tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post3226488668148161056..comments2024-03-15T20:52:26.967-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Think Green, Think BigUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-92142525702488824242009-01-17T15:31:00.000-08:002009-01-17T15:31:00.000-08:00Steve wrote...Around 1900 people thought in large ...Steve wrote...<BR/><BR/><I>Around 1900 people thought in large terms. Recently, it has become fashionable to think small.</I><BR/><BR/>Actually, in many circles it has become fashionable to not think at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45215041991447263922009-01-15T20:48:00.000-08:002009-01-15T20:48:00.000-08:00"Anonymous said...What is wrong with 1 billion peo..."Anonymous said...<BR/><BR/>What is wrong with 1 billion people in America? By your tone, we're just supposed to know. Explain it to me.<BR/><BR/>What's wrong with it is that there would then be many more people like you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37563037748637221822009-01-15T02:01:00.000-08:002009-01-15T02:01:00.000-08:00Reading about how SWPL's masturbate about hydro as...Reading about how SWPL's masturbate about hydro as the ultimately clean source of power, and working on just such a project, being confronted with all the nitty-gritty, dirty, boring non-SWPL technology etc. and knowing that I will not see a SWPL anywhere close to the project kinda makes me laugh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30362747805946927152009-01-14T19:17:00.000-08:002009-01-14T19:17:00.000-08:00I'll be damned if my Canadian government approves ...I'll be damned if my Canadian government approves this bullock to benefit the U.S. and Mexico (!) at the expense of future Canadian power. <BR/><BR/>Heck, I'll be first to donate to, and vote for the opponent of whoever approves this bondoggle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67504391650465174162009-01-14T17:10:00.000-08:002009-01-14T17:10:00.000-08:00"Good God! I did not know that."There was a time w...<I>"Good God! I did not know that."<BR/><BR/>There was a time when Soviets thought of nuclear devices as generic building blocks for all their pet projects, from construction, space propulsion to electrical generation. If something required force, they came along with a nuke.</I><BR/><BR/>So? So did we, back in the day we could still Think Big in terms of engineering marvels:<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare<BR/><BR/>A few dozen nukes out of the armories seems a small price to pay for a new sea-level waterway through Nicaragua (nicknamed "the Pan-Atomic Canal"), dontcha think?<BR/><BR/>Or check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chariot_(1958)<BR/>for an artificial harbor in Alaska. Nuke, baby, nuke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42366746074205876062009-01-14T15:57:00.000-08:002009-01-14T15:57:00.000-08:00J, relax. I was speaking of the past. I'm not call...J, relax. I was speaking of the past. I'm not calling for anexations and wars of annexation now.<BR/>I've read proposals for Salton Sea canals here:<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/8bthu9<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/88xtahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29045974162496611262009-01-14T14:56:00.000-08:002009-01-14T14:56:00.000-08:00Annexing Sonora and Baja California would not adva...<I>Annexing Sonora and Baja California would not advance the project but would cause endless wars. </I><BR/><BR/>Why? Baja California would be much easier for Americans to homestead than, say, the West Bank.<BR/><BR/>How d'ya think Texas, etc. became part of the USA?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24503674657674757362009-01-14T08:11:00.000-08:002009-01-14T08:11:00.000-08:00They'll claim that it would contribute to the shri...<I>They'll claim that it would contribute to the shrinking of the Arctic ice sheet.</I><BR/><BR/>O'Sullivan, the last claim was the opposite, that the loss of inflowing fresh water will cool the Arctic Ocean and provoke a new Ice Age. <BR/><BR/>Or something. Probably something.<BR/><BR/>There is an endless supply of idealist blond WASP and freckled Jewish girls willing to throw themselves in the way of the caterpillars in order to save Earth. <BR/><BR/>Or something.<BR/><BR/>I just come from the Imperial Valley, where the lining of a canal built in 1900 has provoked an transnational conflict. And the Delta Project, where the supposed rights of the Delta smelt are considered superior to the common human good and nothing can be done. We have fallen in the power of a mysterious sect, the Greens, that considers itself representing the higher interests of nature, and rules what is right and what is wrong following to misunderstood newspaper popular science. <BR/><BR/>No canals will violate the sacred burial lands with canals nor disturb the eco-sanctuary of the Leopard Lizard. Forget it. <BR/><BR/>Lets spend the money in re-inforcing the EPA bureacracy.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05676167615981895061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57874277171851559872009-01-14T07:26:00.000-08:002009-01-14T07:26:00.000-08:00What is wrong with 1 billion people in America? By...<I>What is wrong with 1 billion people in America? By your tone, we're just supposed to know. Explain it to me.</I><BR/><BR/>How about <I>you</I> explain to <I>us</I> what's so self-evidently great about a social democracy consisting of a billion people, 'cause the opposite thesis is real effing simple: people take up space and generate waste. We don't <I>like</I> living on top, underneath, and a**hole to elbow with each other and each other's sewage. That's why we don't have 12 kids each and vote with our feet for green space. The last thing we want is hubristic social engineering idiots like you trying to turn the place into Rio de Janiero.<BR/><BR/>Please shut up and move to Mexico City.<BR/><BR/>--Senor DougAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49374229014602847372009-01-14T06:08:00.000-08:002009-01-14T06:08:00.000-08:00"And you cannot dump your pollution (the Salton is..."And you cannot dump your pollution (the Salton is manmade) on somebody else."<BR/><BR/><BR/>Why not? It is done to the US all the time(not that we try and stop it either).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74606065360719384912009-01-14T03:35:00.000-08:002009-01-14T03:35:00.000-08:00'What is wrong with 1 billion people in America? B...'What is wrong with 1 billion people in America? By your tone, we're just supposed to know. Explain it to me.'<BR/><BR/>Why don't you explain it to yourself?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44034428137224713822009-01-14T00:15:00.000-08:002009-01-14T00:15:00.000-08:00Think Green, Think Big?All hail Bernie Madoff, our...Think Green, Think Big?<BR/><BR/>All hail Bernie Madoff, our new Stimulus Czar!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35480151554939691252009-01-14T00:07:00.000-08:002009-01-14T00:07:00.000-08:00"Good God! I did not know that."There was a time w..."Good God! I did not know that."<BR/><BR/>There was a time when Soviets thought of nuclear devices as generic building blocks for all their pet projects, from construction, space propulsion to electrical generation. If something required force, they came along with a nuke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17652155955902149382009-01-14T00:04:00.000-08:002009-01-14T00:04:00.000-08:00Eric said..."This is stupid."This is SWPL.Eric said...<BR/>"This is stupid."<BR/><BR/>This is SWPL.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16741153818634885922009-01-13T22:46:00.000-08:002009-01-13T22:46:00.000-08:00Vanilla Anonymous,Salton Sea is 70 meters under se...Vanilla Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>Salton Sea is 70 meters under sea level so it would be difficult to drain it out to the Cortez Sea. It must be pumped. Annexing Sonora and Baja California would not advance the project but would cause endless wars. And you cannot dump your pollution (the Salton is manmade) on somebody else.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05676167615981895061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75463874696610563532009-01-13T18:56:00.000-08:002009-01-13T18:56:00.000-08:00"Around 1900 people thought in large terms. Recent..."Around 1900 people thought in large terms. Recently, it has become fashionable to think small."<BR/><BR/>Sad, but true. Americans, probably Westerners in general nowadays, really are afraid of progress.<BR/><BR/>This is the first I've ever heard of this plan. <BR/>Personally I think it's a shame the US didn't annex Baja California and Sonora after the Mexican War. I've read proposals for a canal to be built from the Gulf of California to the Salton Sea. This canal would allow the now heavily polluted Salton Sea to drain out to the Gulf and allow Gulf water to fill the Salton Sea. Indio or some other inland California city could become a seaport. Desalination plants could be built for the Salton water to be used as drinking water or irrigation water. I've even heard proposals to flood Death Valley...although that doesn't sound as feasible.<BR/><BR/>-Vanilla ThunderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89754175507274160462009-01-13T16:43:00.000-08:002009-01-13T16:43:00.000-08:00A while ago you wrote that San Francisco's crazy D...A while ago you wrote that San Francisco's crazy Democrats might have actually had it right all along by limiting growth, because in modern California, what is growth? More Mexicans.<BR/><BR/>With this scheme, what will it actually bring to the Western U.S., except more Mexicans?<BR/><BR/>Perhaps it's better that water costs rise and squeeze out further illegal immigration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75620356017591456382009-01-13T16:42:00.000-08:002009-01-13T16:42:00.000-08:00"A plan of Stalinist dimensions.Gorbatschow stoppe...<I>"A plan of Stalinist dimensions.<BR/>Gorbatschow stopped a similar one in Siberia.<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_river_reversal"<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>From the wiki: "In 1971, at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna the Soviets disclosed information about successful earthworks on the route of the Pechora-Kama Canal using detonations of three 15-kiloton nuclear devices spaced 500 feet apart, claiming negligible radioactive fallout."<BR/><BR/>Good God! I did not know that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74232746004698665532009-01-13T16:23:00.000-08:002009-01-13T16:23:00.000-08:00For the same money we could build, what, 100 nucle...For the same money we could build, what, 100 nuclear power plants and desalinate all the water we need with enough power left over to thumb our noses at the Saudis and Venezuelans.<BR/><BR/>This is stupid.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10330712047609650184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61279718862744300912009-01-13T14:20:00.000-08:002009-01-13T14:20:00.000-08:00Let's finish the dam that blocks the flow of human...Let's finish the dam that blocks the flow of human resources from our Southern neighbor so we don't need to build a canal to pipe in natural resources from our Northern neighbor.<BR/><BR/>Diversity politics always remind me of a nursery rhyme I learned in kindergarten.<BR/><BR/>"There once was a woman who swallowed a fly..."Matt Parrotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00794652979966181081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37178022622829724992009-01-13T12:22:00.000-08:002009-01-13T12:22:00.000-08:00"Steve, Thanks for reviving the Parson project!"Ye..."Steve, Thanks for reviving the Parson project!"<BR/><BR/>Yeah, thanks! Great band!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42452989899454913432009-01-13T12:16:00.000-08:002009-01-13T12:16:00.000-08:00Forget it, Steve, it's Chinatown!!Forget it, Steve, it's Chinatown!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5225950230689544812009-01-13T11:35:00.000-08:002009-01-13T11:35:00.000-08:00Hmmm... "Some of the power would be required to pu...Hmmm... <BR/><BR/>"Some of the power would be required to pump the water over some mountains in Idaho"<BR/><BR/>How big a quantity is each of those "somes" covering? "Some mountains in Idaho" have very high elevations, after all. <BR/><BR/>Another question- every hydrodynamic system peters out sooner or later. So how long until this one would turn into the world's biggest collection of mudflats?Aciliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07785768453427754723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91456898149295032662009-01-13T10:39:00.000-08:002009-01-13T10:39:00.000-08:00How about building lots and lots of nuclear power ...How about building lots and lots of nuclear power plants like France has? Then we can plug in electric cars. That would actually work. Hate to be so boring.RobertHumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03913525250329418444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58992356750398264992009-01-13T09:31:00.000-08:002009-01-13T09:31:00.000-08:00I respectfully disagree. The adherent's belief in ...I respectfully disagree. The adherent's belief in environmentalism is a religious conviction of the strongest sort. Too strong for even Obama to overcome. Just wait. They'll fight it to the death. They will lie down in front of the bulldozers. They'll claim that it would contribute to the shrinking of the Arctic ice sheet. Or something.Jim Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01912710881278409532noreply@blogger.com