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    Is Brazil's Mega-Blackout A Harbinger Of Energy Grid Disasters to Come?

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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/13/09

    In reply to Is Brazil's Mega-Blackout A Harbinger Of Energy Grid Disasters to Come?
    "Is Brazil's Mega-Blackout A Harbinger Of Energy Grid Disasters to Come?"

    No, probably not, anymore than the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 was, or the 2003 Northeast Blackout was.

    Blackouts happen, it's really no big deal. It's a pretty much inevitable result of the impossibility of making a perfect mechanical system.
    -Kle. #blackout
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    Image of Jes St.Lawrence Jes St.Lawrence
    11/13/09

    In reply to Is Brazil's Mega-Blackout A Harbinger Of Energy Grid Disasters to Come?
    So ... lots of new Brazilian babies in June? #blackout
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    Image of twDarkflame twDarkflame
    11/13/09

    In reply to Is Brazil's Mega-Blackout A Harbinger Of Energy Grid Disasters to Come?
    We arnt decentralised enough, its that simple.
    Power needs to be given and taken from thousands of smaller sources, not a few big ones. #blackout
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/12/09

    In reply to Is Brazil's Mega-Blackout A Harbinger Of Energy Grid Disasters to Come?
    I may be one of the few people who really likes blackouts, have since I was a baby. But darn it, I need power to do my job and to check Io9. #blackout
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/12/09

    In reply to Is Brazil's Mega-Blackout A Harbinger Of Energy Grid Disasters to Come?
    For everyone who laughed at me when I stockpiled weapons and Fritos. Looks who's laughing now!! #blackout
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/12/09

    @FrankenPC: Me. I have the bullets and the dip. #blackout
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/13/09

    @LittleDragon: I'm opening my bunker door for you LittleDragon!

    Now, if only I could find someone with beer... #blackout
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/13/09

    @FrankenPC: Have no fear. My brother makes his own Beer. And I even know some one who makes Mead. #blackout
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/13/09

    @LittleDragon: We NEED to save their lives!!! #blackout
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    Image of Darklighter Darklighter
    11/12/09

    In reply to Is Brazil's Mega-Blackout A Harbinger Of Energy Grid Disasters to Come?
    How does this blackout compare to the giant one that struck the northeastern US a few years ago? #blackout
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    Image of Codeland Codeland
    11/12/09

    @Darklighter: Not sure if it is comparable. If I'm not mistaken the NE blackout was caused by an overload. In this case a main transmission line just went down without explanation affecting 60-100 million people (depending on whose estimate you go by). The collateral damage was bad too, pumping stations from the water utility went down, and parts of São Paulo only got water back today. Yesterday, there were still traffic lights out around the city and other systems that simply did not come back up when power was restored. #blackout
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    Image of firstanointed firstanointed
    11/12/09

    @Darklighter: I know! I was stuck in Detroit at the moment in time, swelteringly hot and searching for water in a Mad Max-ian landscape of panic and grumpiness on the Wayne State U campus for the longest week of my life. If anything, I'm hopping jealous the Brazilians at least got their power back within the day. #blackout
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/12/09

    In reply to Is Brazil's Mega-Blackout A Harbinger Of Energy Grid Disasters to Come?
    In other news, Brazil has a space agency. #blackout
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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    11/12/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. Is it just satellites right now? What DO they call Brazilian astronauts? #blackout
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    11/12/09


    @Bigdamnhero: I don't know, but I sure like their spacesuits! #blackout
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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    11/12/09

    @Bigdamnhero: In answer to my own question, yes! They do have astronauts. One, as far as I can tell. This guy.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    11/12/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: That's the biggest news I got out of that. #blackout
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    Image of bluekey bluekey
    11/12/09

    @Bigdamnhero: As a brazilian i can confirm some facts. Yes, we only have one astronaut. Adn the rest of our space agency was destroyed in 2003: [www.independent.co.uk] #blackout
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    Bigdamnhero promoted this comment bluekey was starred bluekey was unstarred
    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/12/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye: Yeah. Until she fires her rockets. Then its crispy critter time. Hope you like your buns burned. #blackout
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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    11/12/09

    @bluekey: Wow... that's sad.

    So: what is "astronaut" in Portuguese?

    And: Is Marcos Pontes saying anything of note in the vid above? #blackout
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    Image of spocko spocko
    11/12/09

    @bluekey: I'm very sorry for your loss. That is horrible. It makes you appreciate just how dangerous space travel is and how much work goes into making it safe. #blackout
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    Image of bluekey bluekey
    11/12/09

    @Bigdamnhero: It is "astronauta". And about the video, there is nothing of special, it is only a "how simple stuff as brushing the teeth is done in space". #blackout
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/12/09

    @spocko: @Bigdamnhero: @Dr Emilio Lizardo: @bluekey:
    Every time I see a Space Shuttle launch, I think the same thing is going to happen as in Brazil in 2003.

    735 tonnes of liquid hydrogen and oxygen in the External Tank.

    Two Solid Rocket Boosters containing 1,000 tonnes of propellant, that would blowtorch along the ground, like toppled over bottle-rockets, for 75 seconds.

    So far, the Shuttle has had a catastrophic failure in every flight mode.

    Except on the pad.

    [The video is a mere 100 tonnes
    (turn your speakers down first)] #blackout
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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    11/13/09

    @bluekey: Obrigado! #blackout
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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    11/13/09

    @SJ_Edwards: Geez. K-frakin-bloee. #blackout
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    Image of jchasse jchasse
    09/11/09

    In reply to Tom Waits' Devil Beckons You To Enter Terry Gilliam's Dada Dreamscape, In New Pics
    Can't say I was really following Imaginarium until now.

    Looks like a beautiful example of a rare and endangered species...a movie that actually looks interesting enough to brave the local ciniplex just to see it in 40 foot glory.

    Tx you Mr. Terry for being so Gilliam
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    09/10/09

    In reply to Tom Waits' Devil Beckons You To Enter Terry Gilliam's Dada Dreamscape, In New Pics
    Under no circumstances can I imagine this movie making a lick of sense. And I am so there.
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    Image of SpammerOvTheGods SpammerOvTheGods
    09/10/09

    In reply to Tom Waits' Devil Beckons You To Enter Terry Gilliam's Dada Dreamscape, In New Pics
    "There is no devil. That's just God when he's drunk." - Tom Waits

    #@!
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    Image of ballookey ballookey
    09/10/09

    In reply to Tom Waits' Devil Beckons You To Enter Terry Gilliam's Dada Dreamscape, In New Pics
    "all playing the same person, which is something no other movie will ever attempt"

    Except I'm Not There, and Todd Solondz' Palindromes.
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    AngryEddy promoted this comment ballookey was starred ballookey was unstarred
    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    09/10/09

    @ballookey: And Bewitched. I'm pretty sure they switched Darrins mid-episode.
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    Image of nozer nozer
    09/10/09

    @ballookey: I'm Not There sort of doesn't count because they weren't literally all meant to be playing the same person/character. They even had different names.

    Palindromes, on the other hand, definitely did this, to a great effect. Also, saying "no other movie will ever attempt" it is sort of odd. Has Charlie seen into the future of filmmaking?
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    Image of Boas_MC Boas_MC
    09/11/09

    @nozer: Yep, you've gotta watch those absolute statements.
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    Image of Alasdair5000 Alasdair5000
    09/10/09

    In reply to Tom Waits' Devil Beckons You To Enter Terry Gilliam's Dada Dreamscape, In New Pics
    Gilliam's been responsible for some of my favourite movies (Brazil, Munchausen, 12 Monkeys) and one of the very few films I genuinely cannot stand (Brother Griimm). Dr Parnassus, from what we've seen, looks amazing. I'm definitely looking forward to this.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/10/09

    @Alasdair5000: Out of curiosity, what was wrong with Brothers Grimm? It was pretty standard fare.
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    Image of honeybee111 honeybee111
    09/10/09

    @Alasdair5000: He's a filmmaker who is willing to take risks, and sometimes risks don't work out. I love that about him. No risk, no reward.
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    Alasdair5000 promoted this comment honeybee111 was starred honeybee111 was unstarred
    Image of Alasdair5000 Alasdair5000
    09/10/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: It's got a really odd rythm but I can never quite get behind. The transition from horror to comedy and back again always feels forced to me and there's a couple of moments, the minced kitten in particular, where the film just stops absolutely dead.
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    Image of Alasdair5000 Alasdair5000
    09/10/09

    @honeybee111: You're absolutely right, and when when it works he produces films that look like nothing else (Brazil, 12 Monkeys and Tideland) all spring to mind. When it doesn't though, you don't so much have a film as a set of disparate elements that happen to be on camera at the same time.
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    Image of Alasdair5000 Alasdair5000
    09/10/09

    @Alasdair5000: Although that being said interesting failures are much more admirable than just plain failures I suppose.
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    Image of atrus123 atrus123
    09/10/09

    In reply to Tom Waits' Devil Beckons You To Enter Terry Gilliam's Dada Dreamscape, In New Pics
    What I want to know is:

    a) Will people actually go see this one, and
    b) If they do, will they be seeing it for Gilliam awesomeness or because it's Heath's last picture

    ?

    Poor Terry has a hell of a time making movies, and when he does finally make one, he has a hell of a time getting people to actually see it.
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    Image of Boas_MC Boas_MC
    09/11/09

    @atrus123: I would totally pay money to go see this one, because it gives me happywarmnostalgic flashbacks to Baron Munchausen. Unfortunately, the studio has decided to release it the day after I leave the country for a place that will most likely not show it on the big screen. Assholes.
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    Image of Stryke_Dasher Stryke_Dasher
    09/10/09

    In reply to Tom Waits' Devil Beckons You To Enter Terry Gilliam's Dada Dreamscape, In New Pics
    Whoa! tom waits finally playing the role he should play. Now I can't wait for the film biography where ron perlman plays tom waits and the circle will be complete.
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    Image of kharmedy kharmedy
    09/10/09

    In reply to Tom Waits' Devil Beckons You To Enter Terry Gilliam's Dada Dreamscape, In New Pics
    Tom Waits as the devil ! I officialy name Terry Gilliam, Best Person Ever. Tom Waits is unfortanetly not in the running for this title becuase he is less a person and more a personification of awesome.
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    J_Frank_Parnell promoted this comment Edited by kharmedy at 09/10/09 10:10 AM kharmedy was starred kharmedy was unstarred
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