You don't have to wonder. You can see it from satellite imagery of N.Korea and S.Korea. If you look real close at N. Korea, you can see a couple of flickers of light from the candles. The brightly lit part in S. Korea is people having fun in Seoul.
Posted on 03/28/2010 12:55:42 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
Edited on 03/28/2010 3:32:33 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
In celebration of electricity and how much everyone appreciates this marvelous invention, cities across the world have been turning off their lights for one hour starting at 8:30 pm tonight (check your local TV listings). Clutching candles as the only means of light, earthlings learn to appreciate the only source of light before the invention of electric light. The cost to commerce and personal income from the hour long event can be fully appreciated in the video below when the electricity goes off.
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LOL, I turned almost all the lights on, + 1 PC and 1 laptop, + TV, + DVD player, + box fan, etc., etc., etc.
You don't have to wonder. You can see it from satellite imagery of N.Korea and S.Korea. If you look real close at N. Korea, you can see a couple of flickers of light from the candles. The brightly lit part in S. Korea is people having fun in Seoul.
$900 electric bill, yikes! Our bill on two houses (combined bill) was $83 last month. As a side note, I guess you will not be voting for Prop 16.
I gave it some thought, emitted some green house gases, and went on with my life.
And 99.99999% of the world’s populace did the same thing. Correction, 99.99998% of the world never even heard of this idiotic whiz into the wind.
Coulda seen my home from space.
Dang it,I lite the pile of old tires at 8:30 last night and they burned out at 10:15.
I missed it.
I might make up for it by burning some old tires, like I sometimes do on “Earth Day”.
Don’t get me wrong. I totally LOVE our planet, as it is one of the most remarkable places we humans know of in our universe. At the same time, I detest the constant leftist planet worship. When it comes down to it, I believe I love the planet as much as they do. I just don’t get into wanting to control people’s lives in the name of “saving the planet”, because I believe it’s a false choice.
There is NOTHING we can do to affect this planet over the long term. Everything we have built, along with our physical bodies themselves came from this Earth, and eventually the Earth reclaims it all. Our time here is going to be so brief, in a million or so years, it will likely be debatable whether or not we humans even existed.
Looks like we should know where to target our nukes on NK if it comes to war.(The one light spot)
Wow. N v S Korea satellite image very instructive! Wow.
Yep second year in a row, turned on every light in the house.
The author never heard of gas lighting, which pre-dates electricity? Also, did campfires not provide any illumination before the electric light was invented?
Even older, oil lamps go back thousands of years.
ABSOLUTELY, YOU BETCHA I DID.
Turned on ALL LIGHTS, Blender for Margaritas, FANS, GENERATORS, and had one he!! of a YeeHaw!
Dang! I was gonna fire up the lawn mower and just let it run... I guess there is aways next year.
Also - turned on everything in the house, even plugged in those recharger things.
Yes, I turned on everything in my house and left it on an additional hour just for good measure.
Same as last year......
Turned on the driveway floods and cleaned guns on the tailgate....
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