"Deutschland Schaltet Das Licht Aus - Germany Turns Off The Lights"

[Patrickssj6]

Deutschland schaltet das Licht aus
Bundesweite Klima-Aktion am 8. Dezember (http://www.presseportal.de/pm/56001/1086376/bild/)


I'll try to summarize/translate the vital part:

"Tonight (8th December, 20:00 - 20:05 (-6 for EST)) Germany, in cooperation with BILD, Bund, WWP, Greenpeace, Google and ProSieben, will turn off all the lights to show protest for the national and international climate prevention."

I think it's amazing that a country manages to do this.What do you think? Would you participate if you could?

Also, for the technical part...it's actually a waste of energy and resources since the major energy companies like E-On announced that this artificial power outage can destroy some sensitive equipment.

[Bastinka]

Hah thats cool, if your doing something electronic in that shutoff time.. well I'd say your screwed :]

So it's only going down for about 5 minutes?

[Patrickssj6]

It was down for 5 mins...tbqh I think about 75% of the people forgot it...but I'm waiting for the report...google took the site offline for update.

[Kornman00]

Oh, missed it >_>

[jcap]

"[...] to show protest for the national and international climate prevention."
Boy, they sure showed everyone in those five minutes... :rolleyes:

Nothing here, move along now.

[nooBBooze]

Meh its a signal nothing more nor less.
I got this strange feeling that this whole lets-save-our-climate attitude is slowly fading into untrendyness. After all we, the folks who live in industrialised countries, wont be too affected by the impacts of climate change. and srsly, who gives a flying shit about the starving farmer in congo? social darwinism ftw!

:(

[DrunkenSamus]

5 minutes is nothing. Most people would be outside doing some kind of activity and by the time you came back, the power would be back and you wouldn't even know it was gone.

[n00b1n8R]

there was something like this in sydney a few months ago where a heap of buisness's turned off their lights one night (god knows why they needed them on in the first place >_>)

[PenGuin1362]

don't care. world's fucked anyway. might as well enjoy my time while i'm here.

but i would really like one of those hydrogen cars by honda :( to bad no one has the incentive to put hydrogen tanks in stations

[I_Am_Error117]

CRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPP! All this global warming crap. Really the Earth cools and warms natuarlly; we wont all die because the polar ice caps will melt. If you libs don't have anything better to do than to complain, why don't you get rid of all the illegal immigrants because I don't want to have to pay for 'em with my dang taxes. And if I'm wrong who cares I have beach front property.

[CN3089]

... Alll ... waming ... natuarly ... bec ... u libs dont ... dont ... teh ... cuz ... dont ... em ... im

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-eng99.gif

[I_Am_Error117]

Sorry I was typing, on the phone, and listening to Metallica all at the same time. I'll go mop that up...........................

[Skiiran]

It doesn't mean that you are right.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII CAAAAANNNNNNN USSSSSSSEEEEE OOOOOVVVEEERRLENGTHEEEENENEEED WOOOORDS IN CAAAAPS TOOO.

But that doesn't mean that anything I say that way is true.

Have fun in your frozen home in twenty years.

[Patrickssj6]

Well what do I care if America is covered in ice. Katrina...yeah...that was horrible. What could possibly be worse than that.