Did NBC Risk Employees Lives in a Green Agenda Stunt?

The American Thinker ^ | November 24, 2008 | Marc Sheppard

[hunter112]

Are Liberals really that stupid?

When they go places that are off the bus lines, or have no taxicabs, they are literally babes in the woods.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Idiots.

[ConfusedAndLovingIt]

Michael Creighton was an important voice - he’s missed.

Who's Michael Creighton?

[BigBobber]

I checked out the video at the link. Haven’t had such a good laugh in a while.

It shows Ann Currey slogging up a muddy trail. Then she is on audio telling about a “beautiful little girl” she met who wants to be president like The One but her school had to close because “there is no water”.

Honestly, how do these people live with themselves?

Oprah, please send these people some bottled water so they can re-open their school.

[Blennos]

He means Michael Crichton, the author of many books including Jurassic park.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[GOPJ]

John Michael Crichton, M.D. pronounced /ˈkraɪtÉ™n/ [1], (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008[2][3]) was an American author, film producer, film director, medical doctor, and television producer best known for his science fiction and techno-thriller novels, films, and television programs. His books have sold over 150 million copies worldwide. His works were usually based on the action genre and heavily feature technology. Many of his future history novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and science background. He was the author of The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Disclosure, Rising Sun, Timeline, State of Fear, Prey, and Next. He was also the creator of the TV series ER, but is probably most famous for being the author of Jurassic Park, and its sequel The Lost World, both adapted into high grossing films and leading to the very successful franchise. The final book he published before his death was Next, and he also had another project set for some time in 2009.

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He's also one of the first major thinkers to point out the fallacies of "global warming".

[timestax]

[neverdem]

bump & a ping

[Steve Van Doorn]

They should swim with the polar bears!

[Izzy Dunne]

if only a third of Earth’s surface is land, and two thirds is water, actual volume of water is much higher than volume of land in cubic miles, more like 25/75%.

Excuse me, but how deep is the water? How deep is the land?

I've never heard of the "volume of land".

And on that land there is about 3% equivalent land mass trapped above the water line.

Huh?
The land has 3% of it above the water line? Then why do you call it "land"?

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Meredith and Matt called Ann (at her NYC apartment) this morning to check in and see how Curry is feeling. She said, from drinking glacier water, she and the crew were still ill. But I am wondering if they are still feeling the affects of the altitude sickness (HACE). Next step...law suits from the crew? Really. Unless Curry and her crew were all experienced climbers, they were in (at the start) waaaaay over their heads. The brain swelling/edema issues may have long term, health threatening, life shortening impact. And I bet the producers/suits at 30 Rock are more than a little distraught at their long term liability issues. Curry...if she insisted on going on...should be culpable too.

[mountn man]

My body reacts slow to major altitude rises. I usually feel awful for a week or so.

[GnuHere]

They are more than stupid. I heard one little snippet of this train wreck, when Ann mentioned her backpack weighed 20#, as if that was a big deal. Of course the porters were doing all the real work - I’m sure NBC paid them generously, right?

Anyway, to me that was a sign she had never even been backpacking, and she and her crew were likely under the illusion that time in an elite Manhattan gym for routine fitness would give them magical powers out in the real world, at altitude! What maroons.

I thought about making this trip 10 yrs ago or so, and read a whole book on it even though I didn’t book the trip. It ain’t easy. She was probably handed a 3-page briefing that she chose to ignore.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Put an ice cube in a glass of water. Fill the glass to the top. When the ice cube melts does the glass overflow?

[Hot Tabasco]

Wow, I've never read of so many contradictions in my life.

Village suffering from water loss vs. glacier melting. Ok, I missed something.

I read some of the logical explanations debunking the global warming junk but I have my own theory.

That volcano hole is nature's natural snow machine. If there is less activity going on then there will naturally be less steam coming from the mouth of the volcano. Less steam means less freezing precipitation which means less snow.........

[Hot Tabasco]

My body reacts slow to major altitude rises.

I skied vail back in 2003. Made a major mistake, went to the extreme top (approx. 11,000 ft I think) as soon as we arrived. By noon when we went into the restaurant at the top, I was finding it hard to concentrate, felt sleepy and exhausted.

Realizing what was going on, I ate right away then left for much lower skiing altitude. After about an hour down below, I was back to normal.

Learned a valuable lesson....

[Izzy Dunne]

Put an ice cube in a glass of water. Fill the glass to the top. When the ice cube melts does the glass overflow?

No, of course not.

Does that have anything to do with my post about the "volume of land"?

[RJL]

Flying these teams of NBC folks and their equipment all around the Earth makes for great company paid vacations, but little else.

[mountn man]

My first time skiing out west, I skied Copper Mountain the day after arriving. Skied hard all day. I can remember feeling a little run down, and a headache wanting to bother me. That night I got sick, felt like a bad flu bug. My buddies went skiing the next day without me :(. The day after I was still under the weather but went with the guys anyway. I had a headache that wanted to split my skull, and felt nauseous, but after going up the lift, and being in the cool, fresh air, the headache and nauseousness subsided, but not completely. We were at Keystone, so it was mostly easier skiing. Just remember, a bad day skiing is better than a good day at work.

When I backpack in the mountains it takes me almost a week before my energy levels are up to normal, and the buzzing in my head stops.

Oh... never ever go dog sledding the day after you arrive in the mountains, especially when you live at about 600 ft above sea level and the area your dog sledding is about 8000 ft. My head felt like Mark McGuire used it for a home run derby.