Friday, September 03, 2010
Evacuate! Evacuate! Evacuate!
On the latest oil rig explosion, the fucking idiots are now worrying about a sheen of some "unknown chemical". They say this sheen is about 30 yards wide by 100 yards long. That's about 27000 square feet, or a bit more than half an acre.
Given the rule of thumb that a cup of oil produces an acre of sheen, what we have here is a HALF CUP of the unknown chemical.
We're supposed to get all panicky, evacuate all the coasts forever, lose thousands of jobs, over A HALF CUP of some oily substance. EIGHT TABLESPOONS. TWO EGGS.
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This is straight out of Piaget's stages of cognitive development.
Conclusion: Our ruling class has a mental age of 3. ¶ 1:04 PM
Given the rule of thumb that a cup of oil produces an acre of sheen, what we have here is a HALF CUP of the unknown chemical.
We're supposed to get all panicky, evacuate all the coasts forever, lose thousands of jobs, over A HALF CUP of some oily substance. EIGHT TABLESPOONS. TWO EGGS.
= = = = =
This is straight out of Piaget's stages of cognitive development.
Similarly, younger children center on one aspect of any problem or communication at a time. Perhaps the most famous example of the preoperational child’s centrism is what Piaget refers to as their inability to conserve liquid volume. If I give a three-year-old some chocolate milk in a tall skinny glass, and I give myself a whole lot more in a short fat glass, she will tend to focus on only one of the dimensions of the glass. Since the milk in the tall skinny glass goes up much higher, she is likely to assume that there is more milk in that one than in the short fat glass, even though there is far more in the latter.
Conclusion: Our ruling class has a mental age of 3. ¶ 1:04 PM
