The Random Thoughts Thread

verdesard0g said:
I don't think a dinosaur would SLOWLEY devour you.......one or two bites and you would be in his stomach.
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Unless it was a Compsognathus...in real life, not Hollywood Velociraptors were only slightly bigger than a chicken. I dream daily about discovering a new species. Did I mention I don't get out much? More like a Arm Chair Paleontologist these days...
 
Technically, I don't think that's a shield wall. That's the purely defensive formation called a shield burgh. THIS would be a shield wall:
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The problem is usually polititians care more about what appears than what is. One season of heavy snow and a partially filled resevoir doesn't end a drought.
 
^^^^Absolutely. I couldn't believe when the water restrictions were lifted because we had one wet winter. Then again, politicians love to play golf, golf courses consume huge quantities of water...
 
bob91yj said:
^^^^Absolutely. I couldn't believe when the water restrictions were lifted because we had one wet winter. Then again, politicians love to play golf, golf courses consume huge quantities of water...
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Golf courses throughout the state use nothing but reclaimed water.
 
When you get right down to it, all water is "reclaimed". It's just more politically correct to say "reclaimed" rather than not "purified for human consumption".
 
Random thought? Fly over the US and you'll see acres upon acres of golf courses. It's a pretty wasteful use of land and water really. For the privileged few to boot. Snobby overpriced pass time IMO.

Not a fan of golf.
 
If the poop ever does hit the oscillating blades, golf courses would made great cemeteries for the 90% of the unprepared populations. Pulling that from the book "1 second after" by William Forstchen
 
bob91yj said:
^^^^Absolutely. I couldn't believe when the water restrictions were lifted because we had one wet winter. Then again, politicians love to play golf, golf courses consume huge quantities of water...
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Politicians love to eat. Farms consume huge quantities of water. But there's a difference - we can just import food and shut down farming in California for the fish or solar panels. BTW, has anyone noticed that the farms in the Imperial Valley are being consumed by industrial solar? I drove through there recently and was shocked to find tens of square miles of former farm land covered in solar panels!
 
Mixed emotions on that one Cam. I know that the Imperial Valley is some of the most productive farmland in the world, but lets face it, we're irrigating/fertilizing a desert to grow crops.

When I worked as a Field Service Tech for Allison Transmission I had some work in the Imperial Valley time to time. You know all of those shipping containers that head this way with electronics and other random goods from Asia, I was told that they get returned full of forage grown in the Imperial Valley for the feed lots in Asia.
 
Virtually all the farmland under cultivation in California is in deserts or quasi-deserts using imported water or water pumped from the ground. The Imperial Valley is where most of the leafy vegetables, celery, broccoli, asparagus, etc. consumed in the country came from. My guess is that much of the forage being shipped to Asia is what is left over after the harvest but I could be wrong. I am also guessing that a lot of those containers coming from Asia are full of the solar panels that are covering our farmland.

Should we just stop farming and import all of our food? It seems like that is just what the State wants.
 
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