Thursday, April 10, 2008

You Can Squeeze Water from a Mayan Relic: Or get an Internet Connection Off It






Here's one for the water folks out there:
"Thirsty Southern California cities are turning to water-rich farmers on the eastern edge of Riverside County for additional supplies to make up for the ongoing drought and other restrictions on the life-sustaining resource.

Starting this summer, farmers in the Palo Verde Valley along the Colorado River will forgo planting crops on nearly 26,000 acres, the most land yet under a little-known fallowing agreement with Metropolitan Water District. The pact will double the amount now being sent to MWD and its 18 million urban customers. In exchange, MWD will pay the farmers $16.8 million each year for 115,000 acre-feet of water -- almost 37.5 billion gallons."


You don't think we'll be killing each other over water in a few years? Think again. People want to talk about the oil crisis. The water crisis is what's going to do people in. Yeah it sucks not being able to drive to work, but imagine not being able to get a clean glass of water for a few days?

Stinky butt town for sure!
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Here's an interesting bit of news courtesy of cnn.com:
"One in five respondents to a new survey in the journal Nature say they've used drugs to boost their brain power."

I'm not good at math, but I do wonder how this number corresponds to the percentages given across various religions when it comes to how many people are going up to level 9? Because you figure this percentage of people are also probably going to most likely to upload their consciousness as that possibility continues to open. And then hosanna be the king, fullfilled prophecy!
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Apparently in Russia they have Mayan gods just milling around....can you subconsciously be immaneatizing the eschaton? I mean let's just give those 2012 bastards access to all of that black market uranium, hey? See what happens...

This courtesy of the very fun English Russia blog:

The story of them appearing there starts in 19th century when Academy of St. Petersburg sent a group of explorers to Middle America. They visited through all of Yucatan, collected different things for St. Petersburg’s museums. By the way they noticed and bought a set of Mayan idols from Chichen Itza ruins. Upon the return of expedition smaller objects were placed into museums but nobody has found a good place for those Mayan statues and they were left all by themselves in the back yard, dug into ground.

A few years passed and Soviet Revolution happened, all the museums were messed up, all the buildings were nationalized by Soviets and were used for a totally different purpose then before. In many churches warehouses were founded as the result of total atheism of new Russian authorities, and many museum were turned into something else as a result of ignorance.

So hundred years passed and those 1500 year old Mayan deities stand, abandoned and not worshiped by anyone except accidental Russian teens searching for a place to have a beer outside in some public backyard."

3 comments:

Zagadka said...

Water consumption and waste really gets me, because it all boils down to laziness.

Piss in the toilet a few times before flushing.

When washing dishes, turn off the water when you're scrubbing. Time to rinse? Don't turn it on full blast!

Take a 10 minute shower instead of a 15.

Wash full loads of dishes and laundry.

If you live in an arrid climate...don't grow grass! WTF! I'm looking at you, Las Vegas...

Its too easy to do all of these things. Make a few changes and it becomes habit. A good habit. Unlike meth, which is a bad habit.

Anonymous said...

Did you see the Dean Kamen recently on The Colbert Report? He has invented a water distiller that he says has the ability to turn almost anything - ocean water, even poison into drinking water. He says this could wipe out 50 percent of human disease. Amazing, right?

Mercurialblonde said...

Yeah I remember, he turned Dorritos into drinking water if I remember right.

I don't know what the implications are of that invention. Like I heard about it maybe three years ago, but I don't understand why it isn't in wider practice right now? Like why isn't this hooked up to every municipal water supply? We could recycle our sewage directly that way.

I don't know. I will definitely need to research more about it, because there must be something prohibitive about it for it not to be implimented right now. Cost?

But then that's kind of the problem these days. We really wouldn't believe a flying car if it was right in front of us. We've been made into lazy cynics of the worst kind, possibly due to the amount of information we're processing.

Tangential to that I hear a neat metaphor the other day from Terence Mckenna--something to the effect of humans are animals who take in energy and produce information and ideas. Like our chief function for the planet is a kind of organic think tank. Which I mean, basically hints that we're genetically encoded with the tools we'll need to survive. But those talents have been so distorted and misdirected by bottom-line economics--that I wonder if that's really the problem here.

Bleaugh.

 
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