Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John (and nathan) this is a great goddam country which is what I think whenever I see HUGE amounts of fire coming out of an american-made machine (ok with asian parts assembled in brazil but whatever). goddam awesome. Also, be assured Nathan that the people who love this shit didn't decide to invade iraq for no reason except fantasy saturated by greed, and they didn't f**k it up with years of bad policy both BEFORE and after (we should always recall that Clinton and Blair bombed that country every day in the 90s). These racing fans are just the ones who get ordered over there to have their limbs blown off. Blame the motherf***ers who like tennis, golf, and horses. THEY did it. The poor and working classes NEVER start wars. It's management types. You know. Like us. And finally, Nathan, people who fly a lot contribute to vastly more CO2 emissions than people who go to auto races. Ahem. You can green up your whole life but if you take two planes a year you're part of the problem, not the solution. We might not like this fact, because despite our good intentions we intend to keep flying, but it represents the facts so leave the poor monster trucks out of it. Vince On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:25 PM, John Edwin Mason <profmason at yahoo.com>wrote: > > I wonder how much Co2 this generates and also I cannot help thinking > > about the connection between the culture that worships this kind of > > activity and the current disaster in the Gulf. > > Nathan, I won't try to defend the indefensible. But I will point out that > this is by no means a solely American phenomenon. Consider, for a moment, > the vastly greater environmental damage caused by flying the entire Formula > 1 circus -- cars, spares, crews, TV -- to Bahrain, Australia, Malaysia, and > China and then hauling it all over Europe. A bit of auto worship on your > side of the ocean, too, I'd say. > > > Wow, how close are those puppies from getting airborne? > > Not close at all, Vick. That truck generates tremendous downforce. The > dragsters that tend sometimes to fly are the much smaller, much lighter, > much less powerful (and just as fast) low downforce Pro Mods and Pro > Stocks, > which look a bit like cartoon versions of street cars. > > --John > > > ****************************** > John Edwin Mason, Photography: > http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com > Charlottesville and Cape Town > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >