Before my topic of today, a bit about those Southern California wildfires. These fires are usually caused by Santa Ana winds that can come from October through March. Of course, you also need certain environmental conditions, like drought and global warming, plus some ignition source. Power grids are especially of concern. And lightning. Human causes, like campfire accidents and arson. In fact, here is what Google AI says: Santa Ana wildfires are not typically caused by a single natural weather trigger; rather, Santa Ana winds act as the dangerous weather accelerant that spreads fires, while nearly all the actual ignitions (90% to 95%) are human-caused . [ 1 , 2 ]. I had a posting last year about them . Apparently, those fires now in Southern California have peaked. Of course other areas in California will remain vulnerable. Certainly, this is not only a California problem, for the Global Fire Dashboard today shows 6926 hotspots around the world. Glo...
Today, the case for why there are no aliens on Planet Earth, now, or ever in the past. But first, global beliefs regarding aliens : Then there is the Fermi Paradox . In the summer of 1950, Enrico Fermi, who had won the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize, had lunch at Los Alamos with three colleagues, Edward Teller (father of the Hydrogen Bomb), Emil Konopinski (calculated that this H-bomb would not ignite the Earth's atmosphere) and Herbert York (became director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). Edward Teller recalls "in the middle of the conversation, Fermi came out with the quite unexpected question 'Where is everybody?'…The result of his question was general laughter because of the strange fact that in spite of Fermi's question coming out of the clear blue, everybody around the table seemed to understand at once that he was talking about extraterrestrial life". In his account of the famed luncheon, Teller wrote "I do not believe much came from this ...