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- Alphateam, on 02/17/2008, -14/+223"In other news the South Side of Chicago had a record crime spree today"
- cmccool, on 02/17/2008, -7/+157do "exterior lights" include the flashing lights used to prevent planes from crashing into a skyscraper? if so things might get pretty interesting in chi-town!
- avengingturnip, on 02/17/2008, -10/+120That should include all street lights, including traffic control lights at intersections, right?
- harkondo, on 02/17/2008, -1/+81North Korea's been doing this forever.
- Smokeymcpot, on 02/17/2008, -4/+81Aw crap, I was hoping it was like that one Hey Arnold! episode where they turned off the lights for the comet.
Boo. - Bruzz, on 02/17/2008, -18/+90I think I will turn my lights off in honor of this great effort.
- loganhid, on 02/17/2008, -15/+81There's gonna be a lot of looting tonight
- inactive, on 02/17/2008, -11/+71Because turning off lights for one hour is gonna magically stop all the polar ice caps from melting
- Kafro, on 02/17/2008, -6/+62now i can use twice as much power and not feel bad
- Laminarcissus, on 02/18/2008, -4/+52Oh please, you people think you're saving power?
Just to show you what real economizing is, I'm going to turn off the moon between 10:01pm and 10:51pm on February 20th. Watch for it. - rallythanks, on 02/17/2008, -7/+48Let's ground Al Gore's jet plane for 10 hours.
- spineaches, on 02/17/2008, -1/+40maybe they'll see a star.
- built2spill, on 02/17/2008, -4/+40I wish all cities would do this once in a while - it would be really nice to see the Milky Way again without driving for two hours.
- zwaldowski, on 02/18/2008, -0/+30In other news, Chicago breaks the one-hour record for crime.
- emanpa68, on 02/18/2008, -3/+32... in honor of this great effort? that phrase makes throw up a little in my mouth... I'm more for the long term strategy... how bout instead of turning off our lights for one stupid hour we all purchase one LED light bulb? ya know, stimulate the economy while not endangering the power-grid from sudden fluctuations.
- Shiftyeyedgoat, on 02/17/2008, -0/+28How the hell did you do that?
I naively thought there would be no way to turn this in Ron Paul's direction, but you just have to go and prove me wrong. - inactive, on 02/17/2008, -16/+43Hey let's all do it, sign up at EarthHour too.
- Asianwaste, on 02/18/2008, -0/+26Sure I'm down for an hour of scheduled darkness. On other unrelated news, I just got a new ninja suit and pry bar.
- inactive, on 02/17/2008, -0/+26baaah
- walkingdogs, on 02/18/2008, -0/+25Shy-Town
- unpolloloco, on 02/17/2008, -3/+25I'd be way more supportive of the environmental movement if it ever actually did anything that improves the environment rather than doing "symbolic" actions to promote environmental awareness. Awareness is great and all, but without actually doing anything, it is less than pointless, oftentimes counterproductive.
- emjaymj, on 02/18/2008, -1/+22I don't think anybody is actually suggesting that the light emits any moon.
- inactive, on 02/17/2008, -4/+24I hate awareness campaigns.
Donate to breast cancer awareness! It won't solve the problem, but everyone will know there is a problem! - brentinkc, on 02/17/2008, -6/+25Source?
- alz0rz, on 02/18/2008, -2/+19what the *****?
- getrealnow, on 02/18/2008, -2/+19DO NOT TAKE MY PORN ITS ALL I HAVE
- deadbaby, on 02/17/2008, -8/+24That's just not how light bulbs work. Certain types of bulbs may take some time to reach full brightness but they don't draw more power "starting up" than they do when they're on. The only way I could see this being true is if they had some sort of motorized positioning that had to be reset or covers over the bulbs that had to be opened.
- harkondo, on 02/17/2008, -4/+19Not with that attitude, it won't.
- Asianwaste, on 02/18/2008, -2/+17That's nothing. Look what this guy did!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoNAT8ZYbvw - getrealnow, on 02/18/2008, -1/+16no *****
- bjornski, on 02/18/2008, -1/+16A ban on pornography? Drive everyones sexual urges into the depths of "no-no" land?
You do realize that's why people lash out, right?
If someone wants to watch naked movies and jerk off, it's none of your damned business. Don't like porn? Don't buy it. Sex is legal, taking video is legal, why is taking video of sex (and selling it) supposed to be illegal?
But then orgasms are legal, and giving someone money is legal, but giving someone money for an orgasm is illegal.
You people and your sex-laws are too much. Want to focus on sex crimes? Talk to the Pope. - Mrdudeperson, on 02/18/2008, -2/+16Yea..........well i'm going to heat my home to 81 degrees......why? because thats one degree better then you
- madwurm, on 02/17/2008, -4/+17He's right... stop digging him down. Turning off/on large systems on a power grid over a short period of time cost more that it would to just leave them on. Power companies will often charge you a surcharge to do something like this... because they have to prepare for it.
- inactive, on 02/18/2008, -2/+15My reading comprehension is fine, the difficult part is reading with all lights turned off.
- krnldmp, on 02/18/2008, -1/+13No, you idiot.
- inactive, on 02/18/2008, -1/+13They need to turn ON the street lights in my neighborhood on the south side. Seriously, those things routinely go out for days at a time.
- Daveman100, on 02/18/2008, -2/+14Have you seen Mythbusters? they did a show in light bulbs and power use. They showed that wile it does take more power to turn on, then to run them. The difference is so little that it is in fact better to shut them off when not needed, then to leave them on. the extra power to turn them on is less then 1 min of ruining time.
- specialK16, on 02/17/2008, -3/+15It doesn't say anywhere in the FA whether or not traffic control ligts will be turned off.
- KevinRoseMustDy, on 02/17/2008, -8/+20Yeah, it's gonna be a good night.
- renatoc8, on 02/18/2008, -0/+11Sigh, not 3rd grade again...
- smurfsahoy, on 02/18/2008, -0/+11Wow, you should get off of digg in the next hour or so, or you'll miss your ride on the Santa Maria.
- inactive, on 02/17/2008, -1/+12It is more important to actually put initiatives in place than 'shows' such as this. They'll turn off some lights for an hour, save a negligible amount of energy, yet get loads of positive press. Why not build high efficiency photovoltaic arrays on all the buildings in downtown Chicago instead, it actually would have a positive impact.
- Laminarcissus, on 02/18/2008, -1/+12or how about doing both?
you have large media events to spread awareness of the issue, and to send the message that the city is unified behind making it a priority, and then you couple that with information for people on how to follow that up with a contribution of their own. - estat, on 02/18/2008, -0/+11Sure, diggers would turn off the lights, but how many would turn off their computers and routers?
- dsenman, on 02/18/2008, -4/+14douche
- boombye, on 02/18/2008, -0/+10Hi, you must not be from Chicago. The lights that matter will be on. Those would be the street and traffic lights.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/795979,CST-NWS- ...
Also, if I were to walk to my friend's place right now, the only lights I would notice would be from the main streets, but I walk down dark side streets anyways. So it wouldn't make a difference either way as this will only be happening at Chicago landmarks, and whatever citizens feel like volunteering to do this once they hear about it on the news can do this at their home. I don't know anybody that's even heard of this. If you read that article I've provided, they don't expect much of a difference either. - asauterChicago, on 02/18/2008, -0/+10Anyone else want to loot the local electronic store??? .. we got an hour, just saying.
- harkondo, on 02/17/2008, -0/+9I never got the gas buying thing. People will just buy more gas the day before and after. This would be like not driving for a day.
- jiggidy, on 02/18/2008, -5/+13Excellent, now I can complete my heist.
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