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ALL SUNLIGHT EATEN
Having alerted us to boat-munching seas that devour all marine craft, the Sydney Morning Herald now draws attention to a monster so hungry it will eat all the sunlight.
(Check the above link; that’s the actual SMH headline on a story about the shadow to be cast—mostly over water—by proposed harbourside structures.)
Neither the buildings nor shadows will be as large as the Herald claims. Looking at the picture they have, it seems no one on the design team has taken into account the rising Sydney sea levels. I’m most surprised the paper didn’t pick that up.
Posted by ErnestBludger on 2006 11 02 at 12:26 PM • permalinkWhere’s Steve McQueen when you need him?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 02 at 12:45 PM • permalinka monster so hungry it will eat all the sunlight.
A maw that could swallow a dozen starships!
/cmdr decker
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 11 02 at 12:46 PM • permalinkIn an earlier Globular Wormening thread, I mentioned the Wikipedia article on Niagara Falls that blamed view-blocking mist on Gluteal Wartening. Well, that was just one explanation offered. The other was altered airflow because of high-rise construction on the Canadian side.
Not surprising that the Gloobal Worfing crowd and the tower-phobics intersect. If there’s one thing I’m learning, it’s that “progressives” hate progress.
This is classic magical thinking, of the sort that Carl Sagan warned against as the opposite of science and reason.
Of course, the Woeful Gormening crowd regard themselves as in sole possession of scientific “fact” here, even if it was gotten from a Guardian article, or an Al Gore movie, so trying to point this out to them is utterly futile…
Posted by rick mcginnis on 2006 11 02 at 02:36 PM • permalinkFortunately the damage is limited by earth curvature.
Posted by rhhardin
That about sums it up!
Posted by Major John on 2006 11 02 at 03:27 PM • permalinkWho cares if there’s a bit of a shadow in Sydney? The Northern Territory government has announced it’s introducing speed limits! That really is the end of the world as we know it.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2006 11 02 at 04:41 PM • permalinkDon’t you know that Shadows are the second worst threat to The Planet TM, after rising sea levels? And that shadows cast by submerged waterside buildings are the scariest of all?
And you people worry about terrorism!
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 11 02 at 05:13 PM • permalinkFran did a really servile interview with Oracle Stern. She had no notes all about critical responses to him even after a week of exposure.
Stern was allowed to predict a 5 degree global temp increase, which is the most extreme and unlikely figure - but he’s NOT extreme?Stern also used the absurd point about deaths from heat stress in 40 years in Europe. Doesn’t Fran know that Europeans survive worse than that every year in the US and Australia?
Un-bloody-believable dumb worship by the ABC,
But as Homer would say ‘But.. Waddayagunnadoo.’Stern also used the absurd point about deaths from heat stress in 40 years in Europe. Doesn’t Fran know that Europeans survive worse than that every year in the US and Australia?
To a European, US and Australian citizens are not European, regardless of their ancestry. Apparently being born on non-European soil somehow changes the genes.
Toughens them, most likely.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 11 02 at 05:59 PM • permalinkIt’s Friday! It’s sing song day! Grab your mike and sing along to the song!
It’s Islamic pie day song time!!!
On the farm, the sheik is resting
Cause there’s no, Islamic protesting
So, every Friday that ever comes along,
The sheik gets up early to sing this little songRun woman - run woman - Run! Run! Run!
Don’t let the sheik have his fun! Fun! Fun!
I’ll get by cause I enjoy my “covered” pies
so run sheikee, run sheikeee, run run runRun woman - run woman - Run! Run! Run!
Run woman - run woman - Run! Run! Run!
Meat! meat! Meat! Meat!
Says the islamic dumb dumb sheik.
Run, woman, run, woman, run run run.Do these people understand what “hyperbole” means? Never mind, they obviously don’t.
As for the overheated Europeans: Hell, those folks couldn’t handle a plain ol’ heat wave, burying over 12,000 of their kind. The only thing that may save them is the fact that by the time all this comes about, the more robust new Europeans, i.e., the Muslims, most of whom hale from warmer climes, won’t have any problems with it.
If they could just build their skyscrapers on the Great Barrier Reef.
This is a serious scare campaign. For those of you not in Sydney, one look at this picture makes the following obvious:
This is the worst-case shadow diagram for a few hours on the morning on the Winter Solstice, when the sun rises to furthest to the North-East. The shadows cast are long and to the South-West. You can see the shadows here: http://tinyurl.com/wm8e4
Have a look at the various shadow diagrams here: http://www.eastdarlingharbour.com/ConceptPlan.cfm and you can see that the SMH has chosen the most dramatic, sinister shadow to adorn their front page.
For the vast bulk of the year, including most hours when normal people might go near the joint, there will be plenty of sun. Problem shadows in my view, if any, will be cast towards the East when the sun moves into the Western part of the sky.
What a beat up.
Hey, paco! wronwright is talking about you!
Good, now while they’re busy, I have a deal for you Aussies.For a measly $10 billion bucks (that’s billion with a B and bucks as in US dollars) I’ll sell you the secrets to self mobile shadows that react in counter to the changes in the sun’s position in the sky.
It works. Honest. Go to any desert in the US and watch our cactus shadows.
This is a self maintaining upgrade to your already existing shadow structure. No further muss or fuss once the install process is completed.
And, just think of the potential income from increased tourism! Everyone will be flocking to your shores on their vacations to see the new Aussie shadow system. Why, your investment will be returned 100 fold in less time than it takes to pass tax lowering legislation!
#14, your comment
Of course, the Woeful Gormening crowd regard themselves as in sole possession of scientific “fact” here, even if it was gotten from a Guardian article, or an Al Gore movie, so trying to point this out to them is utterly futile…
is so true. Channel 7’s Sunrise is running a campaign on this issue and the presenter was sledging a sceptical Government backbencher, saying “what would he know, hasn’t he seen Al Gore’s movie?” The backbencher was a research scientist at CSIRO and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation before entering Parliament.
This is all part of the secret neocon strategy to control global warmening.
The buildings absorb solar energy that would otherwise strike the surface of the ground and water.
The structure of the buildings channels the heat deep underground through simple conductance to their foundations.
Soon, the neocons will control this vast store of solar heat and can direct it as
wethey will!BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *cough*
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 11 02 at 09:11 PM • permalinkOmigod,
We are all doomed! We are all going to die!
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 02 at 09:14 PM • permalink#3 rebeccaH, you should go to Oz, then you will understand that Physics is not the same planetwide. Downunder, light moves TOWARDS the source, and it is HOTTER in the shade.
And readers of the
New York TimesSydney Morning Herald believe what htey are told.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 02 at 09:17 PM • permalink#9 Paco, even I can understand your Hispanic code: Loose lips sinks ships.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 02 at 09:21 PM • permalink#17 Bloody hell. I am heading there this January. Does this mean I’ll get a speeding ticket 400 km from nowhere on a dead straight road in the middle of nowhere-else?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 02 at 09:26 PM • permalink#18 Bonjour triteness,
I have experience of shadows caste underwater by submerged edifices and I can assure you that they are a conspiracy of the laws of nature.
I ask you, who made these so-called laws? They are just a subjective blahblahblah.
Fortunately, the left cannot actually repeal laws of nature and it is really dark underwater in the shadow of a submerged edifice.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 02 at 09:30 PM • permalinkI blame the shadows on the Sun.
Frankly Spaniel, what’s the big deal (not directed at you). It know this part of the port, it is nowhere anyone without a commercial boat would go anyway.
We are all doomed! We are all going to die!
Damn shadows. Damn Sun.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 02 at 09:39 PM • permalink#14 rick mcginnis
Of course, the Woeful Gormening crowd regard themselves as in sole possession of scientific “fact” here, even if it was gotten from a Guardian article, or an Al Gore movie, so trying to point this out to them is utterly futile…
That is classic.
Bravo!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 11 02 at 11:24 PM • permalinkI don’t know much about Australian geography, what with it being all upside-down and backwards and requiring a conversion facor of 5/9 after adding 32, or of 9/5 before subtracting 32, and still being wrong, but…
... is this anywhere near the Great Barrier Reef, where they’re talking about a “shade cloth” to colonialist tourism or imperial organisms or hegemonic divers from global contra-seasonal sinusoidal climate change? Because, you know, you can maybe kill two birds with one stone.
Dame, PETA just burst into my office and are about to waterboard me.
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Isn’t this a good thing, though? I thought global warming was caused by too much sunlight. So sunlight munching must be a good thing.