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Subject: RE:  Brain Farts (UNCLASSIFIED)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 14:05:39 -0600
From: Hadden, Robert L AGC <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


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        Actually, the major cause of death is never noted by the police. The
major cause of death are mental farts, which include magical thinking,
rationalization, or passive action during calamity (it must be someone
else's
responsibility to save my life!). Or just plain stupidity. See the Darwin
Awards: The Darwin Awards honor Charles Darwin by commemorating those who
yield to natural selection and "remove" themselves from the gene
pool...thereby ensuring that the next generation is smarter by one. "Safety
Last!" Of necessity, the award is usually bestowed posthumously. See:
http://www.darwinawards.com/ for the 2010 nominations.
        My favorite example: In the Smokey Mountains of NC, a man once got
out of a car and poured honey over his five year old's hands, so he could
take a video of her having her hands licked by a friendly black bear. It
would be so cute.       Everything he knew about wildlife he got from Walt
Disney films or TV: animals understand your thoughts, so if you don't mean
any harm, they will remain tame and helpful; bears understand human speech,
communicate among each other, and are proficient in English; wild bears
never
bite people, especially children, because they have too much respect for
humans and other animals; all the animals who live in parks must be tamed,
right?; anticipating what you want from the future will make it come true;
wildlife photography is easy, because animals love having things pointed at
them, and they follow the photographer's directions well.

Lee Hadden

R. Lee Hadden, BA, BS, MLS
Geospatial Information Library (Map Library)
Army Geospatial Center
7701 Telegraph Road
Alexandria, VA 22315
(703) 428-9206
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> Subject:        Death by GPS
> Date:   Thu, 3 Feb 2011 13:48:35 -0800
> From:   Dyallen2 <[log in to unmask]>
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> Here is an interesting tidbit from the copied by the Bureau of Land
> Management in California from the Sacramento Bee:
> lettering "Heat Kills" over a gravestonetwo hikers look over a rocky
> desert landscape*"'Death by GPS' in the desert"*(Sacramento Bee,
> 1/30/11) "Danger has long stalked those who venture into California's
> desert in the heat of summer." But as more people visit, "technology
> and tragedy are mixing in new and unexpected ways." Said Death Valley
> wilderness coordinator Charlie Callagan, "People are renting vehicles
> with GPS and they have no idea how it works and they are willing to
> trust the GPS to lead them into the middle of nowhere." Stories of
> deaths in the desert are "reminders that even with a growing suite of
> digital devices at our side, technology cannot guarantee survival i n
> the wild. Worse, it is giving many a false sense of security and
> luring some into danger and death."
> http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/30/3362727/death-by-gps-in-desert.html
>
> David Allen
> Encinitas, CA
>

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