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Eco-News Roundup: Friday November 13
Blue Marble-ish news from our other blogs, and around the net.
Hold Everyone: Senate has a habit of placing "holds" on nominees whose views they oppose.
Media Fix: In the wake of Ft. Hood, the media is talking about PTSD, but how prevalent is it?
Preserving Relation: Sen. David Vitter loves formaldehyde, holds up Obama EPA nominee.
No Deal: Clinton says US won't make binding decision at Copenhagen. [Yahoo News]
Healthcare Battle: Thousands of veterans are dying because they can't access healthcare.
Climate Scare: Lawyer is raising money to avert Obama climate deal "disaster."
Super Rat: Scientists made a rat super-smart, but say it's dangerous for humans. [National Geographic]
Time Out: Sen. Lindsay Graham gets flack from Repubs for working with Dems on climate.
Market Cap: Sen. Maria Cantwell offers a cap-and-dividend alternative for climate bill.
Mis-Quote: Coal front group ACCCE in trouble for misrepresenting veterans's views.
Delisted: Brown pelican flies off the endangered species list. [Los Angeles Times]
Baby Snips: Maclaren strollers recalled for cutting off fingers, parents aren't freaked out.
Thanks for including full
Thanks for including full links and not the trendy bitlys that obscure where the link points to.
Regarding the super smart rats, that was an interesting story, but it's a shame that neither the original reporter nor you, used the opportunity to salute Forbidden Planet.
Commander John J. Adams: Nice climate you have here. High oxygen content.
Robby the Robot: I seldom use it myself, sir. It promotes rust.
Dr. Edward Morbius: The fool, the meddling idiot! As though his ape's brain could contain the secrets of the Krell!
Doc Ostrow: Morbius was too close to the problem. The Krell had completed their project. Big machine. No instrumentalities. True creation.
Commander John J. Adams: Come on, Doc, let's have it.
Doc Ostrow: But the Krell forgot one thing.
Commander John J. Adams: Yes, what?
Doc Ostrow: Monsters, John. Monsters from the Id.
Commander John J. Adams: The Id? What's that? Talk, Doc!
[Doc slumps and dies]
Commander John J. Adams: Doc?
Commander John J. Adams: [sadly] Oh, Doc. Doc.
Commander John J. Adams: What is the Id?
Dr. Edward Morbius: [frustrated] Id, Id, Id, Id, Id!
[calming down]
Dr. Edward Morbius: It's a... It's an obsolete term. I'm afraid once used to describe the elementary basis of the subconscious mind.
Commander John J. Adams: [to himself] Monsters from the Id...
Dr. Edward Morbius: Huh?
Commander John J. Adams: Monsters from the subconscious. Of course. That's what Doc meant. Morbius. The big machine, 8,000 miles of klystron relays, enough power for a whole population of creative geniuses, operated by remote control. Morbius, operated by the electromagnetic impulses of individual Krell brains.
Dr. Edward Morbius: To what purpose?
Commander John J. Adams: In return, that ultimate machine would instantaneously project solid matter to any point on the planet, In any shape or color they might imagine. For *any* purpose, Morbius! Creation by mere thought.
Dr. Edward Morbius: Why haven't I seen this all along?
Commander John J. Adams: But like you, the Krell forgot one deadly danger - their own subconscious hate and lust for destruction.
Dr. Edward Morbius: The beast. The mindless primitive! Even the Krell must have evolved from that beginning.
Commander John J. Adams: And so those mindless beasts of the subconscious had access to a machine that could never be shut down. The secret devil of every soul on the planet all set free at once to loot and maim. And take revenge, Morbius, and kill!
Dr. Edward Morbius: My poor Krell. After a million years of shining sanity, they could hardly have understood what power was destroying them.