Time For A Shower? Meteor That Is

I had not heard about this until today. This took place in Argentina. Being the suspicious Hillbilly that I am, why can’t NASA see these coming? Are they meteors or something else?

Why?

Why are so many voters easily distracted by stupid crap? Ya know, like politicians who tickle their throats with their toes! Yup, the media is focusing, FOX included, on what one guy said about rape. Here is a news flash: Our economy is in the crapper, the feds are taking over private institutions, illegals are still breaking into the country, a war that most people don’t know why we are still fighting it, $4 a gallon gas, and a Russian sub cruising around in the Gulf!

It is my opinion that we are in with two elections of seeing our country transform into something nobody is going to like, even the ones who hope for change.

May God help us all.

What The Frack?

I see many a lib are all up in arms over the fracking. The benefits far out weigh the negatives. Then again, until we are riding bikes living in grass huts, they will never be happy!
http://www.rockymountainenergyforum.com/article/mit-report-finds-fracking-is-safe

MIT Report Finds fracking is Safe
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Bookmark Last June, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued a 178-page report called “The Future of Natural Gas” (a copy of the full report is embedded below). Somehow this report escaped MDN’s notice at the time. Seeing that it’s conclusions are that hydraulic fracturing is safe, MDN understands why mainstream media outlets don’t endlessly promote it and quote from it as they do from journal articles penned by anti-drilling professors like Robert Howarth and Tony Ingraffea making outrageous claims like natural gas is worse for the environment than coal (see this MDN story).

The report is the fourth in a series of MIT reports examining the role of various energy sources that may be important for meeting future demand under carbon dioxide emissions constraints. In each case, as with this report, MIT looks at what is needed for energy sources to remain competitive if and when CO2 emissions are taxed. That is, how will this energy source stack up if there’s a price on carbon dioxide emissions.

Among the many interesting findings in the report are these:

With over 20,000 shale wells drilled in the last 10 years, the environmental record of shale gas development has for the most part been a good one — but it is important to recognize the inherent risks and the damage that can be caused by just one poor operation. (page 39)

The fracturing process itself poses minimal risk to the shallow groundwater zones that may exist in the upper portion of the wellbore. (page 40)

The physical realities of the fracturing process, combined with the lack of reports from the many wells to date of fracture fluid contamination of groundwater, supports the assertion that fracturing itself does not create environmental concerns. (page 41)