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California Fires
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California Fires
So fires are unstoppable in California. Forests ares burning down as well as some towns. Fire tornadoes are also part of destruction. Maybe government should invest much more in firefighting airplanes since it will be just getting worse with years considering the global warming, maybe even thousand times more firefighting airplanes. But, then again, this government doesn't believe that it's getting hotter.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: California Fires
(July 28, 2018 at 9:20 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: So fires are unstoppable in California. Forests ares burning down as well as some towns. Fire tornadoes are also part of destruction. Maybe government should invest much more in firefighting airplanes since it will be just getting worse with years considering the global warming, maybe even thousand times more firefighting airplanes. But, then again, this government doesn't believe that it's getting hotter.

Crown fires in mature forests are unstoppable everywhere. In large crown fires, water dropped by helicopter waterbombers often can’t even reach the base of the fire before they are boiled off in midair.

Part of the problem isn’t there arn’t Enough fire fighting airplanes. Part of it is there had been too many. Since 1940s the forest services have tried to put out any fire they spot in the forests as soon as they can, and had been too successful. So where as a natural forest may see a bushfire that clears out the undergrowth but leaves mature trees intact every few years, much of california’s Forests haven’t seen bush fires in much longer. So forests are unnaturally overgrown with dense undergrowth. This added fuel at the floor of the forests causes flames from Bush fire to go much higher and ignite more crown fires than would the case in a natural forest. Eventually the effect of added fuel load in the forest overwhelms the power of the fire fighting airplanes, and when that happens you get lots of unstoppable crown fires.

Right now the forest service is trying to reverse the error by cutting new fire paths into interior of the forests, getting fire engines in there on stand by, and then setting controlled bushfires to burn off the undergrowth with the fire engines ready to put out any fire before the get out of control. They also manually cut up small and unhealthy trees that has little chance of maturing, and shipping them out along the fire path to further reduce fuel load in the forests.
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RE: California Fires
Takeaway from the above = humans can fuck up anything if they put their minds to it.
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RE: California Fires
(July 28, 2018 at 11:18 am)Minimalist Wrote: Takeaway from the above = humans can fuck up anything if they put their minds to it.

You underestimate our genius. you think we actually have to pay attention and think about it before we can fuck it up?
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RE: California Fires
(July 28, 2018 at 11:12 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: In large crown fires, water dropped by helicopter waterbombers often can’t even reach the base of the fire before they are boiled off in midair.

That's why they have other water retardants






lol this also comes in mind





too bad Superman doesn't exist.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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