Best Wishes For the Holidays
December 25th, 2009
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Best Wishes that for a very very high energy holiday season and a bountiful new year.
This holiday season, may you and all your friends and family enjoy relief from the bitter cold through artificial heating and may your nights be happy, secure and brought by the glow of incandescence, fluorescence or whatever lighting you may have. Of course, for those who are in Australia or South America, may your days be cooled by air conditioning. Here’s hoping all your travels are safe, comfortable and rapid, and may all your pantries overflow with a surplus of safe and pathogen-free food. And may your health be maintained by the best medicine that science can produce.
However you may celebrate your holidays and whether it is Christmas, the Yuletide, Solstice, Chaunaka or otherwise, here’s hoping that the power of many many kilowatts will serve for your comfort and protection. Terajoules of comfort and joy, for all of mankind.
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December 25th, 2009 at 4:47 am
Right back at ya!
I really like how you use this as an opportunity to advance the hopeful message of energy and technology for betterment. It is so true that so much of our protection and comfort (all of it really) comes from industrialization and energy use.
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December 25th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Terajoules right back at you. The industrial revolution was the greatest gift mankind ever gave to itself, but so many can’t see that even when they survive from it’s benefits
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December 25th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Here’s hoping that your holidays are warm and bright with energy!
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December 25th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Merry Christmas mate. Hope you have a good one. Thanks for all the effort and work you put into this website to keep us all informed and entertained.
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December 25th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Merry Christmas to all. One doesn’t need to be religious to have an excuse to party!
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December 25th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Joyeux Noël et bon sante at touse mes amis dans cette place
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December 25th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Happy New Year! New Year is a holiday that anyone who uses the Gregorian calendar, so I am being politically correct.
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December 25th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Paul Studier said:
I have to give the church their due props on that one. The Gregorian calender is pretty damn good as far as calenders go. It was really the second great step in calender standardization that got us to where we are now. The Julian calender was a huge step forward and elimination of lunar calenders in general was important, but the Gregorian system corrected some flaws in the Julian calender, which would have us out of sync by a good couple of weeks if it had not been taken care of. As it is, the calender won’t need adjustment for tens of thousands of years. So… in that case, they did a pretty good job.
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December 25th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
drbuzz0 said:
Strangely enough though, the primary concern of those that initiated that reform was that the date of Easter, which is calculated from the date of the first Sunday after the new moon which falls before the Winter solstice, was beginning to drift too far away from that of Passover as calculated by the Jewish Metonic calender.
I always thought a calender of four quarterly seasons, each of 91 days, (or 13 weeks) with New Years standing alone and a leap day also standing alone added every four years mid-year, to be the next way we should reform.
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December 26th, 2009 at 3:24 am
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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December 26th, 2009 at 4:20 am
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
I’ll raise my glass to the hope that one day everyone will enjoy the bounty that human ingenuity can create for the good of the world.
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December 26th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
A belated merry x-mas. Happy holidays. Happy New Year.
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December 30th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Lots of energy was used to compensate for our broken boiler, but sadly little of it was nuclear so the cost will be unpleasant when the bill comes in. Thankfully I’ll be able to afford it but it makes me wonder how many people can’t because of the broken energy policies in place.
I can be miserable now because Christmas is over.
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