests credit card details...
Nice. Attack the messenger, not the message. You could argue that you are doing exactly what you are attacking TMM for... Are you are homo too? After all, you replied...
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So, by washing daily in this water, you slowly bleach your hair?
I know what you mean. The key to my ski racks also open my garage door... I discovered this by accident when The keys happened to be lying next to each other and I noticed that they looked identical. Tried them out, bingo. One less key on my keyring, and 2 extra spares for garage/ski rack. Makes me onder who else can open both my ski racks and garage though...
Great. Now all it takes is some kid with the technical manual and a usb key to steal my car...
Ummm... and where does the water go if the entire floor moves up????
Don't forget the "drive me home when absolutely shitfaced" benefits...
I don't know about in the US, but down here in little 'ol New Zealand, academics are funded partially based on the sheer number (and to a lesser degree, quality) of papers published. A university with a higher number of "quality" academics gets more of the government funding. Maybe this pressure to produce fuels some of the quality issues?